So, I was hanging out with my flatmate the other day and Dr Langton (yes, it's been a month since he got the phD but I'm gonna call him that anyway ) showed me some old crayola colored mechanical pencils. At this point I got really excited that colored mechanical pencils do actually exist and we went on a crusade to track down what brands have them and where you can buy them. I found some at jetpens.com [link] and proceeded to buy some of each of the 8 colors available. I also bought 2B 0.3mm mechanical pencil lead (I'd only seen HB before) and 4B 0.5mm (I'd only seen 2B) and a pencil that can hold 0.7, 0.5 and 0.3mm lead. The colors are actually quite nice, except the green I think. Whee.
I also was passing past my usual supply store and saw they had copic markers that they'd recently gotten in for sale at NZ$7.50 each, so I was naughty and bought three
*cough hint cough* I can't really justify spending more than that on markers I don't know how to use yet, considering I'm $400 overbudget and my student allowance just stopped, if anyone is feeling uber-generous this christmas... *whistles*
Oh and I got my grades for the semester today: A- in Applications of Complex Variables, B in Applied Electromagnetism, B+ in Experimemtal Physics and A+ in Groups and Symmetry. I'm happy with this as it puts the year's GPA a grade point above first and second year and I'm well on track for honours. Aiming for nothing less than B+ next semester. I wasn't caring about the lab grade and whilst a B is still crap, at least electromagnetism was already my worst subject even without it being 'Applied' with a senile lecturer