I won't refuse to use the pen in Pennsylvania.

[shaysdays]

In an effort to have better handwriting than my usual chickenscratch, I've been writing with an honest-to-god nib pen* whenever I need to correspond with someone. Which meant I had to get parchment, because regular paper looks all blobby with ink pens. And today I was even practicing Willhega script, because apparently I really hate the muscles

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[meleth]

You might, just possibly, be completely insane. Just so you know.

[shaysdays]

Well, I keep telling the kids to redo their homework because of sloppy writing, and I realized that was really hypocritical. On a lark a while ago, I bought a quill/nib pen set, so heck, it would slow me down a bit. The calligraphy was just a personal challenge, it is.... Not elegant looking, really.

As for the pomegranate, you ever prepare one of those things? Plenty of time for free association.

[meleth]

Oh, I totally get the pomegranate thing. But the quill pen is just crazy talk.

[shaysdays]

Aww, it's not like I'm sending in illuminated and calligraphied notes to excuse the kids from gum class, I still mostly use my own handwriting, it's just slower because I have to think about it more. I got the pen/ink set at a Ben Franklin gift shop, better to use it than not... Besides, I like the romanticism of the whole thing, dipping the pen in the ink... keeping track of how many letters I've made...

What's hilarious is that my daughter's teachers probably think of me (between this and Neen's reported proclivity to pipe up with random Revolutionary War stories) as some kind of mountain woman, when I am totally one of the clickerati.

[sakuya_baby]

Your pomegranate bit -- EXACTLY WHAT I THINK EVERY TIME I OPEN ONE! no joke, I always wonder. I guess I wondered more if it wasn't that she'd eaten six clusters, instead of six seeds.

[shaysdays]

Hmmm, iirc, there's 6-8 'lobes,' subdivided into four clusters each. That mighty actually work.

[sakuya_baby]

Well back then, didn't they only have 8 months in their calendar year? If she'd eaten six clusters of a six lobed pomegranate, that would make it........ ok 6x4 = 24 which is 8 x 3 so she'd effectively eaten 3/10 of the pomegranate. (If my math is off, I won't be stunned. I hate math) and that makes 30% of the pomegranate. Soooo.... no that still doesn't make sense. What if she ate 3 lobes of a six lobed pomegranate? What if she literally only ate six seeds and Zeus made a dick move?

.......What if I am putting waaaaaay too much thought into this?

[shaysdays]

I spent an hour making curlicue letters because I felt bad about homework in an indirect way... You're asking me about overthinking things?

[paperlibrarian]

I thought she took only one bite, and had 4 or 6 seeds (depending on how many months of the year your calendar is) and she had to stay a month per seed. I'm a little confused about how percentages come into it?

[ex_38621]

The pomegranate looks yummy but on the other hand I'm a bit squicked out by clusters xD so I'm not sure if I would have volunteered to take it apart. I'm too squeamish sometimes,I know :)