Irrelevance.

Monteagle on film.  October 2010.

I used to lose things all the time.  Mostly at school.  Pencils were the first to go.  I also had (and still have) a strange need to have good writing utensils around, so that wasn't a good combination.  Then, I tried to borrow, but I just ended up losing those too.

Then, there were the times I would just leave my locker open with the books I was going to put in laying out in the middle of the hallway.  How I could just forget to finish this simple, routine activity is a mystery to me.  

I got really frustrated with myself, so I trained myself to pay more attention (a hard task for me when it comes to school) and I slowly grew less absentminded.  I bought new pencils and gave some to people whose pencils I had lost.  When I left a classroom, I learned to turn back and check my desk to make sure I had everything.  I consciously returned pencils to the right pocket after class.  I finally grasped the concept of closing locker doors.  Life was good, for a few years.

Then came today, when I walked in the school carrying my trusty Camelbak and an AP Statistics study book, and walked out with a new US Navy lanyard and a lame Bruin ice scraper, but neither of the aforementioned items.  

I have no idea where either could be.  Maybe my 7th period.  But school is canceled tomorrow and by Monday (I mean Tuesday, because we won't have school Monday) I'm pretty sure both will be gone forever.  

Life is depressing.  (Both are necessary to my current lifestyle, both were fairly expensive, and neither have my name written anywhere.)

....on the upside, maybe I can buy this now.  I drink more that 16 oz. during a typical school day and I don't find glass water bottles particularly necessary, but the design is so nice and clean.  I've been checking it out every day since Claire pointed it out a couple weeks ago.  Maybe this is all a sign....[yeah, right.]