Dear Writing Implements...

[gnomi]

...please stop wandering away when I want you most. I know that I have plenty of pens and pencils and other writing implements on and in my desk. But sometimes I want a specific one of you, and when I have to chase you down just for a simple notation, it leads to cranky writer-ness.

Please make a note of it. I promise to strive to remember to always recap those of you who require capping.

Thank you,
That Writer Chick

Comments

Do you think

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

It's a mass migration? All of my pens have gone into hiding, and now yours are missing...

The Celery Stalks At Midnight!

Re: Do you think

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It just might be a mass migration.

Unless you're blaming the celery for the pens' disappearance...

Re: Do you think

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

Well, if we're going to get to the root of this, we'll have to ask the Carrot.

Oops -- phone call, I've got to (par)snip this comment.

Re: Do you think

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

OK, we'll just leaf this topic alone for a while.

Re: Do you think

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

Yes, lettuce.

Re: Do you think

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

O-kale do-kale!

(Have you ever heard Kip Adotta's Life in the Slaw Lane (http://dmdb.org/lyrics/slaw.lane.html)?)

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

I know where all of your pens go: my boss takes them when she needs something to write with as soon as you're not looking, no matter how many times I tell her not to and no matter how well I hide them. D:

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'm lucky -- people don't take my writing implements without asking. (I wonder if it's the plush Godzilla that chases them off.) But the implements seem to go wandering anyway.

[tygerseye.livejournal.com]

LOL

My version of this would be:

Dear People Who Walk by My Desk,

Please stop stealing my pens. It's annoying to reach for one and find I suddenly have none.

J.

:D

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

That, thankfully, does not happen to me.

I did once have my boss borrow my pen during a meeting (since I wasn't taking any notes -- I'd brought my knitting to this (extremely boring) meeting with my boss' blessing) and not remember by the end of the 45-minute meeting that it was my pen she was borrowing.

[sorek.livejournal.com]

The particular writing implement you are looking for is off on a top secret mission of galactic importance. If the writing implement is caught you are to disavow any knowledge of this writing implement.