Of my laptop bag.  My laptop bag is actually pretty lucky compared to other laptop bags.  It doesn’t take a real beating most of the time.  Each morning I login and check my email and blog as the girls finish getting ready.  After that, my computer is placed in my laptop bag and then in the car where we travel a whole 8 miles to work.  Then I unload my things and take them to my classroom.  After that my laptop comes out and goes on my desk for the day. My laptop bag goes in the corner behind my desk to be ignored until it’s time to go home.  Then I pack up my laptop and papers to grade in my laptop bag and travel those eight miles back home.

The exceptions? Traveling. Whether we be traveling to a debate meet on Saturdays where it’s thrown in the school van with all the students’ bags or long distance family traveling where it’s crammed in a trunk in extreme hot and cold conditions and then taken on an airplane to be stored in a hotel room somewhere – or a series of hotels.  This is when my laptop bags takes a beating and most prove itself durable.