My desk is a disaster of piles. Everything I use gets put on top of whatever else I’ve just used.
An archeological dig (currently out of fashion in Japan after the revelation that a well-known archeologist faked the findings at two of his digs) of the pile to my left reveals:
- pen
 - video camera remote
 - tablet
 - city atlas
 - printout of documentation I’m writing
 - notebook
 - Toast manual
 - Notice of construction work (jackhammering to begin this morning)
 - Calvin & Hobbes cartoon clipped from newspaper
 - passport
 - folder of information on a video project completed this spring
 - 3 teacher’s manuals for a first grade class
 - sheet of scribbled “to do” notes
 - Japanese food magazine, Lettuce Club
 - catalog of household goods
 - my watch
 
It was my watch I was after. Now that I’ve found it, everything is going back on the pile in the opposite order. 🙂





