copying forms i just did a schedule request for the office.

not completed the form, mind you, not one where you submit the form to a supervisor to let him or her know that you'll want out of the office those days, so they'd best brace themselves for my inevitable absence and find ways to patch the vaccum i've left; no.

i borrowed a filled-out schedule request form from a colleague and xerox copied that. i borrowed white out - liquid paper, ahaha - scissors, tape, a black pen and a ruler - footrule, ahaha - and erased all vestiges of my colleague's handwriting on the copied form.

i then twice copied that white-out-ed form, took my footrule - my ruler, ahaha - and my pen and drew lines where there should have been. i took the second copy and snipped "(month, day, year)" where it appeared a second time on the form, and restored those words to the first because i accidentally erased the first instance of "day, year)".

with the newly-taped, ruled and cleansed form, i made one copy. skewed. a second copy. needs to be a little to the left. a third copy. the top needs some margin. but dangit, i handed that form to the front desk.

"this," i proudly told her, "is a schedule request form."

i gave space to the top margin and made 200 copies, 100 for the copy room and 100 for the library. i opted for this project because i've stayed long enough around here to know how bizarre things get. it was a welcome change from staring at a computer. i've never been so closely acquainted with paper form repair maintenance before.   ¶ 9/15/2004 03:44:00 PM