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Both the Attendance Cards and my journals are pen and ink concoctions, Papermate Flairs on Dollar Store index cards (digitized via my iPhone 14 Pro), and either a Lamy Studio, a Lamy 2000, a Kaweco Original 250 – filled with Pilot’s Iroshizuku Take-sumi ink (bamboo charcoal) – or the aforementioned Papermate Flair, in a Baron Fig Confidant notebook, respectively.

While most of my narrative scribbles begin or ferment within the Confidant’s pages, all of my written work, fiction or non– is eventually processed through Obsidian before being shipped off to either this space or to the Affinity suite of apps, specifically Designer 2 and Publisher 2; two printers – one an Epson with the refillable squeeze-bottle ink, the other an Instax Mini Link; and various other tools – including an awl, a power drill, sugarcane waste paper, black thread, and some tape – for handmade, self-publication.

To capture braindroppings on the go and on the morning’s run, I use Rite in the Rain N° 871FX-M notebooks and a Kaweco Special Mini Mechanical Pencil in 0.7mm or a Rite In the Rain Mini Bolt-Action pen in orange (so I’m not mistaken for a deer); I also use Drafts on the phone with a zettelkasten-ID plugin for easy shipping over to Obsidian for processing.

Since they do, I suppose, allow me to do this work: I stay alive via a happy little cocktail of happy pills and a constant (if ever-shifting) infusion of Novolog insulin via NuHerbie, my second Tandem T-slimX2 insulin pump (the first Herbie died in an accident involving a recycling dumpster corner) attached to my body via medical-grade adhesive and a sharp little fucker of a needle that gets changed out every couple of days. My closed-loop “not dead yet” system is capped off by a Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitor that’s great when I get one that holds a connection and doesn’t need repeated calibration for the entirety of its 10-day (+12 hours) lifespan: I am a fully-functional bluetooth-enabled device.

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