Lost and Found

Last week, I misplaced my Global Ecology and Management textbook. I couldn't find it anywhere in my room, at work, or my parents' house... so I started visiting all the lost-and-founds in the buildings I frequent. I didn't have any luck at Helen Newman, Noyes, or Mann, but both Ag Quad eateries directed me to the campus-wide lost-and-found in Barton Hall.

Of course, I'd waited until the day before break to make this mad dash in search of a book I'd been missing for a week; to be fair, my initial thought was that it was at work, and I had waited until my next shift to look for it there before exploring campus. In any case, the more I searched, the more I felt like I was looking for a needle in the Hundred-Acre Wood. The woman at Barton told me that some campus locations send her lost items and some don't, and Willard Straight Hall (the student union) has FIVE lost and found locations! I knew there was no way I'd make it to all of them before I had to leave, so I borrowed my professor's copy of the book for the duration of break.

Turns out that my book was in the one spot in my room that I hadn't checked. (It always works that way.) My lesson for the day: don't lose anything! I'm also going to double-check all my possessions and make sure they have my email address on them so that, if lost and found by honest people, they'll be returned.

Of course, now I have a week's worth of reading to catch up on...