...because if you drink enough Johnny Walker "products", they will actually just send you the dog...

[bzarcher]

As a favor to paisleycat, I went hunting through my (mostly unpacked!) closet to find any old photos from SciHum - back at that point, I didn't own a digital camera, and I knew I'd shot a fair bit of film now and then, but I really wasn't sure how much if it had survived my moves.

Fortunately, my ability to be a packrat can eclipse my ability to easily lose things.

So, I've been up since Onyx and Patches decided to wake me up by fighting on top of my bed about 3 hours ago, and I've spent the time scanning about a hundred or so pictures, to be uploaded to Flickr for her once I finish.

Bittersweet is about the nicest way I can describe my reaction - it's very painful to see how close so many people were, and how spectacularly a lot of those relationships exploded before our time at Wooster was over. A lot of foolishness and stupidity occured, and I'm well deserving of my fair share of blame in that.

Worse, I also can't help but kick myself for falling out of touch with so many people who I see in these pictures and just barely remember - yet it at least 2 of the cases, I know they lived right next door.

I know I changed a lot in the last 3-4 years. Have they? What's happened to them - where did life take them?

I don't know, and a fair part of it is my own fault for not trying to find out.

It's 9:45. The bar doesn't open up until 10:30, and dear god, I need a drink.

Edit: Huh. Turns out I had some old Cardinal Chorale/AOSFYC pictures at the end of one of those rolls, so I'm scanning/uploading them, too.

Lots of good memories in both places, just lots of sad reflections on them, too.

Things will probably look better after a cup of coffee and a muffin.

Comments

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaby aminals. :D

[paisleycat.livejournal.com]

I'm really hoping I can get other folks to do what you did and scan in old hard copy pics. I will be doing some once Alex gets home tonight, and I know a couple people IMed me about doing so today. Hopefully the interest and good stuff outweighs the less palatable feelings?

[bzarcher.livejournal.com]

I am looking forward to seeing more - will you share them off your journal or account? I do hope that the good will outweigh the bad, and I'm sure that not having to go through my own stuff will help with that. :D

(Also, if you wish to copy some of my stuff to your own space or hard drive, feel free.)