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August 15th, 2007

Messy Desk

How messy is your desk at work (or in your home office)? Admit it.

Today, I had “clean my desk day” because quite a bit of dust-n-crumbs had accumulated since the last such day. I gave my keyboard a good shaking and used disinfectant wipes on all the surfaces I come in contact with. Things feel much cleaner.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to eating my PB and J over my keyboard.

Posted in Everyday Life

Merle August 15, 2007, 10:05 pm

Messy in terms of food? Not at all. That’s just gross (sorry).

Messy in terms of dust? Some corners and hard-to-get-to places, sure, but not the active surfaces.

Messy in terms of papers, pens, and stickie notes? Oh, yeah. I have notes from years ago that I can no longer decypher, but save just in case I one day realize it was the secret of the universe and my handwriting was just sloppy.

jk August 16, 2007, 3:12 am

Bad, very bad at home.

At work one of my co-workers left me a note on a stack of papers and told me to deal with them today. I am a clutter-magnet.

Aanen August 16, 2007, 11:23 am

My desk is usually pretty clean except for when my co-workers move random stuff into my cube, like a table for instance, boxes of cables and other junk.

Paul August 16, 2007, 2:03 pm

I hate messy desks – hate. My work desk is pretty clean overall but a couple of method wipes wouldn’t hurt any.

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