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I’m eschewing the Friday Five in favour of a meme that the FF for this week seems to have revived.
From left to right, top to bottom, here are the items in the photo.
- Rucksack. The brand is Herschel. It has a lot of internal pockets and carries a crazy amount of stuff, while also being pretty slim profile.
- Noise-cancelling over-ear headphones. I cannot live without these and have no idea how I survived many years of long commutes on public transport before I bought them.
- Coffee cup. Collapsible! Purchased from my favourite barista, a one-woman outfit operating out of my local train station.
- Toiletries bag. I didn’t empty this out. It contains lip gloss, medicine, hand sanitiser and hand lotion.
- Red pen. For correcting mistakes, many of which are my own.
- Tipex. See previous item.
- Laser pointer. An essential component of my job is lecturing and giving talks. There is never any guarantee that a laser pointer will be available alongside AV equipment, so I carry my own.
- Pen. A freebie from a workshop or a conference, usually.
- Multi-tool. This was a freebie from the Maui conference. It has lots of little swappable magnetic bits inside. I have only used the screwdriver bits so far.
- Paper clip. You never know.
- Notebook and pen. I go through notebooks (again, most of them are freebies) every couple of months. This is the latest in the series.
- HDMI-to-USB-C cable. There’s no HDMI port on my laptop.
- Two memory sticks. I borrowed the blue one from a colleague about two years ago and am now too embarrassed to return it. The minion is mine. He used to have trousers, but they fell down a stairwell and were lost in a basement.
- Lucky pinecone. Keiki gave me this when we were in California. I carry it in one of the outer side pockets.
- Packet of biscuits and a mango lollipop. Emergency food, which will probably be eaten by one of the children.
- Macbook Air. Laptop from Institution A, my primary employer. I also have an HP Windows laptop from Institution B, my other employer. I am mostly indifferent to the Mac / Windows debate, although I will say that the Macbook laptop’s trackpad is far better.
- Railcard. The train apps for railcards and tickets are notoriously unreliable, especially when you don’t have a good internet connection, so I still carry paper copies.
- Glasses case. At the moment these contain my sunglasses, which are prescription and which I sometimes wear in winter to cut the glare from headlights when I’m driving. My untinted varifocals are usually on my face.
- Universal adapter, USB cables, and a handful of coins. I prefer to be equipped to take advantage of charging points whenever I can, especially since I travel so much.
- Fan. From the Louvre, featuring the Mona Lisa. Very good for public transport.
Please link your “What’s in my bag?” posts in the comments, especially if I haven’t commented on them.
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