Torchwood Drabble: "I'm Not an Archivist."
Title: "I'm Not an Archivist," Ianto Snapped, Snatching the File From the Desk.
Warnings: Quick, dirty and un-betaed.
Notes: Sometimes this bothers me, other times not. 100 words.
"I'm a researcher, which means that I have more than a passing knowledge of basic alphabetical systems and organizational patterns, but I have never had to clean up after lazy geniuses whose definition of 'filing' was 'stick it in the outbox until someone else takes care of it.' I file things so I can find them again when the world is crashing at our feet and we need the translation algorithm of Kraxlofi defense mechanisms - not the first, not the second, the third - and we have four minutes before Cardiff falls into the sea. Researcher, not archivist."
Warnings: Quick, dirty and un-betaed.
Notes: Sometimes this bothers me, other times not. 100 words.
"I'm a researcher, which means that I have more than a passing knowledge of basic alphabetical systems and organizational patterns, but I have never had to clean up after lazy geniuses whose definition of 'filing' was 'stick it in the outbox until someone else takes care of it.' I file things so I can find them again when the world is crashing at our feet and we need the translation algorithm of Kraxlofi defense mechanisms - not the first, not the second, the third - and we have four minutes before Cardiff falls into the sea. Researcher, not archivist."