Importance of a Pencil?

Pencil always smears in the end, no matter whether or not they smear initially. If I use a pencil, (and I'm very anal about this), I will SELECT a pencil that doesn't smear to anything but a high degree of sweat (and I don't sweat much). However, even with these pencils, when in my binder for one or two months, usually, a strange phenomenon occurs. I notice the graphite becomes migratory or reproductive or what not and spreads itself across the paper and I pretty much can't recognize it anymore. =/

Oh, I forgot, the paper matters too xD I find if I "age" certain paper by having them sit outside of their plastic shrink wrap in a wooden drawer, the paper becomes crappy and all the graphite leaks everywhere. If I take the same paper straight from the packaging, it works fine.

I can pull more than a dozen pieces of paper out of my Middle School homework archive (some being from the beginning of the year, having sat in my backpack the whole time) and they'll be pretty dam fresh, with little to no smears.

Aren't those the Pilot pens that say "Doesn't leak in flight" on the side of them? Because if so, I have a few of them and they don't leak at all.

Um, NASA didn't have such pens back then, so they invented one.

At any rate though, I have no idea if they are the space pens or not, because I would only care if I were to actually go out into space.