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Things on the floor: an incomplete analysis

I haven't posted a "things on the floor" list in a very long time. I'll tell you what's on the floor around me now, and then give you a list from 2005 that I stumbled upon today. And I'm actually going to modify the list to include the table and various work surfaces. I've apparently graduated from using the floor as storage. yay! My workspace: a postcard from Austin for Jared, personalized, addressed, and unstamped business section of the Dallas Morning News 320GB external HD cell phone Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni The Prophet sketch book (which I do not sketch in, but use as a notebook. I hate lines on paper) too many pens, pencils, sharpies, and paintbrushes to count all stuffed inside of a stained glass chicken various notes wirrten on the back of receipts, cards, and a ton of napkins. I just can't be confined to a notebook! empty coffee cup 7 earrings, not pairs mind you. but 7 individual ones. Floor: Bruce, in his cone 5 pairs of shoes: sneakers,

What an @s$hole

I found Bruce rather by accident about 6 years ago while running errands for my grieving grandmother. She had just lost her third child (of six) and asked me to deliver various payments and run general errands around town.  I found myself at the florist placing orders for the funeral, painfully selecting "elegant but not too flashy" thank you cards, dropping a check off for an urn, and lastly paying the gas bill (Don't be late! That's due! {not for another two weeks it wasn't} It'll ruin my credit if I'm late!) My grandmother was the queen of early. She had me convinced that my inspection and registration stickers actually expired the month PRIOR to what the sticker indicates. I would hurriedly rush to the mechanic for an inspection on the 31st of the month, out of breath- "Please don't take me to jail!" My college roommate discovered what I'd been doing and she set the record straight.  Ironically, empowered with this new lackadaisy atti