The foundation's suite is modest and sparsely furnished, and its staff members appear to be the busiest people in Libya, bent over computers, talking simultaneously on several phones, surrounded by papers.
"I come in three days a week, only because Bernie wants me in here," she said, sitting at a computer surrounded by papers, peanuts, rubber stamps, sunflower seeds and treats for the three stray cats currently in residence.
"I think the government needs to bear responsibility," he says, standing in his kitchen surrounded by papers and packets of baby formula which he has kept for three years.
This time, Ganesh is surrounded by paper lily pads and butterflies.
But they were surrounded by paper scraps and pebbles, as though dozens of people had emptied their pockets and left the contents behind.
With her back to the viewer, she is surrounded by paper fairies riding 50's-style electric irons; the metal bars supported by numerous arms that frame the composition on either side of the woman help to emphasize her helplessness.
Drake quotes Anne-Marie Muñoz, a fashion assistant who was a friend of Lagerfeld's at the time: "He designed shoes, bags, hair combs, blouses, pens, tables.… He was always flicking through books, passionate about a subject, interested, surrounded by paper".
Although the knitted angels and wooden puppets are oddly pricey, it's impossible not to get in the spirit when surrounded by paper cones of hot chestnuts, sausages served with grated horseradish, and dangerously sticky candy apples to crunch while listening to brass bands.
"It's on our desk, it's underneath our desk, it's in our desk, it's in the hallways, it's in the document rooms — we're surrounded by paper," said James N. Tedisco, a Republican assemblyman from the capital region, who has waged his own crusade against paper in recent years.
Made by Lovepop Cards, you open it up to a 3D laser-cut campfire surrounded by paper stones, camp chairs, and tent.
I set up my first date for Wednesday, just two days later, and drift off to sleep surrounded by paper towels, drinking cups, spitting cups, and a variety of spoons for a variety of medicines.
