the internet: How To Use Your Planner To Maximize YOUR Productivity! Use Each Spread To Track Goals! Timeblocking! Bulletjournalling! Bulletblocking! Endless Sticker Shops On Etsy! Handwriting that looks like calligraphy All The Time!!!!
me: I just want inspiration so I can make marks on pages. Then later paper goes crinkle-swish when I flip through it. You know?
the internet: Use Our Planners to Document Your Life! Buy this photo printer to make your pages ✨aesthetic ✨
me: no no what I like about your product is simply that I can write down my thoughts somewhere that there are no people thoughtlessly bellowing judenhass
The Joys of Journalling:
- put thought in place that isn't head. this makes space in head for other things! 
- future self flip back and look at past. haha! past me! so silly. or perhaps… angry. or… 
…prophetic.
- fondle paper. blank paper feel good, but paper covered in writing? flip through???? nnngh yes very good, A+ tactile soothing 😍
the internet: Buy This Thermal Printer To Stick Your Memories Into Your Planner! Photos of you with your friends going out and having fun! Imagine how photogenic your journal will be for Social Media!
me: actually I was kind of thinking the exact opposite. I wanted to print out screenshots of my mastodon toots so I could collect them in a cute little scrapbook
the internet: omg! you're pathetic!
me: hey you're supposed to be nice, Marketing Voice
the internet: this is one of your toots! and it's already too long, the aspect ratio will be way off for gluing into your journal, you sad little hermit
me: ugh shut up
Grad school made me EXTREMELY particular about my pens, that's for sure…!!
Elana | אילנה
Sam Levine