What's on your desk?

[Helena Handcart]

Trying waste time and work out how slobbish I truly am!

I've got in front of me:

* Mug of tea (cold)
* Biros, highlighters and post-it notes of almost every hue
* Table lamp without a bulb
* 1 x pack of wrong type of bulbs
* 3 x textbooks
* pad with notes for essay
* 1 x pack of crisps (cheese and onion)
* phone
* empty pint glass borrowed from forgotten pub many moons ago
* diary
* pile of uncompleted job application forms staring accusingly at me
* tweezers
* letter from RBS (unopened)
* pack of tissues as I am poorly

You?

[kerryflett]

My desk in my room has numerous (neat) stacks of papers, essays, letters and somesuch dumped on it,along with loose change, my printer, a couple of pens, some plastic bottles that I can't be bothered to take to the recycling bin and my room phone. Consequently, the desk I'm actually working at has a chocolate bar (Boots sugarfree), gloves, sourcebook, notebook, exam comments and internship application forms on it, soon to be joined by headphones, a jar of peanut butter and a spoon...

[James.C.]

Lets have a look:
Laptop
Four different piles of paper for four different modules (yet to buy folders)
Half-eaten bar of Whole Nut Dairy Milk
Pile of letters from builders, BT and Scottish Power (all opened)
One cup of tea (just made, warm)
Mobile Phone/Wallet/Keys/Change
Highlighters
Stess Ball
Memory Stick
Calander
and last but not least: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas DVD

[jollytiddlywink]

My desk has:
my laptop, two pens, a small bottle of vitamins, half a dozen Tesco/Morrisons receipts, an almost empty packet of chocolate digestives, a Grill House loyalty card (1 stamp).

[Wonderboy]

No-one cares.

[stripedtights]

Oh but wonderboy, i do care! I REALLY Do!

[Duggeh]

Framed picture of cactus garden.
Three compartmentalised hobby boxes, stacked.
Single razorblade (Wilkinson Sword Classic)
Remote control for amplifier
iPod touch
AMT Headphone prototype
Monitor
Keyboard (on keyboard are 2 ranitadine tablets, 2 usb sticks, one lip blam, 4 Neutrik minijack male connectors, blob of blu tac, kirbygrip)
Mouse
Ring binder
Stack of printed articles
iPod dock
Desk tidy (contains packet of staples, 2 screwdrivers, pair of scissors, folder lock, 1 HB pencil, 3 biros, one marker pen, 1 propelling pencil)
Multimeter.


I'm bored.

[the Empress]

Prepare yourself for the excitment as I up the ante - I have *two* desks!

Study Desk: Computer, a broken computer mouse (I accidently squished it between the hinges a year ago and there it has remained), a spare mousepad stating 'Curves: circle of friends', my actual mousepad with coffee stains, a 'Deadly Donkey' cup half-filled with lukewarm green tea, a thank you card from when I was 16 declaring me *quite* the card player, a copy of the highway code, a mini highligher, my cheque book, a few printouts, an empty glasses case, a book called 'Personal Demon' and a small copy of the New Testament from school which I thought I had long sinced dumped, but which someone has shoved on my desk. And a clean tissue.

Room Desk: an A3 picture of a meerkat I'm working on, some random pastels, a tin of accumulated pastels, bluetack, a copy of BBC Wildlife, a hair clip, heat protector spray, scattered makeup and some makeup wipes.

More than you ever needed to know.

[lost_eden]

You know you need to get out more when you keep a regularly-updated photo timeline of your desk.

[orudge]

Is there a reason you have blacked-out keys?

[lost_eden]

They're actually black stickers with white text on them, to do away with Apple's stupid keyboard layout & turn it into an actually useful keyboard layout.

[steelegbr]

May as well join in on this one (I'm in halls)...

* 1 book I really ought to return to my supervisor.
* A small CD case.
* 1 laptop and 1 desktop HDD (yeah, bit odd).
* Small stack of paper (including a todo list that's always getting bigger).
* Pens (always useful).
* A mug of water.
* 2 LCD computer monitors.
* Keyboard and mouse.
* A pair of Tesco Value computer speakers (not plugged in).
* My work headphones.
* Standard issue university telephone and lamp.

[FATOO8]

May as well join in on this one (I'm in halls)...

* 1 book I really ought to return to my supervisor.
* A small CD case.
* 1 laptop and 1 desktop HDD (yeah, bit odd).
* Small stack of paper (including a todo list that's always getting bigger).
* Pens (always useful).
* A mug of water.
* 2 LCD computer monitors.
* Keyboard and mouse.
* A pair of Tesco Value computer speakers (not plugged in).
* My work headphones.
* Standard issue university telephone and lamp.

Isn't your list kinnda the same as the picture above? That's freaky, I don't get the 2 LCD computers monitors that you people have, what are they used for exactly?

[steelegbr]

Isn't your list kinnda the same as the picture above? That's freaky, I don't get the 2 LCD computers monitors that you people have, what are they used for exactly?

Erm... I think mines is a little more messy.

Also, the whole two monitor thing - very useful for programming (inc. CS practicals) as you can have the manual and what you're working on open at the same time. Also excessively useful for essays - research on one screen, essay on the other.

On top of that, we use them a lot in broadcast radio studios (e.g. as per here - not me by the way in the pic). Often one with the music library and another with the current playlist. A third monitor can often be seen in studios for browsing the web.

[ct3012]

On my desk I have:
- Laptop
- Mouse
- iPod Dock (soon to be moved to bookshelf beside desk)
- 3 different coloured pens
- Yellow highlighter, green highlighter
- Last nights pint glass of water
- Last nights mug (remnants of tea)
- Alarm clock
- 2 beanie babies (Peter Rabbit and a husky, on top of alarm clock)
- Standard issue uni lamp and phone
- Stack of post-its in many, many colours
- Coloured index tab things
- USB stick
- 2x nail polish bottles
- Nail file
- Hand cream
- 2x hair bobbles
- Stapler
- iPhone
- Hair appointment/doctors appointment cards
- 3x books for class
- Sticky tape
- Hair heat protection spray
- Bottle of water
- Glasses case (on top of books)

I need to get something to keep my stationary in, move my girly cosmetic nonsense back to the box from whence it came and take the empties through for a washing...

[Frank]

I don't have a desk.

But I did, once upon a time. Here's my fourth-year desk when I was in Albany...



I make that:
- 1 cup of tea
- USB iPod cable
- Some physics or maths notes
- Lab-book
- Old past paper
- Post card
- 4 pens
- iPod & iPod dock
- Some nondescript medicines
- Tupperware lid
- Bowl of pre-cracked and deshelled sunflower seeds
- Keys
- Tardis-console 'dice' (6 sided spinny thing)
- lip balm

[maxray]

-my laptop
-black mug
-highball glass
-external hard drive
-wacom tablet
-malfunctioning wireless router
-two bookshelf speakers
-standard university telephone
-cable pliers
-RBS card reader
-4 year old Nokia phone
-usb hub
-tv remote control, without batteries
-fear and loathing in las vegas, the book
-chargers and a/c adapters for all that stuff
-tons of paper junk all over the table

[Duggeh]

I'm at my desk in the library.

Laptop
mouse
hat
2 ring binders
1 folio zip wallet
3 textbooks
notepad
pen
used tissues.

[lost_eden]

I don't get the 2 LCD computers monitors that you people have, what are they used for exactly?

Great for porn.

[Duggeh]

I don't get the 2 LCD computers monitors that you people have, what are they used for exactly?

Great for porn.

One bewb per screen.