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[rivka]

fairoriana asks: "What's on the desk you're at right now? Be exact!"

Clockwise from my left:
A keyboard, a Dell mousepad and mouse, a pen advertising Renaissance Hotels and Resorts, a basal body temperature chart, a small lavender notepad, a small square pad of yellow Post-It notes, "Attachment A: Policy on Panhandling and Street People on Church Premises," an empty double CD case, notes from the first and only alt.polycon 12 concom meeting, wowbagger's track listing for the Frankenstein mix exchange, a liturgy titled "A Good Friday service of Tenebrae, Yom Hashoah, and Holy Communion," two more small packs of Post-it notes (one advertising Kaiser Permanente and one plain), a seven-page printout of literature search results for studies of adaptation to blindness, some spare liner notes for my Frankenstein mix, directions for getting to my suburban clinic by public transportation, a reprint of an article I co-wrote with Lydia ("Rethinking Research on Psychological Interventions and Cancer"), a packet of articles on alternatives to randomized clinical trials from ADVANCES: The Journal of Mind-Body Health, a hub, two more packs of Post-it notes, a Loonie, a wrist brace, a firewall/router, a power strip with lots of things plugged into it, a button that says "Miles' girlfriends: Be all you can be, and then some," the owner's manual for my cell phone, a speaker, a stack of four unlabeled CD-Rs, a card for use in University of Maryland copy machines, a book of matches from the alt.polycon 12 hotel restaurant, an elisem necklace called "Another Interpretation of the Blues," an emery board, a poorly-glazed pottery cup holding two highlighters, a pencil, and a set of nail clippers, three 3.5-inch diskettes, a monitor, a Post-it note with my friend Brie's address in Delaware, a post-it note with my library card number and PIN as well as a series of random scrawled numbers I don't know how to interpret, a small safety pin, a button that says "HERO Aidswalk 2004 Baltimore," a AA battery, Florida and Texas state quarters, a small wind-up walking Angel of Death, a glazed pottery bowl, an index card with the order number for a set of otter-print loungewear, a small tape measure on a keychain, curiousangel's badge from alt.polycon 10, miscellaneous paper clips, binder clips, and twist ties, a package of AAA batteries with five left, another speaker, a pewter flask with a Celtic knotwork design, a Cal Ripken bobblehead doll, a thank-you card being used as a coaster, an empty water glass, an empty tea mug with Earl Grey teabag, an empty plastic cup that recently held an iced chai latte, and a black and gold coaster commemmorating the 40th anniversary of the University of Iowa foundation.

Whew.