I save everything..
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hippybngstockngI don't think you guys would survive the counting of a complete list of everything I've sorted through, so just for the giggles I will hit the highlights of the insanity of hoarding I am capable of.
Things I found in my files-
Course guides from my high school. (circa 1985-1988)
The slip telling the DMV that I had endured enough driving education to be tested for my license.
The guidebook I had to study to get my license (Connecticut, circa 1986)
My JUNIOR YEAR high school transcript
Pay stubs from my very first job (circa 1986). For the curious- Cinema City in Hartford, CT. I started at a whopping $3.38 per hour!!
Course hand outs and papers from college courses I never completed
Brochures from the Hampshire admissions department
A guide on how to use the UNIX system at Hampshire
A Users Guide to Microcomputers (circa 1989) including a list of buzz words, like "chips" *giggle*
A stack of my high school's newspaper, which might be the entire run while I was there.
A stack of Permanent Press' (Hampshire's Newspaper) which don't seem to be consistent, and are NOT the entire run while I was there.
A stack of literary magazines encompassing Hampshire and the other 4 colleges, except for the only "Reader" I was actually published in, under a pen name that I can no longer recall.. BUT
Luckily, the story that was published in the Reader, in its mostly final draft form in the course folder that had generated the piece. (Does anyone have their old Readers? I am suddenly curious if someone has it.)
A receipt for a pair of headphones I still own, which were bought from a store that no longer exists.
A copy of PFS:Write, on a 5.25! Complete with manuals, but no box. I should try to sell that sucker on eBay. heh.
Possibly every copy of the Fred that came out while I was ever in a bathroom in Merrill.
Statements from my Shawmut bank account.. Didn't they get eaten by Bank of America back in 1990?
Out of this list, I've only kept the literary magazines (long enough to see if I recognize any names), my story, and also the newspapers, only because they might actually be of interest in the time capsule sense.. Not sure I am firm on that though, since I would save myself a lot of space if I brought that down to the ones that actually have me in them somehow. I only wrote a couple reviews, and one letter complaining that an organization I was part of had been suddenly presumed to have about 40 times the number of responsibilities they actually had (which were basically next to no responsibilities at all, read- Pet Co-op, for anyone who is confused). I can't even decide if it's worth keeping them anyway, since the stuff I wrote was only so-so.
I did a bunch of writing in the Fred, but reading it all now I get tempted to round file it because it WAS bathroom writing, after all. There's a few moments of excellent bitterness in there, but otherwise nothing I should be awfully proud of.
And this list doesn't even begin to touch the highlights of the more personal stuff.. Stay tuned for "Further evidence I've always been entirely weird..." Likely with photographic evidence of the insanity!
Things I found in my files-
Course guides from my high school. (circa 1985-1988)
The slip telling the DMV that I had endured enough driving education to be tested for my license.
The guidebook I had to study to get my license (Connecticut, circa 1986)
My JUNIOR YEAR high school transcript
Pay stubs from my very first job (circa 1986). For the curious- Cinema City in Hartford, CT. I started at a whopping $3.38 per hour!!
Course hand outs and papers from college courses I never completed
Brochures from the Hampshire admissions department
A guide on how to use the UNIX system at Hampshire
A Users Guide to Microcomputers (circa 1989) including a list of buzz words, like "chips" *giggle*
A stack of my high school's newspaper, which might be the entire run while I was there.
A stack of Permanent Press' (Hampshire's Newspaper) which don't seem to be consistent, and are NOT the entire run while I was there.
A stack of literary magazines encompassing Hampshire and the other 4 colleges, except for the only "Reader" I was actually published in, under a pen name that I can no longer recall.. BUT
Luckily, the story that was published in the Reader, in its mostly final draft form in the course folder that had generated the piece. (Does anyone have their old Readers? I am suddenly curious if someone has it.)
A receipt for a pair of headphones I still own, which were bought from a store that no longer exists.
A copy of PFS:Write, on a 5.25! Complete with manuals, but no box. I should try to sell that sucker on eBay. heh.
Possibly every copy of the Fred that came out while I was ever in a bathroom in Merrill.
Statements from my Shawmut bank account.. Didn't they get eaten by Bank of America back in 1990?
Out of this list, I've only kept the literary magazines (long enough to see if I recognize any names), my story, and also the newspapers, only because they might actually be of interest in the time capsule sense.. Not sure I am firm on that though, since I would save myself a lot of space if I brought that down to the ones that actually have me in them somehow. I only wrote a couple reviews, and one letter complaining that an organization I was part of had been suddenly presumed to have about 40 times the number of responsibilities they actually had (which were basically next to no responsibilities at all, read- Pet Co-op, for anyone who is confused). I can't even decide if it's worth keeping them anyway, since the stuff I wrote was only so-so.
I did a bunch of writing in the Fred, but reading it all now I get tempted to round file it because it WAS bathroom writing, after all. There's a few moments of excellent bitterness in there, but otherwise nothing I should be awfully proud of.
And this list doesn't even begin to touch the highlights of the more personal stuff.. Stay tuned for "Further evidence I've always been entirely weird..." Likely with photographic evidence of the insanity!
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Date: 2006-09-25 08:58 pm (UTC)I used to have a bunch of Permanent Press issues too, years ago. I was keeping them for the Tangelo Two-Steps. When Tim put out the collection, I cut the comics out of the papers, stuck said comics into the book and threw them (the PPs) away. And then, shortly thereafter, someone walked off with my Tangelo Pie collection. sigh I miss the Tangelo goodness.
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Date: 2006-09-25 09:03 pm (UTC)I'm so glad that:
1) You put the image under a cut.
2) I managed to read what the picture was of before the picture actually loaded.
I have terrible arachnophobia.
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Date: 2006-09-25 09:16 pm (UTC)I used to live with an arachnophobe, which is kinda funny because I am allergic to spiders. I'd have to put on all kinds of gloves, and try to save her from spiders anyway, but I was happy to do it.. Anything to stop the screaming! ;)
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Date: 2006-09-25 09:19 pm (UTC)I had thought there was an image and I was just glad that you had put it under a cut. I thought it was going to be about something that had to with mold and as soon as I saw that word, I closed the window. lol
Shawmut
Date: 2006-09-27 12:21 am (UTC)I banked with them first year of college.... then when I went back to NYC for the summer, I let the account fallow even though I owed them a couple of bucks.
when I came back that fall, I asked them to let me pay them what I owed them... They said they couldn't re-start my account without paying them, BUT they couldn't figure out what I owed them.
I *think* Shawmut became Soveign. As I know after Shawmut I went to Bank of Boston, which became Baybank, which became Fleet which was eatan by Bank of America. So I don't thing BoA ate BOTH banks... but it could've...
I still remember when my mom moved and we found one of my grade school report cards... which mentioned that my HEBREW was improving. I don't remember ANY hebrew.
Oh and when I was looking for my job schedule for THIS week. I found a schedule from my LAST job- which was at least two years ago.