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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
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
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)
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)
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
(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
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).
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
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
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
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.
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.
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)
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
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