I don't deserve nice things!

When I was in San Francisco I nearly spent $25 on a stapler. I know that's a lot for a stapler, but it was a wooden stapler and it was beautiful.

I saw it at The Curiosity Shoppe, a must-visit shop if you're ever in San Francisco. I bought a couple of pencils, but not the stapler.

The primary reason for not buying this stapler is that for a large chunk of the year this is how my desk looks:

It's a disaster. Each semester my desk starts out looking quite nice and organized. However, as the weeks pass and the assignments become more intense the piles start. If you go to my Flickr page you can see all of the notes that I have attached to the above photo. I feel that until I can maintain a relatively tidy desk I do not deserve this beautiful specimen of stapler because it is too nice to end up buried under articles about ILS and old receipts.