Wintry weather kept my school virtual all but one day this week. I leveraged the extra time at home to transition out of my first bullet journal of the academic year. The Hobonichi Plain Notebook housed six months of planning, lesson plans, meeting notes, lecture notes and the like.

I took some time this week to update the database I use to organize my pen collection. Notably, the database sports a new column to record the last date each pen was inked. A handful of patterns emerged.

Montblanc released a series of special edition pens tied to The Little Prince. The pen that most suits my aesthetic preferences (muted colors and silver furniture) just so happened to be themed with the fox chapter. Take. My. Money.

Journaling in portrait mode is a refreshing adventure. We are afield from my typical writing arrangement of an A5 or B5 dotted/gridded notebook. Two A6 pages are the same size as one A5 page. Having an A6 journal teaches me more about my journaling preferences.