Today, for the first time ever, I forget to pack my iBook in my rucksac before leaving for work. I didn't realise until I was on the train and by then It was too latet to do anything about it! With hindsight I did think my rucksac was a wee bit lighter than normal but subminally must've put that down to the fact I had packed fewer books, etc., than usual.

Needless to say I was without e-mail, web, and apps for the rest of the day so I managed to get quite a bit of paperwork done ;-) The other downside was that once I got home this evening I had >200 e-mails - 95% of which was spam - waiting to be downloaded.

Had this been the only thing I'd forgotten recently then I wouldn't be too concerned but on Wednesday I left the very same rucksac - luckily I'd unpacked my iBook which was safely in my office by then - in a tutorial room. Once I'd unpacked my book and folder I'd put the rucksac down out of sight of the bench at the front of the room and at the end of the tutorial I just picked up the book and folder, bade my students goodbye, and left. I didn't realise I was missing the 'sac until I was due to head out of my office to give a presentation to about 40 careers advisers. Panic! It slowly dawned on me that I'd probably left the 'sac in the tutorial room - a realisation that was confirmed when I met a couple of students that were at the tutorial and when I asked them if they remembered if I'd had my rucksac with me at the tutorial they told me that I had, indeed, left it in the room. They thought I was going to return so hadn't bothered to pick it up and return it to me!!

Now what was the point of this post... ;-)