Not any USB stick, but a super-sleek 2GB and Que-branded USB stick sitting in my desk drawer.
That was almost four years ago, and today, as I sit here (in my underwear) at my desk in my bedroom, I am officially a full-time freelance writer.
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About a dozen press releases crossed my desk in the past month with CEOs announcing tens of thousands of jobs they intended to offer to veterans.
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Told from here, from this hard bench that is both bed and chair, table and couch, inside walls and bars painted a dark gray like a grim parody of jail, the story has a different ring than it would if I could tell it from the desk in my office.
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.
After two years, my teaching contracts ended, so I said hasta luego to my life on the Iberian Peninsula and moved back in with my parents to work a nine-to-five desk job in Washington DC, dealing with financial reviews, company deadlines, terrible co-workers and fax machines that never worked.
" Never in my life have I heard so many prepositions, as in "Best get that book on up off of my desk.
My things, to my surprise, had sat safely in a locker next to the security desk: my recorder was apparently untouched, the batteries still out, the volume still down, the recordings intact.
When I first put the partial cremains of my father in a Tupperware sandwich box and placed it on my writing desk, that was the joke I felt like telling.
They told me to clean out my desk and turn in my credit card and the keys to my company car.
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Gracie's wild mood seemed to have spent itself: She sagged in my arms as we approached the arrivals desk.
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After hearing that my pregnancy was not the woman's problem, I was declined assistance in finding my way back to the help desk from the gate.
So put them in a bill, and get them on my desk this year.
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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.
Mine sits on my desk, next to my father in his Tupperware sandwich box.
Back in the office, still in full Elmo regalia, I made my way to the desk of Fleming Meeks, the executive editor of Barron's.
Back in my room, I wrapped all my blankets around me to keep warm thinking wistfully of the dense, heavy comforters found in Danish country hotels and sat down at my desk to start work on the twenty pages Gadbois had given me to translate.
Check-in for my flight was closed, and pleading at the Tarom desk got me nowhere.
And because the American people deserve to know that special interests aren't larding up legislation with pet projects, both parties in Congress should know this: If a bill comes to my desk with earmarks inside, I will veto it.
But some of my students have gone to work for La Familia, in desk jobs.
He was at his desk in Gainesville, Florida, and I was in my home office in Washington, DC.
Left alone in the room, I looked around and approached my brother's desk.
And then, as I grew into adulthood and began my own explorations into the bigger world, my image retreated to the hermetic world of an envelope in a desk drawer .
I'm still typing my resume, but instead of my resume being saved on the computer under my desk, it's being saved somewhere out there in the clouds, some place I don't even know off.
Sometime in 1996, one night about 11 PM I was working at home at my desk and the phone rang, an unusual time for a call.
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Just over a week ago I started working at a standing desk, in hopes that a new set-up would increase my energy, sharpen my focus and, of course, extend my life just the tiniest of bits.
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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.
Also, the left edge of the desk is too long and when tested smashed into my nose which in a real driving situation will cause the need for emergency medical care.
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