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A Trip Down Memory Lane
Sep. 24th, 2006 01:10 pmI was feeling pretty groggy yesterday, probably because I had so many interruptions to my sleep the night before. I got better sleep last night, but I still feel kind of tired.
( Here's a quiz result. )
I've been going through some of my old papers that had been stored in boxes. I came across a lot of stuff from when I was a kid, including all the drawings I did of Winnie-the-Pooh, theme parks, planets, Word Munchers, and Garbage Pail Kids. None of the drawings are very good, but I'm holding on to some of them for sentimental reasons. I also have a lot of lists of things that I made, including chapters for stories I intended to write. In one of them, my class (most of my stories from elementary school are first-person accounts, and some of them include my classmates as well) was going to visit the planet Hooshka Booshka. The chapters I listed for that one are:
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I can actually remember what was going to happen in some of these chapters, as well as the origin of Crud Copy. And Weirdwood Gardens was obviously named after Longwood Gardens, where I would later spend some time volunteering in the library. The other chapter list I found was for something called "The Adventures of Eezg." If I remember correctly, Eezg was some kind of slug-like creature who was born on Mars to parents from the Andromeda Galaxy, and became a hero who travelled through space and time. I don't think I'd planned out any of the story beyond this, but I did have this list of chapters:
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I think Chapter 7 might have been referring to an idea I had about an alien civilization that lived at the bottom of the Ross Sea in Antarctica. (I spent a lot of time looking at maps and globes as a kid.) With Chapter 10, I think I intended to look up when Sputnik was launched, but never got around to it. And I'm quite sure Mxzvntouk has nothing whatsoever to do with Superman's Mr. Mxyzptlk.
I also came across a few of my writings from second grade, some of which were rather morbid. There was one story where my class went searching for a hamster and met a whole bunch of animals, and the school ended up floating in the Atlantic. The story ended abruptly, and the teacher asked, "What happened to our school? What happened to Whiskers [the hamster]?" My reply was, "Whiskers came with us. The blue whale wrecked the school and we drowned." There was also a story where I turned into a monkey (from a list of story starters that a lot of teachers had, if I remember correctly), which I reproduce here in its entirety:
( I Was A Monkey )
Man, I really abused the exclamation point back then, didn't I? And no, I'm not sure why my school contained a deadly fire pit, or why I was inconsistent over whether or not the school had turned into a jungle.
( Here's a quiz result. )
I've been going through some of my old papers that had been stored in boxes. I came across a lot of stuff from when I was a kid, including all the drawings I did of Winnie-the-Pooh, theme parks, planets, Word Munchers, and Garbage Pail Kids. None of the drawings are very good, but I'm holding on to some of them for sentimental reasons. I also have a lot of lists of things that I made, including chapters for stories I intended to write. In one of them, my class (most of my stories from elementary school are first-person accounts, and some of them include my classmates as well) was going to visit the planet Hooshka Booshka. The chapters I listed for that one are:
( Read more... )
I can actually remember what was going to happen in some of these chapters, as well as the origin of Crud Copy. And Weirdwood Gardens was obviously named after Longwood Gardens, where I would later spend some time volunteering in the library. The other chapter list I found was for something called "The Adventures of Eezg." If I remember correctly, Eezg was some kind of slug-like creature who was born on Mars to parents from the Andromeda Galaxy, and became a hero who travelled through space and time. I don't think I'd planned out any of the story beyond this, but I did have this list of chapters:
( Read more... )
I think Chapter 7 might have been referring to an idea I had about an alien civilization that lived at the bottom of the Ross Sea in Antarctica. (I spent a lot of time looking at maps and globes as a kid.) With Chapter 10, I think I intended to look up when Sputnik was launched, but never got around to it. And I'm quite sure Mxzvntouk has nothing whatsoever to do with Superman's Mr. Mxyzptlk.
I also came across a few of my writings from second grade, some of which were rather morbid. There was one story where my class went searching for a hamster and met a whole bunch of animals, and the school ended up floating in the Atlantic. The story ended abruptly, and the teacher asked, "What happened to our school? What happened to Whiskers [the hamster]?" My reply was, "Whiskers came with us. The blue whale wrecked the school and we drowned." There was also a story where I turned into a monkey (from a list of story starters that a lot of teachers had, if I remember correctly), which I reproduce here in its entirety:
( I Was A Monkey )
Man, I really abused the exclamation point back then, didn't I? And no, I'm not sure why my school contained a deadly fire pit, or why I was inconsistent over whether or not the school had turned into a jungle.
