i keep my files and notes for college in an old converse shoebox beside my computer.

i thought the plastic files were a great extravagance when i originally bought them as a poor student in about 1998. but look at how long they've lasted.

the colour range i bought was partly aesthetic, partly practical - so that i'd know which notes were which.

i'd put my least favourite class notes in my favourite coloured files, in some sort of psychological attempt to get me to like a class.

i'm doing the same thing now that i'm back in college this time too. it doesn't really work y'know.