graphite (b)rain

Didn't think I could fall in love with a notebook (a Rite in the Rain No370F-MX) again, but I did and here we are writing, happily, away. In PENCIL (a Pentel Kerry 0.7mm) – which I've always preferred to pen: the RIR being the first notebook which allows me, an inveterate leftie, to scritch/scratch away without smearing graphite all over my hand and all over the page. Thank you, RIR, for whatever it is you do to your pages to make them writable when wet. Also: a useful switch from the standard notebooks (and the reMarkable Pro) given that at least half of my day is spent with metal and other dirty oily things instead of keyboards and mental abstractions and words. Considering swapping out the 0.5mm graphite in my CW&T Pencil Type C for 0.5mm blue / no-photo lead for drawing and sketching (I love sketching in that blue speaking of welcome to the mysterious case of what the fuck happened to all of my blue pencils?) and, while I love my Kerry, I would be beyond thrilled if Blackwing made mechanical pencil lead (they don't do they?).