Moleskine Two Gets Some Colour

Monday, January 31st, 2011  10:36a

Mondays and Tuesday I'll be spending early mornings here at the school. Not only to finish up any homework I've yet to do, but also to meet up and be available for Molecular Gastronomy club; of which we are having our first real meeting of today. I've already prepared a bit for today by signing out a camera, and toying with a bit to document our meetings. It's a bit intimidating to carry around a $2,000 Nikon D80, knowing it's on loan to me, and should anything happen to it, I'm financially responsible for. On another subject of school, I'm concerned about my grade in my management class. Aside from attendance and participation, most of the grade comes from the chapter quizes, which are nothing more than rote memorization of minutia. Because of this, I'm barely breaking a C average on them. The official grades haven't been posted, which I'm hoping is an indication that the instructor might grade on a curve. Hearing from some of the other students, apparently I'm not the only one seeing these quizes as a problem. I'll find out soon enough today in class. Yesterday was a very relazing day. From looking at my work schedule, it was the first day in nearly three weeks that I didn't have to put on a uniform; school or work related. I got most of my homework done, and watched movies, as well as thought on how to be more creative with this journal. I've already mentioned the scrapbook idea, which I'm going to stick with, but I'm going to drop the idea of drawing here. As I'm no artist (in an illustrational sense) it won't do well to ruin pages in this journal with awkward half doodles and scribbles in pen. Instead, I'm dropping using the Zebra F-701 as my dedicated journal pen, and moving to a set of coloured Zebra F-301's. It's all the same ink and cartridge anyway. I've got black, red, green, and blue. What I'd like to do is colour code this journal by mood.

Blue: calm, peaceful, perspective broadening, and informative.


Red: the polar opposite to blue, being energetic, eyecatching, confidence for chasing one's dreams, life and vitality. A colour I might be using a long lot.

Green: may pose a problem, as Zebra sells the pens in a set only, and don't sell refills for. It symbolizes nature, life, respect and well being, growth, balance, harmony, and new ideas. I might run out of this colour of ink all too soon.

Black: shows power and authority, as well as submission, oddly enough. Used commonly as the colour of evil. Also mystery and concealment, and the default colour of pens the wour world-round.

At any rate I'd best end my ramblings here, since I've a meeting with MG club to get to now.