d i n a n e . n e t 

Well, I haven’t posted in a while, and I was starting to feel guilty about that. But since I’m kind of at a lack of things to say at the moment, and I don’t really have time to start up another long story, I’m going to go with a list. A list of magical proportions. A list so listy that you’ll never feel the need to appreciate another list.

So, for your reading pleasure, I present ten things that can be found on my desk.

1. I am currently typing on my keyboard. It is not your average keyboard, it is special. It’s one of them split keyboards (with the b on the left side, for those that keep track of suck things). I happen to have carpel tunnel syndrome in both wrists, and have had for quite a few years. To prevent flare-ups, I use split keyboards. I am actually so accustomed to a split keyboard now that typing on a straight keyboard is nearly impossible for me. It is really a good thing that I learned how to touch type in middle school (good job public school system!), so adjusting to the split keyboard took almost no effort. Getting the company to buy this thing, on the other hand… that was a task and a half.
2. Whenever I get frustrated, my cube neighbors must be able to tell. For this is when I start wheeling my matchbox Lamborghini at various items on my desk. When I’m still concentrating, I wheel it at my keyboard, and it happily bounces off. When all hope is lost, I wheel it at pretty much anything, and often drop it on the floor. Currently, it is upside-down, because I also enjoy spinning it around on its roof. I promise, if I had a Lambo, I wouldn’t treat it so poorly. Someone want to buy me one?
3. Even though it is pretty early in the day, I have already decided that I need a sugar fix. As such, I have five tootsie-roll wrappers on my desk. Two of them still contain their sugary-chocolaty-taffy-like-substance. The other three are empty. I got them from the bowl outside of our administrator’s cube. She’s awesome and always has candy available for snacking.
4. I have this plant. I can’t tell you how I got it, but you should understand that it was funny and also uncomfortable. But out of politeness, I must keep it alive. That is difficult, seeing as I kill plants by thinking about them. Three weeks, no death yet, so I guess I’m not doing too badly.
5. When I was younger, my mom got me a book of paper airplanes. The same people who made that book made a calendar for 2005. I had that calendar. Now, instead, I have a huge pile of paper airplanes and an even huger pile of calendar pages ready to become paper airplanes. I use them for throwing at my next-cube-neighbor’s head. He uses them for throwing at my head. We both use them for amusing ourselves when we get bored.
6. I am the girl with all the toys. I have two plastic toys that are definitely made for children. I just tried in vain to find pictures for you to look at. But I can promise you that they are not meant for adults. That doesn’t stop adults from stopping by my cube purely for the purpose of playing with these toys.
7. I have a pile of hard drives on my desk. This one is actually related to work. Hard drives are awesome, except when they have bugs on them. Then they have sticky notes on them that say things like, “This HDD is pissing me off!”
8. I have a row of green sticky notes along the desk above my monitor. I don’t think I could survive without sticky notes. They tell me the names of the branches I’m working out of. They tell me the list of things I should do. They tell me the list of things I was supposed to do a few weeks ago, finished, and never bothered to get rid of the sticky note (just in case I still need it!). They tell me passwords for FTP sites and charge codes for projects and memory locations of bugs. They know everything. Plus, they’re green, which is cool.
9. I have piles and piles of papers on my right. I don’t throw things away. This is partially because I am a pack rat, and partially because I am not supposed to simply throw papers away. We are supposed to shred any “company confidential” documents. Considering every document on my desk is “company confidential,” I have to shred anything I want to get rid of. That takes time. I’m lazy. So I keep piles of paper all over the place.
10. I have this neat little trick of the eye that I made one day when I wasn’t busy. You can go look at Grand Illusions to learn how to make yourself a neat dragon. They even have a PDF file you can print out and cut and fold. It’s cool. I don’t have to show it off though, because my next-cube-neighbor does it for me. Any time anyone comes by, it’s, “Have you seen this? Close one eye!” You should make one and see if you can get your next-cube-neighbor excited about it. Being excited is fun.

Well, there you go: ten things that can be found on my desk. I hope you enjoyed this time-killing exercise. Perhaps you would like to tell me about things that are on your desk. That would be fun. Desks are awesome. Yep. Awesome.