What’s on my desk?

This is what’s on my desk right now:

• Plastic stacking trays. In the top tray: about ten manila folders for each design job I have on the burner. Never too many irons in the fire. The next tray below: individual bundles of business cards from all the networking events I’ve attended in the past year. Tray three: store cards, credit cards, vouchers, gift certificates, coupons. Four: a couple bumper stickers and some free emollient samples from the mall. This is the luxuriously almost-empty shelf. Five: sketch book, paperwork that’s hard to file because I haven’t created a category for it yet, past scheduling calendars. Six: notebook for longhand free-writing—the kind I do away from the computer, often by the fountain when it’s nice and I need to get out.

• Two stainless steel desk lamps, each broken in their unique way because they’re cheap and made in China.

• Inspiring ink-jet printouts tucked under my clear Vyco (Danish, thank you) desk cover. 

• Harman Kardon speakers, the kind that are still for sale at the MoMa design store in NYC. Love them.

• Apple 30″ monitor, elevated on a temple of black Strathmore paper wrapped particle board and industrial-looking metal boxes. On said temple: lavender L’Occitane lotion, shocked-face bottle opener, Bic lighter, Blistex, three iTunes vouchers for free DeVotchKa songs, Wausau Paper free notepad, wire-mesh thingy full of paper clips, with binder clips clipped around the edges, post-it notes, Listerine cool mint PocketPak, pencil, highlighter, black Sharpies, both thick and thin, cordless phone, stand-up stapler, Kleenexes, toenail clippers, a golf pencil and a postcard of Zion Canyon to remind me that the outside world exists. 

• Papers for current project scattered to the left of the keyboard. The keyboard, mouse, and accompanying squishy pads, front and center. Mouse charger, bamboo plant, incense burner, noise-canceling headphones, and Franklin Covey planner to the right of the keyboard. 

I had to write something. Actually I’m supposed to be working. Whatever.

~ by mw on June 22, 2008.