DUBLIN -- At the start of every academic year, I try to procure 50 "A5 Feint With Elastics" made by Tiger Brand in DY9 8HX UK. It challenges me. Today I visited Reads of Nassau Street where my man Dave says "the company we order them from has been bought out and it will take a few weeks to convert their systems over." Add to this event the fact that August is synonymous with holiday across the continent and I'm looking at late August before resolving my problem. Classes begin in mid-September.