The only fly in the ointment is the project stuff which is so onerous it would ordinarily have had me eating my desk blotter with frustration. |
He stands up, leaning on his desk blotter, and keeps his voice low as he continues. |
Norman scoots behind the desk and glances down at the blotter, shuffling a few papers in his fingers. |
Adele flicks her gaze at the letter opener at the edge of her leather desk blotter. |
A blotter, as ubiquitous then as a computer is now, sits on his desk, ready for work. |
Her blotter is crisp, doodle-free, as antiseptically intimidating as the crinkly butcher rolls doctors use on examination tables. |