What’s on your writing desk?

A few days ago, Anne Wayman wrote a blog post listing what was on her writing desk. I thought I’d respond with a post of my own, though I’m afraid my list isn’t as exciting as hers. We do have an office, but I actually do most of my work in the living room – better light. As such, my “writing desk” here will really be “coffee table.”

• My laptop support thing. I have no idea what these are actually called, but it’s pillowy underneath with a flat surface on top. It sits on my lap and my laptop sits on top of it. Good for when my laptop gets warm from the intensity of my writing (or something).
• An empty mug of tea. A friend of mine brought it back from the UK and it’s oversized and lovely.
• A copy of Why Do We Say It?, a book given to me by a fellow word-liker friend. He and I used to sit next to each other at work, and almost every day we would come across some phrase everyone takes for granted, like “flash in the pan” and wonder how it entered our lexicon. We also used to proofread junk faxes our office received, which often had hilarious grammatical errors. Oh, good times indeed! I’m reading it again to harvest the best ones for a blog post.
• The second volume of Doris Lessing’s autobiography – blog post coming about that too.
• My cell phone, battery low.
• A notebook and pen. I bought this notebook to prove to myself once and for all that I don’t like perfect-bound notebooks. I still don’t, but I will power through.
• An Xbox 360 controller for when it’s time to take a break!

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