I love your description of MacGuyvering your desk. :) Those old teacher desks will be around after the rest of civilization is gone -- nothing beats solid oak.

Corgiguy has a huge wood desk given to us by a newspaper friend. It was the booty of war -- used by the German army and salvaged by the Army after WWII. It is not a thing of beauty, but boy, it puts any modern desk to shame for comfortable use and storage ability.