Yush, I know what you mean - that and that I'd probably be scared of breaking it if I used it as dish - I'd rather treat it with silk gloves in all its dignity ^-^ Though, the idea with holding a pencil would be fun to see - hehe, you could make a little character that is holding your letters for you, ooor how about a little piggybank, being a cutsy character with a money bag where you'd put the coins into? (make sure you can get them out again as well - otherwise you could make the character look all confused, since they have no idea how to get the coins out again either X3 )

I'm not too much into watching sports as well, I'm more for doing them myself, and even then I rather go biking, hiking, skiing and all that stuff (I'm not too much of a competitive person, and seeing that two students had to be carried out doesn't really make football sport I'd particularily want to try for myself either ;P ). Still, I figured it'd be weird to be in the US and never watch what is pretty much considered the national sport here, you know what I mean? And it was pretty close too, soo .. I went there ;P And yush, it was the team of the place I take classes ^-^
(That aside people here are generally really loud at times X.x Can't say it does not irk me somewhat, since I'm more used to calm places ^^; Could it be that a lot of boys here are about .. uuh .. four years behind, the way they act? O.o )

Oh, and I found a little art store not too far from here, and wow, they really have a lot of stuff - most of which you'd never see in Austria *-* (I got myself some pastells just to try around with them a little ^-^ )