tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post3210216059471258773..comments2023-11-12T13:22:30.358+01:00Comments on andrewjshields: What's on my deskAndrew Shieldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post-5086488339849663322006-11-15T20:25:00.000+01:002006-11-15T20:25:00.000+01:00CD-Roms as coasters. Cool. Can't do that with kids...CD-Roms as coasters. Cool. Can't do that with kids around, as they would not distinguish between old CD-Roms and normal music CDs.Andrew Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post-14844175691731618452006-11-15T17:30:00.000+01:002006-11-15T17:30:00.000+01:00i agree, Sonnet is nicer than Elegy. with that nam...i agree, Sonnet is nicer than Elegy. with that name you're doomed to die young.<br /><br />since you "insist" on finding out what's on my desk i'll tell you. as a matter of fact i have two desks. one with my computer and some stuff on it, and the other one is actually my rather big breakfast-lunch-and-dinner table which i predominantly use as a desk. so here you go, but beware, it's a long list:<br /><br />computer desk:<br />- computer periphery (keyboard, mouse, cable modem, CD-Rs...)<br />- calculator<br />- pens and pencils<br />- random slips of paper<br />- one speaker of my stereo (the other one being on my tv rack)<br /><br />dinner-table desk:<br />- MacBook (and accessories)<br />- two tea pots<br />- a cup<br />- about 3 dozen old cd-roms (to use as coasters)<br />- a camera<br />- 3 rolls of exposed but not yet developed film<br />- a subway map of NYC<br />- 3 tickets to the empire state bldg, from June 6, 2002 (!!!)<br />- one notepad and two moleskines (one big, one small)<br />- 2 or 3 pens<br />- cell phone<br />- all folders from my classes this semester<br />- 2 batteries (for my camera)<br />- a rubber band<br />- one pack of sheet protectors (don't know if that's what they're called; at least LEO says so)<br />- 13 books from the university library (Anne Carson. Glass and God; Les Murray. Fredy Neptune; Timothy Jay. Cursing in America; Werner Barg/Thomas Plöger. Kino der Grausamkeit; Barbara Leaming. If This Was Happiness - A Biography of Rita Hayworth; Gerald Peary. Rita Hayworth: Ihre Filme - Ihr Leben; Marli Feldvoß. apropos Rita Hayworth; Shehan Bonatz. Reality Perception, Identity and Violence in American Film. A Study of Lynch's Lost Highway and Cronenberg's eXistenZ; Bret Easton Ellis. Lunar Park; Aldous Huxley. Island; John Updike. Gertrude and Claudius; Matt Haig. The Dead Fathers Club; Clare Allan. Poppy Shakespeare)<br />- 3 of my books (Peter James. Stirb Schön; Eudora Welty. The Optimist's Daughter; William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury)<br />- a movie ticket for "Little Miss Sunshine" from September 30, 2006<br /><br />that's pretty much it. now you know what i live like (to some extent). hope you're happy (o:Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post-29274040492449160802006-11-14T20:58:00.000+01:002006-11-14T20:58:00.000+01:00I like the name Sonnet, actually. I'd rather be ca...I like the name Sonnet, actually. I'd rather be called Sonnet than Elegy.Andrew Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20782819.post-87337115369358617092006-11-14T01:28:00.000+01:002006-11-14T01:28:00.000+01:00something rather random.
i found this photo on Fl...something rather random.<br /><br />i found this <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmyrowks/292474739/">photo</a> on Flickr and was asking in the comments section why she [the phototgrapher] tagged it with "sonnet." there was only a one-line quote below the photo and no sign of a sonnet anywhere. the "solution" is the name of the little girl you can see in the picture. she is called Sonnet. who names their child Sonnet?<br />isn't that a little <i>too</i> weird?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com