Went back into the september folder tonight, the mail room wall, the one I already wrote up as seven fingers not water, that's still up if you want to check my count before you check my count again, link's below same as always. I wasn't even looking for it. I was looking for a receipt thing for a different list and I scrolled past the wall photo and my thumb just stopped on it the way your eye catches a word in a sentence before you've finished reading the sentence. Cropped in tighter this time, not with anything good, I don't have the laptop setup anymore not since that whole mess, just the phone's own crop tool, two fingers and drag, which is a stupid way to do evidence work but its what I have and Im not waiting on permission to look closer at my own photo. counted the lines again out of habit, the way you check a lock you already checked twice.

eight.

I counted it three times before I let myself type that sentence, three, not my usual two, because two wasnt going to be enough for this one. eight lines running down out of that ring and the ring itself looks the same as it did in september, I checked that too, its not a new stain, its the same stain I already own the first photo of. so either I miscounted in front of an answering machine with a timestamp on it two months ago, or the wall added one, same wall as the notice thing back in august, same six feet of hallway, Im not re-running that whole argument here either. Im not going to say which. Im only saying those are the only two doors and I already know I counted twice that night, wrote it down twice, so one of those doors is mostly shut already. the light above the lockers is STILL dead by the way, maintainance guy's ballast excuse is five times now, I started a separate count on that back in september too and Im not folding the two files into each other just because it would be easier tonight. different list. differnt problem. the eighth line is its own thing until somebody gives me a reason to say otherwise.

anyway the receipt I was actually looking for before any of this, never found it, opened three different months and gave up. the bus fare went up again in october and I still dont have that written down anywhere which is bothering me more than the wall is right now if Im being honest, and Im trying to be honest in the ones nobody's grading.