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12 March 2008

List 5 things you see on your desk.
1. speakers
2. three flat-screen monitors, keyboard and mouse
3. pile of scripts and notes
4. mug of tea
5. a 3-inch tall Buzz Lightyear, brandishing a push-pin
posted by BoringPostcards 12 March | 07:54
1. Coffee mug with the logo of the Statistics Department
2. Treo in it's cradle
3. Scattered pens, rubber bands and binder clips
4. Empty plastic cup that held last night's snack (mixed, salted nuts)
5. A dusty, dusty phone
posted by AwkwardPause 12 March | 07:57
1. Cornflakes and a cup of tea
2. De Grauwe, P. "The Economics of Monetary Union", 6th ed.
3. A bright blue tie with sailing boats on it
4. Toothpaste
5. A letter from a big evil oil company asking me to consider working for them (no thanks, big evil oil company)
posted by matthewr 12 March | 08:01
1. Bottle of ink
2. Moisturiser
3. Comb
4. Toilet roll
5. Wine glass
posted by chrismear 12 March | 08:04
1. Rolled coins
2. Headphones
3. Remote for computer
4. Pen canister
5. Wine glass
posted by LoriFLA 12 March | 08:15
1. Tea light candles on a glass tray
2. The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg
3. An English-Estonian dictionary
4. An empty mug (must have tea!)
5. Red beads on a string (the cat's toy)
posted by Daniel Charms 12 March | 08:16
1) Often, my forehead
2) Pictures of the richlettes, aimed at me.
3) a rock that Sophie (my oldest) grabbed from the shores of Lake huron and gave to me.
4) Wind up racing Grannies
5) a whack of other wind up toys and memory sticks.
posted by richat 12 March | 08:20
1) Homer Simpson Pez dispenser
2) Monster face made from clay - bought at a Renaissance Fair
3) Purel
4) Body Shop Almond Oil Intensive Hand Rescue
5) Stacks and stacks of paper
posted by tr33hggr 12 March | 08:23
1. Thermos flask half-full of cold water
2. Yellow foam-rubber ball
3. Las Vegas souvenir thermometer (borrowed)
4. Extra Strong Lockets (cough sweets)
5. Packet of tissues
posted by TheophileEscargot 12 March | 08:26
richat - I think we've chosen Sophie for our daughter's name!!
posted by tr33hggr 12 March | 08:29
Aww that's cool! Sophiehggr sounds great together!
posted by richat 12 March | 08:37
iPod
Laptop
Empty sammich packet
Empty coffee cup (this will soon be resolved)
Mobile phone
posted by TheDonF 12 March | 08:40
Stuffed penguin doll
Coffee cup with the logo of my previous employer
Tcl reference book
Big stacks of paper
Binary clock from Think Geek
posted by octothorpe 12 March | 08:44
1. a giant jellyfish enclosed in glass paperweight (that doesn't actually hold down any papers)
2. empty tea cup (soon to be filled with deliciously sugared tea)
3. a smiling little glass cat from college (one of the first few things I bought when I went to college)
4. a cat macro (this one)
5. lots of post-its
posted by sperose 12 March | 08:53
Wait, sperose...a GIANT jellyfish enclosed in a glass paperweight? How big IS that thing?
posted by richat 12 March | 09:01
1. Kleenex
2. 2 troll dolls, one big, one little
3. Pretty red and gold Christmas card with charmingly mangled English "May you come into a good fortune" from the Beijing Institute for Science and Technology
4. Coffee cup that says Life of the Arts 1989 filled with pens, scissors and an 18" ruler
5. Niftily designed blue stapler (it stands up on its end) that doesn't actually work very well.
posted by mygothlaundry 12 March | 09:08
Uncharged iPod
Cup of coffee
Folder with tax forms
Netflix envelope
The back half of the cat
posted by occhiblu 12 March | 09:19
pen
pen
pen
highlighter
marker

(that should read Soph13hggr)
posted by Eideteker 12 March | 09:20
Strawberry "Jamba Juice" stress ball
Bottle of water
Tape dispenser
Brush attachment for compressed air
Telephone
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 12 March | 09:21
dell dj mp3 player
a big stack of papers I don't want to look at
tea in a tall travel mug
a tabletop zen fountain
a little beatrix potter dish that I use to hold paperclips
posted by iconomy 12 March | 09:23
1. A tank of Sea Monkeys
2. A box of Kleenex
3. A bag of cough drops
4. A bag of a snack called "Wild Rice Sticks with Salt"
5. A stack of library books
posted by JanetLand 12 March | 09:24
1. Pentel Varsity fountain pen (my boss picked it up yesterday to sign something, didn't realize it was a fountain pen, and totally freaked out when his signature came out all weird)

2. mortgage for a closing that's on Friday

3. the little tube of "naked body butter" you get from Sephora on your birthday if you're a member of their club

4. my notary stamp

5. pink Miffy pen
posted by Lucinda 12 March | 09:26
1. blue coffee mug with the Alma logo in silver paint on it (full of coffee)
2. blue coffee mug with the HQ/USAF logo in gold paint on it (full of pens)
3. tin box from the 1933 Chicago World's Fair--a century of progress (full of paper clips)
4. my cell phone
5. a desk calendar which says "Cupcakes make people happy"
posted by crush-onastick 12 March | 09:30
1. Big-ass Jack Skellington mug
2. Plastic container of chocolate covered espresso beans, open
3. One of those lemon-shaped lemon juice things.
4. 3 cans of diet soda, 2.5 empty.
5. Content License Agreement
posted by danostuporstar 12 March | 09:32
1. cash
2. stocks
3. bonds
4. liquidity
5. derivatives
posted by mullacc 12 March | 09:39
Empty container of biscuits and gravy
Baby rattle
iPod cord
Butter knife with Laughing Cow cheese residue
Jim Mize CD
posted by middleclasstool 12 March | 09:41
1. Latex gloves
2. glass slides
3. Book: "The Behavior of the Laboratory Rat"
4. anti Neuropeptide-Y antibody bottle
5. myriad post-its
posted by gaspode 12 March | 09:44
Working at home today so ...

1. Photo of my honey
2. Big wide-based green glass tankard for my sparkling water
3. Calculator which is in a holder shaped like a tiny attaché case, complete with combination locks
4. Office Depot Screen Cleaner
5. Single hole punch
posted by essexjan 12 March | 09:46
1. Mug, with tea in it.
2. Empty powerade bottle.
3. Greg Mankiw's Principles of Macroeconomics.
4. Shaving mirror
5. Essential Ghost Rider, which someone lent me and I haven't read yet.
posted by dismas 12 March | 09:51
1. bottle of lexapro
2. dolly parton cd
3. 6-in-1 screwdriver
4. movie passes
5. q-tips
posted by fluffy battle kitten 12 March | 09:54
1. Plastic nun (one of a bunch given out at a sort of multi-media performance art thing in which friends were involved);
2. Hand drawn Mother's Day card from my son from a number of years ago-- it features the Jigglypuff Pokemon;
3. High school grad photo of son;
4. Corkboard with poems, postcards, Lynda Barry cartoons, ticket stub from Radiohead at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2006, and a picture of two MRI scans entitled "Sad Brain Happy Brain" from an article about depression;
5. Piece of dried lavender from a memorable trip to Edmonton a few years back
posted by jokeefe 12 March | 09:57
Yeah, I know that's more than five, I cheated. Oh well. It's a very crowded desk.
posted by jokeefe 12 March | 09:58
Jigglypuff! I love Jigglypuff.

1. The mug I painted at the pottery painting place.
2. Two plants. A snake plant and another whose type I do not know, but which is also quite snaky, in a different way.
3. A gavel.
4. A toxicologist's business card.
5. The phone number of an ex-boyfriend, who I was in touch with recently for professional purposes.
posted by amro 12 March | 10:05
It looks massive in the paperweight, but it's all this weird blown glass thing so it's made out of bubbles. I saw it at TJ Maxx for something crazy like $5 and decided that I had to have it on my desk at work.
posted by sperose 12 March | 10:16
1. MacBook
2. iPhone
3. Empty glass and can of Dr Pepper
4. My elbows
5. Bottle of "party" bubble blowing solution (not mine, sadly)

And nothing else - it's a shared desk
posted by cillit bang 12 March | 10:37
1) HOA coupon book
2) Yoda stamps
3) A pack of Orbit gum that's at least a year old
4) An empty Mucinex bottle
5) Skull and crossbones pencil
posted by krix 12 March | 10:44
1. essential oil burner, burning (vetiver)
2. glass of water
3. camera
4. ashtray
5. book ("Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture")
posted by taz 12 March | 10:48
Plastic nun

That's it, jokeefe, we're getting the band back together.
posted by Eideteker 12 March | 10:51
1. Stack of magazines I haven't read yet.
2. Stack of tax stuff I haven't taken to the accountant yet.
3. Great drifts of cat hair from the evil brown retarded cats who eat my earbuds whenever my back is turned.
4. Can of compressed air for whooshing off keyboard and sometimes scaring evil brown retarded cats.
5. A Swingline stapler, unfortunately not candy-apple red.
posted by BitterOldPunk 12 March | 10:58
1) A dead violet
2) Happy Bunny sign book currently displaying "Have a great day you worthless turd."
3) A weird mug I stole from the lab next door showing a little of a man wielding a net, trying to catch a lion and stepping on his tail. There's two moneky's hiding in a shrub next to the net-man.
4) So many stacks of papers, each with it's own purpose.
5) Empty Babybel wax and wrapper.
posted by LunaticFringe 12 March | 11:00
1. An easily-visible layer of dust in rarely-used spots.
2. A Bob's Big Boy bobblehead.
≡ Click to see image ≡
3. A plastic spoon that was meant for the yogurt I forgot to bring.
4. Two bottles of bubble blowing solution.
5. Seven non-sticking stickies.

posted by kirkaracha 12 March | 11:13
1/ Red marker pen - we have a whiteboard which used to be used for work but is now used for charts detailing whose turn it is to buy the coffee and such!
2/ Paper with scrawl - my 'to do' list.
3/ Old books - we tend to share a lot of those. Mainly science fiction, some politics.
4/ Technical diagrams and notes.
5/ Really old Sun hard drive.
posted by plep 12 March | 11:30
1. squirt bottle (for the cats when they irk me)
2. Anne of Green Gables (re-reading the series)
3. empty soda glass/mug
4. box of incense
5. crystal ball
posted by deborah 12 March | 11:42
deborah, in real life are you a J.K. Rowling character? :)
posted by BoringPostcards 12 March | 11:57
Wow, that Big Boy bobble-head is creepy.
posted by LunaticFringe 12 March | 12:16
1. Russian-English dictionary
2. Old TI-83 calculator
3. Mug full of Sharpies
4. Silly Putty
5. Great big coffee
posted by jjb 12 March | 12:51
1. Ball of rubber bands.
2. Stacks of books.
3. Teacup.
4. 'Hot Reads for Cold Nights' poster.
5. Nearly-empty box of clementines.
posted by box 12 March | 12:57
A case of wet cat food cans
Oust
A 7 inch pile of napkins (I can't just throw them out)
hand sanitizer
A CSS cheatsheet
posted by Hellbient 12 March | 13:01
(I really thought that I had posted this a few hours ago)

1. Paper
2. More paper.
3. Mounted piece of the original LA Forum bball floor.
4. Big ceramic (commuter) cup which I use for water.
5. Perio-aid+toothpicks
posted by danf 12 March | 13:22
5. bottle of diet coke
4. inFocus promotional page-a-day, which I haven't torn off since the 4th
3.empty Tim Hortons cup, I need to roll up the rim still
2. small tube of pear scented lotion
1. giant tripp-lite mug filled with pens and highlighters

(ironically, I write maybe three words a day on actual paper in my job).
posted by kellydamnit 12 March | 13:24
1. Flashlight
2. One packet of kale seeds and one packet of turnip seeds
3. A peanut
4. Burt's Bees lip balm
5. Four legal pads with notes from various jobs
posted by mudpuppie 12 March | 13:53
6. Three cats' worth of cat hair. (Creepy, since I only have two cats.)
posted by mudpuppie 12 March | 13:54
I'm at my desk at home, because I decided I've been working so damn hard lately that I was just going to take the day off, for no reason other than I felt like it. (Decadent!)

1. Sex Pistols mug, that until seconds ago held hot tea
2. J. Crew gift card (birthday present from mom that I haven't used yet)
3. Paul Weller documentary DVD (birthday present to myself that I haven't watched yet, which should tell you something about how insanely busy my life has been lately)
3. A stack of paid bills that I need to file
4. External hard drive (Xmas present that I am happily filling up with all the music I can throw on there)
5. Paperclip tin with a picture of James Dean that I've had since high school
posted by scody 12 March | 14:02
Wow, that Big Boy bobble-head is creepy.

I know. It won't stop looking at me.
posted by kirkaracha 12 March | 14:10
1. hand sanitizer
2. bowl from breakfast
3. tiny Buddha
4. dodo whose neck pulls out into a pen
5. Sharpie 10-pack colored highlighters
posted by rhapsodie 12 March | 15:08
1. pink wind-up toy bunny that does flips (thanks, richat!)
2. Nordstrom box containing a fancy pair of thongs
3. picture of The Boy
4. mug of peppermint tea
5. bottle of grape seed extract capsules
posted by Specklet 12 March | 15:22
4 phones and 1 pickle.
posted by arse_hat 12 March | 15:23
Are you sure it's not a picklephone?
posted by mullacc 12 March | 15:27
I hope not. I ate it.
posted by arse_hat 12 March | 15:28
BP: Ah, but that would be telling. ;)
posted by deborah 12 March | 16:26
Disclaimer: I'm sitting at someone else's desk, so the items in the list may not reflect me in any way.

1. Dell PC with the usual bits, including a couple of 19" flat screens
2. iPod (mine)
3. Phone with sea shells stuck all over it
4. Small pink teddy bear
5. Post-it note with "kill me now!!" written on it.
posted by dg 12 March | 18:32
Well, I'm actually at home, so instead I'll VISUALIZE what is or was at one point on my desk today.

1. a metal slinky serving as a make-shift pen-holder.
2. approximately 50 chapsticks and 100 nail files from the local folic acid council
3. red ball thingy that's covered with suction cups (hard to explain)
4. a contraceptive teaching kit
5. a pile of stickers and temporary heart and star shaped stick-on rhinestone thingies.
posted by Stewriffic 12 March | 19:15
1. Half full Sex Pistols pint glass of Coney Island Lager.
2. Empty pork rind bag
3. Starting Lineup figure of Julius 'Dr. J' Erving
4. Ashtray
5. Empty pecan can with empty beer can inside it. (no, I don't recall how that happened either)
posted by jonmc 12 March | 19:19
1) Blistex Lip Balm (Heavy Duty Menthol)
2) Small statue of Kali
3) 80 gig backup drive
4) Giant, hideous red glass goblet part-filled with cola
5) Fountain pen
posted by ninazer0 12 March | 20:26
I don't use a desk! Not at work, not at home.
posted by tangerine 13 March | 00:25
OMG! MOON BUNNY! || It's time

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