A Search for Lost Things

HAVE YOU SEEN ME?

I was reluctant to use the blog for my own selfish needs but I have sunk to a new level of helplessness in this journey of recovering my lost things. I come now in an attempt to awaken the z'chus of the Stollel Ha'Kadosh:

This past Monday night/Tuesday morning my laptop was taken from the Muss Beis Midrash (sometimes referred to as the "Klein Beis Midrash"). I have left it there on many other occasions and had no reason to suspect that this night would be different. I am usually in there until a decent hour but that night I left my laptop charging on a table near the door and retired early. The last one out of the Beis Midrash was one of the Albert-twins and he assured me that he saw it as he departed. He figured I would return later in the evening.

From my experience, I am aware that students do not come into the Muss Beis Midrash at the hours of the incident. What does enter the doors between 2AM and 6:30AM is a whole bunch of foreskin. I am nearly certain that one of the YU employed areilim removed my computer and took it for his own needs, (though at this point, everyone is suspect...even sruli.)

After a long night of sleuthful detective work led by A. Lichtschein, Gabby Danielli and Garritanya, we had made some progress. We interrogated the extremely cracked security guard outside Muss, we questioned my good pal the kind colored fellow who cleans the Annex and the Main Beis during the late night hours (it turns out he's not really 25 but is 37 and a grandfather! Mazal Tov! His son is 22 (do the math), his daughter is 20, both went to college and have cars and apartments), and then finally, we interrogated the #1 suspect, Dixon - the shady security guard (who I hope doesn't frequent kolleltamid.blogspot.com.) After a long series of questioning, Lichtschein thought he was clean but Gabby and myself are still not so sure.

I had a big chunk of my life on this computer and in a single moment it was gone. I have nowhere to turn. It's 3:12 AM and I'm using Pomerantz's computer to write this. All I can do is beseech you, Members of the Stollel, to have my laptop in mind, and maybe in the z'chus of our joint efforts, the culprit will return the computer to the Beis Midrash and everything will be back to normal.

The whole experience has not been terrible. I have learned these past few days what it means to really have something on your mind at all moments of the day; to stay focused and concentrate on a single concept without distraction. It's been a very strange, yet enlightening, experience. R' Tzaddok (as well as many other tzaddikim) writes that a person should take note of the extent of passion or kochos that a person has towards something (often the passion of a taiva...in this case: my constant thinking about my silly computer) and realize that they possess within them selves such intense power which can be channeled and used for more holy and important matters.

With the help of the Almighty all will be well, regardless of what happens with the computer, and we will soon reconvene in the Stollel in our new location in the sweet land of Zion.

-jw

[Additionally, if anyone has any advice on how I can go about looking at the YU personnel in a positive light, I'd love to hear. I'm having a lot of trouble not being a big racist these days.]