C. Dale Young posted a list of everything on his desk. I posted a comment with what is on my desk, but actually only with what is on the top of the piles, plus a few stray things:
These are the things on TOP of the piles:
The latest issue of Conduit.
Bill Coyle, The God of this World to His Prophet (which I received because I did not win the New Criterion Prize for 2005)
Two DVDs of Greg Brown concerts.
Amy Clampitt, The Kingfisher (waiting to be given to a friend, since I have her Collected Poems)
Then some stray things:
A pink highlighter; a lost pen cap; a small post-it pad; a black Pentel mechanical pencil; some ungraded papers; a guitar tuner; an electronic letter scale; a green clothespin; a small package of Kleenex.
What do you have on your desk?
something rather random.
ReplyDeletei found this photo 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?
isn't that a little too weird?
I like the name Sonnet, actually. I'd rather be called Sonnet than Elegy.
ReplyDeletei agree, Sonnet is nicer than Elegy. with that name you're doomed to die young.
ReplyDeletesince 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:
computer desk:
- computer periphery (keyboard, mouse, cable modem, CD-Rs...)
- calculator
- pens and pencils
- random slips of paper
- one speaker of my stereo (the other one being on my tv rack)
dinner-table desk:
- MacBook (and accessories)
- two tea pots
- a cup
- about 3 dozen old cd-roms (to use as coasters)
- a camera
- 3 rolls of exposed but not yet developed film
- a subway map of NYC
- 3 tickets to the empire state bldg, from June 6, 2002 (!!!)
- one notepad and two moleskines (one big, one small)
- 2 or 3 pens
- cell phone
- all folders from my classes this semester
- 2 batteries (for my camera)
- a rubber band
- one pack of sheet protectors (don't know if that's what they're called; at least LEO says so)
- 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)
- 3 of my books (Peter James. Stirb Schön; Eudora Welty. The Optimist's Daughter; William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury)
- a movie ticket for "Little Miss Sunshine" from September 30, 2006
that's pretty much it. now you know what i live like (to some extent). hope you're happy (o:
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.
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