Two of my best friends have just begun exploring fountain pens. Gian just bought his first TWSBI ECO. The ECO is a great pen. For a smallish investment, you get a piston-filler (holds 2.5 ml of ink), a demonstrator (your pen becomes the color of your ink), and a reliable writer (all of my TWSBI nibs write true to size). He ordered an EF nib, for he is a man of taste and sophistication.

And then he dropped his ECO. Nib down. Ouch.

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.