i've been lugging five boxes of stuff around ever since i left california. ok, so, of course i have way more than five boxes worth of stuff, but i'm talking about the kind of boxes that you never unpack, that you throw in your friend's garage (in durango) or in the basement (in boston). five boxes from salinas to durango to a storage unit to granger street to another storage unit to juliette street and now to lexington street.
in our new place we have more space and more storage so i thought a good project would be to go through them and see what the heck i've been carrying around all this time. i found:
1) old college notes
2) all my summer school teaching materials from alisal high (summer of '05 and '06)
3) old hats
4) my "free love" uniform (if you don't know about this, ask me, it's awesome)
5) tons of notes from people i was with in IV while at pacific, mount hermon, the nexus, and svcc
6) plenty of other randomness
7) OLD JOURNALS. i used to write stuff down in journals (in the days before this blog). this was the find of the day, especially, a journal i kept that ran from late 2004 to when i moved to colorado. what follows are a few interesting selections:
page 1 (september 29, 2004): in nine months i will be done with seminary...not sure what comes after that but i want it to be crazy and different. some of my ideas include: move to boston, work at a college, get a phd, move to india, start a church.
page 61 (march 22, 2005...during my visit to boston after a phd interview at bc): i want to impact the lives of college students but there are so many stupid hoops you have to jump through to get to that point [having a phd and able to teach what you want] a phd is a huge commitment...is that the one i am willing to make?
page 69 (march 25, 2005)...on my way to see beth...now that all the walking is over, i think i really like boston...i could see myself going back.
alright, not the most scintillating writing ever, but this was over FIVE YEARS AGO. incredible to be able to look back and see how this has all unfolded. crazy!
2 comments:
June 15th, 2004. I met this guy named Ryan. This will be the best summer ever.
actually that was 2003 =)
different journal!
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