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Small green round fan robot, slightly broke, very dusty.
New Yorkers, endless issues of unread New Yorkers and their card spawn.
Lint brush
Lint
Camera case with camera.
speakers playing The Byrds play Dylan, kids outside playing basketball, digital camera, Stowford Press Apple Cider (the lovely 660ml version of course), blank CDs, Iggy Pop bio received for birthday.
a glass of barleywine.
an open pack of Camel Lights.
a Stax-Volt box set.
an empty coffee cup from the corner store.
a copy of John Sayles' Los Gusanos.
Talking Terl from Battlefield Earth
Green velvet grandmother's rockers
The food Network on mute
Boxes of books awaiting a bookshelf
Mailboxes 61, 63 and 65 across ther street
1. A copy of Grey Gardens on DVD I picked up a couple of days ago used for $2.
2. A bottle of Oyster Bay merlot. Part of my ongoing experiment with wine.
3. My sadly incompletely read and neglected copy of Accelerated C++
4. My HP-48 calculator, recently dug out of storage when my regular calculator died.
5. A red construction paper heart cut out by my daughter.
A Choctaw-made beaded key fob sent to me by a museum person on the Choctaw nation to thank me for sharing my pictures of a trip we were on together
A dying plant of some sort that I haven't watered in many weeks. I really should water it. Or throw it out.
My desk calendar and a to-do list for tomorrow
A cotton 1919-era apron, part of the costume of a woman who plays an immigrant from the Ukraine here
About a dozen empty seltzer cans. My office is on the 3rd floor and every time I go downstairs, I try to take something down with me, but the cans add up faster than my trips downstairs to the recycling bin.
Mom snoozing on the sofa, with a big brown retarded cat asleep on her feet.
A 13-watt fluorescent lightbulb I removed from the lamp because it's burned out, but I can't find a bulb to replace it with anywhere I've looked locally, and the Internets want like $25 for one.
My iPod, through whose earbuds I am currently blasting the new Raconteurs record. I like it, but you know what? I like Bad Company and early Tom Petty, too. Nothing wrong with that, but nothing particularly right about that, either.
A can of compressed air, useful for cleaning keyboards and freaking out big brown retarded cats.
A Swingline stapler. It is my stapler. It is not red.
My iPod touch (that I just won) on which I am writing this
Me-Me the little dilute grey tabby and white kitty
a Nora Roberts Eomance novel
a messy floor
a plant I will go and water now...
Various manuals and logs, including the Big Black Book of Knowledge and Information. (There's some smarmy bullshit corporate name for it, but I'll be damned if I can remember what it is.)
A bag of sugar-free Ricola.
A pile of blank work orders.
Our antiquated phone system, which I have been promised is going to be updated for three years running now.
1. A carved red elephant, symbolizing the larger one in the room.
2. Water mug, constantly filled and sipped from.
3. Two swivel hangers for vestibular therapy swings.
4. North respirator cannisters, magenta and yellow.
5. Commemorative plaque featuring a piece of the Original Forum Basketball Court, from the Lakers early years in that building up through the Showtime era.
interjection: I'm on soulseek and a guy has an album I've been looking for for 20 years. can we all say a silent prayer that I'll have aquired it via completely legal means by the time the night is over? thanks.
1. PaperPro One Finger 25 sheet stapler
2. Statistics department anniversary celebration coffee cup
3. Blue ultra fine point sharpie
4. Box o' Kleenex
5. Poster of Jorge Luis Borges
A pair of black reading glasses, missing one earpiece, resting upside down in front of the monitor.
A vodka and grapefruit in one of my dad's 1960s monogrammed highball glasses that I love so.
An 8 x 10 picture of the guy from BJs convenience store that I took a year or so ago and which my son has tucked into the corner of the mirror with the plastic frame I painted and stuck shiny things on.
My pre-Columbian barometer, set forever on Dry, since it was always dry for the Incas.
Occasional flashes of noisy dogs; they're bouncing.
I like scrolling down and answering these types of questions before reading.
I see:
1) a pile of (paid!) bills on the bed next to me (good to sleep with...)
2) Henri Matisse's Nu Bleu III
3) Five frames with three water-colored birds each. (um, from here, in low light and a bad angle I'm only recognizing a ruby-throated hummingbird, a house finch, a house sparrow, a baltimore oriole, a red-headed woodpecker, a cardinal, a chickadee and a house wren)
4) a plush snoopy from when I was little
5) a jellyfish I crocheted for my nephew.
1) five VCRs
2) a picture of me and the little woman
3) a picture of Stephen Fry
4) an autographed photo of el Hijo del Santo
5) my sunglasses, a battered pair of brown plastic aviators I've had for about 10 years now. Found 'em on the street, and am actually considering getting the lenses replaced with prescription sunglass lenses.
1. My laptop. I'm spending my time between MetaChat and writing an IEP which is due tomorrow morning.
2. My cell phone. I just finished talking to my friend in Boston, who I've been playing phone tag with for ages.
3. My cat, asleep on top of the couch. He finally found a position in which he could curl up without falling between the cushions or off the back of the couch.
4. Ice cream bowl still sitting out from last night. I should probably clean up.
5. CD and DVD cases, in a stack on the floor. My husband just bought a surround sound system, which takes up half of the tv cabinet, thereby evicting the CD and DVD cases out onto the floor. I've been promised that they will be moved to a permanent residence soon.
2.Hello Kitty nail clippers-Writing this I realized I have no idea when or how I acquired them.
3. a string of Peep lights (light up bunnies!)
4. cellphone-it's an addiction, I admit it
5. french flash cards-I meant to make new cards to add to the pack and put them on my desk to inspire me. That was six weeks ago. They will not get done tonight either.
1. Laptop
2. Two buildings - one office, one residential
3. The light towers of The Gabba in the distance
4. Blue, blue, cloudless sky
5. Almost finished piece of carrot cake.
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