Evn tagged me with this crazy meme. Unfortunately, he may find he is a far more interesting subject for this meme than I am.
Open up your desk drawers. Rummage about. List ten things you find there:
1. Dental floss
2. Blue Diamond Wasabi & Soy Sauce flavored almond
3. 2 Chinese menus, an Indian/Mediterranean fusion menu, and a sushi bar menu.
4. A keyboard duster. Which is not a long sweater worn by a keyboard.
5. An open thing of Theraflu. Ohmigods that stuff is nasty.
6. My boss’s business card.
7. 3 packets of “Throat Coat” herbal tea.
8. Records from a dispute I had when Carnival Cruise lost my packages in 2006.
9. A chip clip (that says Chip Clip® on it).
10. A Post-it note with recommendations for interesting Indian music from an Indian co-worker who found out I liked A. R. Rahman.
I tag Roberta, Aimai, Kate, and Maurinsky, and you can use non-drawer desk surfaces.
Darn. If I had used non-drawer surfaces, I would’ve been able to include Lucky Mojo Brand Lavender Love Drops, a magnetic statue of St. Expedite and a rubber bear.
Personally, I think Throat Coat is way nastier than TheraFlu, but that’s just me.
I changed the rules a little because I think Roberta doesn’t have desk drawers.
1. A baggage name tag from an old loaner laptop bag that hasn’t been used in 5 years.
2. 3 IDE drive cables.
3. A Liquid Paper Dryline white-out applicator.
4. A Pepsi bottle cap with a free Itunes download code inside.
5. A handful of USB to PS/2 keyboard adapters.
6. A keyring/flashlight with a dead battery.
7. Several Velcro strips.
8. Several Isopropyl alcohol pads for cleaning conductant from processor chips when replacing noisy CPU fans on Compaq D530 desktop computers.
9. 1 ketchup packet – vintage undetermined.
10. A package of orange dot shaped labels.
She does at work.
Ah.
I didn’t used to have a drawer at work. Drove me crazy. I bought one of those pretty shoebox sized fileboxes at Marshall’s. After 2 years we all got new desks and now I have a drawer. I almost went through the box for my ten things, but I used the drawer.
I know how you feel on the lacking in interesting things. Evn tagged me as well, and I literally had just 10 things in my desk drawer, so I listed them all off (on my blog, I’ll save the lists for my own space). Sad to say, but it felt good to get tagged.
Deborah, sorry I missed this at first. I never got a chance to say how much I love your blog title, by the way. I answered over at IIRTZ but I’m embarrassed to say how dull it is. You remind me, however, of the day I was sitting all alone in my village in Nepal when I received and exciting package from my wonderful, and wonderfully eccentric, great aunt. Huge excitement of entire village. I opened it to find a very sweet letter, and basically every bit of paper trash from the top of her desk. I think she thought I might get a kick out of the flyers for food delivery and paid dental bills and wahtnot that were cluttering up her life. And in a way, I did.
aimai
I am much complimented, aimai. I love the story about your wacky aunt.
1. nail clippers
2. flash drive
3. stamps
4. pens
5. pack of gum
6. envelopes
7. Nellie McKay’s Pretty Little Head CD, unopened
8. old bills
9. several addresses written on scraps of paper
10. 2 screws that belong to who knows what.
You should totally open and listen to McKay.
I think I’m going to do this meme. Sounds like fun.
I mainly stopped by to tell you I’m thoroughly enjoying your book. Without a doubt it is thought-provoking… and more.
Why, thank you! But…which book?
The Way of Four
Cool!