Why is it pens come 12 to a box, but there's only 100 Post-Its in a pad?

[active_apathy]

I have paid my course fees! I am now officially a library technician in training. Officially.

I'm considering a new 'librarianism' tag.[Poll #667710]Now, as you may have guessed from the title, my day also came with shopping. My pen ran out - actually, all my pens are kinda empty - so this prompted the difficult quest to find a new pen. And to buy some Post-It notes.

Finding a pen is... um... strangely difficult. I decided that of all the pens they had boxes for, I wanted a 0.5mm black gel ink pen. They didn't actually have any. The box was full of 0.7mm ones.

Crisis!

So, I went looking for this exact pen that I decided I wanted. And then in blue, just in case and then... well, 0.7mm. Not happy, but I'll find a 0.5mm one before I start getting all learned.

Post-Its were easier to find, and my copy of HPatPS is now marked in strategic spots with Post-Its. Well... not quite. Normal people looking to keep track of a few pages will put Post-It notes into a book. As a result of previous academia, my books tend to end up with OMGWTFPost-Itnotes. The page count doubles in little yellow slips of paper, with notes, comments, jokes or squiggles on.

And... wait. Message. *reads*

Serenity has arrived at EzyDVD. Your copy is ready to collect. Remember, they aim to misbehave, and they surely do.

SQUEE! And they're really, really trying to sell the BDM. More squee!

And... um... that'll do. Yay! *snoopydances for Serenity*

Comments

[leila82.livejournal.com]

Whee office supplies!! I love pens. And post-its.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Stationery is fun, but I think I might be a tiny bit too particular about my writing implements.

[leila82.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm the same way. I'm just glad I've found some gel pens that I like, because I hate ballpoint, and the liquid ink ones, while being the right thickness, are a little too liquidy. Particularly if one does her studying while sitting on her bed. Where she might doze off occasionally.

0.7 gels are just right.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I don't really mind 0.7, but I would prefer an 0.5 gel. Or, if I knew how to properly use one, a real pen and a bottle of ink.

[leila82.livejournal.com]

Hee, I think giving me a bottle of ink on it's own would be a recipe for disaster. If I can't handle ink contained within the barrel of a pen, how could I handle a bottle?

Now that I think of it, I've never used a 0.5. Wonder what they're like...

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

www.penisland.com

Just click it.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

That you even have that URL suggests to me that it breaks up as pen island.

*clicks*

Oh. Um... penisland.org perhaps?

And... it looks like a Lost parody.

[mrpyro.livejournal.com]

Try penisland.net

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Oh. Yes, that works. Custom pens for the win.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

My Serenity pre-order was declined on account of allegedly no money in the account. *sulks* *buys it over the counter and gets it earlier than if they'd mailed it out anyway*

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be collecting mine today. So, yay. Happy, seeing as how the release date is tomorrow.

[theshadowlurker.livejournal.com]

OooooOOOOoooo. Tickyboxes. That means I can check all of them! *does so*