using it upAn inventory, not a haul
read 14 SEP 2026The letter
94 entries73 published21 in the queue292 spoken lines21 with no lines72 photographs9 objects18 the longest run5 columns8.5 a weekread 14 SEP 2026

using it up/All entries/Still works/040

my desk lamp has a wobble i've stopped noticing

22 JUL 2026Still works4 spoken lines, 54 wordsthe laundry, 6 of 8eight years

Filed under

Still works. Kept, mended, and quietly older than anything that replaced it would have been.

Every object here is a still from that entry's own footage.
The caption it went out with

eight years of homework, taxes, and late drafts under one crooked lamp

The object
the laundry, entry 6 of 8
Filed under
Still works
Went out
22 JUL 2026
The lines
4 lines, 54 words
It counts
three, eight, one
Also the laundry
7 still works, 1 noticed
01

My desk lamp has a wobble that I stopped noticing years ago.

02

It's been lighting this desk since my first apartment, through three moves it should not have survived.

03

Homework. Taxes. Every late draft I've ever been too tired to finish.

04

Eight years of my actual life, all of it under one crooked lamp.

The rest of the shelf

8 entries are the laundry. This is 6. Every object here is a still from that entry's own footage.

Open the laundry