2011
a list
maura @ 9:15 pm
I keep thinking that I want less clutter less stuff less space, but then I can’t resist the college dorm room look of stuff taped on the walls everywhere. Above my desk at home is a small corkboard where I’ve tried to corral those impulses. Of course it’s full.
What’s there? Glad you asked! From the top:
– Handmade gift certificate for a $50 donation to Cashmusic.org from Jonathan from a couple of Xmases ago.
– Index card, a bit brown around the edges, with a note on it (in faded ink) that Jonathan put in my lunchbox the day I defended my dissertation, which reads “I am very proud of you!”
– Keychain with Gus’s first ever school picture in it. He was almost 3 yrs old and I’ve always been amazed that they were able to get him to smile. The keychain is cheesy, but it came free as part of the photo package.
– Half-used sheet of photobooth stickers of Jonathan and Gus (age 1.5 or so) from the not-very-mall-like mall. Gus is not smiling, but Jonathan is.
– “We are all Wisconsin” sticker from the faculty union I belong to from earlier this year.
– “Proud to be Shelfish” button from donating to the public library a couple of years ago.
– Fortune cookie fortune: “Knowledge is power.” It’s recent and from what I recall the food wasn’t all that good, and I’m not sure I believe it anyway.
– Note from Gus that festooned a birthday present of mine last year: “Magician gave this to you!! Don’t ask.”
– My ALA (American Library Association) membership card, because sometimes you need your member # to login to the website.
– Picture of Gus (maybe about 2?) taken with the Hello Kitty Polaroid Izone camera I used to have. It’s a sticker, too!
– NYPL library card, backside visible so I can see the barcode # in case I want to login to their databases.
– Business card (vertical orientation) for the CUNY Academic Commons.
– Business card (horizontal orientation) for Mud Flap Grrrl Designs, from which Jonathan bought me some rad embroidered handkerchiefs a couple of Xmases ago.
– My Inbox Zero Nerd Merit Badge. Still a challenging feat!
– Classic 4-photo black and white photobooth strip of me + Jonathan making silly faces.
– Poem that Gus wrote in 2nd grade.
– ID card from when I was an adjunct at Brooklyn College. The picture is so much better than on my current City Tech ID, wish I could have kept it.
– Gus’s extra passport photo from when we had to get him a passport to go to London.
– EFF Fair Use sticker that was on my old phone. When I peeled it off the stickiness was all used up, sad to say.
– This cartoon from the New Yorker
– Bookmark w/contact info from one of my professors in my graduate library program.
– Small piece of neon orange embossed label tape on which Gus printed “MOM”
2 comments on “a list”
Ha, you should see my office! I always feel like it’s a dorm, but where else am I going to put the rest of Gus’s artwork and fun library swag and everything else!
I really *did* have a lot on the walls of that coffin single, didn’t I? Funny.
College dorm? I’ve always had that — I guess from living in a house with too much stuff! I guess that is how we became roommates — the bonds of tape :-)
I remember when you left your dorm room it looked so empty because of the bare walls. Nobody wanted to look at it. It was so lifeless.
When Ben & I lived on Drexel, I even had part of a cereal box taped to the wall. To be fair, it was the *foyer*!