My Desk, R216
This is my desk in Reveal 216.
As far as desks go, it’s not the greatest: what little space it has can hardly be reached, and it’s confined between a dresser and a bunk. But I like my desk, because it’s the place where I’ve done almost all my graduate work. I like the shelves right above the desk, where I can see the most important books all the time. On the bottom left I keep all my reference books: textbooks my dictionaries, two Greek lexicons, and Turabian. On the bottom right I keep all the books I am or should be reading now: textbooks and books for papers and projects. On the top shelf I keep the books I am reading or will read whenever I can: the Durants’ The Story of Civilization, Morison’s Oxford History of the American People, and Schama’s A History of Britain. Also on the top shelf are my parents; Abby is just out of sight to the left.
It’s not much of a desk, but I become attached to the places where I work—first the debate room, then the Vintage office, next my carrel in the library, and now my desk in R216. I wonder which work place is next.
Do you really keep it that neat? My desk looks more like this. You shouldn’t take that to imply that there’s a correlation with intellectual achievement, though. :-)
29 April 2008, 11:08 am