Winter Cleaning... Or, The Things You Find

serleran · Post by **serleran** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:10 am

So, I was bored all day, not wanting to write anything or do much of anything, so I started throwing stuff away, grabbing papers and looking them over before shredding and tossing them into the garbage. After a while, I got to the top of the desk where a pile of weird things had conglomerated. Therein, to my utter surprise, a stack of old writings... not RPG stuff, but junk I did in high school, college, and one lonely, depressing, summer where I pumped out toilet-inducing poetry. So, I figure, what the hell, and I read it... what a mistake. Now, some of it was OK, and brought back some interesting memories, but man, what a retard I was, and still am. Good thing I decided against trying to publish that pile of fertilizer, and now it can recede into the nether again, leaving the world of mortal thoughts in peace. Or something equally vile.

Heck, there was even a moment where I'd considered posting "one of the good ones." What the hell is wrong with me?
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dachda · Post by **dachda** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:15 am

OMG, I've a pile of stuff just like that from my high school and college days. A couple of nice pieces but mostly just a pulpy manure pile. Especially the angst filled high school poems, god I thought I was so profound at the time. While reading your post I was crying and laughing at the reminder of my own pile o' crap.
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Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:32 am

I've destroyed that stuff long, long ago. Some people can't bear to part with it, I couldn't bear keeping it around.
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Buttmonkey · Post by **Buttmonkey** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:52 pm

I stumbled across a paper I wrote in a high school English class a couple years ago. It was extremely humbling (and terrifying). I could not believe how badly I wrote back then. Especially since I was a straight A student and got an A on the damn thing. Looking that paper over again forced me to seriously reevaluate what high school students are capable of. I suuuuucked back then. Thank God for college.

Troll Lord · Post by **Troll Lord** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:38 pm

I destroyed my high school ramblings long ago, mostly they went up in smoke . . .

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Random · Post by **Random** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:53 pm

I still have an epic poem (well, epic for me, it was 416 lines) that I wrote in 12th grade. It took the entire 50 minute class period to read it aloud!

Normally high school poestry sucks (probably this one too), but this was the fanciful and ridiculous tale of Bob and his extravagant adventures through the various locations of my imagination, with none of that wussy angsty teeny crap you see other people writing!

I have all of the drawings I ever did in school as well, and it's amazing to see the stuff I did at different times in my life.

cinderblock · Post by **cinderblock** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:12 pm

Its my belief that you cannot be held responsible for high school poetry as you are vacant of anything resembling good sense during that most awkward of periods.

sieg · Post by **sieg** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:17 pm

True; I still cringe in terror every thime I think that one of the boxes around here holds my 9th grade attempt at writing my own RPG. Like Gamma World, but (so I thought at the time) much "Cooler"!"
Of course, what really scares me is that Liz will come across it first... Gaakkk!
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CKDad · Post by **CKDad** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:51 pm

sieg wrote:
Of course, what really scares me is that Liz will come across it first... Gaakkk!
If IR announces on the board that she's divorcing me...you'll know why!

Would that be worse than your wife stumbling across a notebook of poems you wrote to an old girlfriend?

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sieg · Post by **sieg** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:37 am

Well, having only written one (horrible) poem and to my wife (while we were dating) I don't know.

I suppose it would be worse, unles the RPG had a ex-girlfriend posing for the cover?
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