Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Detritus of a Life

Things you find while cleaning out a desk:

1. Matches belonging to predecessor (tenure: circa 1998-1999), who smoked
2. Ketchup packets, dated 2000, salt and pepper packets, dated similar
3. John Grisham novel, indeterminate origin, sticky, stained with unknown substance
4. Unknown person's rolodex, times 2
5. ATM receipts from Philadelphia (???)
6. Travel guide for Cancun/Cozumel/Yucatan
7. Necklace not seen in at least 5 years and presumed lost
8. Unsent Christmas cards to people I no longer keep in touch with
9. Cheerful holiday card and kid pictures from now-divorced and estranged friend
10. Mailing address for sending sympathy card to family of friend who died in 2000

4 comments:

Toby said...

Well, the Cancun guide book makes sense to me--June 2001.

Laura said...

The mystery is why I brought it to work and stuffed it in my desk. Wanted to do some nostalgic page flipping on a lunch hour after the vacation fact?

Toby said...

Maybe you brought it to work to discuss something about the trip and needed the book as a reference. Then you left it there.

Laura said...

Yeah, probably I wanted to give a blow-by-blow account, with maps and descriptions, of Chichen Itza and how we almost got stranded in the Yucatan. That could have been so Ultimate Road Trip, not like having to call your dad on the cell from the mall.