Listomania

Every December everyone in the world rolls out their best-of lists for everything imaginable. Movies, books, albums, videos, pop culture moments, red carpet outfits, culinary achievements, and so forth. This practice is stupid and pointless. Or is it? If everyone is doing it, and you're not, aren't you the stupid one? Right. Let's get to it.

Top Ten Things on My Desk Right Now:

1. Staples brand ballpoint pen, blue
   
2. Cowboy mug
   
3. Note paper bearing the following list (how meta!):
   
   • smaller typeface
     
   • connection
     
   • cscp webinar
     
   • p&p
     
   • enews tracking links
4. iPhone
5. Time sheet
6. Keys, house and automobile
7. Binder clip functioning as money clip containing five dollar bill, CTA card, two debit cards, insurance card, and Costco membership card
8. Holiday music mix CD given to me by a coworker. Track ten: "White Christmas," by the Drifters
9. Moleskine notebook approximately 1/6th filled with still more lists
10. Invitation to a recycling party. Donation of three cell phones, laptops, iPods, or Kindles grants me free admission, and Kermit the Frog may or may not be making an appearance.