My desk is a 3-by-6-ft desktop on two two-drawer filing cabinets. To the left is an etager with various small items, references, and cans of tea & coffee. At the back of the desk is a block&board bookcase, the lower two levels consisting of racks for paper, MSs, and miscellaneous equipment, with a cave hollowed out for the monitor, and, on the right, shelves for backup & software disks. There are two shelves of reference books and, up next to the ceiling, loudspeakers & diplomas. The monitor is presided over by a picture of Max Vasilatos. On the desk, from left to right, a coffeemaker, qwerty telephone & caller ID, old coffee can full of tall thin objects, Harvard Magazine mug full of short thin objects, Kinesis keyboard, rack of rubber stamps, trackball, and hp all-in-one presided over by a picture of my good buddy & computer guru Jim, Knower of Things. Underneath the desk, the CPU & disk drives, presided over by a picture of Richard Stallman, and two wastebaskets. To the right, a New Yorker poster given me by Jim. I have to swivel to look out the window.