For your pleasure, dear reader, allow me to present this list of items on my desktop.
(I call it a desktop. It's actually the space around my computer monitor. My computer desk is snazzy, buit it's not as though I have this huge expanse for in/out boxes and the like.)
1.) A Memorex CD marker. Color: Red.
2.) Seven compact disks. First, a Memorex CD-R with handwritten title: Many Heroes and Plentiful Villains. Second, a CD-R of indeterminate brand, with handwritten title: Philly Variety Assortment. Third, an Imation CD-R with handwritten tracklist: That's Amore, Chiquita Banana and La Bamba. Fourth, another Memorex CD-R with the handwritten title: Food Songs. Fifth, a Capitol Records label CD, titled :Hawthorne, CA, Birthplace of A Musical Legacy (Artist: The Beach Boys). Sixth, a Capitol Records label CD, titled: The Beach Boys, Good Vibrations -- 30 Years of the Beach Boys -- Sessions. Seventh, an Imation CD-R with handwritten title: Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits v. 3.
3.) A service invoice from Saturn of St. Petersburg
4.) A Nokia cellular telephone. The Cingular trademark is inscribed toward the bottom.
5.) A book by Theodore Dalrymple, titled Life At The Bottom: The Worldview That Makes The Underclass. Publisher: Ivan R. Dee.
6.) A piece of paper listing the songs found on CD No. 3 of the earlier list. One title is not found on the CD: "We Got The Beef" by Weird Al.
7.) A box of Sucrets sore throat lozenges. Flavor: Vapor black cherry.
8.) A newspaper employee identification bade, with my picture and name affixed.
9.) A compact disc case for: The Beach Boys, "Good Timin', Live at Knebworth England 1980." Label is Eagle Records.
10.) One pad of bright pink sticky notes.
11.) One silver pen/pencil container, containing pens and pencils. Inside: A green, unsharpened pencil labeled "Chicago." Two dark green, unsharpened pencils labeled "St. Petersburg Times, tampabay.com." Five Bic brand #2 mechanical pencils, varying colors. One retractable pen, bearing an ad for Lawrence (Kan.) Automotive Diagnostics. A translucent blue retractable pen, labeled "Dow Jones Newspaper Fund." Two Bic brand round stic ballpoint pens. One green retractable pen, labeled "Poynter.org." One Bic brand round stik grip pen. A Papermate black, medium-point pen. A green Pentel brand R.S.V.P. pen.
12.) Inside the pen/pencil cup are found some stray items. Two multicolored erasers. Two small keys, one with a piece of paper taped to it reading "Max."
That's pretty much it. And all I have the patience for.