Had a couple hours more sleep and have been doing stuff all day. I called the Academy and got security - they had an event going on and were frazzled but the guy took the info and said he'd call back in ten minutes. He was confused as to where I'd lost it - thinking it had been in the auditorium - I explained rather tersely that no, it was in THEIR search of our pocket contents in the little gray trays. He never called back, but I got him again around three and he said he'd just wanted to check with a few other people who were there last night. So, as of now, my little ladybug thing is still lost. I tried to go online to see if I could find something similar - I found plastic and wood, which I don't want - I don't know if what I had was glass or porcelain or ceramic - the closest I found was a lot of six little ladybugs made of glass, and I bought those on eBay. Hopefully I'll like one of them and it will be similar - I'm very used to having this in my pocket and I want it there. Stupid, I know, but that's the way it is.
