an inventory

1 laptop
1 latte cup holding:
- 5 pens
- 1 steel ruler
- 1 pair of scissors
- 1 stapler
- 1 penknife
- 2 highlighters
1 oddly shaped bowl holding:
- too many namecards for me to bother counting
- ditto to coffee cards
- coins, AU and MY and TH
- 1 pocket mirror
- 1 pair of tweezers
- 1 thumbdrive
- 1 swiss army knife
- 2 batteries
- 1 keychain
- random bits of paper
1/4 bar of cadbury chocolate, tiramisu
1 tin of Haigh's dark chocolate covered coffee beans
1 box of Haigh's truffles
1 packet of gingernut cookies, opened
1/2 a packet of dark m&ms
1 packet of TNCC jellybears
1/2 a packet of kopiko sweets
1 hexagonal container holding:
- 2 lollipops
- starburst sweets
- reeses pieces
- a packet of sugar
- more kopiko sweets
- 1 clothespin (err..)
1 tin of travel sweets, forest fruits
1 watch
3 dollar coins
1 contact lens case (ah..)
4 highlighters, scattered
2 black ink pens - Pilot drawing pens, 2.0 (it's an obsession, won't write with anything else except maybe)
1 blue ink pen - Staedtler triplus fineliner
2 hand creams - Neutrogena and Opi
1 calculator (dust-covered)
1 round containder cover holding:
- 2 lip balms - TBS coconut lip butter, L'occitane creamy honey
- 1 cuticle creme thing - Burt's Bees
- 3 paperclips
1 lip balm - Philosophy: kiss me (i really hoard these things)
1 pack of chewing gum - Wrigley's extra
1 cable snaking from the laptop to the printer
1 cable snaking from the laptop to power source
1 table light
1 cable dangling from table light
1 roll of film
AU15.20
1 moleskine
1 hair tie
1 mini note pad from the Arc
1 set of headphones
1 glass of water
1 mobile phone

and now the really really fun part:
6 books from Selangor JPBD on Selangor Agenda 21 - guidelines, policy documents, etc
2 LA21 pilot project books from the ministry of housing and local government
1 notebook with near illegible handwriting (mine, of course. who else has illegible handwriting?)
16 sets of transcriptions, highlighted and scribbled upon in the margins
2 large envelopes, containing research-related material
misc sheets of paper
4 journal articles
1 packet of blutack (gotta love this stuff)
4 booklets from CETDEM
2 conference proceedings from EPSM
more papers
2 previous honours theses, on loan from the honours common room library
3 inches of paper (i don't really want to go through them to see what they are)


and don't get me started on the table behind me and the floor
or the books stacked on my printer
or the mess under the table behind me

i'm going to paint my nails now