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My desk is in disarray. I know you've heard that before. But it really is a complete and utter mess.
It is all part of a never ending cycle. The cycle starts with a clean desk. I revel in all that open space. A place for everything and everything in its place. But then things start happening. I get some mail - bills or something. I get a new magazine. I find a stack of pictures I want to scan. So I start making piles of these things. Soon, all my glorious, open space is taken up with nice, neat piles of things. Then as the piles become stacked a little higher, they become... less neat. They start to tilt. Or spill over. Soon there are no definitive lines seperating the piles. At that point, I will start to toss things in the direction of my desk. I mean, it doesn't make sense to do anything else. Everything is already jumbled - there's no reason to take time out to begin a second layer of neat piles. So I just toss. At this point the entire infrastructure of the desk piles is shaky at best. And from this point it generally takes me about two weeks to realize that I have to clean my desk. And lo, the cycle begins anew.
Here are just some of the things on my desk:
Old golf score cards
Random English pence coins
A thinnet coax cable terminator
4 unlabled, unmarked burnable CDs. Are they blank? Dunno.
My passport
23 music CDs including the double Jesus Christ Superstar set, the double Sign O' the Times album by Prince, and a great live 4 soug U2 EP called Wide Awake in America.
Stacks of proxy information and annual reports from stocks that Jake and Bobby own.
Random issues of Maxim, Golf Digest, The Avengers and The Fantastic Four
A cordless phone that has Caller ID. But it doesn't work
Pictures of my father that I want to scan
A 1001 ATM slips
Old contact lens containers that indicate the strength of my current lenses. Left there when I got confused about how to order the correct lenses over the internet
A glass that I think had diet Coke in it at one time. It was something brown anyway.
An unopened Sims: Vacation that I haven't played yet because I bought it at the same time as the expansion course packs for Links 2001 and I opened that first, inducing a couple of weeks of intensive virtual golfing. And then my Dad died. And then Annabel was born.
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