After a furious couple of weeks, we decided to stay home
today. It was a good idea because we
needed to sleep in a little bit and we needed to get things done. I had a long list I’d made of things to do
and after a quick breakfast, I got right to it.
For whatever reason, it seems like I always need things
washed. Meg needed to do a full load, so
I snuck in a few of my things and off she went.
We do that…when I did laundry earlier last week, she added a few things
to my load. The challenge is always
making sure that we have enough coins between us to get things done, ha!
Then I opened my emails.
Started with my personal one and most of it was spam. Kind of depressing. Hadn’t heard from Katie, so I sent another
email to her and one to Eric and John to make sure they’d had a
Katie-Wright-Sighting recently. They
had.
At last it was time to open my work emails. I was dreading this because I knew that I was
going to have over a hundred new emails to answers/look at/deal with. I wasn’t disappointed. So I got to them and although it took me
several hours, I managed to get through them. A goal Meg and I had for today
was to start grading. That didn’t happen
for me, although Meg managed to grade a few things then decided there were
other things she needed to do!
I also got caught up on the receipts. This year I’m using an Excel spreadsheet from
the Travel Office. They are using it as
a means to try out something new and I offered to be a guinea pig. I like it, but needed to take it and make it
my own, which I did. The good news is
that I am on point. There were a few
things that I had not added, so when the total showed I owed Global Ed money
(in the hundreds), I panicked! Then,
found it and was very relieved!!
Went back to answer a few more emails and then Meg and I got
ready to go to dinner. I wanted to take
her to the place where we’re having our farewell dinner, since it’s my favorite
place in Milan. It’s only three metro
stops, so off we went. We had been
chatting about a feature on Google maps where you can take pictures of where
you want to be when you’re online/have data.
We decided to try that. It works
if you don’t have data, so we were intrigued.
We got off the metro and I knew where we were going, but we
wanted to look at the map to see how it would work. Meg was standing on my right side and I had
my phone in my left hand and we were pretty happy because I could pull it up
and it showed us where we needed to be.
Genius! Then…..some horrible
person on a bike rode by and snatched my cell phone (American one, not Italian
one) out of my hand. I screamed and
people looked, but he was long gone by the time anyone could have done
anything.
We just stood there in stunned silence. It was something that no one could have
expected. I wasn’t being wantonly
careless with my phone, it was relatively close to my body (arm’s length so we
could both see), it wasn’t hanging out and being tempting. It was just one of those horrible things that
happens and it’s over in a second.
I told Meg I wanted to go back to the dorms and then we
spent time locking and erasing the phone’s data (I hope it works!!!) and going
through and changing all my passwords. I
was still in shock! I have a passcode on
the screen and most of my apps didn’t have the passwords open. But, those that
did, I immediately changed the passwords.
We have traveler’s insurance through the program, so I’ll
contact them tomorrow to see what I need to do in order to file a claim. This is just devastating because I feel so
violated. Meg and I were both replaying
the situation in our minds wondering what we could have done to have made the
situation different. We just couldn’t
think of anything.
The good news is that it wasn’t our purse with our credit
cards or passport. Neither one of us was
injured. A phone can be replaced. BUT….it was a violation of my property being
taken from me against my will. That is
what was so sad. As long as he cannot
get any information from the phone or SD card, then I’m fine. Almost all of it is backed up online. Just the sting of the theft remains.
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