I was going to post the results of the "What body part of Brian's are you?" quiz here, but when I got to the question that required me to "pick a great Backstreet song," I had to quit.
So instead, here's a list of everything on my desk.
- Agency telephone directory, dated Summer 2000
- Caerwyn's address
- Cathedral Choral Society rehearsal and performance schedule
- Cathedral Choral Society singer handbook
- A Cat's Meow map of Iowa
- A drinking glass filled with RAM
- Dry-erase marker (black)
- Employee handbook
- An empty manila envelope
- Empty Styrofoam cup
- Ganesh finger puppet, purchased in Boston in February
- Homecoming brochure
- Instruction manuals for two different software packages I'm evaluating
- The keyboard with which I typed this list
- A little brass owl, from a co-worker who recently visited Greece
- Liquid Paper
- A Longaberger business card basket
- A makeshift paper holder made from a metal bookend and a long strip of cardboard
- Nun figure puppet, purchased at the same place I got Ganesh
- One computer speaker
- Picture of my niece Libby
- Printed copy of a cascading style sheet
- Printed copy of the most recent TWoP West Wing recap
- Program from the September 11 memorial service at Washington National Cathedral
- Program from the William Walton Centennial Celebration, performed May 19, 2002 by the Cathedral Choral Society
- PVC figurine of Lilo holding her weird homemade doll
- PVC figurine of Stitch riding a Big Wheel
- Red armadillo figurine, a gift from a former co-worker who vacationed in Mexico
- Review of the book What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained, clipped from the Washington City Paper
- Salt and pepper shakers
stolenborrowed from the cafeteria downstairs - Scotch tape dispenser (black)
- Spring 2002 issue of Cornell Report, the Cornell College alumni magazine
- A stapler, black with fake wood grain
- A statuette of James K. Polk
- A Superman button I got at the San Diego Comicon
- Two binders containing hard copies of completed software evaluation reports
- Two comically outdated database programming books: Straley's Programming with Clipper 5.0 and Xbase Cross Reference handbook
- Two Diet Coke cans: one empty, one partially full
- Two pens: one blue felt-tip, one black ballpoint
- Uncle Scrooge figurine, a gift from Caerwyn
- Uncle Scrooge insulated travel mug I bought at Disneyland, and the lid
This is what you get when you make a government contractor work on a Federal holiday.
