After a good deal of encouragement from Dan (and I know I am totally at fault for the long delay), our oldest desktop computer is finally on the way to silicon heaven (or more likely, silicon hell). A not-so-new (see above, long delay) Dell Dimension took its place. Since it is old enough to still be running Windows XP, it had no issues or problems for me to deal with, except for hauling a boat-anchor CRT monitor from one side of the room to the other. Oh, and removing the free included and so totally not worth it WordPerfect office suite and replacing it with the far from free and also so totally not worth it, but at least more compatible with the rest of our computers, Microsoft Office suite.
I went to find Office in the box o’ software, manuals and other stuff. This is what I found instead (Office did turn up later at a completely inappropriate location):
That would be the freshman “pig book” with a good number of the Class of 1980 of Northwestern University. We all received this sometime during the summer before our freshman year.
We were obviously not concerned with identity theft or personal privacy, with full addresses published. We are obviously also from a time when dinosaurs still walked the earth, because you will notice that no email addresses are included in the listings. The Internet is something that wouldn’t happen until way too late to help me graduate. And I didn’t, but hey, I made something of my life anyway. But don’t be like me, finish college, okay?
I don’t know how my former classmates would feel about being in my blog so they are blurred out. Forgive me for my own modern-day paranoia, but my parents still live at that blurred-out address. I still like writing (see, look I’m doing it now) and music. The meeting people part, not so much, but there are notable exceptions.
This is one of the few times when I am actually glad for my stupid hair. It was (and still is) too heavy to hold a Farrah flip, and didn’t take a perm well either. My reward for having stupid hair is not having photos of myself with blatantly ’70s hair, which is a good thing indeed. I wish you all could see the whole book with all the fine examples of male and female ’70s hair!
Actually, I have been pretty skilled at entirely avoiding photos of myself, so the only semi-recent photo I could find for comparison is still a few years old:
Have I changed much?
If anyone reading this happens to be a more recent Northwestern alum: Do they still do the pig book? Do they still call it the pig book? And most important of all, are Medill students still called Medilldoes?
And on a totally unrelated note: wow, I am the suckiest typographer ever. It took me this long to notice that all of the footers saying (Month) ’09 have the wrong single quote in front of 09. By the time you see this, I might have corrected them all. Or not.
(NaBloPoMo | June ’09: 22 of 30 | 75% Challenge: 149 of 274)