I live in Hamden, CT (New Haven area) and work as a medical writer in Fairfield County, CT.
I discovered fountain pens in roughly 1976 when a drugstore cartridge Wearever appeared in my Christmas stocking. From that day to this I have not used ballpoints except in extremity.
Through school I used a succession of student-grade Wearevers, Sheaffers, and Parker Vectors. By the time I reached a postdoc year at Yale, those were seldom available even in campus stores or office suppliers, and I discovered Pilot Varsitys--which I still use for travel pens that won't leak and won't be irreplaceable if lost!
Once I got a real job I began to buy sale pens from Levenger on occasion. I still have a purple Sheaffer Award that I acquired thus ($25 for the fountain pen plus a ballpoint which my husband adopted). Visually understated but a tactile trip...I prefer smooth fine nibs on the wet side.
The pen addiction grew gradually and linearly until two jobs later, circa 2005, when I discovered enough online temptations to turn it exponential. The flagship of my pen pile (it is really too randomly selected to call a collection) is a postmodern Pearl and Black Parker Duofold, and its viceroy (how's that for a mixed metaphor) a postmodern orange Conklin Nozac. On an average day, though, I'm most often found with a Waterman Phileas or one of numerous Heroes in hand. I like the Hero Ruby Ice for sustained writing and the Hero Accountant XXF for marginalia.
Full Version: Greetings from CT
Welcome, I'm originally from Litchfield.
Welcome, Minas. I am from nearby New Haven. I am a grad student at Yale too. My fav pen now (changes every few weeks) is a Sailor 1911 in sterling silver, with a left oblique cursive italic ground by Richard Binder.
Hope to see you more often in the forum.
purpledog
Hope to see you more often in the forum.
purpledog
I like your use of the term "pen pile" - given my eclectic tastes in pens, that's what I should call my "collection!" 
Welcome to FPN!
Erick
Welcome to FPN!
Erick
Welcome! I'm looking forward to reading your contributions to the forums.
Welcome to FPN!
Welcome to FPN. It seems to be a creat Fountain Pen Community here. Hope you make many friends. Visit us at the Fountain Pen Club
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I live in Hamden, CT (New Haven area) and work as a medical writer in Fairfield County, CT.
I discovered fountain pens in roughly 1976 when a drugstore cartridge Wearever appeared in my Christmas stocking. From that day to this I have not used ballpoints except in extremity.
Through school I used a succession of student-grade Wearevers, Sheaffers, and Parker Vectors. By the time I reached a postdoc year at Yale, those were seldom available even in campus stores or office suppliers, and I discovered Pilot Varsitys--which I still use for travel pens that won't leak and won't be irreplaceable if lost!
Once I got a real job I began to buy sale pens from Levenger on occasion. I still have a purple Sheaffer Award that I acquired thus ($25 for the fountain pen plus a ballpoint which my husband adopted). Visually understated but a tactile trip...I prefer smooth fine nibs on the wet side.
The pen addiction grew gradually and linearly until two jobs later, circa 2005, when I discovered enough online temptations to turn it exponential. The flagship of my pen pile (it is really too randomly selected to call a collection) is a postmodern Pearl and Black Parker Duofold, and its viceroy (how's that for a mixed metaphor) a postmodern orange Conklin Nozac. On an average day, though, I'm most often found with a Waterman Phileas or one of numerous Heroes in hand. I like the Hero Ruby Ice for sustained writing and the Hero Accountant XXF for marginalia.
I discovered fountain pens in roughly 1976 when a drugstore cartridge Wearever appeared in my Christmas stocking. From that day to this I have not used ballpoints except in extremity.
Through school I used a succession of student-grade Wearevers, Sheaffers, and Parker Vectors. By the time I reached a postdoc year at Yale, those were seldom available even in campus stores or office suppliers, and I discovered Pilot Varsitys--which I still use for travel pens that won't leak and won't be irreplaceable if lost!
Once I got a real job I began to buy sale pens from Levenger on occasion. I still have a purple Sheaffer Award that I acquired thus ($25 for the fountain pen plus a ballpoint which my husband adopted). Visually understated but a tactile trip...I prefer smooth fine nibs on the wet side.
The pen addiction grew gradually and linearly until two jobs later, circa 2005, when I discovered enough online temptations to turn it exponential. The flagship of my pen pile (it is really too randomly selected to call a collection) is a postmodern Pearl and Black Parker Duofold, and its viceroy (how's that for a mixed metaphor) a postmodern orange Conklin Nozac. On an average day, though, I'm most often found with a Waterman Phileas or one of numerous Heroes in hand. I like the Hero Ruby Ice for sustained writing and the Hero Accountant XXF for marginalia.
Welcome to FPN!!!
Welcome! I was expelled from Hamden Hall Country Day a quarter century ago, but I lived near Edgewood Park toward Westville.
So you're close enough to New Haven that you have to answer the Holy Trinity Question so that others familiar with New Haven (be they Yalie or townie) will be able to judge your character:
Pepe's, Sally's or Modern?
You will be graded on your answer.
So you're close enough to New Haven that you have to answer the Holy Trinity Question so that others familiar with New Haven (be they Yalie or townie) will be able to judge your character:
Pepe's, Sally's or Modern?
You will be graded on your answer.
Hello and welcome to FPN.
Welcome.
I've never even been to NH, but---Sally's!
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So you're close enough to New Haven that you have to answer the Holy Trinity Question so that others familiar with New Haven (be they Yalie or townie) will be able to judge your character:
Pepe's, Sally's or Modern?
Pepe's, Sally's or Modern?
Modern...although I haven't been there in quite awhile.
Do you remember the H. Lender and Son bagel restaurant in the Hamden retail district? That was our favorite
Friday-night-too-tired-to-cook place until it closed just before the turn of the century, and I've never quite
forgiven it for going out of biz.
Hello and welcome aboard the FPN!
Hello and welcome from Bridgeport! Looks like we may have enough CT FPNers to try the CT pen club again!!! Looking forward to what you have to add 
Welcome to the board. What does a medical writer write? Curious because I know nothing of this specialty.
Hi there and welcome too.
I'd also like to know what you mean by writing medicine. I sort of do the same (translating and editing medical scientific articles to be submitted for publication). But I unfortunately use my PC for all of this and can only use my FPs for my own notes.
Best wishes
Mike
I'd also like to know what you mean by writing medicine. I sort of do the same (translating and editing medical scientific articles to be submitted for publication). But I unfortunately use my PC for all of this and can only use my FPs for my own notes.
Best wishes
Mike
I receive clinical study reports from study sponsors and write meeting materials presenting the findings (abstracts, posters, slides) and/or articles for publication in medical journals. I also plan and write review articles synthesizing some aspect of the literature (those are my favorite type of project). Doctors who participated in the research and/or the interpretation of the data are the authors; they provide me their conceptual direction at the beginning and then content-revisions at each outline/MS stage.
I'm a member of the American Medical Writers' Association; their website has more information about this group of occupations at http://www.amwa.org.
I use my laptop for the actual prose I send to authors and journals, but I find that in early stages (note taking, thinking out loud on paper, starting initial drafting) FPs stimulate my thoughts more.
I'm a member of the American Medical Writers' Association; their website has more information about this group of occupations at http://www.amwa.org.
I use my laptop for the actual prose I send to authors and journals, but I find that in early stages (note taking, thinking out loud on paper, starting initial drafting) FPs stimulate my thoughts more.
Interesting!
I used to write general science articles as well as some medical releases. I had to stop though. In researching a topic, I found that I 'came down with' whatever disease I was reading about.
I used to write general science articles as well as some medical releases. I had to stop though. In researching a topic, I found that I 'came down with' whatever disease I was reading about.
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Interesting!
I used to write general science articles as well as some medical releases. I had to stop though. In researching a topic, I found that I 'came down with' whatever disease I was reading about.
I used to write general science articles as well as some medical releases. I had to stop though. In researching a topic, I found that I 'came down with' whatever disease I was reading about.
Yep, my husband teases me about "medical writer's disease" as being similar to "medical student's disease."
Hello from Wolcott. I used to live in Orange and just finished Grad school at Southern last week. But to answer the burning question, if I'm in a hurry it's Modern, but my favorite is Sally's
Andy
Andy
Welcome to FPN.
Wow, 1976! You have a long history with fountain pens.
Wow, 1976! You have a long history with fountain pens.
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