One reason you might realize your desk is in serious need of cleaning is when you can make an item-search game out of it. (Notice that the floor is clean, while the desk is not, as everything is mostly out of puppy-reach.) Click the image to see a bigger version, and see if you can find all the items listed below.

1. 7 Polaroids 2. USB Card Reader 3. 580 EXII Flash 4. Brother’s Navy portrait, mostly hidden. 5. How I Met Your Mother Season 3 Disc 3 DVD 6. Wacom Intuos3 Tablet 7. Wacom Intuos3 Tablet Pen 8. True Blood Season 1 Set 9. Cell Phone  10. Keys on UH Lanyard 11. Roll of Kodachrome 64 in Canister 12. 5D MKII with battery grip and 24-70mm f.2.8L lens 13. Smitten Photography wedding promotional postcard 14. Western Digital Passport portable hard drive 15. Storyboards for “Teddy Bear Apocalypse” (Wouldn’t you like to know…?)16. Xbox 360 17. Playstation 2 18. Ink drawings in a comic-style done by me 19. Postcard of Haleakala Crater 20. World of Warcraft mousepad (Gift from Sarah!) 21. Health insurance bill 22. TV remote 23. Swimming goggles 24. Binder of DVDs 25. Flash diffuser box 26. Microfiber lens cloth 27. Japanese Spitz puppy named Kodachrome  28. Sunglasses 29. Puppy Nutri-Cal gel tube, apparently leaking. 30. 2 dog brushes

Okay, most of those are pretty obvious, but they do give you an idea of the variety of stuff that I had on my desk.

And yes, I did clean it!