[I'm participating in Gwen Bell's Best of 2009 Blog Challenge, in case you're all like, what's with the theme?]
Stationery. When you touch the paper, your heart melts. The ink flows from the pen. What was your stationery find of the year?
Oh yeah, I’m gonna quote from a Sisters of Mercy song: First and last and always… it’s graph paper. Regular old graph paper, yes. I adore it. There’s something about its billions of tiny boxes, neat blue or green against white or off-white that is secretly thrilling. My best ideas, my most fun ideas, are created on graphed paper. My handwriting is better. My thoughts more organized. Everything looks so much more official, so much more efficient.
So you can keep your high-grade stuff. It’s gorgeous, I know, but it just can’t compare.
No joke, but I used those too. I’ve gone through entire engineering notebooks with ideas, notes, brainstorms, software designs. Yea nary a graph anywhere. Here’s a good exercise.. draw a spiral using those boxes as a guide. ;>
Somehow this post not only reminded me of how much I love graph paper, but it gave me permission to go back to using it again, cool!
Kirsten: hurray!
Paul, you obviously have excellent taste!