Some people have strong opinions about which woodcased pencil is better—the Mitsubishi Hi-Uni or the Tombow Mono 100. I ordered one of each because I enjoy getting to the bottom of things, which sounds dirty but it isn’t.
Obviously, the Mitsubishi is the better pencil. It’s a little bit harder than the Tombow, which makes it lighter than a liver spot. (Also, everyone I know has a pencil lead stuck somewhere in their body. I mean, you can tell me about yours if you want, but you can also save that story for another time.)
I took this photo of Meredith and her friends shortly before they moved out of their apartment and away from each other.
I decided to commemorate their friendship by carving them up.
And this is how that went.
Finally, Scout’s got a joke for you, but it’s horribly inappropriate.
(It’s about Hitler.)
I like the Tombow… and I have lead in my foot from a pick-up softball game in my front yard when I was 10. No idea why we thought using pencils as bases, with the lead point sticking up instead of the lead in the ground, was a good idea. But we did and I’m alive to tell the tale.
Those woodcarvings are ahhhmazing! Is there no limit to your creative talent, Woman?
And I too truly do have a lead remnant! It’s in the flap of skin between my thumb and my pointer finger (I bet there’s a name for that, and, knowing you, I bet you know what it is) Pretty sure I acquired it in first or second grade when I was mindlessly poking at my own hand with a pencil. Either that, or Leslie Horst (who I later bit in the leg for another infraction, which is another story for another time — if only I too were a blogger) maliciously stabbed me with it (I was pretty terrified of that girl)