Do you have a picture of someone on your desk or work area?

Believe it or not, I have pictures of my first AND second husbands. My current husband isn't thrilled about that.

On my desk, I have a picture of myself and a good friend. It was taken in front of the Statue of Liberty when I visited him in New York City and you can see Manhattan in the background. I love that picture.

none...but I have a Marilyn Manson calendar that hangs on the wall above my head when I'm in bed and dreaming.

and who needs pics on the desk? When I'm online, all my friends pictures are merely a click away :)

well, there's a picture i took in high school for photo class...with a picture of they stuck inside the frame...various books...software boxes...two decks of tarot cards...some scattered cds...envelopes...pens/pencils....bills....and one cordless phone...sorry just started rambling...oh yeah..a hacky sack..i never use and a pager i never use either...and my guitar tuner....and a card i'm mailing to my dad tomorrow...that's about it...oh yeah...a computer...

mandy: Good point! Although, I guess if you wanted to get really technical about it, your computer is on your desk and the pics are on the computer. Well, maybe that's getting a little too complicated. Speaking of which, I noticed that you don't have any pictures of yourself on your website??

Lizabeth...I hope to have some pics up soon. I could email you some if you are curious...

Email me at mandy@gurlmail.com and I will send you some pics of me and SueBee :)

I have a picture of myself skiing on a cork board, and I have a picture of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as my wallpaper on the computer (does wallpaper count as your work area?)

wallpaper?

I don't tend to personalize my workspace very much. I have a greeting card with "Bad Boys of the Arctic" (a photo of polar bears) on it, tacked to my computer, but that's about it.

Jason and I are trying to get a good picture of the two of us and if that ever happens, I may put that on my desk.

Oh, above my desk at home (where I am now) are two composite panoramas I've taken, one of Boston and one of Paris. And above that is a Carl Lundgren print. And hanging above the desk is a stuffed parrot.

On our desk is our grape iMac....a mousepad with this squishy little bump full of jell to rest my wrist on. On my right is a Magic 8 Ball and a set of headphones. The CD rack is full of discs(games mostly). On the top shelf is a notebook, a binder, a lamp with a nifty little pencil holder full of pens, a copy of The Devils Mischief,a tiny little book simply titled The Moon, a thesaurus, a regular dictionary, a dictionary of quotations and a small figurine of Mickey Mouse dressed as The Sorcerers Apprentice, his arms raised as if directing my mayhem ;)

I have mostly pictures of babies and kids (relatives send them to me in the mail, I don't know what else to do with them). Also a picture of Jen and I skiing and a picture of Iain Banks looking rather squinty and Scottish), and a wedding picture from my brother's wedding last year. All of these are on a giant corkboard to the left of where I sit at home. At work I have a photo-cube of Jen, Jen, Jen, Jen, Jen, and Jen.

I have a picture of my family, which includes my husband, his kids, his ex-wife, and her husband. It was a Christmas card we sent out a couple of years ago, signed "Erica, Emily, and their parents". I thought it was a pretty cool idea!

Fidel.

I have a picture of myself with my godson. Not sure if he counts as friend or family.

we have an ansel adams print and a wild life expo promo framed...and this huge picture of a tiger...it's scary.......um..that's about it...oh yeah

**twister...by wallpaper, pom meant the background of her monitor or desktop...just in case you were still wandering

Iain Banks? Ooh, where'd you meet him? :)

I don't have any photos, just a Josh Kirby print, a Josh Kirby poster, a Josh Kirby calendar, an M.C. Escher print, a pop culture print of a bunch of Mickey Mouse dolls in a bowl, and an original painting used as cover art on an Australian authors book, currently sitting under my bed waiting to be framed :)

well, I have a number of cartoons, but I guess that doesn't count.

magbast: Pomeranian is a he, not a she.

supplicant, the Banks picture is just a clipping from a magazine...

I have a picture of my cat as the background of my monitor, does that count?

I have our wedding picture, a picture of my husband on the beach and a picture of my three bunnies.

milktree: That depends. Do you consider your cat to be part of your family?

Seamus the Cat!

none in my 'work area', but my room is full of pictures of all of these types.

Next to my drawing table I have a neat picture of my two SO's playing with their new computers together. Next to this desk I have an etching of a sketchbook/nature drawing. So in way I suppose each desk has an element of the other expressed in the imagery.

Okay, I've got to ask, just nosy, not judgmental--topper, you've got TWO SO's (I interpret that to be Significant Other, right?)?

Bill: Ah, I wrongly assumed it was a photo you took at a signing or something. Struck me as a weird thing to have on your desk. Conversation starter I guess :) "Who's that?" "A really good SF writer! READ HIS BOOKS! READ HIS BOOKS!!!!" "Err... right... I'll just be going now..." ;)

*inserts foot in mouth*...sorry pom

it's weird...what we assume..just by what we read...weird i tell ya...

I have a ton of pictures of my pets(8 in all) and my SO, my friends, relatives and my old car (crashed).

magbast: :)

my house picture (all the residents), my friend's kids, me & some friends performing at a cafe.

I now have a picture of Jason and I taped to my typing stand at work.

Oh, how embarrassing. I meant "Jason and me" there, really.

I have a single picture of my SO holding my cat.

sure hunter, sure ;)

well, that is very strange. I commented again on this survey yesterday but I do not see the comment *shrugs* oh well...

Used to have my SO, but I'm in a temporary office right now, so haven't bothered to set it up.

my pets

I have pix of my kitty babies

i have pictures of all the women in the family--mom, sis, aunt, and me

I'm not entirely sure how to categorize Sydney and Carlsbad.

Pets? Family friends? Proof that your entire family is completely insane? I see what you mean... (Did you take the picture, or did they send it to you?)

phi, If I can call a picture of Lint a family picture, you can definattely call Sydney and Carlsbad family. They're family to your whole family!

Usually I don't think there are any pictures around the computer desk (though there usually are pictures on the other desk). Right now, however, there is a photo of me from a bioboard lying on the desk.

But I do carry a picture of my sister in my wallet.

I have a Home office. I replace the boot screen, plus screen, desktop, screensaver, and desktop with abstracted artworks every two weeks, with images that represent the people and realms I'm working on. I make various portfolios of life experiences. Every month my latest photos hang out around my workstation waiting to be scanned. Only the photos of my blood and adopted neighbor children stay on the wall permanently.

karmakat: too bad about your husband. People should realize that loving someone else is not an indication that you love them any less. I still love my first wife and my brother who are married and have a third child of their own now. I dont mind that my SO still sees her her prior SO, and just consider it another topic amongst our mutual growth.