Tonight we were looking for something upstairs and we unearthed an unexpected treasure: my 1997 bookbag, locked frozen in time somewhere around mid-May.
I changed bookbags for my senior year and discarded this one in a corner somewhere and it must’ve made it over in the move.
What great stuff it contained! A fascinating time capsule complete with 1997 yearbook featuring me with a flippy bowl-cut during my inaugural year as a black belt. There is a great write-up in there that included some quotes from Sensei Brewer and a picture of my sister kicking me in the stomach. Good times.
This was also the year that Tasha and I started dating, so there were loads of great notes and cards from here in there. The yearbook commemorated the Homecoming dance that happened roughly two months prior to when we started dating… it was so weird to see us both with other dates to a function.
In the bookbag was my trusty Eddie Bauer umbrella that served me well throughout my sophomore and junior year, I had thought it lost for a long time. That thing never wore out or turned inside out and I loved it. The front zipper pouch contained my trusty calculator that sported two “I Love Math” stickers from times that I was able to not fail one of Mr. Wooding’s tests (thank you dear!), and my small snippet of The Towel of Knowledge.
At the very bottom of my bookbag was an unexpected treasure… the little golden man from the top of one of our Speech and Debate trophies. I can’t remember how exactly it came into my possession, I seem to think that it was the year they made Mr. Ewan clear all the trophies from the window of his room and he was just giving them away because they would be thrown out. I took the most prestigious looking one, I don’t know why I kept it.
It was fun traipsing down memory lane for a little bit… I’m confident that I got the best girl in that entire school. Unfortunately, there was no advertisement for the little cafe that we had our first date at, so I still don’t know the name. I may have to go down to the library and go through some archives to find out what that place was called so it didn’t drive me crazy.
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