My tutoring student cancelled at the last minute so tonight was the first completely agenda-less night I’ve had in some weeks.

I had no idea what to do.

I began tidying my room and got to the piles of paper left over from my Tasmania trip. I started flicking papers into different piles: Keep, Reuse, Recycle, Bin.

Suddenly, I found in my hands a photography magazine that I had borrowed from the library more than a month ago to take to Tasmania.

Uh oh.

I haven’t had an overdue library book since high school. I wonder how big the fine will be?

It serves me right for not tying up loose ends immediately.