The 10 Stages of Desktop Evolution

1. Just got my new desk.  I went right out and bought a pencil/pen holder, in-box and out-box, one of those racks for important folders and documents, a professional-looking desk blotter, a drawer organizer, 3 paperweights, a sticky-note pad with holder, a stapler, a tape dispenser, and one of those plates with my name on it.  Ready to go to work!

 2. A little clutter is the sign of a busy person.  The pile on the right is stuff that needs filing and the pile on the left is stuff I’m working on.

3. It’s really a lot more organized than it looks; and I know what’s where.

4. I believe in a place for everything and everything in its place.  My placed for everything is on my desk.

5. A messy desk is a sign of creativity and genius.  I wouldn’t be surprised if any day now I wrote the great American novel or found a cure for cancer or something.  Right now, I just want to find that bottle of wart treatment I bought . . . when was it . . . was it really that long ago?  It’s probably still good, though, right?

6. I’ve always thought that busy, successful people really need two desks, with one of those corner shelves between them.

7. Two desks and a work table, actually.  And it’s not like it’s all just thrown on the desk; each pile means something . . .  really.

8. The thing is that all this stuff is valuable! And useful!

9. I’ve noticed that my office plants do better if I just take them out of their pots and just tuck their roots into the pile on the back left corner of the desk.  Not sure why that is.

10. Just got an odd call from the University.  Apparently, their Archeology Department is interested in doing something called a “dig” in my office.  I think they were serious.