2H lead is great for drafting, borderline useless for writing or even sketching. But recently I've been doing a fair bit of work in Japanese, writing on paper. Normal wooden pencils and my grandfather's 0.046" pencils are tough to keep sharp enough, and 0.5mm pencils - such as my middle-school "click pencil" are too thin and the stroking style of writing kanji breaks the tips. Writing with a pen would be ideal but I constantly make mistakes.
So I'm quite pleased. Here's what my kanji homework looks like:
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that shit.
—-George Carlin