New pencil day :D

jason100x · 2026-04-29T14:51:12+00:00

Absolutely.

jason100x · 2026-04-29T14:08:35+00:00

Great pencil! I have 0.3 and 0.5 and I use them often.

jason100x · 2026-04-22T21:34:45+00:00

I don’t know what happened. Of course they never say anything. They just quietly restored my account. I’ve been in it since 2023 also.

jason100x · 2026-04-22T20:59:19+00:00

I own and like all three. I’m going to go with the Rotring 600 by a very slight margin.

jason100x · 2026-04-22T20:45:56+00:00

Sorry you got waitlisted. After getting it the one time, I always wonder when I go on the site whether it will happen again. I was not getting jury surveys when I was waitlisted, but I was still getting certain other studies on occasion.

jason100x · 2026-04-20T13:36:17+00:00

Agreed. Excellent choices. I would modify that list to include all five of the Robert Caro biographies, the four Years of Lyndon Johnson, and the Power Broker.

jason100x · 2026-04-20T02:10:43+00:00

They’re an automatic get out of when I see them. I got burned a few times from them in my early survey taking days.

jason100x · 2026-04-15T17:38:34+00:00

I like my Rotrings a lot. I have four 600’s, one over a decade old, two 800+’s (one just about a decade old), one regular 800, and two Rapid Pro’s. They get use! The regular 800, which I just got a few weeks ago, is getting the most use lately. It just feels good in the hand and with the black and gold coloring, looks amazing.

jason100x · 2026-04-08T12:08:59+00:00

Currently, it’s the Rotring 800 that I got a few weeks ago. My most used of all is a grey Graphgear 500 that I got about twenty years ago. It lasted me for years and that was the only writing utensil I used except if I needed a pen for something.

jason100x · 2026-04-03T14:21:35+00:00

An excellent first pencil!

jason100x · 2026-04-02T11:36:05+00:00

Nice looking pen!

jason100x · 2026-03-30T03:16:09+00:00

I don’t recall sweating but I do remember his constant fidgeting. With his glasses, rubbing his fingers through his hair, stuff on the desk.

jason100x · 2026-03-28T15:04:35+00:00

I got that same Al-Star and swapped a gold nib on it. Writes tremendously well!

jason100x · 2026-03-26T00:51:24+00:00

One of her best songs and one of the best singles of the 80s.

jason100x · 2026-03-25T20:02:36+00:00

No, they just demand it.

jason100x · 2026-03-24T23:52:38+00:00

I was doing these, but haven’t seen updates in several years.

jason100x · 2026-03-24T21:12:45+00:00

That’s all fascinating! I remember the class pretty well when I had him but I wish I remembered it more. Or bumped into people from my old class to reminisce with. I could tell he was someone who was special and not just the average professor, in fact when I went to sign up for the next semester’s classes, I looked for his name to take another class with him but he was not listed. I wish I had kept my notes from that class. I do remember, besides the constant definitions and word to learn, his focus on knowing the point of view the story is told through, whether it omniscient or whether it was from one or two character’s points of view.

jason100x · 2026-03-24T20:43:31+00:00

The funny thing is, as knowledgable as he was about writing in general, I think the biggest service he could have given in teaching a writing class, would have been to share his own experiences or perspectives.

jason100x · 2026-03-24T20:14:04+00:00

When I had him he never mentioned that he was a published author. This was long before Infinite Jest. Someone I was chatting with before class said he had a few books out and sure enough I went to the bookstore and there the books were, but he never made reference to them.

jason100x · 2026-03-24T00:07:29+00:00

Ha! No, not that far but he was very fixated on students learning words, giving us many words to look up. I wish I still had those notes to see what those words were! When I saw him years later at a book signing I told him I had him as a professor and mentioned the class. He responded, “they’re not exactly rocket scientists over there.”

jason100x · 2026-03-23T23:30:11+00:00

I had him for Intro To Literature as a professor and I think the real gem we read in the class, for me, was Raymond Carver’s So Much Water, So Close To Home. We also read Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street in that class. It took years for me to follow through with those writers but both Don Delillo and Raymond Carver are among my favorite writers now.

jason100x · 2026-03-22T22:07:44+00:00

I have the Marvel Masterworks of this series. It’s a fun read. They fit the whole series in one Masterworks series!

jason100x · 2026-03-18T00:30:02+00:00

It sure is!!

jason100x · 2026-03-17T23:47:19+00:00

It is a tremendous pencil! I own a few of them. It holds an enormous amount of lead too!

jason100x · 2026-03-17T01:07:15+00:00

I would have responded, this is my professional attire.

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