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kohikariFound: On top of the recycle...bin...thingy on the Common just outside of Park Street Station, around 2:15 PM Friday: a composition notebook, organic cardboard brown with faded forest green binding, and
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LINED
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printed on the lower left and
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(wavy logo thing)
environotes®
RECYCLED COMP BOOK
---------80 SHEETS---------
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printed on the lower right; at the upper right corner, "Haben" written large in purple thick-tip Sharpie (at least, I think it's Sharpie), and, below, "HW · Notices".
On the back, in the upper left corner, "MADE IN U.S.A."; below, a bar code, with the numbers "0 - 70972 77270 - 0"; below that, a little version of the American flag, borderless, with gray stripes and, instead of the fifty stars, the triangular recycling symbol on a black background, with the words "AMERICAN" and "RECYCLED" above and below, respectively. In the centre, a mid-sized logo of the Earth (spec. Western Hemisphere) with a scroll containing the word "SUSTAINABILITY" draped across it, and a small "®" tucked in the lower right; below that:
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Sus-tain-able
1: capable of being sustained
2a: of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource
so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged
2b: of, or relating to, a lifestyle involving the use of sustainable methods
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At the bottom:
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ROARING SPRING® [ * ] PAPER PRODUCTS
ROARING SPRING, PA 16673
[recycling symbol]RECYCLED COMP BOOK[recycling symbol]
Contains a Minimum of 30% Post-Consumer Waste
_____________________________________
9 3/4" x 7 1/2 80 Sheets College Ruled
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(*=a larger version of the wavy logo thing)
Inside is fairly standard comp book format, on the inside front cover spaces to write name, address, school, class schedule, etc., and on the inside back cover "Useful information" i.e. conversion and multiplication tables.
It would have been much easier to find the kid who lost this if he had put his name and address or school in the spaces provided; as it is, there are homework assignments dating from September 9th of last year all the way up to last Thursday, but he never wrote the names of his school or any of his teachers anywhere--didn't even write his full name anywhere easily visible; the only clue I had was that, thankfully, his fifth-grade class had to write down their ancestry as part of a homework assignment, and so a few pages in he recorded the names, birthdates, and birthplaces of himself, his parents, two grandparents, and two great-grandparents. I Googled my fingers off searching the phone book, immigration records, and, finally, in a last-ditch effort to return the thing, his last name and the words "Boston" and "school": the second page of that search turned up back records of the Beacon Hill Times (a short and somewhat boring weekly newspaper focused on my neighbourhood) that featured a 2006 article on how the 3rd and 6th grades of the school associated with my childhood church had engaged in a community-service art project involving that shiny new version of the Charles/MGH Red Line station (dammit but I miss that pedestrian bridge; despite the addition of more traffic lights and a sidewalk island, Charles Circle remains one of the most insanely dangerous intersections in this city, especially when trying to get to the T).
(Me being me, I've impulsively decided that this is an omen indicating that Anglicanism is my one true religious calling, andthe Catholic church can kiss my ass therefore I should probably think about going to church every other Sunday or so...or at least on special occasions...the Church of the Advent really is a nice place, all old and historic and chock full of nice people with even better food...mmm, Coffee Hour...)
So, will nip down to the school onMonday EDIT: Tuesday (forgot about MLK Day) and inquire as to whether the kid still attends there, and if not how I could get in touch with his school and/or his parents, or something. 'Cause my fifth-grade experience may have been rougher than most, but it really would've sucked had I lost my homework book right before the end of the first semester.
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LINED
______
______
______
"
printed on the lower left and
"
(wavy logo thing)
environotes®
RECYCLED COMP BOOK
---------80 SHEETS---------
"
printed on the lower right; at the upper right corner, "Haben" written large in purple thick-tip Sharpie (at least, I think it's Sharpie), and, below, "HW · Notices".
On the back, in the upper left corner, "MADE IN U.S.A."; below, a bar code, with the numbers "0 - 70972 77270 - 0"; below that, a little version of the American flag, borderless, with gray stripes and, instead of the fifty stars, the triangular recycling symbol on a black background, with the words "AMERICAN" and "RECYCLED" above and below, respectively. In the centre, a mid-sized logo of the Earth (spec. Western Hemisphere) with a scroll containing the word "SUSTAINABILITY" draped across it, and a small "®" tucked in the lower right; below that:
"
Sus-tain-able
1: capable of being sustained
2a: of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource
so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged
2b: of, or relating to, a lifestyle involving the use of sustainable methods
"
At the bottom:
"
ROARING SPRING® [ * ] PAPER PRODUCTS
ROARING SPRING, PA 16673
[recycling symbol]RECYCLED COMP BOOK[recycling symbol]
Contains a Minimum of 30% Post-Consumer Waste
_____________________________________
9 3/4" x 7 1/2 80 Sheets College Ruled
"
(*=a larger version of the wavy logo thing)
Inside is fairly standard comp book format, on the inside front cover spaces to write name, address, school, class schedule, etc., and on the inside back cover "Useful information" i.e. conversion and multiplication tables.
It would have been much easier to find the kid who lost this if he had put his name and address or school in the spaces provided; as it is, there are homework assignments dating from September 9th of last year all the way up to last Thursday, but he never wrote the names of his school or any of his teachers anywhere--didn't even write his full name anywhere easily visible; the only clue I had was that, thankfully, his fifth-grade class had to write down their ancestry as part of a homework assignment, and so a few pages in he recorded the names, birthdates, and birthplaces of himself, his parents, two grandparents, and two great-grandparents. I Googled my fingers off searching the phone book, immigration records, and, finally, in a last-ditch effort to return the thing, his last name and the words "Boston" and "school": the second page of that search turned up back records of the Beacon Hill Times (a short and somewhat boring weekly newspaper focused on my neighbourhood) that featured a 2006 article on how the 3rd and 6th grades of the school associated with my childhood church had engaged in a community-service art project involving that shiny new version of the Charles/MGH Red Line station (dammit but I miss that pedestrian bridge; despite the addition of more traffic lights and a sidewalk island, Charles Circle remains one of the most insanely dangerous intersections in this city, especially when trying to get to the T).
(Me being me, I've impulsively decided that this is an omen indicating that Anglicanism is my one true religious calling, and
So, will nip down to the school on
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on 2009-Jan-23, Friday 01:59 (UTC)