I finally told the computer services staff the other day that I didn't need the department assigned computer, since I prefer to use my personal laptop. They took it away today. It was a bit funny... the guy came, and I started taking my "stuff" off the monitor. He said that he wouldn't be taking the monitor, since they had lots. (What!?! I wanted my desk space back! I didn't want to store their stupid gigantic monitor!)
"Oh," I said, disappointed, "you're not taking it?"
"No, I only take what they tell me," says the student worker.
"Oh." *sigh*.
He asks "So, what's wrong with it, did it just die?"
"No, nothing's wrong," I said. "I never use it, so I though someone else could."
"Oh... I guess I'll take the monitor and stuff. I'll be back."
"With a cart?"
"Yes."
Computer bits disappear, and dust flies. I go get a damp paper towel.
*Wow!* Look at all that desk space!!! I bet it'll take me at least a half hour to clutter it up. ;)
Clutter is highly under-rated...I cleaned my bookshelves awhile ago and organized them - do you think I could find the text I was looking for today? NOT,...I remember exactly where it was before I got my new bookshelves though, i.e. in the 2nd milkcrate from the left under the pile of term test papers, LOL
ReplyDeleteI could NOT resist googling "GOGGLE GEEK"...sorry to break it to you - you were #5,
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Only #5?!? And Goggle Geek came out of hiding today!!! *pout*
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Do you not keep your books sorted on the shelves? I have my fiction by author, my course textbooks by course number (yeah, I'm strange), and other texts by subject. But yeah, I use that other "organization" for most of my other stuff. ;)
Actually, the real problem with clutter in the office is that there's some really nasty dust gunk that settles on everything, and clutter is harder to keep low-dust than non-clutter. :P
ReplyDeleteI googled myself... without the quotes I wasn't on the first page (didn't try looking deeper), and with the quotes, I was second. Of course, you were probably using google.ca rather than google.com. Interestingly, most of the hits without the quotes seemed to be people who couldn't spell google. ;)
I googled "goggle geek" on http://www.google.com and you were 5th without the quotes, and first with the quotes.
ReplyDeleteDunno what you typed... ;)
Hmmm... maybe it changes day by day... I just re-googled myself, and got the same results.
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