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Feb. 17th, 2002 01:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorfFrom Mary Ellen's journal. For some reason I found this hilarious. I want to make my own paper cow too! But I need a cartridge for my printer that doesn't make striped bands on solid amounts of ink. I'll just use the printers at school. ^.^
Work has been very, very odd for the past few days. On Wednesday, feeling bored on my afternoon smoke break, I made a small paper cow. I put it on the circulation desk, and my coworkers and I decided to leave it there and see how long it took for my boss to notice. (She's a bit of a micro-manager. If a pencil is out of place, she notices.) My coworker Jane made a cow herself, and we put them in unobtrusive places on the desk, and waited for hilarity to ensue. On Thursday morning, I came in and found a that, in addition to the two white cows, Jane had made a small pink cow -- that was the one my boss noticed. She loved it. She thought the cows were the greatest thing, ever. (They are really cute. We call them morale-boosters, because they make us giggle. Hey, we take our fun where we can.) She immediately went to her office and found a stack of colored paper, and told me to make more cows -- she said we should each take a half hour a day to make cows. She also asked if she could have the pink one -- she wanted one for her office. Later on, she took a bright yellow one we'd made home. When I left Friday, there were about 15 little paper cows scattered around the circulation area -- a pale blue one next to my monitor, a few white ones hiding behind the tape dispensers, and a whole rainbow of them -- lavendar, green, yellow, pink, blue, and white -- lined up along a shelf behind the desk. We joked that we'd give out cows to our favorite students -- and when someone was rude to one of us, we'd mutter "No cow for you!" at their backs at they walked away. Much fun, yes, but very, very strange. I fear that when I get to work Tuesday (holiday Monday, hurrah!) the cows will have taken over the library.
Cows!
Date: 2002-02-19 05:49 am (UTC)-- Mary Ellen