Spring Cleaning
March 18, 2007
In preparation for leaving the nest, round 3, I have been trying to downsize the piles of stuff I’ve collected over the years. I’ve gotten through most of my academic binders, papers and tests from high school and college, and condensed it all down to a few small stacks of paper. It amazes me to look at it now, remembering so much stuff from back in the day. Some of the finds:
-Notes and papers from a week spent being mentored at NASA, back when I entertained astronaut dreams.
-Copies of tests from math and chemistry competitions (I used to do incredible at these, although midway through college my right brain emerged, and now I can barely recognize most numbers).
-Old letters misplaced but never forgotten.
-Results from a guerrilla opinion survey I did trying to get my high school to change its English course offerings.
-Old workout logs and race results.
-Important looking forms from when I was a president of a fraternity and probably should have filled out and mailed to various higher-ups.
-Way too many random bottle caps.
-An inch of paperwork stemming from a broken army special forces contract (expected ship date: June 28, 2004).
-A career assessment quiz from high school telling me that my dream job was to be a toll both collector or an accountant.
