I wrote the following about a year and a half ago and forgot about it. I found it when going through some things today. Some things have changed, but you'll get the general idea.
Contents of my
desk:
The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Short Stories
What the Best College Teachers Do
Ungraded
in-class work from my freshman writing students
A
half-empty water bottle--red, with "Texas Tech"
A
computer
A
lamp (touch)
An
alarm clock (seldom used?)
Quotes
on sticky notes attached to a computer monitor (LCD):
President Monson "Do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your task. Then the performance of your task will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle."
Elder Bruce C. Hafen "We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more."
Printer
(dusty, as is most of the desk)
Those
black organizing/filing shelves, the top one for filing and so full the plastic
is bending. The others about half full, each shelf designated for a class or
purpose.
A
large planner, written in, a lot.
Ann's
House Cranberry Nut Antioxidant
Various
containers containing paperclips and small sticky notes (the kind you put on
the edges of pages).
Two
staplers (one for more than 30 sheets of paper)
A
bunch of pens crowded into a silver pen holder.
A
Kleenex (or is it Puffs?) box.
A
desk calendar on February 4 (it's April).
A
Book of Mormon (Italian leather)
A
notebook for writing scriptural thoughts; almost full.
A
mirror and tweezers
Books
and more books:
- Several anthologies
- Early American literature
- The Smithsonian Book of Books
- Victorian Sensation Fiction
- MLA handbooks (two)
- Teaching Literature
- What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
- Library books: Mostly early American print culture
Books
I will (not) be teaching atop one another (it's annoying to get one from the
middle):
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (3 copies)
- The Mill on the Floss (2 copies)
- Hard Times (2 copies)
- Lady Audley's Secret
- The Moonstone
Old
mail (ads)
An
iPhone (plugged in)
A
pile of readings for a class (book history)
Sticky
notes with words on them about things
In the intervening year and a half, some of these things have migrated off my desk and others have taken up residence in their place. Of note, I suppose would be the following:
Graduate Study for the 21st Century
Rolls for Relief Society
Two new quotes:
In the intervening year and a half, some of these things have migrated off my desk and others have taken up residence in their place. Of note, I suppose would be the following:
Graduate Study for the 21st Century
Rolls for Relief Society
Two new quotes:
"[A] spiritual education in the institute will shape the purpose and speed the process of [your] secular learning." Henry B. Eyring
"I believe that is a good way to face the unpleasant things in our lives, not complaining but thanking the Lord for the trust He places in us when He gives us the opportunity to overcome difficulties." Richard G. ScottEmpty paper bowl with a tissue in it
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