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bad stationery is still stationery
5 Aug 2021 10:41 pmThis afternoon my supervisor said "Tomorrow will be fun. Tomorrow we do the stationery department."
I was like "Ooh, yes."
Then I realized that she was being sarcastic because she continued, "The stationery department is in even worse shape than the toys."
I agreed, and I don't think she realized I wasn't being sarcastic at all. And not even for Marie Kondo reasons, although I do quite enjoy tidying huge messes Marie Kondo style when they're not MY messes and not in my house or anything (because sorting things lets me get into Flow, although I do have the problem that I don't want to stop in the middle so I keep snoozing my alarm to remind me to go on break).
No, just because it's stationery!
I mean, granted, the fact that the stationery department sooooort of looks like a small tornado went through it will make it more work to tidy up and there's possibly more than a day's work there, even though it's like a quarter the size of the toy department that we just spent two days on (I spent over half my time today straightening Hot Wheels, which was the most time I have ever spent with Hot Wheels). But I mean, it's still stationery. I'm always excited by stationery in principle, even when it's not particularly high-quality stationery. Like, I definitely have ten times the value of stationery at home in about a twentieth the quantity, and maybe even that much once you subtract the fountain pens just from all my art supplies. But that still leaves tons of notebooks and erasers and stickers to sort.
And a bunch of little tubes that look like spice shakers but are called something like LOL pop! or something like that to do with creepy cartoon doll characters with giant eyes like a bad glittery ripoff of Funko pops. They say stationery on them, but I'm still not sure what's in these tubes. Erasers? Pencil sharpeners? Why would you call either of those things a "stationery"? Is this product Dutch?
I was like "Ooh, yes."
Then I realized that she was being sarcastic because she continued, "The stationery department is in even worse shape than the toys."
I agreed, and I don't think she realized I wasn't being sarcastic at all. And not even for Marie Kondo reasons, although I do quite enjoy tidying huge messes Marie Kondo style when they're not MY messes and not in my house or anything (because sorting things lets me get into Flow, although I do have the problem that I don't want to stop in the middle so I keep snoozing my alarm to remind me to go on break).
No, just because it's stationery!
I mean, granted, the fact that the stationery department sooooort of looks like a small tornado went through it will make it more work to tidy up and there's possibly more than a day's work there, even though it's like a quarter the size of the toy department that we just spent two days on (I spent over half my time today straightening Hot Wheels, which was the most time I have ever spent with Hot Wheels). But I mean, it's still stationery. I'm always excited by stationery in principle, even when it's not particularly high-quality stationery. Like, I definitely have ten times the value of stationery at home in about a twentieth the quantity, and maybe even that much once you subtract the fountain pens just from all my art supplies. But that still leaves tons of notebooks and erasers and stickers to sort.
And a bunch of little tubes that look like spice shakers but are called something like LOL pop! or something like that to do with creepy cartoon doll characters with giant eyes like a bad glittery ripoff of Funko pops. They say stationery on them, but I'm still not sure what's in these tubes. Erasers? Pencil sharpeners? Why would you call either of those things a "stationery"? Is this product Dutch?
