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Oct. 4th, 2007 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sereneHard to convey how funny this was without giving away the punchline, but work with me.
1) This is the part you pretend not to be actively aware of, but to know as background: Earlier this week, I was working on a manuscript in which the author had mislabeled some of zir tables as "figures", so I had flagged them with those little rectangular post-it flag thingies, and written "Table?" on them. As I went along recording those flagged instances and others, I pulled the flags off the manuscript, and they kind of ended up all over the place.
2) This is the part of the story that requires you to know #1 but in the sense that you know it but have forgotten about it by now: I was sitting in my office chair being hugged by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
someotherguy while I told him that Yes, I'm stressed and maxed out, but No, I'm not worried about it because it will pass, and Yada yada. Suddenly he gasps and says "Wait! I need to fix something!" He scurries over to the table, grabs two post-it flags, scribbles something on them, then leans down in front of me for a few seconds. When I look at the floor, there are two sets of post-it flags that say the following:
"Table?" "FLOOR!"
"Table?" "FLOOR!"
Guess you had to be there. I thought it was fucking hilarious.
1) This is the part you pretend not to be actively aware of, but to know as background: Earlier this week, I was working on a manuscript in which the author had mislabeled some of zir tables as "figures", so I had flagged them with those little rectangular post-it flag thingies, and written "Table?" on them. As I went along recording those flagged instances and others, I pulled the flags off the manuscript, and they kind of ended up all over the place.
2) This is the part of the story that requires you to know #1 but in the sense that you know it but have forgotten about it by now: I was sitting in my office chair being hugged by
someotherguy while I told him that Yes, I'm stressed and maxed out, but No, I'm not worried about it because it will pass, and Yada yada. Suddenly he gasps and says "Wait! I need to fix something!" He scurries over to the table, grabs two post-it flags, scribbles something on them, then leans down in front of me for a few seconds. When I look at the floor, there are two sets of post-it flags that say the following:"Table?" "FLOOR!"
"Table?" "FLOOR!"
Guess you had to be there. I thought it was fucking hilarious.