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Friday, March 5, 2010

Mission: Personal Space

Don’t you hate it went people don’t respect your personal space? More specifically, the limited desk space you have at school. Like come one, I only have a tiny rectangle to work on, I’d appreciate it if I could have all of that space.

In my data class I sit beside this guy and everyday he opens his textbook and binder and they sprawl all over the desk line onto my own desk. Come on! I have the exact same amount of space as you, and yet you don't see me dumping my stuff onto your desk. I can't say anything to him either cause I don't really know him and I'm afraid I'll sound like a bitch, "Um, excuse me? Can you move your shit off of my desk? MY desk? It's really pissing me off." And I think pushing his books away myself seems too brash. What is a girl to do?

Well after eyeing his invading books for a several minutes, I finally decide to slowly move my desk away from his. Little by little, I shift my desk over, masking the movements with slight shifts and stretching movements with my body. After a while of this, I succeed in clearing some of my desk space, but the edges of his book and binder still linger on my desk.

Then a bit of luck comes my way and he takes his book to look something up… BAM! My elbow goes down on the empty space. That textbook ain’t coming back here, bitch!

One down, one to go. His binder still lingers across the sacred desk line. Eeeee… and I clearly could see a huge empty space on the other side of his desk!

He’s not looking! Quick! Slide his binder over! And with subtle sliding movements, I slip his binder back onto his desk. SUCCESS!

Mission accomplished. I felt so proud of myself.

That only took about 20 minutes. (sarcasm)

And that folks, is how you recapture your personal workspace. =)