this doesn't have any immediate impact: i almost never wear a watch in everyday life. i can tell if i am going to be in time for class by the hourly bell, and in the square there is always the clock on top of the cambridge savings bank to refer to. it is only during exams and when travelling that i bother with wearing one - or sometimes when i am pacing my presentations. but i do own one, and one i like very much, a sensible one with a rotatable bezel marking the hours so that i needn't actually adjust my watch when travelling, and just faintly luminiscent on the hands so you can make out the time in a plane cabin. also, you know, after the horizontal instrument i'm a lot fonder of watches in general, and i don't like losing my watch. i hope it turns up in the room - though it has been some three weeks since i last saw it - but it wouldn't be so bad if it is in one of my coat pockets and has gone into storage - at least i'll find it when i come back. but in a week or two i shall have to catch a train and a bus and a plane, so it would at least be a good idea for me to get hold of a new one before then. the only think that i haven't made up my mind if i should buy a proper one now and get on with life, or just get a little five-dollar plastic casio or something out of cvs for the moment and then take time to find one i really like when i get home (or hope i'll find my old one before then.) tsk, she sighs.