Day 242 goes to school

On my way to a morning meeting today, I was walking behind this scene for a few blocks. The backpack to human ration here was just so fascinating and adorable to me, I totally went into creeper mode to take a pic. Let's discuss how this back is nearly half way down her legs. I'm sure there was nothing in the bag besides crayons, a notebook and construction paper (life essentials), so at least it was light. But I've seen a lot of these "first day of school" kids and it immediately brings back memories of my school days back in Hawaii. Aah, youth.

Day 138 forgot something

We live directly next to a high school out here in the lovely Beacon Hill. Apart from crazy rush hour moments between 730am-8am and 2pm-3pm, it's actually not that big a deal. I thought it would be noisy and I'd be that person yelling "Keep it down, ya crazy kids!!", but this hasn't been the case. Phew! I stumbled upon this little bit of trash outside said HS today. Memories of grade school came flooding back. I didn't know they still served milk in these tiny little milk cartons! We used to have a competition at lunchtime to see who could be the fastest at drinking all their milk, then neatly folding up the carton into as flat a piece as possible. I won once. I was king of the cafeteria that day. Agh, youth.