What's on YOUR desk right now?

[ursus]

On my desk this morning:

1. Aerial photo of a street stubbed into a peach orchard. Don't want to tackle that.

2. Open copy of my zoning book, random page to make it look like I'm working in an emergency...

3. A half drunk bottle of Dr. Pepper.

4. A red pencil, sharpened with my X-Acto knife.

5. A file for some problematic storage units I thought I'd put to bed forever with a sticky note from my boss saying "See me when I get in." Ack!

So what's on your desk this fine day, Cyburbia? Be honest and give me the details...my life is very empty and I like to think about all of you.

[luckless pedestrian]

1. a draft decision my staff planner wants me to edit
2. a brief written by our insurance attorney on a civil action suit against the town
3. mail from friends I am house sitting for I am supposed to mail for them while they are away for the month
4. a bunch of APA CD-Rom's I think I am supposed to mail to people who belong to our library
5. my FY 12 budget book, first draft
6. decaf coffee
7. my crackberry
8. stuff I should go through and throw out
9. the latest revisions for a cell tower application
10. past drafts of land use ordinances we are working on

[dandy_warhol]

1. 3 sticky notes
2. pink bpa-free water bottle
4. business card holder half filled with out-of-date business cards
5. 2 frames containing 4 pictures of my nephew
6. toy hamster
7. origami box made by employee
8. eraser with chinese character for happiness
9. two little figurines
10. coconut shell candle that smells like a strawberry daiquiri
11. miniature gong
12. 3 piles of papers, binders, and other crud that I don't want to deal with.
13. blue sharpie pen
14. computer monitor & keyboard

[luckless pedestrian]

oh, I love Sharpies!

[Salmissra]

In a clockwise direction:

Cube wall opening

in/out box area, with one shelf above with books/dictionary/ordinances

active Planning Commission files (only one right now)

active Landmark Commission files (eight this cycle)

phone/office supply area (rolodex, pens, sharpies, and personalized sticky notes!)

computer with keyboard on an under-the-desk pullout

(on cube wall behind computer) large calendar, two announcements

whiteboard with 1) committee deadlines 2) Plan Commission items 3) Landmark Commission items

pinboard with city deadlines, Commission calendars, contacts for committee meetings, committee members sheet, etc

(under pinboard) large desk calendar, box of kleenex, problem file(s), and National Register paperwork

on the built-in shelves: background paperwork on digital billboards, historic preservation/district files, large posterboard exhibits of historic districts, city map

drawer unit, with magnets on the side and sign ordinance history taking up 2 of the 3 drawers (one drawer is broken)

cube wall covered with map of special sign districts, pictures of historic sites, coat hanger

[illinoisplanner]

Well, at home, my desk is the floor.

Right now, I have near me a laptop, one of those backrest pillow things, a sealed envelope of application materials ready for mailing, a pen, and an Entertainment Weekly that I was using as a writing surface. My file drawers and desk drawers consist of boxes under my bed.

This is only temporary, since there's no room for a desk in my room. Once I get my own place, the desk will be back in action.

[otterpop]

banker's lamp
desktop water feature (waterfall)
sub regs
growth policy
two calculators
two water bottles
cough syrup
empty coke can
globe paperweight
CDs
pictures of my family
Indiana Jones action figure
rock from the Smith River
clock
mug my son made at the Painted Pot
dictionary and thesaurus
telephone

No wonder I can't get any work done.

[Whose Yur Planner]

On one desk, my laptop/monitor/mouse/keyboard/speakers, 4 souvineer baseballs, challenger learning center paperweight,sticky pad. On the laptop is space ace bobblehead that burb fixer sent me, a buffalo paperweight, my basebull paperweight, Old point loma lighthouse, Walter Anderson giff rig saiboat and a pair of dice from the beau rivage.

The other desk, my VOIP phone, stacks of papers/magazines. My "Lord help me to remember that nothing is going to happen to me today that You and I can't handle" plaque, boss coffee mug that serves as a pen holder that the staff gave me for a birthday present, my name plaque, desk calendar, tissues, blackberries, stapler, tape dispensor.

[Suburb Repairman]

my "I love me" corner of awards
family photos
a rubber ducky holding a shovel and wearing a construction hat
my 'devil' paperclip holder
post-it notes and flags
tape dispenser
telephone
pen holder
red swingline stapler
box of prismacolor pencils
"dead fred" pencil holder
4 code compliance case files that I should probably wrap up
solid waste/single-stream recycling contract folder for meeting later
annexation growth plan folder from last city council meeting
Comprehensive Plan development folder for Thursday's steering committee meeting
plat of an infill residential property for review
a variance case file I need to organize and close (denied)
a copy of an old economic development agreement
a copy of the unified development code
lunch stuff
a laptop
an empty soda can
city branding/wayfinding file


I'm just waiting for someone to drop the smartass comment about his secretary being on his desk...

[beach_bum]

Oh, this is going to be embarassing, but nobody is stopping me...

1. About 3 pens, a blue pilot G-2 07 (best pen EVER) and a black and green flair pen
2. 4 water bottles/cups-my AM coffee cup is still on my desk, then an awesome Gator tumber cup with lid for my water and two metal water bottles that I am not using.
3. Phone log, on a steno pad of course
4. January's Planning Magazine
5. A scale and a mini-scale (Thanks Tide )
6. Gator Desk Calendar with UF sports trivia
7. About 4 piles of random papers
8. File of un-finished small area plan that will never be finished thanks to NCDOT
9. A smattering of site furnishing catalogs for a new project I am working on Downtown
10. Town Code Book

[Planit]

Starting from my left and working around to the right:

Stapler, tape, phone
Tea cup from lunch
Scales in mug holder
desk lamp
various pens of color & type
Gator Calendar
reading glasses
Day-timer appoointment calendar
2 CDs 3 pictures (kid, wife and golfing trip)
Calculator
Comupter monitor & desktop unit & mounse (keyboard under desk)
Stack of various business cards
Misc. files of active projects
Planning Mag
Draft of projects schedule for the next fiscal year
Proposed ordinance (editting it)
stack of Bike Route maps (recently delivered)
large file of one current project taking entirley too long due to PB
UDO book - that needs to go back on the shelf

[Mud Princess]

Random things currently on my desk:

1. A half-full mug of hot tea (or is it half-empty? )
2. Two aerial maps of the proposed subdivision going before the town planning board (not my employer) tonight, with my notes scribbled on the bottom
3. Scrap paper that I use for notes
4. One pair of fingerless gloves, purchased off Etsy, so I can keep my hands warm while I type (they work better when they are actually on my hands)
5. One ballpoint pen from the Courtyard by Marriott (I never buy pens)
6. My wallet - so I can get out my credit card for a hotel reservation
7. Half a bag of chocolate peanut-butter hearts - my secret stash!
8. A pile of papers and folders pertaining to current/priority projects
9. An owl paperweight
10. A letter-sized legal pad
11. All the usual office implements: an ancient Swingline stapler, tape dispenser, telephone, etc.

[TexanOkie]

• two plat files
• map of our future growth area and municipal boundaries
• legal pad
• phone
• rolodex
• bottle of gatorade
• box of tissues
• briefcase
• pen/pencil holder (filled)
• computer/etc.
• calculator
• city ballcap (in case I go in the field)
• at the moment, the remainder of my lunch (though this will be gone in about 10 minutes)

[ThePinkPlanner]

Enough that you'd want me to be your buddy if we and our desks were stranded on a deserted island

Really its quite remarkable how much stuff fits on here.

plans, plans, and plans
reports
file folders, both empty and full
avery laser labels, size 5163
the last of my argyle sweater daily calendar that i can't seem to get rid of
binders, paper clips, scissors, stapler, calculator
post it notes in three different colors
a carousel for pens, pencils, sharpies every color highlighter imaginable
rubber bands
rubber band ball
instant hand santizer, in pink
nalgene water bottle, also in pink
crayons (for when my five year old visits)
a paper weight
electronics: computer, monitor, phone, speakers, the router which serves multiple offices
a piece of porous concrete, 3"x3"- serves as a wonderful conversation piece and extra paperweight
two coffee mugs
a beverage warmer somebody bought me for christmas but i've never plugged in
chocolate mints
a few notepads
four reminders to call people back
and a few stray crumbs from this morning's bagel.

[imaplanner]

Two notepads
An opened zoning ordinance
A closed comprehensive plan
an iphone
a stuffed deer
a bottle of water
a box of kleenex

[WSU MUP Student]

A whole lot of papers!

A box of Klenex
Latest 2 editions of the US Statistical Abstract
A lot of large marketing materials I am updating for our municipality
2010 U.S. Census swag (coffee mug, paper clip holders, magnets, ruler)
Calculator
iPod
iPhone
A stack of Site Selection magazines
A few local weekly newspapers (local to my home town) that had interesting planning related articles that I've been meaning to read for the past few months
Panera Bread customer rewards card
Camelback water bottle
Blue highlter I borrowed from my wife
Allen Edmonds fall 2010 shoe catalog
A 2011 calendar all made from pictures of my daughter
County Directory
2 copies of the results of a Business Climate Survey from neighboring county
Djibouti by Elmore Leonard
Computer keyboard, monitor, speakers
Desk phone
An old box of graham crackers
2 binders full of residential and commercial real estate construction and sales data
Notepad

[btrage]

The questions should be what IS NOT on my desk. That list would be shorter.

[TerraSapient]

Wow... I feel so organized

On my desk:
- A cup of hot white tea with orange
- A copy of the RFP I am preparing a response to
- My computer
- The latest ArcNews that was delivered an hour ago

[WSU MUP Student]

- The latest ArcNews that was delivered an hour ago

That's actually on my desk as well, and was delivered about as recently as yours. I left it off the list because it will soon be in the recycling bin, unread. Just like every other ArcNews and ArcUser I've ever gotten after the first incredibly lame one.

[dandy_warhol]

- The latest ArcNews that was delivered an hour ago

That's actually on my desk as well, and was delivered about as recently as yours. I left it off the list because it will soon be in the recycling bin, unread. Just like every other ArcNews and ArcUser I've ever gotten after the first incredibly lame one.

That too is on my desk. See #12.

[Maister]

In addition to a couple of 2" high piles of paperwork, I have...
ceramic coffee mug (now empty) purchased several years ago at Ann Arbor Art Fair
1980's vintage Swingline stapler
1970's vintage scotch tape dispenser
clipboard
greatly overstuffed pen/pencil holder
two decorative plasterware 'buildings' Mrs. Maister painted
calendar organizer (with new FAC thread ideas scrawled occasionally in the margins)
calculator
several loose business cards ranging from sign contractors to State agency reps
several envelopes marked 'return to sender' that were sent to foreclosed properties
bottle of Walgreen brand hand sanitizer
computer

[ofos]

phone
calculator
laptop
pictures of wife, kids and their spouses
business card holder w/cards
headset for cell phone
hackey sack of the world
client folders
stapler
coffee cup
coaster
highliters
sharpie
pens - red, black, blue
reference notebook
post-it notes
ruler/scale with magnifier
yellow pad
rubber band
remains of pretzel snacking
tether for syncing phone & laptop

[imaplanner]

pictures of wife, kids and their spouses

I forgot. I also have on my desk pictures of ofos's wife, kids and their spouses.

[Whose Yur Planner]

That's actually on my desk as well, and was delivered about as recently as yours. I left it off the list because it will soon be in the recycling bin, unread. Just like every other ArcNews and ArcUser I've ever gotten after the first incredibly lame one.

I don't even bother opening the Arc crap anymore. It goes directly into the recycling bin.

[The One]

All of the above plus more......

I'm packing MUCH more than this "under" the desk.....