I bought my first
moleskine about 1 month ago. Its a pocket squared
moleskine. I got it from Boarders. They
didn't have much a selection, A lot of
chasiers, which upon closer inspection is really a waste of money since the quality of the paper
isn't as good and the cover is just a heavier stock paper. Sure u get 3 but I could make one for less that the $10 they are asking, and still have change left over. The main problem is the crappy paper...
The squared notebook, is really nice. Small, portable, lots of pages, the paper is a nice off white creamy colour. So its nice to read from. I do have a problem with the paper not taking up the ink from my uni-ball. Probably because its quite smooth. I have to let it dry before I close it or I get bleed onto the opposite facing page. And it smudges easily. So I have to find a new pen to write with. Probably a roller ball of some kind. I was hoping to use a fountain pen, but if the uni-ball wont stick I doubt the fountain pen will.
The new quest is now a smooth pen, that has a nice rich colour and I find comfortable
writing with. I guess the main
advantage of the uni-ball is that its a decent pen, nice rich colour, smooth AND has a nice size barrel which I can hold onto. I really
don't like skinny pens. Pencils and automatic pencils mostly come in the skinny variety, however I have found the
Lamy Scribble, which is a fat mechanical pencil. Its a little pricey for what is
essentially a pencil. I need a pen. The pencil can wait.
So, Boarders is switching around their notebook/journal section, and have moved the
moleskines near the magazines in the 'gift book' section, and now have a special section for
girly notebooks. However, they have
forgotten to actually stock a variety of
moleskines, meaning the ones people
don't want,
eg the squared large cashiers etc, are hanging around. I thought they may have got some new stuff in, since they have the diaries.
So, there was
basically no place to get
moleskines in Brisbane, subsequent searches of the
internet showed that there were other places to get
moleskines from, meaning I
didn't have to fork out for shipping, hurray.
Its lunch time and I decided to go try something completely different, and eat in a different location. I end up at the Queens Plaza food court, for such a fancy mall, there seems a lack of quality food vendors...
basically its got the same stuff as in the other food courts at any other shopping centre. And then I pass by a paper store, with a big sign that says "
mmmm delicious paper". How could I resist, then, all of a sudden, through the trendy white displays I notice rows of
moleskines. Its dark cover drawing me in like a black hole about to destroy a solar system. With the full selection of
moleskines on offer, I
regressed back to my tried and tested "I cant decide". But these days I have a plan, I call it, come back later.
After work I went in picked up a large squared
moleskine, and I still had time to catch the bus. Why I bought the large squared. I'm not sure, I probably should have gotten the lined one, now that I think about it, but the squared one means it should be easier to line stuff up, and do my little diagrams and graphs while I try to explain something to my self.
