Where I work

Many people mistakenly believe I'm a very organized person. I am fairly organized, but in a very organic way. I let my things create their own places, rather than forcing some sort of structure. Anyway, here is my desk in the newsroom, where I do pretty much all my editing, writing and classwork.

1. stack of Chinook yearbooks from the following years: 1905, 1904, 1902, 1910, 1911, 1909, 1899
2. paper organizer with notes, documents and press releases for stories I’ve written or plan to write
3. fortune (from a cookie): “Be prepared to modify your plans.”
4. lightsaber, green
5. Stack consisting of:
- weekly copy chief comment sheet
- 2008 AP Styleguide (the only one in the newsroom)
- Phil 201 course packet
- WSU Police logs
- Com 440 course packet
- Moscow Co-op publication
6. basket containing:
- blue Tupperware full of ibuprofin for Brian
- colored thumb tacks
- tin of safety pins
- paring knife
- mending kit
- Splenda packets
- teal white board marker
- red pen without cap
- green plastic fake grass
7. Pullman Transit brochure
8. more WSU Police logs
9. sheet where I tallied different majors represented in the paper last week
10. computer monitor displaying Jetset
11. label with police contact numbers
12. Post-it checklist of things to do this week
13. Crayola markers
14. letter from the Public Records office and other miscellaneous papers
15. last week’s papers
16. turquoise chair, not rolly
17. old keyboard that I want to trade with Brian for the new style
18. Post-it note with old appointments
19. (obscured) screwdriver, best weapon in the newsroom
20. Tiny bucket for business cards
21. red iPod, CougarCard and (obscured) tiny bottle of magnolia blossom lotion
22. violet water cup saved from the Super Bowl party
23. Nalgene, probably empty
24. Old computer tower, same one I used as a copy editor in Fall 2006 before we got iMacs last semester
25. existential Post-it from Victor: “today. tomorrow.”
26. bowl with spork and can of minestrone soup
27. stack consisting of:
- pica pole
- books for my thesis (“Better Than Sex” by Hunter S. Thompson, “Image Ethics” by Gros/Katz/Ruby. “Visions of War” by David D. Perlmutter, “Vietnam: Reflexes and Reflections” by Sinaiko)
- January issues of The Chronicle of Higher Education
- books for reading (“The Literary Journalists” edited by Norman Sims, “Sometimes a Great Notion” by Ken Kesey, “Chrome Yellow” by Aldous Huxley)
28. stack consisting of:
- issues of the Evergreen (Feb. 8, Feb. 6, Jan. 17
- sports section from The Spokesman-Review (Jan. 25)
- The New York Times (Jan. 29, Jan. 22)
- “Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine” by Thom Jones