Cav's Place

At the moment, I’m not entirely sure when I’ll even start writing the next protest update or what form it’ll take, since too much information is piling up, but I noticed yesterday that I’m missing some things and thought I might as well mention it here. Sure, it’d be a lot better if I’d simply ignore this and at least start that update instead, but that’s not happening.

What I mean to say is that, when I went through my jacket’s pockets before leaving yesterday, I came up with two used batteries less than I knew I had on me during the previous march, the obvious conclusion being that at some point I either tried to put them in my pocket and missed or they somehow simply fell out. Seeing as I only had a single, unpaired, new battery with me that evening, otherwise needing to make do with several nearly empty pairs, the camera having already turned off with most of them in it, I kept trying to find a way to squeeze a few more pictures out of each and therefore kept replacing them in a hurry, so this isn’t entirely surprising. What makes it somewhat more disappointing, however, is that at some point I heard something falling on the pavement and noticed a battery about a meter away from me when I looked, but I assumed it was someone else’s and didn’t bother checking.
Worse, early during yesterday’s march, after one of the sprints required to get and then stay in front of the line the gendarmes kept forming after we made it out of University Square, I suddenly realized that running like that meant I could quite easily lose what I had in my jacket’s pockets and, after moving them there in order to be able to get to them more easily, my phone and the new batteries were in one. Granted, the batteries were tied together and likely too heavy to simply jump out on their own, and either way I still felt their weight there, but as I quickly put my hand in to check for my phone I noticed that the pen and pencil I also had in one of the pockets were no longer there. Sure, those are a minor loss, seeing as there are piles of them around the house, but it meant I couldn’t write anything down on the way, needing to resort to simply saving the times at which a few things happened in my phone, without even taking the time to type what those numbers were referring to.

Though this is already longer than I meant it to be, I should also mention that I meant to drop off all those used batteries in the designated bin next to the entrance of the hypermarket I went to today, only to find that the bins for small electronic waste were no longer there. The giant green poster that was behind them is still asking people to drop electronic waste there, but unless they want us to drop everything on the floor, I do believe they forgot to bring some things back, perhaps after taking them away to be repaired or replaced, since I did notice last time that some were broken.