Let's stick to just the desk, shall we?

Green post-its, AT&T card, Southwest Airlines card, highlighters, broken rubber band, bottle cap.

Sudafed. Ibuprofen. Nose spray. Bottle of vanilla syrup, unopened. A single spoon. (It had a friend, but that one's currently hanging out with Jake's cereal, I think.) printer, non-functional.

Weirdos from Another Planet, Breakfast of Champions, Textbook of Medical Physiology. Large book of art purchased for $5 from Kudzu, now going out of business.

the new iBook, its speakers, cordless Logitech mouse. Mousepad with picture of my dog from 1998, sitting on the dock at Wintergreen. Stamps acquired from Jake, the ordinary 37 cent with the flag kind, four.

Key to the room. Key to the dorm, located after its temporary disappearance (probably due to a fight over a small and twisty piece of metal). Blue glass mug with residual hot chocolate. Small glasses, two, one either 1/8th full or 7/8ths empty of water.

empty Dasani bottle, and then two more on the window ledge. Cup from Arby's, featuring a picture of an animated oven mitt who declares: "After that HOT oven... this ice feels good."

empty squirt bottle of ethanol (lifted from lab), used with dry ice sometime last fall. Circular metal tin, containing change. "Class of 2001" color-changing Bic pen, received at middle school graduation and just now running out of ink. Loose CDs: "Spartan for Macintosh", and REM's "Monster".

tissues, mostly unused in the box, though there is the one still sitting around from this morning's now-regular nosebleed. TV remote

copy of El Hobbit, bookmarked at the stone trolls section. (C.S. Lewis informs me that con la escritura de esta novela, "una nueva estrella ha aparecido en esa constelación.") half-empty bag of Snyder's pretzles, honey mustard & onion

receipts, both mine and for reimbursement of various Academic Team members. Crayola markers, washable blue and green, capable of writing on glass. (see mirror, with structures of nicotene, beta-estradiol and progesterone diagrammed.) container of sugar, with label that bears the instructions:

"How to Make Vanilla Sugar: This easy recipe makes a great gift, adds special flavor to coffee, tea, and dessert. Ingredients: 2 cups Domino Granulated Sugar. 1teaspoon vanilla extract. ...Blend the sugar and extract in a bowl, then spread it on a tray and let dry for about 4 hours. Press out any lumps with a wooden spoon and store it in an airtight container. For an easy, elegant gift, place sugar in a glass jar and decorate with ribbons."

weigh paper, and weigh boats, also taken from lab. trophies, two (COTKU & Sword Bowl). McDonald's plastic figurine of Izzy, the '96 Olympic mascot. headphones. small ceramic toucan named Sam

pens, many, mostly black. scratchboard knife, lifted from Centennial High School art room. ballpoint pencil (part of my Christmas gift from Tina), whiteboard markers (3), pencil sharpener, single watercolor paintbrush, scissors. tea bag, used.

USB Hasp key, for use with Spartan software. 3-hole punch. notecards from the academic team closet (perhaps 30 here, with another few hundred in the drawers on my bedside table). nail clippers.

bulliten board with mini-tin of Altoids, postcard from Jen from Greece, various C&H drawings I've kept for the past 7 years, movie ticket stubs from everything I've seen in the past year and a month, Jen's old address, ticket from King's Dominion trip (summer 2001), small movie poster for The Powerpuff Girls movie (still haven't seen that), insert from McSweeney's No. 6 (the TMBG issue), Foxtrot "Lord of the Onion Rings" strip, Wallace '72 button Dad got right before the attempted assassination in '72 while square-dancing at G.W.'s rally in the Laurel shopping center. ticket from seeing David Sedaris with Jim this fall. "definition of Laura" card from Tina, the Lake George gift one.

sketchbooks and journals, 1998 - December, 2002 (not in any particular order). various objects associated with guys: miniature disco ball from Dan, formerly of my CHS locker, origami from Alex, the one left on my art table after that whole business got squared away, pass from last year's Masters weekend.

seashell, check from my grandfather, valentine from home, checkbook, digital camera. Spanish test, graded ("92- buen examen"), lab notebook, empty packet of hot chocolate.

romance novel ("Outrageous") won at Florida trash tournament. beat-up copy of The Double Helix. framed photo of the family, taken on the first green at WG this summer

preliminary sketches of cabbits, done on the back of medical journal articles on benign lipomas. SET cards, scattered.

Plus four and a half more shelves of books, which I shall not list here.