Tales From the Bearpit

Because I am a first class bear I have two phones. Or rather I inherited them.. in actual fact I hardly ever use them and tomorrow I will have one new phone instead as we are upgrading our phones this week.



For days when I am being sensible I have a sensible set of gadgets...

And for other days I have my shark stapler and my Acapulco pen holder with little wind surfers in it to play with.

And to remind me about children I have these paintings and the owl.

I think every academic is supposed to have sherry in their room. I do like sherry but I hardly ever get to drink it at work. I like to know it is there for a crisis.

The glass jar has healthy nuts and raisins to stop me eating chocolate. It doesn't work.. and the little tin is some very smart mints we got from the Blackwell stall at UKLA. It makes a great clicking sound when you open and shut it.

If someone very well dressed comes to see me they can hang their coat on this very old coat hanger - if you look closely you can see it has an old London phone number from before STD.

This alien holds useful things for me like my name badge.

And I have two umbrellas, one in case the other one gets left in the house by mistake.

Which of these would you want? What is essential in your office world?

# posted by Mary Plain @ 5:12 pm