Perhpas it’s because I am a girl, I love stationery. Lucy Mangan’s theory on the matter double confirms this slightly strange behaviour. I had been trying to get hold of a discontinued Rotring 600 (old style - with knurl) ballpen to go with my pencil from the same series for quite a while, and recently found it from a French pen seller on eBay.
I was extremely pleased to receive the pen (after a long delay due to the bloody postal strike) and started reading about pens and pencils on the Internet. To my surprise, my obsession with stationery is nothing compared to a lot of guys. I started to discover blogs specially dedicated to pens and pencils, like Dave’s Mechanical Pencils — an entire blog with more than 150 entries talking about mechanical pencils (no messing around with eraers, rulers, or pencil sharpeners) shows you how much he loves his mechanical pencils!
So I should stop blaming my female hormones for the slightly larger than normal collection of pens and mechanical pencils.