Vacuum Island

In middle school, I was the kid who never had a pencil. Like, I'd go to school and figure it out on the fly. If I did get a pencil, I'd baby it until either I lost it, or it became an unusable nub. (The one exception being the New Millennium Pencil . It was stolen. That wasn't my fault, I swear.) This was a real problem for me. I was really anxious about it, actually. I remember taking a Scantron…