TouchMyBadger had a great idea.

As quoted from the lovely Ms. Badger:

"It's called what's in your bag/purse/satchel/fannypack/whatever right now. Be honest."

In my laptop bag (usually):
Laptop (duh)
Wacom Intuos3 tablet,
Requisite stylus pen for the above,
3 spare and 2 variety nibs for tablet pen above
Logitech trackball mouse
Headphones
Ear Buds (backup for headphones)
small moleskin cover artbook 1 (sketch paper)
small moleskin cover artbook 2 (graph paper)
large leather cover artbook (sketch paper)
Green folder (random things I pick up)
Blue folder (Important things I decide to hang on to)
USB thumbdrive (1GB)
USB thumbdrive (256MB)
Power Brick, surge protector
Ethernet cable
My SOUL

I tried to be thorough, but that's just about it.
Within the hard drive of this lappy, though, is ALL my art, music, architecture models, and even some literature. losing this... would make me cry. A lot.

green folder right now has job apps in it:
AC Moore (a craft store)
A music store whose name evades me
Barnes and Noble (they're about to open a new location, too.)

blue folder currently contains:
policy handbook for my apartment community,
collected flyers i've found interesting (related and otherwise)
info from... my last job. Ow. That... really hurts. I remember exactly how happy I was when I put this in here... I suppose I should throw it out now

:(