I wonder if footnotes ever need socks...

It started as a hole in the wall, one quarter of a centimeter wide. The problem was, it was directly in my line of vision.¹ I took the tip of a mechanical pencil² and penetrated the plaster, using the pencil as a lever,³ forcing more plaster from the wall. To my surprise, making the [w]hole bigger simply put more absence⁴ in my view. My only solution was to remove more plaster. I found a small claw hammer⁵ and it clawed itself between plaster and frame.⁶ It wasn't long before I had removed all plaster between my desk⁸ and my dresser⁷. Feeling quite content with my (anti)decorations, I sat down to enjoy a nice cup of absence. It was then that I saw a shadow.⁹ I grabbed my dresser¹⁰ and tossed it to the floor. I gripped the edges of the hole-in-the-wall and peeked my head around the tattered drywall¹¹ corner. Inside, I saw something intriguing, so I stepped in to take a closer look.¹²

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1. Not directly, but peripherally.
2. (Blue BiC MatiC grip, 0.7mm #2)
3. F₁D₁ = F₂D₂
4. absinthe
5. tucked betwixt a Bible and box of Kleenex^TM
6. Funny story about a frame, once I was at a friend's house, one that I had known for years, and I noticed none of the people in the pictures on his mantle resembled him or any of his family. I'd seen this before, but I decided to ask anyway. "Who are these people? Did you forget to take the display photos out?" He replied suspiciously, "No. That is my family." Closer examination revealed he was right.
7. Desk should be listed first.
8. Dresser should be listed first.
9. A [w]hole.
10. My desk.
11. plaster
12. What I hadn't counted on was the landlord¹³ arriving to repair a hole some idiot apparently punched into the wall.
13. A carpenter by trade.