March 17, 2004 :: 4:15 p.m.
messy desks and menstrual badness
I seem to have an actual biological inability to stay organized. Things accumulate in piles all over the place - stacks of burned CDs, magazines, papers, dirty clothes. There are things that I'm absolutely certain that I own, but that I couldn't actually find even if someone was holding a knife to my throat. I remember buying them, and using them, and then putting them someplace... but those places are lost to me now, irrevocably swallowed by the wide and merciless mouth of long-term memory loss.
I almost used "maw" in place of "mouth" up there, but... I really don't like that word. It creeps me out. And it's really just unpleasant to say. Try it - "maw." It's a very ugly word. True to its meaning, I suppose.
Anyway, I had my desk relatively cleaned off a while ago, but now it's back to its usual disheveled state. I would take a picture, but I'm out of image hosting space, so a list will have to do.
A Sampling of Things Currently on Amanda's Desk:
A desk lamp that is not plugged in
A container of floppy disks that I never use
9 (!) different kinds of lip gloss
About 23,000 pens
A miniature glass flask (the science kind, not the secret-drinking kind)
A cube of post-it notes that I've had since Fall 2003
15 CDs (6 loose, 9 in cases)
Adam's digital camera
2 pairs of glasses
A bottle of red nail polish that I've had since high school
A miniature tape recorder that I have used three times in roughly four years
2 rolls of tape - one scotch, one masking
A ruler
A telephone
A post card thing that someone was handing out at the poetry reading we went to
A small purple elephant
An empty zip-loc bag
Two christmas stamps
A little plastic pouch containing the sad remains of my other horseshoe earring and the counterpart to the piercing stud that is currently in its place in my left ear
A glass of water
A bowl that, up until about give minutes ago, contained some grapes
Two spring-mounted Badtz Maru (Sanrio's surly penguin) figures
Three coupons for Skinny Cow ice cream that I received in the mail six months ago
Various bits of folded paper
Two speakers
Two pairs of ear-bud headphones which I hate and therefore never use
My continent-sized monitor
My tablet pen
A large cookie-scented candle
Okay, so that wasn't so much a sampling as a verbatim recitation, but you get the idea. And my desk is small. SMALL. We're talking like 2 1/2 feet wide by 1 1/2 feet deep. It's tiny. And all of that crap (and then some, really) is on it. I'm surprised it hasn't caved the floor in.
Ahem. In other news, today is Adam and I's (me and Adam's? what's the correct way to say that?) 40th "monthiversary. Go us! We're stupid and silly in that we celebrate monthly, I know. But it's not really celebrating celebrating, with big fancy gifts and cake and stuff. It's just spending some time together - I think tonight we're going to a movie or something. I really want to see Bubba Ho-Tep, which is playing at the Midtown Cinema, but we'll probably end up going to see something at Hoyt's because he has free passes there and I have no money with which to pay my way into the Midtown Cinema, and I have a severe guilt complex about him paying for me. Yeah. It's an odd quirk. It just makes me feel bad.
Anyway, I've gone on long enough. My period started today (grumble grumble grumble), so I'm all crampy and... ick. I'm craving comfort food like mad. I would love macaroni and cheese for dinner, but the stuff is SO not diet-friendly. Ugh. I don't know what I'll have, actually. I really want to take that macaroni and cheese and wrap it up in a flour tortilla and eat it. Or maybe mashed potatoes instead of mac n' cheese in the tortilla. How gross is that? Stupid menstrual cravings. GAH.
I'm off to forage. Wish my willpower.
back & forth
Wait, there's more!
I like pina coladas - March 30, 2005
must... finish... projects... - March 22, 2005
Mr. Postman delivers the good stuff - March 18, 2005
when everything is bad - March 16, 2005
of fruits and menstruation - March 15, 2005