Need Any Staples?
One of the many tasks I have this week before classes start is to move offices. In preparing for the move - to my fifth office in nine years! - I combined all of the supplies for the forensics team with my office supplies. I kind of have a thing for office supplies, and was wondering if I need to order more of them. I don't.
Among the inventory, I found:
8 pairs of scissors,
7 staplers,
2 electric pencil sharpeners, and
over 85,000 staples.
I sorta remembering an ordering snafu with staples last year - like I misunderstood how many staples were in a pack. I thought I was ordering 4,500 and ended up receiving 60,000. However, I can't account for the other 25,000 staples.
IN OTHER NEWS - Recently I have noticed myself driving rather slowly. I'll look at the speedometer and notice that I'm about 10 mph under the speed limit. Then I'll speed up, and a few minutes later, I'll realize that I'm pokey again. Fascinating.


5 Comments:
You really shouldn't have told me that you drive slowly...cut to: me telling joke after joke about how you drive like an old person. Maybe all those staples are slowing you down!
8/23/2006 11:32 PM
i'm glad you have such great counting skills, being a real faculty member and all
8/24/2006 4:38 PM
ewww....I don't know if I can be friends with you any more...we'll have to talk about this slow business.
8/24/2006 7:39 PM
Hmmm... maybe you're under-stapling? Just like underspeeding... How's your blood pressure - low? Stress level??? It's all about balance, baby. Yin and yang, fire and water, staples and... paper clips? Hey, you didn't mention those.
Hope your move goes well.
8/24/2006 8:52 PM
We'll go through those staples this year. Don't worry. With all the cutting we're going to do...they'll get used.
8/25/2006 9:58 PM
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