Every night when I came home from my desk job I would work on my blog.
As soon as I'm finished speaking here, I will sit at that desk and I will sign a directive giving law enforcement, schools, mental health professionals and the public health community some of the tools they need to help reduce gun violence.
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For most of the year I have no need to tell the world which desk I am working at.
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It was not until I got my desk ticket that night for blocking traffic that I had any idea what the officer was accusing me of doing.
On my first day I came down with my clubs and told the front desk I was playing golf, and asked how to get to the golf club.
If I know in advance, for whatever strange reason, that we won't rent any rooms next Thursday, I don't need a desk clerk on duty next Thursday: I'll be there and tend the front desk myself.
Last May, in a fit of bleary-eyed jet-lag, I made the mistake of checking into a hotel without running through the standard list of questions I normally ask at the front desk to ensure I get a good room.
When I returned to the desk with a cup of water for her, I saw that she was rocking slowly on the chair, moving the larva rhythmically back and forth.
Something which might explain the experience we get when we get in touch with the support desk I suppose.
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When Pandora launched, I jumped at the chance to build in my preferences and I used to let that custom-generated playlist stream all day at my desk while I worked.
Aside from these feeling states, I remember that my desk faced my bookcase and that Getting to Yes sat there until the day I packed my books up to take to another firm, where it would sit unread for even more years.
For as long as I can remember I have kept a stack of cards on my desk, and I am hard pressed to think of anything that has burnished my brand more than sending hand written thank you notes.
Recently, when I checked-in at a New York City hotel, the manager was at the reception desk and I told him (I already knew his name through my Web explorations) the reason why I had made reservations was based on several previous hotel guests positive comments on the Traveladvisor Internet site.
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It was a physically tiring life but because I was no longer stuck at a 9-5 desk job, I found time to make more videos.
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And so I completed my poster, and I hung it on the wall of my home office just above my desk, so I could see it whenever I sat at my computer.
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"I never had a desk for him in his first five years with the company, " she says.
And Members of Congress should know: If any bill raising taxes reaches my desk, I will veto it.
So when a review copy of Top Spin 4 recently landed on my desk, I greeted it with mixed emotions.
Ultimately when he returned to the trading desk, I begged him to bail me out as I was in big trouble.
Now, if you suspect that I have a messy desk, a packed pantry and a cluttered basement as well, you would be right.
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The above paragraph is indicative of my state of mind today, as I sit at my desk and prepare myself for the next twenty four hours.
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Setting off with empty stomachs, my boyfriend and I asked the front desk at our hotel for directions, but the clerk raised her eyebrows in alarm.
"I've made it clear for weeks that if either the House or Senate version of this bill comes to my desk, I will veto it, " the president said.
For my own part, this book is now a permanent fixture at my desk so I can refresh myself on physics concepts that get discussed in papers that I read.
In my study I avoided my irritating desk with its neat binders containing bar charts and statistical tables and sat motionless in the leather chair, looking out the window at the leaves of hydrangea bushes.
I've fought the big spenders in both parties, who waste your money on things you neither need nor want, and the first big-spending pork-barrel earmark bill that comes across my desk, I will veto it.
Gustav opened a door that ultimately led me to a desk where I would spend five years on a novel, attempting to capture some of the wonder I felt upon my first encounter in Stockholm.
If you can't afford a full-time person in a dedicated business development accountability, however, don't despair (and certainly, don't give up and quit): I've seen desk clerks who had a gift for it: look for that gift when you interview and hire.
So when Black Heels crossed my desk, I tucked it in my bag on a Friday afternoon, and looked forward to a weekend on my couch (I was also stricken with my 287th cold of the season) lost in a fantasy world of love, and good cooking and strapping cowboys wrangling cattle.
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