Thursday, July 01, 2004
vin, what are you doing still here?
oh, mg, wouldn't we both like to know? i don't know why i start these things, this always happens. but once i start a little project, i just can't put it down until it's all done.
what's your project?
you know, every time i saw those yellow pencils standing there in the pencil cup i was automatically like school bus, warning sign, pedestrian crossing - stress, stress, stress! so i thought it would be better for the energy in here if we got more soothing pencils.
hm.
so i ordered these beautiful robin's egg blue ones. they're also a slightly softer lead, so you don't have to fight with them like you do with a number two. besides, number two pencils are all junior high school and SATs and fill in the circle clearly and completely. i wanted something that wouldn't make us feel like we were struggling with a standardized test all the time.
so are the pencils keeping you here til seven?
well, i wanted to replace them right away, of course. but there isn't any point - no pun - in putting them out unsharpened. so of course i started to sharpen them. but the electric sharpener overheats if you do more than two in a row, and it chews the third one all to pieces and starts to make that burning wood shavings sort of smell. which stings my eyes. so, see? i'm sharpening them by hand.
with a boxcutter?
it's all i could find. it's havoc on the tendons in my wrist, but i think it will be worth it when everyone starts using the new pencils and they start to bring more a calm and focused energy into our space.
vin, i don't think anyone here even-- yeah. um, thank you, vin. don't stay too late, ok?
oh, mg, wouldn't we both like to know? i don't know why i start these things, this always happens. but once i start a little project, i just can't put it down until it's all done.
what's your project?
you know, every time i saw those yellow pencils standing there in the pencil cup i was automatically like school bus, warning sign, pedestrian crossing - stress, stress, stress! so i thought it would be better for the energy in here if we got more soothing pencils.
hm.
so i ordered these beautiful robin's egg blue ones. they're also a slightly softer lead, so you don't have to fight with them like you do with a number two. besides, number two pencils are all junior high school and SATs and fill in the circle clearly and completely. i wanted something that wouldn't make us feel like we were struggling with a standardized test all the time.
so are the pencils keeping you here til seven?
well, i wanted to replace them right away, of course. but there isn't any point - no pun - in putting them out unsharpened. so of course i started to sharpen them. but the electric sharpener overheats if you do more than two in a row, and it chews the third one all to pieces and starts to make that burning wood shavings sort of smell. which stings my eyes. so, see? i'm sharpening them by hand.
with a boxcutter?
it's all i could find. it's havoc on the tendons in my wrist, but i think it will be worth it when everyone starts using the new pencils and they start to bring more a calm and focused energy into our space.
vin, i don't think anyone here even-- yeah. um, thank you, vin. don't stay too late, ok?
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