Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

To continue my story yesterday of the student who lost his laptop, he was also feverish at the time, so there were some actions which were unclear in his memory when he got better later.

Since the trunk of his car didn't look like it was forced open, if it was an outsider who took it, then that means that the trunk wasn't properly closed and the outsider just chanced (to his good luck) on it.

The student also insists that (even in his feverish haze he remembers) he didn't lend his keys to anyone that day, so that rules out someone he knows as being the culprit. That means it could only have been an outsider if he somehow neglected to close his trunk sometime during the day, again in his addled state of mind.

What's strange about the whole business is that two days prior, he already lost his Ipod in the student center in the middle of the hecticness of the Foundation Week. Well, that's not strange, but it would have been very sad for him, except that last Tuesday morning, returning to the student center, one of his classmates pointed out that his Ipod was just on the table of the secretary for Student Activities, although she swears it wasn't there before she left the office earlier.

What's being left unsaid is that it was most likely a joke gone too far that one of his classmates took his Ipod, and felt even more guilty after the second, bigger loss. We're now joking around that maybe he should leave the trunk of his car open and maybe the taker of his laptop will give it back as well.

@@ on a related note, there are now already two instances where students' cars parked in a nearby McDonald's had their windows broken in broad daylight and the electronic gadgets inside taken.

The first was after the leadership training last May and the second one was just last week.

I thought the management would have learned to post guards at the side parking lot after the first incident, so it seems they have double indemnity.

Besides the video camera (which was what was taken the first time) and the laptop (from the second incident) there were also tickets to last Saturday's concert that were taken, so the students at the gate entrance to to check the numbers of the tickets that were being presented to them last Saturday, especially after rumors abounded about someone selling tickets at a nearby mall for twenty percent less than their initial price.

Session 1747 may be too trusting of the rest of the world. Class dismissed.