To Buy List (Part 1)

So here’s my shopping list for over the next few weeks:

Uni Stationary

• Notepads
• Workbooks
• Fix Pen
• Textbooks

A new uni semester means stationary shopping. I always love that part of getting ready for uni, there’s something exciting about it. After having used my laptop to take notes for most of last semester, I’m going to revert back to taking notes with pen and paper. I tend to find that the act of writing things down (as opposed to typing) helps me remember things better. And considering I have a few expensive pens, doing this will probably help take advantage of them. I’m looking into buying stuff off of Notemaker.

More specifically, I’ll probably get the Clairefonte Forever Paper Recycled Notebooks (long name -_-’), which are basically notepads that are made using Clairefonte’s impressive recycling process. I’ll be using those notepads largely for just taking random notes or whatever. For my one “math” subject, I’ll be using a Rhodia Classic A4 Notebook with a 5×5 grid on the paper, which is great for diagrams and writing out math stuff. I may need to get an extra fine nib on a pen though… Anyway, for my other subjects I’ll probably use a Clairefonte Spiral Notebook. Not too sure yet though.

I also may have broken one of my pens last week -_-’ The feeder came out and is now stuck halfway in and out of the pen. I may try to get replacement parts, but the problem is with the actual pen part of the pen, so I may just have to bite the bullet and buy another one.

On the textbook front, I probably only need to buy two textbooks this semester. Yay! I’m starting to run out of room to put all these in -_-

Clothes

• Jeans
• Shoes
• Shirts

I got a pair of Nudie Jeans last year (Thin Finn if anyone is interested in specifics). And as with most dyed but not pre-washed jeans, they’re best when they’re unwashed. It lets the indigo dye get a natural fade affect and after washing them gives them a kind of non-uniform, unique fade. They say its best you don’t wash it for at least 6 months though. Which is what I did. Yes, yes it sounds very unhygienic or whatever. But for those 6 months those jeans were the best jeans I’ve ever had. Then they got washed. Then they shrunk. And now they’re a little tight in all the wrong places, if you know what I mean. So I want to get a new pair of blue jeans.

I’ve currently got a pair of black Levis 511s, which are the skinnier version of their classic 501s. They fit quite nicely, and they do come in a blue colour and are considerably more cheaper than a pair of Nudie jeans. But they lack something…some character…some certain thing you can’t quite place. Something that my old pair of jeans had. And hopefully something a pair of $200 jeans -_-’

Now onto shoes. I’ve had a bit of a shoe thing recently. My latest fad is over the Converse Jack Purcell. Everyone nowadays is wearing Chuck All Stars. They’re cool and all, but there’s kind of too many of them out there. And alot of people tend to do it wrong. You see godawful colours, people wearing the wrong things with them, people drawing/mutilating them because they think its “cool” and then people who get cheap look a likes and think no one can tell, oh but I can tell. The Jack Purcell is a tennis shoe and looks different to the normal All Star, but you can tell they’re related. Like cousins. I specifically want a pair of leather ones. In grey. If I can’t find them (which is very likely), I may not even buy them at all. I may just got buy some Mexico 66s. Oh the curse of being so specific.