Potioncat's big idea...

[carolynwhite2]

Miss Carolyn Havisham had only dropped into the office on her way 
back from the restaurant out of a sense of duty. 

Considerably mellowed by a lazy afternoon in the local French bistro, 
she weaved along the pavement trying to decide on the age she would 
be for the coming year, the truth being too depressing to 
contemplate. 

She was looking forward to putting her feet up this evening and 
beginning the new biography of Machiavelli, so thoughtfully given to 
her by a friend, who on reflection probably knew her a little too 
well, and may have to be eliminated...

But these pleasant stirrings of paranoia were rudely interrupted:

> The door busts open and Potioncat bounds in yelling "Surpise!". 
> Everyone looks up, and even the door at the head of the stairs can 
> be heard squeaking open.
> 
<snip>
> 
> "I didn't know what to get you.  What you want most is for the 
> reject numbers to go up, and for the coing to go faster.  So I've 
> come up with a new coding technique.  Everyone should automatically 
> reject the first 6 posts, without reading them.  Then read the next 
> four, coding or rejecting appropriately.  Repeat for the next ten.  
> Brilliant?"
> 
> Carolyn stood, speechless, tears in her eyes.  Potioncat took it to 
> be gratitude.  Fortunately a wiser staff member knew better, and 
> provided a diversion,"Let's cut the cake!"
> 
> And the room echoed with yells of:
> 
> HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
> 
> 
'How did she guess?' muttered Carolyn to herself, 'my secret 
technique..thought none of them would ever find out how I managed to 
stay so effortlessly ahead..'

Considerably shaken, she took the proffered slice of cake, and 
munched..it was really quite good.

She would have to think of a new cataloguing decree, of course, to 
try and head off discovery for a bit longer, but for now she simply 
beamed at them all.

The wiser staff members feared the worst.

xxC