Things I have found pt. V

As I've progressed from cleaning my room to cleaning out the boxes of stuff from college, I have so far found a whole lot of useless crap and some interesting things as well. Mostly useless crap.

• stuff from freshmen orientation, fall 2010
• my barber scissors!!
• earrings and stuff I thought I'd lost
• more Chap-Stik. Really?
• gum - into the trash
• cough drops - same
• Purell
• some long feathery thing
• green shoelaces that are way too long for anything I own
• my old cell phone holster
• some lab reports from Chem 132
• my micro-economics textbook
• a list of spawn codes for Skyrim
• notes on how to read my own handwriting*
• two pairs of lab goggles
• a lot of school papers I really don't need
• Advil
• a strobe light. I hate strobe lights. So why?
• a bracelet I got in Taiwan and thought I'd lost!
• a bunch of mementos from Otakon
• a notebook made of cut-up cereal boxes and random scrap paper
• a card game called Would You Rather...? which, as I recall, is not as fun as it sounds
• concert promotion cards
• a bunch of papers I may as well recycle
• more papers I should probably burn instead
• another 12V power adapter**
• a pile of floppy disks
• some Torx screws for some reason
• notebooks I used in my first and second years of college that I don't quite want to get rid of just yet
• a bunch of CPU heatsinks and fans I definitely do not need
• on that note, a Pentium II chip assembly!
• two purple beach buckets
• a note I wrote to my now-ex-boyfriend when I first tried to break up with him
• a small watch (clearly for women?)
• a quiz from Chem 132. Grade? 2 / 25, bitches
• instructions on how to do the proper stretching for my back
• a lime green drawstring bag with the Windows 7 logo on 
• black and red streamers, my favourite colours, but they're from when I decorated my tiny room in freshman year! 
• something that looks like a mousepad but is more likely a bottle/can opener helper thingy that says ACME
• a $15 iTunes gift card I've yet to redeem (not like I buy stuff from the App Store all that often)
• a coupon for a free copy of DiRT 4
• some epoxy brads with cute stuff on them
• (spare?) pieces of a shelving unit I had last year but seem to have misplaced. How the hell does one misplace a shelving unit?
• Jenga (pronounced YEN-gah or HEN-gah)
• a spinning disco light
• a whole lot of (thin) guitar picks
• a bunch of random sunglasses, many of which are either broken or look awful on me
• the insert from a CD of Metallica's 1991 eponymous studio album
• a CD case with inserts for Nirvana's Nevermind, complete with naked baby, but no CD to be found
• Macintosh installation floppies (two of them) and one for Fonts. I'm not sure, but I believe it is system 7.x - could be wrong and may never know!
• a Windows 98 SE boot floppy - old school and useless and I'll probably keep it anyway!
• the cardstock to which a Barnes and Noble gift card was once attached. That's the one that's still in business, right? Okay, I probably have the card somewhere, because I don't read!***
• a red plastic hourglass with red sand in
• a piece of the bottom of a laptop's casing with a Windows XP Home Edition Gateway OEM product key
• a mousepad stained with Nutella
• a small red die-cast 1970s Mustang
• old old magazines...?
• model knights still in their packaging

 * When I used to handwrite my notes, I did not use the traditional Latin alphabet, but rather a more geometric shorter-form system based on the Greek and Russian alphabets, as it encouraged me to be neater.

** I have decidedly more power adapters and plugs and cords than I do things that actually use/need them.

*** Be on the lookout for an upcoming post about "what's on my bookshelf!"