What's a girl to do with a broken stapler?
I have a serious problem: my favorite stapler is broken. Let's not dwell on the fact that 1) I have more than one stapler and 2) one in particular is my favorite. There's a bigger issue here: my favorite stapler is broken. In truth, I should amend that statement to say, I have broken my favorite stapler. I don't even know how! There I was, stapling students' papers (apparently they don't own staplers themselves), and I ran out of staples. No problem; I have two more boxes (yes, two-- don't dwell). So I reloaded, did a "test" staple of a scratch piece of paper, and it didn't work!!! Now I'm completely flummoxed. Obviously I'll have to find a stapler-repair guy in the yellow pages.
Update, 3:12 pm: I fixed the stapler! Obviously I need to consider a career in stapler repair...