Number nine, number nine, number nine....
Yes, dear ink fans, it’s time (or even slightly past time) for another round of Mystery Ink.
Our theme for MI9 is graduation. Time has really flown, and we have seen progress and change on so many fronts. MI here reaches its ninth round, which is amazing in and of itself. And the Stanley Cup finals kick off tonight. It’s hard to believe, but it was almost two months ago, when we were just beginning MI7, that the Stanley Cup playoffs started with 16 teams vying for the ultimate prize. Now only the top two remain, and congratulations to both teams— the exciting and skilled Tampa Bay Lightning and MI’s beloved and never-say-die Chicago Blackhawks.
All over the country parents are celebrating the graduations of their middle school, high school and college students We are proud and happy parents ourselves at MI Midwest, since somehow, in the blink of an eye, my two wonderful youngest children have gotten old enough to have graduated middle school and high school, respectively, this past week.
Pomp and circumstance aplenty here. It’s really an amazing experience. Still a little bit in a daze.
And now we graduate to MI9 as a group. Another amazing feat. All that is required of our MI9 volunteers will be a willingness to try an unknown ink, MI9, and post your impressions here. The idea is to have fun by trying an ink without any preconceptions, or even a clue as to what it might be. To preserve the mystery, the identity of the ink will not be revealed until every recipient has received his or her ink and had a chance to try it. So we also ask people not to write guesses about the ink’s name directly in the thread.
People who've done it before are welcome again, as are people who are new to the exercise. Everyone is welcome in Mystery Ink. The more volunteers the better.
If you’d like to volunteer, please post here and let us know why you’d like to get MI9. And if it’s not in your profile, please tell us where you live (just the state or country). That helps us pick a diverse slate of participants and figure out mailing times.
If we have more than six volunteers, participants will be chosen randomly.
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