What's in your desk?

[miss_squiddy]

Jon's leaving us today and he's just been clearing out his desk, which was full of odd stuff. So that lead to an office-wide 'what's in your desk?' survey. It's amazing what people keep tucked away.

So join in todays game and tell us what's in your desk!


My desk contains:
Pens
Fork
Calculator
Cable ties
Keys
6 books of tickets for the ironworks
Handcream
Elastic bands
Elastic band gun (confiscated from Jules)
Book of British Wildlife
Minidisc player
Microphone
Wax cast of a plaque about puddlers
Folder full of plastic sleeves
Laminated book about rolling mills
Umbrella
Folder full of photocopied handouts
4 big lumps of slag
2 pieces of fossilised wood
A lump of iron ore
5 blobs of iron
A small plaque about operating railway signals
Trowel
Old toothbrush
Hat
Cast iron bar with stress fractures.

(Believe it or not, I didn't win the prize for 'weird'...)

Comments

[lordnitrogen.livejournal.com]

Well, I work from home and I dont have a desk but I have a computer table which is currently holding...

Sony Vaio Laptop
Telephone
Broadband funny modem thing
Picture of Audrey Hepburn
A 6" Jack Skellington
Cup of tea
Marker pen
Costers with stars on them
A dollar bill with Elvis on it
Some lists
A stud off my belt
Blank CDR's
1 snotty tissue

...not very exciting!!

[sorcha.livejournal.com]

In my desk (I know this because I had a clean out yesterday)

Paper
More paper
envelopes
plastic bags
tins that used to contain tea
pens
hole punch
cds
compass
eclipse glasses
tin for curiously strong mints (empty)
little star, square, circle etc multicoloured stickers
payslips
old name badges
floppy disks
safety instructions for visitors
mousemat
a report on the history of the lab written for somebody else's BSc project in librarianship
more cds (data ones this time)
plastic folder thingys
old posters from the musicals and concerts I was in years ago

(Please don't ask what's on my desk!!)

[dj-pooka.livejournal.com]

Errrrrrr....

The important part:-

My pooter, my record decks, my mixer and headphones.

The silly shite:-

Ling (watching one record deck)
Super Mega Cthulu Monster
Greenbear and Monitoe Lizard
A bad mix catcher (like a dream catcher for when I'm mixin')
An assortment of pens, paper, pencils old fliers and CDs

[miss_squiddy]

I defineitely like the idea of a Bad Mix Catcher. I know a few places which should have them. Very saleable - you should market it.

[fuzzygoth.livejournal.com]

yes i think you do win actually :)

The Hugest LCD moniter ever
empty mineral water bottle
cup containing the coffee monster of doom
mobile
keys
wallet
desk phone
5 computer books
neil gaiman's american gods
software CD's
and too many random scraps of paper because people keep stealing my notepads the ba***rds

[thepussykat.livejournal.com]

Good book.

[fuzzygoth.livejournal.com]

i'm almost half way through and its great
i usually have a short attention span for
books but this one virtually reads its self
to you, i had to force myself to put it
down last night and go to sleep :)

[thepussykat.livejournal.com]

I love tracking all the cross references. I've found myself reading something years later and suddenly realising a connection. I presume you have read the Sandman stuff, that's full of them!

[fuzzygoth.livejournal.com]

LOL yeah just a little of it ... like it all :)

;)

[ex-pipistre.livejournal.com]

mind if i answer? i'm a friend of fuzzy's and i clicked on your journal because of the mention of troma films in one of his comments. i've also just found some rather amusing tat in my desk cos i'm moving...

letters from 97-99 from american friends
10 million undistributed edinburgh goth & rock soc fliers
an elvis drivers liscence
a glittery pvc filofax
a pen that writes in 11 different colours
a dead mobile phone
a dead floppy drive for an iMac
a graphics calculator
a keroppi compact & mirror
badtz maru compact & mirror
medal from the university
a sticker with a beaver on it
a book of stickers of chicken breeds
a badge with a seal on it
guide to composting with worms
corset pattern
3 pairs of scissors
small plaster guinea pig
pair of ballet shoe ribbons
lump of lapis lazuli
bottle of ink
bundle of postcards with a pimp picture on them
quake 3 cd
2 rubber bats

[miss_squiddy]

Of course not. Although you have to tell me what you use the chicken breed stickers for... Do you label your chickens???

[ex-pipistre.livejournal.com]

my mad american friend sent them to me. thankfully i don't have any chickens..i used to work on a farm for kids and the chickens hated me. apparetnly they are aggressive towards women... :o

[miss_squiddy]

Huh?
Mike and HP got chased across a field by cows the other week because cows *always* go after HP. Wonder if that's the same thing...

[ex-pipistre.livejournal.com]

cows are just generically scary i think- large and stupid...kind of like the us government

[miss_squiddy]

OK. I'm adding the stuff *on* my desk as well now.

Boring:
Computer stuff
Phone
In tray
Pen holder filled with about 9 million paper clips, gel pens, a nail file and a ruler made from recycled plastic cups.

Bit less boring:
More iron blobs
Jack Daniels calendar
Disney wicked witch mug
Little pink Alessi clock with legs

[thepussykat.livejournal.com]

On my desk I have the usual boring stuff but also:
A blow up phone chair that is no use as I can't charge my phone when it's sitting in it
A soldering iron tip paperweight
A dictionary for those words that Microsoft have never heard of
ESD foot straps
Sod loads of paperwork that I brought from the last building and still haven't sorted out

In my TWO sets of draws I have (ignoring boring stuff)
A RAL chart
4 pink highlighters but no yellow ones - I think yellow highlighters are a bit like socks I never keep one in the pack for more than two days
2 green highlighters - the pink ones breed faster
An empty clicky mint tin
A set of screwdrivers
Solder wire
Solder wick
Lots and lots of packs of paint pens and permanent markers.
Empty IC tubes
Packets of masking samples
Lots of carrier bags from shows
A warm shirt
Sticky velcro

[miss_squiddy]

Sounds like you spend the whole time fixing stuff then colouring it in!

[thepussykat.livejournal.com]

I do have a real job, honest!

[lucien-dark.livejournal.com]

Heyyy, I thought you were coming out last night? Unless you were invisdable,you weren't there.

Edited highlights of my desk are:

Empty McDonalds stuff
A bandanna
a photo of me getting off with Percy
Frizz-Ease (this stuff saves my life)
3 pairs of sunglasses
A ton of old computer parts and cables
Elastic bands for flicking at people
A DVD of Some Things Never Die
Binoculars
Digital camera
Tape measure
My little paper toy thing I made with the numbers on that'll predict your future in offensive ways

[miss_squiddy]

Yeah, so I was, but it took me so long to do everything and I haven't spent an evening at home this week, so I ended up getting as far as the St Davids Centre and then coming home again.

Fresher Report please.

[lucien-dark.livejournal.com]

They seem like a funky bunch of individuals - I didn't get a chance to speak to loads of them cos we didn't get into town until quite late, but the 15 or so I did say hi to seemed really nice. A lot of them were second years who were joining up for the first time. Everyone I spoke to said they had a really good time, so with any luck we'll be seeing more than about 5 people going the distance :-)

[miss_squiddy]

Cool! Know anything else about Monday's pub crawl yet?

[lucien-dark.livejournal.com]

I know naaaathing. And nobody else seems to know a damn thing either. Wonderful :-)

[myrddrr.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I'll try to keep this brief, but ignoring work-related stuff:

In the drawers...
Crimpers
Tai-chi shoes
Toothpaste
Several T-shirts
Comics (Old UK B/W ones)
International Driver Permit
Post Office Account books
Glittery Birthday Cards (Blank ones, just in case)
Dead Cell-phone battery
Plastic Kinder egg (plane is on the PC)
Castell Henllys Leaflet
catalogue for www.hawkins.com
Several Skomer leaflets
117.5 Regal Focus POints
Undeveloped B/W 35mm film
100 Icelandic Kronur piece
old 50p, 2 shilling and 1 shilling coins
UCC Student Union Soc life membership
Free pass +1 to Rock Inferno (Expired Dec 1995)
Assorted batteries
Assorted computor-related adaptors
Assorted computor-related bits
Many Floppy disks
Bow Tie (a cheat one)
Museum Tickets from Egypt
Brass/bronze/iron bracelet
small paint brush
Small jar of Honey
Lemsip Max Strength (BBE 1 sept 2003)
Sewing Kit from Jinan Huangdu Hotel
Pocket Watch (long dead)
"Universal Declaration of Human Rights" booklet

On top, again ignoring the work-related crap;
polished stones - Red Tigers eye, gold tigers eye, serpentinite, quartz, agate slice
and much much more... Lunch is more important, but you get the idea?

More clutter

[myrddrr.livejournal.com]

Shawn (sheep from a Wallace & Gromitt flm)
dragon hatchling,
dried tangerine made to look like halowe'en pumpkin
Dalek made from Pro-Plus pill packaging,
Pingu
small yellow NY taxi
Black Pepper

Enough! - There's too much more... I need a clear-out

Re: More clutter

[miss_squiddy]

Dalek made from Pro-Plus pill packaging...

Blue Peter, eat your heart out!

[satsumagirl]

My desk at home has the following items:
A huge pile of MP3 CDS
A small pile of backup disks
A moderate pile of crap games that Arthur is paid to test
Sony Clie hotsynch cradle
RCN Diary
Pile of crap coasters that my sister gave me
Micropore tape
Inhaler
Bucks tool is a real whopper paper and tins
Mobile phone
Monitor
Captain Cat, the scary Pirate Cat
Chilly Tesco Mouse
Webcam
Scalectrix Car
Twister
Worms
Scrabble
Go
Monopoly

[cyberkai.livejournal.com]

well there's nowt in it apart from bank statements and old papery type stuff. on it, excluding the obvious, is:-

akai mpc2000xl drum sampler
a couple of my promo cds
books: jg ballard - the atrocity exhibition, kenji satori - blood electric, kurt vonnegut - slaughterhouse 5, will burroughs - naked lunch, h s thompson - better than sex (been reading a lot)
eva production 02 type toy from evangelion
kaneda and motorbike toy from akira
phone
usb midi port
socks
stanley knife
micropore tape
pens
blacklight
korg poly-800 synth on the slidy shelf bit underneath the desk