It's the first day of a new semester, and Brenda is assigning notebooks to each of her classes and writing the class name, teacher's name, days of the week the class meets, and room number on the first page of each one. The notebooks themselves are a fairly random assortment chosen for 1) being in the 50% off bin at the Target and 2) all being the same size so they stack nicely.

The time: sometime not too long after the turn of the millennium. The place: a town in Iowa nobody who doesn't live there cares about.

It's the first day of freshman year, and Brenda is assigning notebooks to each of her classes and writing the class name, teacher's name, days of the week the class meets, and room number on the first page of each one. The notebooks themselves are a fairly random assortment chosen for 1) being in the 50% off bin at the Target and 2) all being the same size so they stack nicely.

The time: sometime not too long after the turn of the millennium. The place: a town in Iowa nobody who doesn't live there cares about.

It's the evening before the first day of Brenda's freshman year, and Brenda is assigning notebooks to each of her classes and writing the class name, teacher's name, days of the week the class meets, and room number on the first page of each one. The notebooks themselves are a fairly random assortment chosen for 1) being in the 50% off bin at the Target and 2) all being the same size so they stack nicely.

The time: sometime not too long after the turn of the millennium. The place: a town in Iowa nobody who doesn't live there cares about.

It's the evening before the first day of Brenda's freshman year, and Brenda is assigning notebooks to each of her classes and writing the class name, teacher's name, days of the week the class meets, and room number on the first page of each one. The notebooks themselves are a fairly random assortment chosen for 1) being in the 50% off bin at the Target and 2) all being the same size so they stack nicely.