Today was my last day of classes for the fall term. There are exams next week, and two days yet of oral presentations to hear and assess, and plenty of backlogged grading, but the last teaching day is my signal. It has been a rough week, one that began with a brazen robbery of a messenger satchel my office in the late afternoon. Luckily, it appears that all I lost was a can of Coke, an energy bar, and a moleskin, as Public Safety found the bag later that night, tossed aside by the thief, undoubtedly disappointed when the bag contained mostly ungraded papers and not a lap top.
I was angry, as one might imagine, this was the second timed I had been robbed this semester, living in a city right next door to a bankrupt city has its disadvantages I suppose. I posted on Facebook and had much sympathy from friends, which was appreciated. Yet, I felt a bit dramatic for making such a story of it. I was safe, and there appears to be no serious damage from the passwords that the moleskin contained. It could have been worse, my car key was sitting in plain sight on the desk, and the thief could easily had pulled a big score with that.
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