Yearbooking

While organizing the seemingly endless boxes of
books, I've found all sorts of treasures. And being less sentimental and ironic
today, I could easily give a third to Goodwill or dump them in the trash or
whatever. I'm not attached to books as I used to be. Recently I've become a
kindle fiction reader, before that I used the library (I don't even know where
the public library is in Clinton Hill. Also, there aren't any gyms in this
neighborhood and I keep putting off using my Pratt alumni status to get crazy
cheap $20/month access to the campus fitness center, which is only two blocks
away. The bigger picture story is that I've become a shut-in. Up until
recently, I had worked from home two to three days per week anyway, but the
superstorm rendered my office unusable and the new building the company is
leasing (in midtown, ugh) won't be available until after the new year, so for
the time being I'm permanently a home worker, which is turning into an even
more sedentary than usual  homebody with
a touch of agoraphobia (I jest on the latter, but I could see how easy it could
be to never leave the apartment).

One treasure was my thin paperback middle school
yearbooks (my hardback high school ones are somewhere in Oregon still) that
enabled me to find the 8th grade photo in the 1983-84 edition, my 6th grade, of
the girl who did a dance routine to Adam Ant's Strip for the talent show. Yes,
I'm still thinking about it. I was bummed that I couldn't find her online to
see how she ended up. I also get obsessed at times (when I'm not browsing
shoes–I wasted a good hour today on that, by the way) with looking up
moderately obscure '80s pop stars to see how they aged, especially those who
were particularly made-up or stylized. How do you feel about Doctor Robert of
the Blow Monkeys?

I'd been spelling her first name wrong, it turned
out (two N's, not one) and I was now able to find her on Facebook and not using her maiden name, working at a car dealership in Sandy. I'm refraining from posting her middle school
photo because now that I'm 40 I'm supposed to have integrity and restraint. She
just looks like a middle-aged mom, not unattractive, certainly, though no matter how much I scrutinize the photo there's no hint of a waver past. Then again, what percent of cool kids grow up to be cool adults? I used to think she had an exotic (sorry,
can't think of a better word) beauty like maybe she was part Indian? Huh, I
just discovered that Helena Christensen is half-Peruvian (and was married to Daryl from Walking Dead?!) while Google imaging  because that's the coloring I
was thinking of when this former 8th grader comes to mind.

6th grade

Who's to say how you'll turn out 30 years later? In my photo
from 1983-84 I look like a Mexican boy (or maybe Inuit–I appear to have no
eyelid crease, which in some ways is reassuring because I thought my upper
eyelids drooping was a recent development) with Over the Edge hair with a touch of Matt Dillon. I think I
resemble a female now, and am not even vaguely Latina in appearance.

Also, animal and intarsia (I'm still not sure how that differs from fair isle, but I keep seeing the word thrown around) sweaters are in right now (I've
been looking for a good cat version) so at least those scottie dogs are right
on.

 

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