I’d like to briefly report something I just noticed. When I started this job in January, I went to the supply cabinet and got four pencils, four pens, and a highlighter. Through massive amounts of work in the period since then, I have yet to fully extinguish even one of my pencils. (I rotate them so they are all roughly even in length.) I even added two coveted Mirado Black Warrior Pencils, and two red copyediting pencils to the collection, but have yet to put them into the rotation. I’m waiting for a big assignment to do that.

I am a model of efficiency.