Desk Data: April

by Lisa on April 25, 2003

  • Number of desks in household, per capita: 1.5
  • Percentage of time individual household members work at a
    desk in own room: 10
  • Percentage of time household members work at desk in common
    area: 40
  • Percentage of time household members work on desk-work but
    not at a desk: 50
  • Inventory of items on the family desktops: desktop and laptop
    computers, printers, lamps, electric pencil sharpeners, shopping
    bags full of loose papers, a set of rapidograph pens, sets of
    colored pencils, set of vanity pencils that say "Hit Those
    Keys", assorted dirty dishes, CDs, mystery items buried under
    more paper, empty and half-empty cans/bottles of Diet Coke and
    spa water, completed manuscript-printouts bound with shoelaces,
    file folders, bound diaries, eccentric containers holding paper
    clips and sundries, totem animals and artifacts, books that aren’t
    referenced, but stand watch over the desk owner’s activities.
  • Frequency that desktops undergo clearage, per year: 7.4
  • Inventory of items conspicuously absent from family desktops:
    phones, wide open spaces, clocks, calendars, up-to-date address
    books, usable writing implements.
  • Percentage of family members who write a minimum of 1000 words
    a day: 100

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