Today: I felt the need for some Spring Cleaning and tidied up my studio. I attempted complete ruthlessness and did a relatively good job achieving this. For example, I reluctantly threw away a backpack that was like a good old friend of mine. Many kilometres were travelled with this backpack but it was full of holes and had served it's time honourably. Some of the things I found in it's various pockets included, but were not limited to:
- A fortune cookie fortune, pictured above.
- A pen (working)
- A Chap stick
- The receipt for my wedding suit
- A single plastic leg (small)
- 2 small packets of tissues
- A 2005 'Festival of China at the Lincoln Center' pin
- A copy of 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius
- Hay-fever and headache medication
- 2 Individually wrapped pieces of dark chocolate
- 33 Train tickets (see below)
- A pencil sharpener
- A pencil (broken)
- A leaf
- A band-aid (unopened)
- The receipt for my Nintendo Wii
- A packet of sugar from the 'Luxor' hotel
- A marble
- A band-aid (used)
- 11 US cents
- A key
The train tickets contributed to what may be Balaclava's newest tourist attraction: The (Allegedly) Highest Stack of Train Tickets in the Southern Hemisphere.
Not to scale.