on the trail of the working ray

the working ray is an elusive beast. so few people have seen it in action that most assume that such a beast (scientific name: "rayus industrius") simply doesn't exist; that the more prevalent lazy ray ("rayus slackerus") is the only kind of its species. in work environments, the lazy ray may disguise itself by puffing up and spewing technical jargon and occasionally screeching wildly. most of the time, the lazy ray will actually simply be typing emails, chatting on IM and changing the fonts of an otherwise static document. the true working ray has thus far eluded direct scrutiny, leaving evidence of its existence in the form of massive papers that appear overnight and immaculately organized mp3 collections. however, this evidence sketches such a vague impression of the working ray that skeptics abound and insist, "just because you get presents in the morning, it doesn't mean santa was there last night."