I spent some time today going through my desk drawers throwing things out that I don’t need anymore, and I stumbled upon an old flash drive. I put it in to see what was on it, and it was my old online journal which I had downloaded when the service shut down (teenopendiary.com – RIP). Reading through it, I realized a few things:
1. All teenagers are ridiculously self-absorbed.
2. I don’t think I ever really liked the guy I crushed on through the entirety of high school.
3. It makes perfect sense that I became an Advertising major, the signs were everywhere:
- “I wish all my projects were group projects.”
- “I hate that I can’t draw anything. Oh well, at least I know what I would draw.”
- “The presentation was so fun!”
4. I’ve always been a nerd.
5. When I moved to New Haven, Connecticut from Sydney, Australia – the transition was much easier than I thought it would be.
6. My mother has consistently given me really good advice.
I kept that first journal for three years, then moved over to another service, then blogger, then WordPress and now WordPress & Tumblr (which I’ve been updating more often than this blog). So, technically I’ve been “blogging” since 2000. I don’t think when I was fourteen I even knew what blogging was, but it’s so great to have this running track record of my life and thoughts between the ages of fourteen and twenty two.
I absolutely neglected blogging (and sleeping) during finals week, but now that it’s over I’ll be writing more frequently and enjoying having a little time off.
Pretty psyched.
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