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.

Okay, today's post isn't academic related. I'm even hesitating to post it in the student accessible version, for reasons I will make clear after I've related the experience.

I was in a fire safety meeting in the board room in the president's office the other day. On a table in one corner beside the door (on the other side of which is a projection-screen-slash-white-board) was a percolator, and a plastic tumbler.

The tumbler was very recognizable because it was from Enchanted Kingdom, on of their three new designs I saw recently.

It was yellow, and on the sides it said "The Magic Stays With You".

At the start of the meeting the school engineer had left the room to call about the grade school and high school participants, who were all we were waiting for. He went from my side of the room past the screen to the door, then back.

In the second half of the meeting, even though I don't recall any other person leaving the room in the interrim, I noticed to my surprise that the tumbler was now on the table on the other side of the screen, nearer to where I was sitting.

If the tumbler was the possession of any of the people present, they would not have moved it from one table to the other, but to the desktop in front of them, right? Since the discussion was serious, I also don't believe anyone picked up the tumbler out of curiousity and moved it to the other table after picking it up. If anyone had done that, it would be one of the two people on my side of the room: the school engineer and the director for administrative services.

And as I already said, only the school engineer got up during the meeting, and I don't remember seeing him pick up the tumbler.

There are only two explanations: it moved there by itself (and thus emphasizing that the magic does stay) or that I merely did not notice that someone had moved it from one table to the other.

So I'm not sure I want to write about this in the other journal because it will go against the sense of discovery and being observant.

Session 2323 doesn't know which rationale is more acceptable. Class dismissed.