8:30 a.m.: I go straight to the printer room to make copies for the 4:00 p.m. meeting, not just to get it done early, but because printing now will discourage me from the kinds of frantic last-minute edits that tend to make a document worse. The copier is out of order, so I go up a floor to find one copier out of order and the other in use. Both copiers on the floor above that are free, but of course the one I choose jams in seconds. I try the lid, the door, the lever, before grabbing the originals back and sliding on over to the other machine, which is weirdly operational. “Shoot,” mutters
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