The Poetist

In preparation for moving to the west coast I unpacked and delved through boxes and boxes of things that I hadn’t seen in 1.5 – 5 years.  Some of the things I came across made me feel like I had opened a time capsule of who I was when I was younger.  Here are a few things I came across…

This one made me laugh – One of my former email aliases was mmmchocolate007.

I uncovered a notebook with three pages in sequence that looked like this:

1^st page: Dear Graham

2^nd page: Dear Graham

3^rd page: Dear Graham,  

                        No!

I vaguely remember the afternoon when my friend and I drafted responses to Graham, although as I remember it was pre-emptive; I don’t think he had actually asked me anything.  But it’s good to be prepared, I suppose, even way back in the 6^th grade. 

In another notebook I found an entry on Feb 14, 1995 that included these predictions for 2005:

Future #1: “I’m not in love.  I get paid a lot of money part-time.  I’m 21.  I’m going to Baryshnikov’s School of Dancing – New York.  I plan to be a professional Dancer.  I work as Advising Chief-Editor at the Times.  I plan to dance for 10 years then become President.  You only have to be 33.

Future #2:  “I’m 21.  I’m married.  I’m happily married to Christian Bale.  I have triplet girls.  Very identical!  The birth was almost tragic.  All three tried to get out at the same time.  Fortunately we got it straightened out.  … We live in Beverly Hills and Staten Island.  We are very busy, Christian is still acting.  I now work at Baryshnikov’s School of Dance – Manhattan.  I also work as a librarian in the Bronx.  We also have had many successful years on Wall Street, etc.  We also travel to Greenwich Village.”

Well, 2005 was 3 years ago and I’m still not married to Christian Bale.  I should have been more on the ball when parts of Batman Begins were filmed in downtown Chicago.  And speaking of cities, I obviously didn’t know anything about New York City.  I was 11, and still 100% a Cali girl.  Since I have so many friends in NYC hopefully I’ll take that Greenwich Village vacation soon.