My desk is a disaster of piles. Everything I use gets put on top of whatever else I’ve just used.

An archeological dig (currently out of fashion in Japan after the revelation that a well-known archeologist faked the findings at two of his digs) of the pile to my left reveals:

1. pen
2. video camera remote
3. tablet
4. city atlas
5. printout of documentation I’m writing
6. notebook
7. Toast manual
8. Notice of construction work (jackhammering to begin this morning)
9. Calvin & Hobbes cartoon clipped from newspaper
10. passport
11. folder of information on a video project completed this spring
12. 3 teacher’s manuals for a first grade class
13. sheet of scribbled “to do” notes
14. Japanese food magazine, Lettuce Club
15. catalog of household goods
16. my watch

It was my watch I was after. Now that I’ve found it, everything is going back on the pile in the opposite order. :-)