clutter meme

[oiran]

seen @ petronia's journal

List everything that's on your computer desk! I know we all have messy desks, but try to get everything. You can tell a lot about a person from their clutter.

See, I'm curious. Can one, in fact, tell a lot about a person from their clutter?

desk/computer clutter:

My "desk" is about 11 feet long, but the ~4 foot section in the middle is where I mostly work. We'll do this left to right.

• 1960s super-faux woodgrain fiberglass tray-thing containing bookmarks, TV remote, miniature copy of Writing Down the Bones, USPS Priority Mail stickers, a flashlight, and a wooden artist's mannequin wearing a leather corset with attached pigeon wings and a big, veiny applied penis (yes, I made this)


• 25-foot Stanley tape measure.


• plastic pencil sharpener


• wooden tray holding miniature gold-colored Bastet figure, small spray can of Evian water, cardamom shea butter, a Maybelline lipstick, a bottle of lilac essential oil (too sweet to wear, but I like the smell)


• bottle of orange/patchouli moisturizer (patchouli does not smell like dirt)


• nail clippers


• pile of stuff: miniature legal pad, metal pencil tin, sketches of cowgirl burlesque costumes, address book with very few addresses actually written in, paperback of D.H. Lawrence's Women In Love, Netflix envelope containing as-yet-unwatched DVD of Miike Takashi's Audition, WACOM digitizing tablet, ~4-foot length of blue-flowered purple kimono silk.


• Japanese woodblock print calendar.


• metal mesh pencil holder containing several pairs of scissors and X-acto knives, as well as metal hair chopsticks.


• ceramic jar full of pens, as well as extra-long black lacquer serving chopsticks, very old Japanese fan, multicolored paper thingy - some sort of party decoration, probably (a gift from my niece).


• paper DVD envelope.


• Two black pens.


• three drawing pencils (F, 3H, 6H)


• ~6" piece of gunmetal sequin trim.


• stylus and holder for digitizing tablet.


• business card for trusted shoe repair place in Seattle


• speaker #1


• small slide box containing the Mr.'s art documentation for his college years.


• seam ripper


• laptop computer, which has several white vinyl erasers sitting in the space between keys and screen, as well as a printout of the tattoo I want cut to size so that I could see it in situ


• trackball


• little statue of Ganesha


• empty pill bottle


• plastic CD box containing TV, anime, manga and pirated program disks with a little 1920s flapper doll, a 1900s Schuco perfume bear, and a purple velvet box containing a tiny vintage kewpie doll sitting on top. Oh, and also speaker #2


• Canon SD200 camera.


• pillbox


• pile of stuff: camera user guide, palm pilot, Richard K. Morgan's Market Forces, Tori Amos' The Beekeeper


• dish of paperclips with a freebie CD (Flaunt magazine, something hip-hoppy, I believe) sitting on top, and blue cat-eye glasses on top of that.


• telephone.

If I ever mention feeling overwhelmed, it's pretty obvious that I do it to myself, or at least make it worse than it has to be.

Comments

[timian.livejournal.com]

My list: hard-drive, monitor, bottle of water, "The Lost Trappers" by David H. Coyner, stereo remote control


Can one, in fact, tell a lot about a person from their clutter?

Well, your list definitely gives me a peek into your life. My list? Probably not so much.

[msdaccxx.livejournal.com]

What if you don't have a desk? I dumped mine shortly before Christmas and have been sitting contentedly on the bedroom floor with the laptop and a cardboard stacking box of pens and notebooks ever since. I don't need no steeekin' desk

[rhiannonhero.livejournal.com]

I'm at work, so this will be substantially less cluttered than at home. In fact, I have four places at home where I compute and I move between them until they all get too cluttered to think straight, then I clean them all up.

So, at work--

Liquid Paper
2 lemon cookies from the local bakery
2 issues of TIME magazine
A white coffee mug
A plastic cup with water in it
A small 4" X 4" mirror so people can't sneak up on me in my cube
Big post-it note pad
Tiny post-it note pad
Fifteen client files
A calculator
A piece of literature from a mutual fund company on the role of bonds in a mutual fund portfolio.

Whoohoo! Exciting!

[rhiannonhero.livejournal.com]

I forgot the Power Bar and my cell phone.

[barely-bean.livejournal.com]

My desk in my bedroom is so cluttered that i can't even use it. It has a hutch thing that has become a display case for my various things of sentimental value including several of my shot glasses. The drawers are filled with things I don't know, and the desktop itself has the oddest collections of paper and books and knickknacks that I can't see the desk at all.

I am forced to keep my computer in the basement on a broken computer desk (the keyboard tray keeps falling off) and on it i have a phone, and blank CD-Rs and an empty sports bottle, tweezers and a purse mirror, headphones, two remotes (one that doesn't work) about a 3 inch piece of tulle (strange!) an unidentified floppy disk, yarn and a space heater by the shelf below it, and several computer accessories.

Also, I don't know why but your lj never shows up on my flist...