Returning to the "Ten Years Ago Today" theme I used last Friday, I said that the death of Diana, Princess of Wales had impacted me in a lot of ways in the days that followed. Although her funeral was not for a couple of days afterward, watching that funeral and being engrossed in the media coverage of it distracted me from something I had started a couple of days earlier, in fact ten years ago today, because it was on that day that THE GREATEST VIDEO GAME EVER, Final Fantasy VII, was released in the States. I bought my reserved copy at our local Toys'R'Us that day, and thought I would be totally engrossed in it until Diana's funeral coverage kind of distracted me. Of course, I've played Final Fantasy VII several times over since then, and will be starting a new game today to commemorate the anniversary of its stateside release. On that note, let's really hurry through the friday5.org Friday Five!
1. What’s your favorite small office supply (like something that can fit in your top desk drawer)?
This should probably come as a surprise to none of you: gel pens.
2. What’s your favorite medium office supply (like something that can fit on your desktop)?
Well, my scissors are too big to fit in the small set of drawers I keep on my desktop, so I'll go with those. They are a rather large pair, and I think they're actually retooled kitchen shears, but they're a necessity for cutting through the impossibly thick plastic that so many things get packaged in these days.
3. What’s your favorite large office supply (like a furnishing or a large tool)?
I'll go with my bookshelves here. I am once again running out of space for all of my books and video games and DVDs and such, and I swear that I'll have to buy a two-bedroom house just so I can turn one bedroom into a library for all of my stuff.
4. To which specific office supply do you have a particular personal attachment?
The only things I get personally attached to are my journaling tools (pencil and binder); I recently bought new ones just because my old ones were in such a bad state, but I'm keeping the old tools on the upper shelf of my closet right now just because I can't bear to throw them out.
5. Which office supply do you consider yourself something of an expert on?
I don't really consider myself an expert on any office supply, unless you're going to count PCs as office supplies. (I don't think that would be in the spirit of this meme, though.)