Comments on: A clean desk

By: Justine

Justine — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:25:03 +0000

Shloopy & Kenina-Chan: Happy birthday!!!

By: Justine Larbalestier’s desk « BookBoy

Justine Larbalestier’s desk « BookBoy — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:37:54 +0000

[...] everyone else, but I find it fascinating to see writers’ desks. Justine Larbalestier has blogged about her recent desk cleanup and posted [...]

By: Corey

Corey — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:28:04 +0000

Messy desk enthusiasts (like myself) find that over the years we become architectural engineers in stacking dynamics and the science of beverage-container-induced stressed to paper-and-CD-case support structures. I think a couple of mine would’ve had Frank Lloyd Wright himself lost in awe.

By: Lizzy-wa

Lizzy-wa — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:13:40 +0000

hehe. but thats a pretty small desk. how did all that stuff fit on there?!

-Lizzy-wa OUT!

By: Kenina-chan

Kenina-chan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:55:00 +0000

Thankies!! Your desk is beautiful. Just the other day I took 37 post-its (without the stickiness) off my desk and organized them, wrote what it said on them in a notebook, and then recycled. Unfortunately, I still have nail polish, 3 notebooks- no wait- 5, stuffed animals, textbooks, eyeliner, colored pencils, candy, a nail file, about 20 hair ties, and normal stuff: (duct tape, scissors, paper, glue, jewelry, flyswatters, purses, a flashlight, rulers, a swiss army thingy….) Maybe I should clean my desk… Happy birthday Shloopy!!!

By: shloopy

shloopy — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:36:18 +0000

Wow. I’m deeply impressed. I could work on my desk for…. ummm… 22 hours? This morning, I found a spider living in my keyboard, and I type a lot every day, so it proves you are never safe from spiders. grr.

By the way, Kenina-chan is going to wake up, and be so happy you mentioned her Justine! (Also, happy b-day kenina!)

By: Katerate

Katerate — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:29:01 +0000

Holy crap dude. That is too small of a desk to spend 12 hours cleaning.

By: Marlena

Marlena — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:55:19 +0000

wow! that’s a pretty small desk to have so much paper/garbage/dead things on it! you should definately take a before picture next time you clean it!

ahem. which is probably not what you want to think about, after being so productive and having it be all pretty and such…..

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:25:10 +0000

People! You have so got the wrong idea. I am not a packrat. I shudder at the thought. I despise things. I collect nothing!

I’m just lazy. The desk is where I dump things I need to get to at some point. But “some point” rarely rolls around. Dunno why . . .

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:46:20 +0000

Woo-hoo! more power to you. I’ve been there, and i know how daunting it is to go back to that weirdly clean desk when you find it unfamiliar, disorienting, and off-putting in its neatness. A simple piece of advice, f.w.i.w.: don’t worry about keeping it *this* clean all the time, just try to interrupt your packrattitude earlier in the process on the next go-round. It’s not about perfection, only about doing it a little better each time.

By: Kaleb Nation

Kaleb Nation — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:31:39 +0000

my desk is so messy right now, I might fall into it and be buried in envelopes and notebooks.

By: hillary!

hillary! — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:59:43 +0000

Seriously! and that truly is an awesome desk. I wish I could make one like it in metal shop. But that would be expensive.

By: kim

kim — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:31:24 +0000

how tall were the piles of paper? 4 feet?

By: jessiegirl

jessiegirl — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:25:22 +0000

do you have a worm hole or a sub space bubble surrounding your desk in order to pack more stuff onto such a small space? Seriously? 12 hours and 11 lbs or paper? from such a small space? you, my dear, may be the new packrat queen.

By: Kadie-Wa

Kadie-Wa — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:08:31 +0000

Wow…that’s alot of paper! i wonder how many pounds are on my desk.

I like your desk. no i lied. I luv your desk. i think that those kinds are soooo sweet! i love those kinds. i think i’m going to save up for one like that. all i’m using now is a table that’s sides are folded down so it can be used as a desk. and i still call it a desk.