As professionals, we often need to carry around a bunch of stuff--pens, pencils, paper clips, binder clips, reading glasses, correction fluid, sticky notes, permanent markers, highlighters, charging cords, lip balm . . . and on, and on. (It can be a little dizzying when you do an actual inventory of your mobile office supplies.) And if all those doodads and whatsits and objet métier aren't properly corralled, we can waste a lot of time tracking them down or, quite possibly, replacing them (only to find them later in that extremely safe and extraordinarily logical place we put them in). I was plenty tired of tracking down and replacing, so I began the hunt for a decent pencil case. My requirements were fairly simple, I thought:
This bad boy meets all of my requirements and even adds a few perks: a handle (far more useful than I thought it would be at first), paracord zipper pulls, light padding all around, a soft internal lining, and a smoothly operating zipper that opens just far enough around the spine so that the lid will lie completely flat when open.
As you can see, it's big enough to hold a lot of stuff, without crossing over into why-bother-I've-already-got-a-messenger-bag territory. Regarding aesthetics, although I'm generally not a label guy, these have panache, and I feel pretty sure folks wouldn't mistake this case for theirs in a busy café; regardless, the labels could be removed easily. I promise I'm not one who tends to gush about pencil cases, but this guy is utterly fantastic. If you lie awake at night contemplating whether a perfect pencil case can exist in an imperfect world, the answer is yes. Now get some sleep. Kerry Smith is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.
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What my clients sayKerry has done a great job copyediting for us. In addition to editing the manuscripts, he has also tagged one manuscript for our typesetter and done some minor fact-checking for another. His estimates have been accurate, and his work has been on time and thorough. He knows Chicago style well, and I would definitely recommend him for editing. I am always hesitant to try new people, as I have been disappointed in the past, but Kerry has proved himself, and he has now been added to our list of freelancers, which is a very short list. - Amber Henderson, Managing Editor, AdventureKEEN
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