The What's On Your Desk? Meme
I don't do many of these, mainly because 1) I have no time, 2) many of them aren't relevant to my subject matter (and I'm anal about that!) and 3) I'm always a bit leery of posting personal information online under my real name. However, this one will work!
What's on my desk:
Aren't you glad you asked, ML?
What's on my desk:
- Flat panel monitor (Dell). I'm being specific because I love this thing. How did I survive for so long with a CRT?
- Speakers.
- Headphones. Which I can only use when the husband is around to watch Hamlet, because otherwise I will never hear "That" sound - or silence - that I must check on.
- Pencil sharpener. Hamlet likes to sit on my lap and use pencils. He also likes to "try" the pencil sharpener. So I have to keep it within eyeshot and out of his reach.
- Keyboard. Normal, not ergonomic.
- Two pens - ballpoint and fountain. I'm anal about these too. The ballpoint is for freelance work. The fountain pen is for fiction. Hey, writers are supposed to have quirks, right?
- My watch, which I normally don't wear but try to have on hand for those rare times I do need it.
- PDA cradle, currently with PDA attached.
- Memory stick/keychain/PR thing that one of my source companies sent me. Not as cool as the memory stick/pen they sent me the year before that, but it's memory. And at least I can tell which novel is on which.
- Pile of paper scraps with phone numbers and other info that I need to go through.
- "Typewriter" paperweight/pad holder. Contains empty scrap paper.
- Letter "T" from refrigerator magnet set that lost its magnet.
- Answering machine.
- DSL modem.
- Telephone. (Should be cordless, but isn't.)
- Loose paper organizer. Holds letter-sized things, but not those scraps, dang it!
- My computer. (On top of this are my pregnancy journal, various CDs, a book, Hamlet's scribbling paper, and a game he was trying to destroy.)
Aren't you glad you asked, ML?
2 Comments:
It's all in the details, isn't it?
Still, I decided to go against the grain and come up with my own variation.
I love finding out what things are important to writers. Fascinated by your pen choices, btw.
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