I investigate the contents of my bag

Last Friday I realised something was definitely wrong with my backpack. Friday is the day I have only 2 lectures. Somehow my bag was the same weight as what I remember my backpack from the time in high school when I was still motivated enough to bring text books to school. So I set out to find out why my bag was that heavy. And I took a picture of that too.


I found out why my bag was heavy. It's because I have several fears. From looking at the above picture you'd probably work out my first fear already. Anyhow, if you haven't here's a list.

• Fear of running out of battery (FOROOB). Yes I do use all three of my iPods everyday. I have at least 2 of them in my bag everyday. On Friday I had all three of them. Even though they don't weigh much they did contribute the the weight of the whole pack.
• Fear of losing my purse/wallet/whatever you call what you use to store cards and other stuff (let's abbreviate that to FOL). I have 3 purses/wallets. One is for train tickets, one is for bank cards that I use regularly and the last one is for card that I don't use regularly but still feel the need to bring with me because in addition to the first two fears I also suffer from Fear of missing out (FOMO) which I will discuss in the next dot point. I actually have another card thing to hold library cards and uni stuff. Don't laugh at my FOL. What if one day you lose whatever you use to hold all your cards plus money plus ticket because you manage to lose the thing that holds all of those? At least if/when I lose one of my purses/wallets/card holders I won't lose everything. It's a real lack of endogenous opiates (in this case Enkephalin) in the Periaqueductal Grey Area (obviously I took time out from deciphering my pharmacology notes to write this post) to get new cards from anywhere.
• And FOMO. This one is the biggest contributor to the weight. Why? Because of this I just had to bring about 5 times the amount of notes that I could possibly had time to reread while waiting for my lecture at 12.30. Because of this I had to bring 10 times the number of pens that I could ever use.

So in my attempt to reduce the weight of my bag today. I left the mp3 players and 1 ipod at home together with a bunch of notes and pens and other unnecessary stuff. Turned out I also left my USB drive at home and of all days today was the day I wanted to download some lectures at uni to bring home. See why I have FOMO? You'll never know when you need these stuff.
Before you bother to ask (if you bother at all) I'll just answer the few questions that you might have.

Q: Why do you have a bottle of Coumadin in your bag?
A: It's used to store moisturiser. Bringing the whole tub of moisturiser in my bag just seems too extreme. You'll never need that much moisturiser.

Q: Why do you have 2 pairs of headphones?
A: One pair is for the car ride with my Mum in the morning, it's easier for her to talk to me with the ear buds. One pair is for the train ride home, it's easier for me to ignore other people's conversations with the over the ear headphones.

Q: Why do you have 2 sets of keys?
A: I forgot that I have one set in my bag because it's always buried under other stuff in my bag.

Q: Why do you have 2 mp3 players in addition to the ipods?
A: They have voice recording. One is bigger in capacity than the other. One doesn't need cord to connect to a computer which I also use as a plan B/emergency USB drive (which I promptly left home today with the plan A drive as well)

Q: what are the batteries for?
A: the mp3 players plus because I have FOROOB.

Anymore questions?