someone swiped my green marker! Outrage

[mamselle]

Has anyone tried goose quills for their good effect on the environment, instead?

You can make green ink with malachite, or maybe chalcedony, I think...

(Interthreadual webs of wisdom...)

M.

[Deacon_blues]

My bulk order of markers arrived, and--surprise, surprise!--green markers were included!  I tried one out in class today, and it was strangely satisfying to use.  However, I am disappointed to report that I left a new eraser in the room for communal use, and I returned today to find that someone had swiped it!  I guess it's a good thing that the eraser came in a two-pack.  Now I'll have to carry one in my purse....  This is why people can't have nice things.

[mamselle]

Oops....is THAT what fell into my book bag when I turned around to leave yesterday?

I haven't cleared it out yet.

I'll try to remember to return it tomorrow!

Promise!

M.

[Cheerful]

My bulk order of markers arrived, and--surprise, surprise!--green markers were included!  I tried one out in class today, and it was strangely satisfying to use.  However, I am disappointed to report that I left a new eraser in the room for communal use, and I returned today to find that someone had swiped it!  I guess it's a good thing that the eraser came in a two-pack.  Now I'll have to carry one in my purse....  This is why people can't have nice things.

I work on a BYOM (bring your own markers) campus.  It didn't used to be BYOE.  After after all erasers went missing from a classroom once, I now carry a spare in my book bag.  Both are essential for my teaching style.  No markers, no erasers means I might cancel class (almost) or end early!

[Aster]

I found a green marker lying on the ground in a corridor, in a different building.

It's mine now.

This was a Sign From God.

[the_geneticist]

I used to have to carry my own clock to lectures.  Petty departments wouldn't buy supplies for rooms in their own buildings if folks from other departments taught in them.

[Aster]

Our adjunct work room does not have a stapler. Every time someone puts one in there, it disappears within a week or two.

I have asked for one of those long metal chains that can be bolted down. I've even looked for one at the office supply store. I would like to leash a stapler to it in the adjunct work room.

[mamselle]

Conversely, I brought an extra mechanical pencil sharpener to the new history room in my local library.

I couldn't find anyone to approve it, so I just plugged it into an unused, surreptitiously placed plug, and used it when I was there...

It was gone two weeks later.

I never got around to asking about it.

Last night it showed up at the reference desk.

Oh, well!

M.

[apl68]

Conversely, I brought an extra mechanical pencil sharpener to the new history room in my local library.

I couldn't find anyone to approve it, so I just plugged it into an unused, surreptitiously placed plug, and used it when I was there...

It was gone two weeks later.

I never got around to asking about it.

Last night it showed up at the reference desk.

Oh, well!

M.

On behalf of honest reference librarians everywhere, I apologize....

[bopper]

Conversely, I brought an extra mechanical pencil sharpener to the new history room in my local library.

At first I thought: Why do you need a sharpener for Mechanical Pencils?

[mamselle]

Conversely, I brought an extra mechanical pencil sharpener to the new history room in my local library.

At first I thought: Why do you need a sharpener for Mechanical Pencils?

Well done. Just like you don't need bear-proof containers for humans (interthreadual citation)...

I should also observe that the large binder clips have all disappeared from the small copier room.

I suppose I cooouuullllddd walk to the larger copier room, 'way down at the other end of the hall, to get more.

But when you use them all up one day, you sort of expect them to be replaced the next, right??

(Opps...)

M.

[Aster]

The faculty work room was partially restocked today. There are several green dry erase markers.

I am loathe to approach them. This may be a trap.

[mamselle]

I just thought I should mention that the green marker in my computer bag is NOT, repeat, NOT a dry-erase marker.

It's just a regular old Marks-a-Lot Marker for paper, not whiteboards.

Just in case anyone saw it in there, and wondered....

M.

[apl68]

The faculty work room was partially restocked today. There are several green dry erase markers.

I am loathe to approach them. This may be a trap.

Contra Hollywood, you can't put very much explosive into a package the size of a marker, so you've probably got nothing to worry about there.

[Parasaurolophus]

Someone left behind a purple marker last week. I was ecstatic.

Alas, I've now moved out of the dry-erase portion of my class.