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One of the things you may not know about me is that I'm wildly nerdy about typography. (Wildly nerdy was a given, folks.) I care passionately about kerning, I make dumb type-related jokes, I take photos of store signs that use interesting fonts. I collect fonts. I've actually paid for fonts which- considering how many free fonts there are, and how much work I do with type- is ridiculous. I care about the difference between a dash and an em-dash.

It's ok if you judge me a little. I sometimes worry myself.

So I've been thinking lately, that I'd like to collect something. I am an adult, and many cool adults I know have interesting collections. I thought, for a while, about collecting ampersands. Because: 10 it is a fun word to say, and this matters. 2) I could start my collection with this 3) The next piece in my collection could be this which is both and ampersand and also LIGHTS UP, which I find hilarious.

Then I totally stalled out, because, dude. There aren't that many ampersands out there, and a photo collection just isn't tangible enough. Also: they're kind of trendy right now, which gives me a knee-jerk "back away! back away!" vibe.

But today, I realized what I'm going to collect, and it's going to be EXCELLENT. I just wish I hadn't lost my file of useful quotations.