Winter cleaning

I have to give a seminar on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder tomorrow. I thought I'd finish leeching material off the web by putting a night-out tonight. But what better way to know more about OCD than obsessively, compulsively cleaning up the room?

So after what seems like several decades, I cleaned my room today. Yes, all of it. Even the parts under the bed. Rocky helped me with the heavy stuff. Therefore, I now have a nice, clean room and Rocky has lower back pain and dust allergy.

Needless to say, quite a few unusual things turned up:

• two socks. Different pairs.
  
• one large, green, dead grasshopper.
  
• 6+1 (!) computer case side panels. (WTF, I have 2 computers, one which is used to write this stuff, and the other which I have eternally promised to send Banner the following week. One of these has a panel already on.)
  
• two rotting fungus-infested t-shirts.
  
• three rotting fungus-infested hard disk drives.
  
• cheque made out to Rohit Taklikar in April 2004. Not cashed, now outdated.
  
• also, Rohit Taklikar's CAT admit card and lots more stuff.
  
• two "Operating System Fundamentals", both second editions. Great, wish I were doing computer science instead of elec.
  
• one green candle.
  
• 300 tonnes of Shaastra-related paperwork. NOTE: mild exaggeration.
  
• seven porn magazines.
  
• eight metres of twisted pair cable.
  
• fifteen packs of free ICs from TI.
  
• one lizard that scared the shit out of Rocky.
  
• one Rasna in a pouch.
  
• three year old canned cheese. They say cheese ages with time. I don't think I'm going to try and test that out.
  
• five-year old mixed fruit jam. Now, this is most definitely bad for health.
  
• four buckets. I threw one out.
  
• three shoe-polish brushes. Unusual, since I don't own any shoes.
  
• five empty bottles. 1 beer + 3 vodka + 1 whisky.
  
• one cigarette lighter that worked exactly once.
  
• thirty-two leaves of expired antibiotics.
  
• thirteen certificates for "First place in Choreo", with no names on them. Muhahahahaha!
  
• not-too-old cornflakes that I'll have for breakfast. :-)
  

Other stats:

• Time taken: 6.5 hours.
  
• Floor space cleared: ~15 sq. ft.
  
• Cigarettes smoked: 3.
  
• Number of items originally belonging to Rohit Taklikar found: 17.
  

Whew!! I'm tired now. Must sleep and leech info off the net later.