And there was much rejoicing!
Oct. 21st, 2010 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Hey guys guys guys:

I found my keys! \o/ I am SUPER pleased and relieved to get them back. :D
You see, for the past two days, since Tuesday evening, when I lost them, I've felt super-stressed out about not having these keys. Yesterday, I actually ran back and forth around campus to all of the possible lost & found bins on the route between the Tory building and the Van Vliet Centre (the gym), where I HAD to have lost them. And each time I visited the like six or seven different lost & found places, I got nothing. I have since learned a lot about the university system of lost & found, and it's actually a bit more complicated than it has to be: there's Campus Security, the libraries, and the Info Link (information booths), and they all have separate systems for lost items. If I didn't find it today, I would have called in tomorrow morning (I got business cards with phone numbers for inquiries) as a last ditch resort, because ALL of the like dozen Info Link booths accumulate all of the week's lost & found items in the one giant office in the Student's Union Building on Thursday evening, so it would all be in one place on Friday morning.
No dice this morning, when I went running around (I'm getting exercise, at least, running across campus?), and after class, I met a friend who treated me to tea for helping her edit a paper. And as we stood in the long lineup for Starbucks in CAB, I looked to my right at Cameron Library. I never go in there, you see, it being a science-oriented library, and I'd already checked the CAB Info Link booth three times for my keys in the last few days... But I thought, what the heck, I may as well try.
AND THEY WERE THERE. \o/ I was SO relieved. These keys are quite important, and hold significant emotional meaning to me. As a child, I always wanted a nice chain of keys (it made me feel important - and still does), and I would actually put those cheap little diary keys on a keychain just to look cool. :) I actually have some pretty neat stuff on here.
That big black key is my car key - the first car that I really consider "mine", although it's in my parents' names. The two keys that look the same are keys to two separate rooms in the university (the Honour's room, where my desk is, and the office of the professor I worked for this summer... which I have to return next week, hence PART of my desperation to find this keychain again). The red one is my house key - luckily enough, my father DIDN'T go to England with mum and Ian last week, or I would have been locked out of the house for the evening and would have had to crash at a friend's place until the next day when I could get a key off my sister.
I'm very attached to the three keychains, too. Coin themes! The one on the left is the newest: a reproduction of a Victorian-era one penny piece I bought while in Britain this past summer. Then is a fake Las Vegas $100 chip, bought by my best friend when she went down there a few years ago. Then I have a reproduction roman coin (with a very similar figure as on the reverse side of the one penny piece!) from Bath, in England. I actually lost the first one I got, and this one was bought by ANOTHER friend who visited England a few years later. I love it. And the last one... you probably know. PIRATES of the Caribbean! :D They're hard to find, so I'm extra-glad I didn't lose this one.
So there you have my keychain! ... Now that you know all about it, you have no excuse not to help me look for it the next time I lose it. >_>
But seriously, guys, finding my keys is a huge load of stress off of my back. Also, I finished a midterm today in an area not my specialty, and I don't think that it went all that bad! So things are looking up. :)
I found my keys! \o/ I am SUPER pleased and relieved to get them back. :D
You see, for the past two days, since Tuesday evening, when I lost them, I've felt super-stressed out about not having these keys. Yesterday, I actually ran back and forth around campus to all of the possible lost & found bins on the route between the Tory building and the Van Vliet Centre (the gym), where I HAD to have lost them. And each time I visited the like six or seven different lost & found places, I got nothing. I have since learned a lot about the university system of lost & found, and it's actually a bit more complicated than it has to be: there's Campus Security, the libraries, and the Info Link (information booths), and they all have separate systems for lost items. If I didn't find it today, I would have called in tomorrow morning (I got business cards with phone numbers for inquiries) as a last ditch resort, because ALL of the like dozen Info Link booths accumulate all of the week's lost & found items in the one giant office in the Student's Union Building on Thursday evening, so it would all be in one place on Friday morning.
No dice this morning, when I went running around (I'm getting exercise, at least, running across campus?), and after class, I met a friend who treated me to tea for helping her edit a paper. And as we stood in the long lineup for Starbucks in CAB, I looked to my right at Cameron Library. I never go in there, you see, it being a science-oriented library, and I'd already checked the CAB Info Link booth three times for my keys in the last few days... But I thought, what the heck, I may as well try.
AND THEY WERE THERE. \o/ I was SO relieved. These keys are quite important, and hold significant emotional meaning to me. As a child, I always wanted a nice chain of keys (it made me feel important - and still does), and I would actually put those cheap little diary keys on a keychain just to look cool. :) I actually have some pretty neat stuff on here.
That big black key is my car key - the first car that I really consider "mine", although it's in my parents' names. The two keys that look the same are keys to two separate rooms in the university (the Honour's room, where my desk is, and the office of the professor I worked for this summer... which I have to return next week, hence PART of my desperation to find this keychain again). The red one is my house key - luckily enough, my father DIDN'T go to England with mum and Ian last week, or I would have been locked out of the house for the evening and would have had to crash at a friend's place until the next day when I could get a key off my sister.
I'm very attached to the three keychains, too. Coin themes! The one on the left is the newest: a reproduction of a Victorian-era one penny piece I bought while in Britain this past summer. Then is a fake Las Vegas $100 chip, bought by my best friend when she went down there a few years ago. Then I have a reproduction roman coin (with a very similar figure as on the reverse side of the one penny piece!) from Bath, in England. I actually lost the first one I got, and this one was bought by ANOTHER friend who visited England a few years later. I love it. And the last one... you probably know. PIRATES of the Caribbean! :D They're hard to find, so I'm extra-glad I didn't lose this one.
So there you have my keychain! ... Now that you know all about it, you have no excuse not to help me look for it the next time I lose it. >_>
But seriously, guys, finding my keys is a huge load of stress off of my back. Also, I finished a midterm today in an area not my specialty, and I don't think that it went all that bad! So things are looking up. :)
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