So when I moved to Connecticut, I picked out a new desk for myself. I’ve always had flat desks and I had these huge consumer speakers that took up lots and lots of desk space. My desks always consisted (since high school) of two giant speakers, a monitor and a keyboard. That was pretty much it. I didn’t really like shelves on my desk and my research/life has lead my to believe that drawers are the work of the devil. I would fill a drawer with random crap and once it was full, it was closed forever. I’ve still got drawers at my parents house tha are filled with random things from high school that I never ever cleaned out. Like that Roadrunner Records CD Sampler from OzzFest 97 or 98.
In college it was the same concept, but I got a clean start every few months becase I had to clear my stuff out. Heres how it would go:
September: organized drawers
October: Less use, but still kinda sorted
November: starting to fill up with whatever’s around on my desk
December: there are things in the drawers that I haven’t seen since September. What does a musician need a staples for anyway?
This would also repeat in January, February, March, April and early May. At the end of the semesters I’d empty the drawers into a box or a bag and then these things would be sorted once I was moving back to my parents house. I think there was a semester that I never even unpacked one of these bags or boxes. I remember dumping stuff out once I was back and just putting it back where it was.
When I moved into my first apartment, I vowed to make a change. My new desk would have no drawers at all and I would be forced to throw things away or put them where they should actually belong. If it didn’t fit into a cup, it didn’t belong on my desk. I kept it pretty clean for a while. The one difference in this desk was that it had tiers. A simple difference which changed a whole lot of the desk. I couldn’t move the monitor or the speakers because they had their own spot thanks to how the desk was sengineered. I’m sure it works great fr other people, but damn it did NOT work for me. On all the tiers crap was shoved into anywhere that I could get stuff, and on top of that, I bought drawers to go near the desk. Defeated!
Amber’s computer died and she pretty much left her usual computer spot in favor of my old cluttered crappy desk. I’ve been floating around the house thanks to my laptop, and I do most of my work from home from the comfort of the breakfast nook or the big yellow comfy couch. My back isn’t all that happy about it, but I work faster now that I’m not buried in crap. But I can’t just do this around the house forever, the old desk sucks and the veneer on the MDF is peeling off and getting kinda gross, so that thing needs to get craigslisted or freecycled before I just burn it to the ground.
So I’m looking at a new desk again. This time I’m thinking that I’m just going to get a very simple no tiered, no drawers desk. Amber’s got one and I love the idea of it. So this time, I swear it will be different.
Possibly not, but we’ll see.