Got a bit of bad news, folks.
I lost something very valuable this past Wednesday night: My backpack, the very same one I've been using for this cosplay. Might not seem like the Holy Grail or anything, but it was full of important items. My entire academic life for the last year was in there. All the handwritten work I had generated for the just-finally-gaining-momentum webseries was in there. An ENTIRE SPEC SCRIPT was handwritten in there. All of the handouts I've been given in my credential classes were in there. The "Hunter's Journal" (ala Supernatural) that I'd been working on for the last several years was in there. All of my observation hour notes and logs were in there, and one of my gradebooks. I even had my Eevee keychain, which was a sort of good luck charm I'd keep with me during exams and such, inside the backpack.
All of those were lost. I had to move my backpack to make room, and in leaving in a rush I think I may have driven off, leaving it at the curb. You would think at 10pm it would have been safe there until I got back about 40 minutes or so later...but nope. It was gone, and there's no getting it or any of the items within back. I guess no good deed goes unpunished, right? Right.
I haven't felt this stupid and helpless/hopeless and frustrated in many years. I know this isn't a place to vent about these sort of things, but it's affecting me pretty hard right now, so I might not be posting any sort of updates for a while (not that I have been recently anyway). It's also going to take me some time to get the materials together to replace them; good thing I still have the records of what was bought in my Amazon account...but still, it's gonna be a good while before this agent gets back in the field.
The rest of you, please keep posting! Keep the thread and the Division cosplay love alive!