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.

Last Wednesday night, after our basketball game, we went back to the faculty room after getting the keys from the guard, which had been returned there by our returning technician.

To our consternation, the key to the faculty room, which was on its own s-shaped connection to the keychain, was not there.

We tried all the keys, but none of them fit. We even opened the lab next door just to make sure that it had not fallen there before the technician returned it. Finally we did open the door, through some ingenuity and desperation without having to destroy the lock, and keep it open until the next day.

Our only conclusion, since it was not a lone key among their cabinet, was that it may have fallen in the pocket of the technician before he returned the set to the guard at 5pm earlier.

Anyway, the next day, I wanted to talk to the technician about looking in the pockets of his clothes the day before if the key is there.

The problem was, while I was explaining the situation to him, he kept interjecting with assertions that the office was open when he arrived and that someone else had gotten the keys from the guard (of course, that's how we planned it the night before) and that the day before, he was sure the keys were complete when he got it from the guard (that's not the point, but was it complete when he returned it?).

Anyway, I was giving him the benefit of the doubt, but knowing that his employment in on thin ice (or just believing so) has made him overly defensive, so I gave up. At least three of us in the faculty room know the truth, that even though the key was back on the chain by the next day, that it wasn't there when we tried it that night, as the technician was claiming.

Ergo, either the guards found it (which I haven't asked, but I doubt it given that they were also inquiring) or that the technician returned the key to the chain after realizing it was still with him, and wanted to cover up his actually honest mistake, which, now makes him look more guilty.

Session 2317 is having enough of investigations as it is. Class dismissed.