{"id":684,"date":"2008-05-27T13:45:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T20:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=684"},"modified":"2008-05-27T21:14:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T04:14:18","slug":"confessions-part-the-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"confessions, part the second"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once more I grace the pages of my blog with an admission of my fallibility and an acknowledgement of my addictions. First it was brads and eyelets<\/a>. Now it’s office supplies. Granted, this should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who’s ever met me and been in my presence when pens share space with my roaming fingers. I have to test them out. Writing fluidity, weight, balance, colour – all these things combine to make pens fascinating to me. As much as I love computers, I’ll never be able to break free and leave the world of paper and ink behind me.<\/p>\n

I can spend hours in office supply stores searching for the perfect pen. I dragged my poor Filipina friends from store to store in numerous malls searching for pens I’d seen or used at work. I once gave money to a friend traveling to India so he could buy and return with bags of pens (all for me!!!). I’d discovered a pen I loved when I was living in Bangalore in 2003 and, to my eternal pain and suffering, they weren’t available in North America. Of course I hadn’t realized this until after I’d landed back in Canada. It made perfect sense to load my friend up with a whopping $5.00 and have him acquire as many of the pens as he could while he was there. I even gave him my last adored pen to take with him so he know exactly what to buy. He returned with 50. I’ve been using them as my “daily use pens” ever since. Soon, I’ll need to find a way to return to India so I can buy more. Sometimes having quit my globetrotting job to go work in academia sucks.<\/p>\n

Today was a wonderful day at work. I had a desperate need for some DVD’s and data storage units so I could generate backup copies of all our courses. So, like any good office worker, I trotted myself over to the goddess of all things office related – our office admin. She placed the order and then allowed me access to the tickle trunk<\/em>. No. Costumes for Mr. Dress-up, Casey and Finnegan are not stored inside K’s cubby. Instead, it’s where the standard office supplies are stored. Sure it houses staplers, scissors, and sticky notes. But it also houses the cream of the crop – pens, pencils, markers, sharpies, high-lighters – it’s like a little dose of heaven to go scrounging inside the boxes stacked on the shelves. You never know what will be in stock.<\/p>\n

*sigh*<\/p>\n

One red rollerball, black staedtler fine liner, and purple highlighter later and I’m in heaven for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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