1. There is something more intimate about writing with pen and paper.
2. You are not restricted to writing line after line. You can write in the margins, you can write on the back of the page, you can write upside-down. Yea verily, the possibilities are endless.
3. Even if your computer crashes, you will still have everything you have written.
4. If your computer melts in a house fire, you will still have your notebooks – provided that said notebooks were not in said house along with said computer during said housefire.
5. You can draw scribbles and/or tear up the pages to ease your frustration. It helps you to get over writer’s block and/or to unleash your inner immaturity.
6. if you write something embarrassing, and you think that someone will read it, you can always eat the paper. it’s even nutritious and vitamin-rich* – especially if it’s unbleached. Chew on that!
7. whenever you find yourself stranded in the woods, and it’s wintertime, and you don’t have a jacket, and it’s getting to be nighttime, then you can always use the paper for a fire-starter. The only catch is that you either need to have matches or wicked mad Boy Scout fire-starting skills.
21 April, 2008 at 1.11 pm
Although I find a couple of your reasons ridiculous, I also enjoy the pen and paper. But sometimes notes are best taken on the computer because of the speed of dictation and ease of storage.
21 April, 2008 at 7.05 pm
you make me laugh! (in a great way)
i also am very much a pen-and-paper person. i never never used my palm pilot i had with the enrollment job (as you know).
21 April, 2008 at 10.21 pm
This is hilarious. I was reading this in class earlier tonight–don’t tell–and laughed silently. I hate laughing silently.