This is the first year I won't have to wear a uniform. I'll still have to look 'presentable' (in other words, wear a suit or you're sent home, mister), but still.
I had the same pencil case for 5 years for that same reason, Tink.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller