lost and found

an allstu campus security sent out this morning
(old man winter ain't done yet):

Message-ID: <20090130155943.78884e9q7e3i17k0@webmail.kenyon.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:59:43 -0500
From: C-- B-- <b--c@kenyon.edu>
Subject: Is your head, neck or hands cold?
Lost & Found at Campus Safety

Numerous winter hats, (guys & gals), neck scarfs, gloves & mittens have been turned into Campus Safety. If you are tried of being cold, come claim your stuff. You are going to need it cause old man winter ain't done yet!!!!

whatchamacallit

someone lost a small red nylon pouch. a cellphone case? a change purse? if it's yours and you want to un-lose it, it's hung by its strap on the lamppost outside the music hall. it's a cheerful thing! it looks like a tetherball, or a balloon put out to announce a party.

everything detachable

it's that time of year! the cold time of year when everyone loses everything. too many things detachable, naturally fragmenting. the Democrats threw a rager last night and this morning there were several panicked emails sent out by the people in charge of the party, begging people to come back and claim their belongings. I know the coat room at Weaver must still be a small, room-sized sea of forgotten coats, mis-matched gloves and lost scarves. someone lost their hat. someone else took home the wrong jacket, ill-fitting and navy blue in the morning light, not black after all. I bet at least one girl started the evening out in high heels, and left in a borrowed pair of boots. it's a lovely and completely solvable mess, the mass-losing: go back and un-lose.

sweater

someone lost a sweater. it's been in Bailey 25 all week. I haven't touched it, so I do not know if it is a man's sweater or a woman's sweater, but it is navy blue. crewneck. cable knit. it's in the back row, fallen against the wall of the slide projector booth.

ID

ok, girl, seriously? you lost your student ID at least a week ago, because that is when I found it. you lost it in the snow outside of Peirce. you are lucky these cards are brightly, verdantly green, because the color contrast caught my attention. also, you are lucky, because I immediately sent you an email, telling you that you had lost your ID, that I had it and where you could pick it up. so... seriously, girl. come get your ID. come unlose this little green card. It has your face on it, your name. It has your birthday on it, and a picture of Kenyon in summer.

clip

ok, by now I'm pretty sure I lost that clippy thing that I like. you know, for my hair. I thought it would turn up after I unpacked my suitcase more thoroughly, but it hasn't. I lost it.

Snowmen

I know that I have made many snowmen, though I have forgotten all but the first. After weeks of waiting for our first real snow, it finally happened. (My sister and I, growing up in Southern California, even confused frost on the ground for snow.) But eventually, it finally happened. We immediately put on coats and mittens and rushed out-doors. We built a snow-Abraham Lincoln. But alas, all the rest are gone, forgotten.