Time for another sorting of the pens.

I keep my pens — colored gel ink, Papermate, old Bics, ones swiped from Olga’s years ago, mechanical pencils, pens from various other sources — in a Godiva’s hot chocolate cup. The cup was a Christmas gift from a relative, that chipped on the rim shortly after I got it. (You’d think Godiva’s would have sturdier stuff.) So I turned it into a pen holder.

It was overflowing at one point. Four years ago I went through and tested every single pen and marker in it, since I’d had some of them for at least a decade. About 80% went in the trash because they didn’t work.

The cup’s overflowing again, and when I went to write down a phone number for a legal issue, I had to go through three before I found one that wasn’t dried up

One of these days I’ll use up the colored ink pens, and my old calligraphy set. But not yet.