Oh crap, Yuletide
Guys! Guys, guys, guys I found a prompt for Yuletide that I must have. I am crossing my fingers and hoping that there aren't that many other people offering for it, because I have ideas and for once they don't involve knowing London inside and out or something, and doing weird format-related things is totally fair game.
Aaand for those of you who aren't on board with that particular flavor of crazy (sorry--it's going to come up again, too)... it's meme time! apple_pathways ended up with the "What's in Your Bag?" meme yet again, which I seem to be doing once a year now.
This was actually my bag yesterday, so it's a little atypical. As of last night:
Contents (Approximately left-to-right, top-to-bottom)
- Dirty bike rag, for wiping rain off of seats and minor chain lube application
- Chain lube
- Reflective bracelet (made from part of a street sign, and given to me by my mom last Christmas semi-ironically)
- Rear USB-chargeable light
- Front USB-chargeable light
- Multi-use bike wrench thing/the Eiffel Tower's greatest fear
- USB light charger (I have two of these; the other is at my computer always)
- Parisians by Graham Robb (my jury duty reading. I'd been avoiding it for a while because it makes me all nostalgic for my week abroad last year, but it was the only thing on my shelf I'd never finished. And apparently it's been long enough that I can get through it now)
- Jury duty payment check
- Three Cough drops
- Good-luck Twonie (which has been with me everywhere since I was last in Canada three years ago)
- Thumb drive (contains the [S] Cascade flash (because I was going to try to watch it at work on my netbook, on my lunch break) and a couple episodes of Doctor Who)
- Button from my band-jacket-style jacket, loosed from its mooring on Halloween
- Hrunting, my faithful netbook
- Headphones (recently replaced for free because I wore the old ones out before the warranty was up, yay!)
- Cell phone (currently possessed by some form of demon that likes to call people without any input at all from me or its surroundings)
- Spare shirt
- Bandaids
- Tissues
- Spoon (its companion Contraband Fork, Enemy of France is on my desk at the office)
- Juravenator Bag (contains an array of hygienic products, chap stick, and, usually, my work clothes)
- A mostly-eaten roll of wintergreen mints
- Napkins from Pret-A-Manger
- Checkbook
- Comb
- Deodorant
- Bike locks
- Spare change
- Nazar
Funny thing is... this is actually a light load. Normally, I would also have a lunch container or two and my work clothes, and sometimes some snacks like carrots or fruit. My iPod, keys, and my snazzy new mittens are also usually on board with me lately, though they were absent on picture day. Have I mentioned that I love my huge messenger bag. I don't even care anymore that it labels me as a hipster, it's one of the most useful purchases I've ever made. And I have yet to destroy it, and, as some people can attest, I manage to wear things out at alarming rates.
I'm not entirely sure what this says about me, but this time my bag was almost entirely devoid of miscellaneous receipts or random bits of trash. What if I'm getting organized? (I promise that's not the case, though. Doing this meme again with my desk would be an entirely different story. And, um... here's some mail I haven't opened but have doodled/written all over. And some wigs, and some spices, some troll horns, a mug, a stack of name tags, pizza coupons, a claim check for my new front bike wheel which I suspect the shop hasn't actually ordered, sharpies, modeling clay, tissues, a watering can... and that's just the first two feet of the desk. You know, in case you somehow got the impression I had it together.
Aaand for those of you who aren't on board with that particular flavor of crazy (sorry--it's going to come up again, too)... it's meme time! apple_pathways ended up with the "What's in Your Bag?" meme yet again, which I seem to be doing once a year now.
This was actually my bag yesterday, so it's a little atypical. As of last night:
Contents (Approximately left-to-right, top-to-bottom)
- Dirty bike rag, for wiping rain off of seats and minor chain lube application
- Chain lube
- Reflective bracelet (made from part of a street sign, and given to me by my mom last Christmas semi-ironically)
- Rear USB-chargeable light
- Front USB-chargeable light
- Multi-use bike wrench thing/the Eiffel Tower's greatest fear
- USB light charger (I have two of these; the other is at my computer always)
- Parisians by Graham Robb (my jury duty reading. I'd been avoiding it for a while because it makes me all nostalgic for my week abroad last year, but it was the only thing on my shelf I'd never finished. And apparently it's been long enough that I can get through it now)
- Jury duty payment check
- Three Cough drops
- Good-luck Twonie (which has been with me everywhere since I was last in Canada three years ago)
- Thumb drive (contains the [S] Cascade flash (because I was going to try to watch it at work on my netbook, on my lunch break) and a couple episodes of Doctor Who)
- Button from my band-jacket-style jacket, loosed from its mooring on Halloween
- Hrunting, my faithful netbook
- Headphones (recently replaced for free because I wore the old ones out before the warranty was up, yay!)
- Cell phone (currently possessed by some form of demon that likes to call people without any input at all from me or its surroundings)
- Spare shirt
- Bandaids
- Tissues
- Spoon (its companion Contraband Fork, Enemy of France is on my desk at the office)
- Juravenator Bag (contains an array of hygienic products, chap stick, and, usually, my work clothes)
- A mostly-eaten roll of wintergreen mints
- Napkins from Pret-A-Manger
- Checkbook
- Comb
- Deodorant
- Bike locks
- Spare change
- Nazar
Funny thing is... this is actually a light load. Normally, I would also have a lunch container or two and my work clothes, and sometimes some snacks like carrots or fruit. My iPod, keys, and my snazzy new mittens are also usually on board with me lately, though they were absent on picture day. Have I mentioned that I love my huge messenger bag. I don't even care anymore that it labels me as a hipster, it's one of the most useful purchases I've ever made. And I have yet to destroy it, and, as some people can attest, I manage to wear things out at alarming rates.
I'm not entirely sure what this says about me, but this time my bag was almost entirely devoid of miscellaneous receipts or random bits of trash. What if I'm getting organized? (I promise that's not the case, though. Doing this meme again with my desk would be an entirely different story. And, um... here's some mail I haven't opened but have doodled/written all over. And some wigs, and some spices, some troll horns, a mug, a stack of name tags, pizza coupons, a claim check for my new front bike wheel which I suspect the shop hasn't actually ordered, sharpies, modeling clay, tissues, a watering can... and that's just the first two feet of the desk. You know, in case you somehow got the impression I had it together.