[stationery] things I am not allowed to buy: pocket notebooks

[kaberett]

At least until I have actually used the small stash of them I have Accumulated without ever having actually bought one. Yes yes yes, the Clairefontaine that was a freebie with a pen purchase is ruled not blank/gridded/dotted, but it's an excellent test case for the format, self.

Which has at least caused me to realise that actually the thing I want to store in that slot in the pen case is almost certainly one of the blocks of large-format Post-Its, because I don't yet have a good way of carrying those around and they are something I Actively Want.

(I'm busy reassessing How And What I Carry Around now that I'm spending more time on my feet; my Primary Notebook is fairly bulky; I really don't like taking notes on my auxiliary internet devicephone, to the point that I just... don't. The fact that a pocket notebook fits in my pen case is kind of irrelevant because I don't actually tend to have my pen case on me unless I've also got the Primary Notebook, and I definitely don't want the degree of barrier-to-entry that is having to fish around in a larger bag for the pen case. But if I just have a pocket notebook In My Pocket then I am also going to need A Pocket Writing Implement, and the pen in my penknife is both Dead and Painfully Small. ... though at least one of those is fixable, and possibly I should. Hmm.)