The Inkvent calendar facilitated a fun new tradition in my household: the Inkvent Draft. Here’s the rub: each person gets to keep seven colors, chosen NFL-style over six rotating rounds. The undrafted are gifted to folks at the next pen group meetup. Perks of having a family member as stationery obsessed as me.

Splitting the difference between work needs and the coming five days off for playing around with personal scribblings. A little somber and a dash of playful.

I enter this week with lesson plans sketched out, conferences planned, and meetings prepped. Wowza. All but two meetings will move methodically enough to accommodate intentional attention to my writing angle. This is what policy wonks call a “policy moment” — a nib grind moment.

Dr. Nicole Sharp (aka. @aerognome) recently extended an invitation for folks to participate in their new study on how we experience inks as wet and as dry. I’m including an excerpt of their call to action here because it looks like a fun investigation. It’s a short, direct, and anonymous Google Form.