the jagged skyline of car keys
A comprehensive listing of items on my desk as I type this, in order of appearance from left to right:
- a photograph of my wife in a frame with some bamboo type crap on it
- a gray lunchbag with a microwaveable soup and two bags of Funyuns inside
- two Smuckers Uncrustables, one strawberry, one grape, thawing in preparation for my lunch
- a blue desk fan with the word HOLMES written in the center
- a Lucent technologies multi-line telephone
- four Silver Jews CDs (Starlite Walker, The Natural Bridge, American Water, & Bright Flight)
- a white Emerson instant weather band radio
- a 20 ounce cup of ice water
- a red three ring binder with various bits of chemotherapy information turned to page 7
- a photograph of my niece, Rachael, in some snazzy sunglasses
- a photograph of my dad hugging my sister and staring at the sky
- a photograph of my dad in a Mexican restaurant on his birthday
- a styrofoam apple
- a styrofoam pineapple
- a metal pig
- 11 25 cent ninjas from a Wal-Mart bubblegum machine
- 6 more three ring binders with various information on cancer and its treatment
- a piece of paper with a phone number for Helen in Louisville
- my computer
- Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, Edition 17
- a ten key calculator with a Redd Foxx bobblehead stuck to the top of it
- scratch paper and a pen
- a "Where's the Beef?" coffee mug filled to the rim with Jolly Ranchers
- a "Loretta Lynn's Kitchen" coffee mug filled with pens
- a Belle and Sebastian "Jet Tours" coffee mug filled with nothing, no wait...there are three tiny pencils and a Jolly Rancher wrapper inside it
- a piece of trash
- a Far Side desk calendar
- a manila folder that says "Brad. Enclosures."
- three books (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, You Shall Know Our Velocity!, and A Crackup at the Race Riots)
- chapstick
THE BEST ENTRY EVER!
April 14, 2004 | 9:25 a.m.