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Jul. 26th, 2004 01:30 pm
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It is astonishing the friends you find on LiveJournal, and how many of them are still listening to the same music as when you last saw them, 15 or 20 years ago(!). It's even more astonishing how time flies - are we having fun yet?

Some random things I found whilst sorting a box of mostly old papers, late last week: a certificate of achievement from a cake decorating course I took in 1978; Westminster High School presents "Fiddler on the Roof", 1981 ("The daughter, the daughter! Tradition!"); a photo Christmas card from around 1984, the photo including [livejournal.com profile] madbodger in a rainbow wig and [livejournal.com profile] merde as well as several people who I'm no longer even sure who they are; and postcards. A postcard from my once-best friend Nancy when she spent a summer in Norway (no year on it, I'm guessing around 1979). Various postcards and letters from my parents, from old lovers (THAT is what we did before the Internet, children; we set pen to paper, or occasionally coerced our dot-matrix printers into cooperation, and walked to the mailbox; how quaint!), and even a set of 3 postcards from this bloke Kent that [livejournal.com profile] merde and I were writing to for a while. I even remember that "E.T.A." stood for Envelope Thieves Anonymous. Also found a birthday card with the punchline "We're not getting older, we're getting sillier".

I think the real reason people usually only live for about 70 or 80 years is that their brains get full and explode. Who's with me on this one?

update: I may yet scan in that Christmas card just for sheer humour value.

Date: 2004-07-26 10:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merde.livejournal.com
wow, i'd forgotten you'd written to Kent too. he's spent a bunch of years living a nomadic existence all over the world, but he's recently returned to the bay area. he got in touch, and suggested he and i get coffee... and after hunting for him for years and only relocating him in a year or so ago, i found i don't want to meet him in person anymore. i want to preserve the mystique.

he's gotten much, much weirder, i can tell you that much.

Date: 2004-07-26 10:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merde.livejournal.com
oh yeah, and if that picture is the one i think it is, the other people in the photo are Glenn, Lina, and Sativa.

This one?

Date: 2004-07-27 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com
Image


That one's been on my webserver for years. I should put up a better scan.


She's right, that's who those other people are.

Re: This one?

Date: 2004-07-29 04:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dianec42.livejournal.com
Yes, that one. Why am I not surprised at this?

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