On my desk right now

[blackstone]

I have a plastic Hello Kitty mug full of orange/chocolate, raspberry/chocolate and key lime/chocolate candies. And a contraband diet coke. I also have a plastic bin full of stuffed chickens with a sign on it saying "Elizabeth's Home for Wayward Chickens

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[saltdawg]

Um, Unless you go to St. John,. the USVI is a complete shithole. I mean COMPLETE SHITHOLE. Go to the BVI instead, if yiu have to visit virgins.

Just sayin'

[blackstone]

Yeah, I've heard that. In college I dated a boy whose family lived there. (He only visited on holidays but otherwise was at boarding school growing up.)

Did you get someplace warm or are you still freezing?

[saltdawg]

I've been keeping my heater low here in RI since I got back. Then last night/thismorning i discovered it is busted and i have no heat at all!

[blackstone]

Yes, doofus, I read that, that's why I'm asking. Was wondering if you had gone somewhere warm or if you were still sitting in a freezing house. I worry about my friendslist: it's a bad habit. I think I need more hobbies.

[twistedncynical]

We have a heavily enforced clean-desk policy. Nothing can be left on our desks overnight. No, wait, that's not entirely true. We can have: a mouse and mousepad, one plastic, upright file holder and a pencil/pen holder. That's it.

I need a new job.

[blackstone]

WELL THAT'S JUST UN-AMERICAN! Oh...wait...

I often have crap piled on my desk for a day or two. Sometimes stuff may collect a touch of dust. But no one knows
entirely what I do so I don't usually get questioned on it. One of my workmates intentionally keeps his desk at disaster-level messy all the time so that no one from other shifts will use it. There is an actual animal skull on it...we've decided it's either a rat or a possum. It scares people. Maybe I need to get a Hello Kitty skull.

[ladyceleste]

I have a dull katana-shaped papercutter in my pen cup, sticky notes shaped like snowflakes, natural hand sanitizer that smells like a pine tree, a picture of a kitten in a lion costume, a picture of a great lakes rocky beach, and photo of my grandparents, and then pretty much anything you'd usually expect on a secretary's desk + all of the junk no one else wants to keep in their offices. (I work at a corner desk shoved against a half-wall in the lobby.)

[blackstone]

I'd love to bring in pictures, but when it comes right down to it, this is still a warehouse floor and things do wander/get knocked around. Also, I don't have any walls near me.

[anonymously4]

My desk looks like Bucky visited it. PAPER PAPER AND MORE PAPER. Which is pretty funny for someone who expells all her projects to OTHER people via PDFs. Beyond that, it has what you expect from me. All manner of odd stuff to make it appear more like a gift shop than a cubical. Even an unlit candle. And tiny statues of the Manekin Pis, Eiffel Tower and the Little Mermaid from Copenhagen. Which is porcelain and someone drew nipples on. And just to complete the designzillas abode; a feng shui good luck mirror.

[blackstone]

Do you have low-wattage lightbulbs, too?

I seriously have like 15 chickens on my desk right now.

[blackstone]

Oh der, I didn't mean low-wattage lightbulbs, I meant dim lampshades.

[anonymously4]

I have low wattage lightbulbs AND dim shades (red). If I need relief from S.A.D. I go visit Chocolate Santa.