on a desk
contents of my desktop
or, procrastinating on a paper while doing some self-discovery
from left to right:
1. outline of paper with edit marks on it in green pen from mentor
2. something i got for matt, still in the box it got mailed in
3. William Wordsworth, The Major Works, with pink sticky tabs lining the edge
4. coaster with pomegranate print on it
5. San Francisco Giants cup full of water
6. pile of "dessert books"
6a. John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel
6b. Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from Underground
6c. Thomas Pynchon Slow Learner
6d. Raymond Carver Where I'm Calling From
6e. Aimee Bender Willful Creatures
6f. Deyoung & Kluck Why We Love the Church
6g. Warren Cole Smith A Lover's Quarrel with the Evangelical Church
6h. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in a Time of Cholera
7. Cute Overload page-a-day calendar (Tuesday 27 October 2009 - picture of brown cow)
8. silver desk lamp (with 38 watt bulb)
9. tiny glass fish standing sculpture (from dollar store courtesy kristen and natalie)
10. three hokey ceramic angels labeled in this order with black Marks-A-Lot pen: Kristen, Mel, Nat
11. blue ceramic bowl full of thingies
11a. case of bobby pins
11b. thing of scunci hair ties (flat and black)
11c. leopard print hair clip
11d. pearl hair clip
11e. cardboard nail file
11f. glass nail file
11g. Refresh Tears eyedrops
11h. Dr. Scholl's Miracle Shield Anti-Friction Stick for women's shoes
11i. foam covers to iPod earbuds
12. turquoise see-through square plastic pencil holder
12a. pair of koi fish chopsticks
12b. pair of pencil-shaped chopsticks
12c. pair of normal chopsticks
12d. fake wooden flowers (2 orange, 3 yellow)
12e. watermelon print nail file
12f. blue scissors
12g. ladybug print scissors
13. bookend (fleur-de-lis shaped)
14. two overdue Livermore Public Library books
14a. Signet Classics Shakespeare Four Great Comedies
14b. Signet Classics Shakespeare Julius Caesar
15. J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye
16. Richard L. Anderson Calliope's Sisters: A Comparative Study of Philosophies of Art
17. William Zissner On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition)
18. The Norton Anthology Sixteenth Century and Early Seventeenth Century English Literature
19. Morgan Wooten Coaching Basketball Successfully
20. Michael Kampen O'Riley Art Beyond the West
21. a bunch of magazines that i am too lazy to really look at what they are
22. Dave Ramsey The Total Money Makeover
23. dark green binder
24. two sheets of Sudafed tablets
25. ladybug stapler
26. stack of post-it notes (electric blue)
27. artsy coffee mug missing a handle full of pens (mostly black Pilot G-2s in various widths)
28. tiny white heart-shaped tray holding a bunch of rings and a St. Anthony necklace
29. blue post-it ("Mom & Dad - gray boots, ESV Black Bible?")
30. yellow post-it (checklist: "Read Wordsworth, Notes Wordsworth, TORREY PAPER, Baketball Paper, Brit Lit 10/27, Brit Lit 10/29" - items 1, 4, and 5 are scratched out)
31. KidzArt logo post-it ("Yayoi Kusama")
32. ID card
33. pot of coffee on top of pumpkin-print coaster
34. peet's mug full of coffee (no coaster)
35. cellular telephone
36. computer cord
37. forearms
38. beige laptop case
39. black macbook
why this is relevant to my work:
i'm writing a paper on the topic: Use of Material Goods and Moral Society.
true or false?
1. i am better for having these things
2. i am better for discussing them
3. you are better for having read this
or, procrastinating on a paper while doing some self-discovery
from left to right:
1. outline of paper with edit marks on it in green pen from mentor
2. something i got for matt, still in the box it got mailed in
3. William Wordsworth, The Major Works, with pink sticky tabs lining the edge
4. coaster with pomegranate print on it
5. San Francisco Giants cup full of water
6. pile of "dessert books"
6a. John Steinbeck Journal of a Novel
6b. Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from Underground
6c. Thomas Pynchon Slow Learner
6d. Raymond Carver Where I'm Calling From
6e. Aimee Bender Willful Creatures
6f. Deyoung & Kluck Why We Love the Church
6g. Warren Cole Smith A Lover's Quarrel with the Evangelical Church
6h. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in a Time of Cholera
7. Cute Overload page-a-day calendar (Tuesday 27 October 2009 - picture of brown cow)
8. silver desk lamp (with 38 watt bulb)
9. tiny glass fish standing sculpture (from dollar store courtesy kristen and natalie)
10. three hokey ceramic angels labeled in this order with black Marks-A-Lot pen: Kristen, Mel, Nat
11. blue ceramic bowl full of thingies
11a. case of bobby pins
11b. thing of scunci hair ties (flat and black)
11c. leopard print hair clip
11d. pearl hair clip
11e. cardboard nail file
11f. glass nail file
11g. Refresh Tears eyedrops
11h. Dr. Scholl's Miracle Shield Anti-Friction Stick for women's shoes
11i. foam covers to iPod earbuds
12. turquoise see-through square plastic pencil holder
12a. pair of koi fish chopsticks
12b. pair of pencil-shaped chopsticks
12c. pair of normal chopsticks
12d. fake wooden flowers (2 orange, 3 yellow)
12e. watermelon print nail file
12f. blue scissors
12g. ladybug print scissors
13. bookend (fleur-de-lis shaped)
14. two overdue Livermore Public Library books
14a. Signet Classics Shakespeare Four Great Comedies
14b. Signet Classics Shakespeare Julius Caesar
15. J.D. Salinger Catcher in the Rye
16. Richard L. Anderson Calliope's Sisters: A Comparative Study of Philosophies of Art
17. William Zissner On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition)
18. The Norton Anthology Sixteenth Century and Early Seventeenth Century English Literature
19. Morgan Wooten Coaching Basketball Successfully
20. Michael Kampen O'Riley Art Beyond the West
21. a bunch of magazines that i am too lazy to really look at what they are
22. Dave Ramsey The Total Money Makeover
23. dark green binder
24. two sheets of Sudafed tablets
25. ladybug stapler
26. stack of post-it notes (electric blue)
27. artsy coffee mug missing a handle full of pens (mostly black Pilot G-2s in various widths)
28. tiny white heart-shaped tray holding a bunch of rings and a St. Anthony necklace
29. blue post-it ("Mom & Dad - gray boots, ESV Black Bible?")
30. yellow post-it (checklist: "Read Wordsworth, Notes Wordsworth, TORREY PAPER, Baketball Paper, Brit Lit 10/27, Brit Lit 10/29" - items 1, 4, and 5 are scratched out)
31. KidzArt logo post-it ("Yayoi Kusama")
32. ID card
33. pot of coffee on top of pumpkin-print coaster
34. peet's mug full of coffee (no coaster)
35. cellular telephone
36. computer cord
37. forearms
38. beige laptop case
39. black macbook
why this is relevant to my work:
i'm writing a paper on the topic: Use of Material Goods and Moral Society.
true or false?
1. i am better for having these things
2. i am better for discussing them
3. you are better for having read this
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