Woke up in the almost afternoon. Went to Arby’s for lunch. Been cleaning the house and checking my work email and bugs since then.
Arby’s now serves “Roast Burgers” which is weird. They’re essentially the same roast beef sandwiches they’ve always had but on a different bun and served with lettuce, tomato, and sometimes bacon.
I think cleaning a pile of old stuff always takes longer than it should because you find things that you don’t expect and spend a few moments reminiscing on each found object. Even with only 26 years of life behind me, there’s already a lot of history on the floor of our study.
For example, here’s a random old picture that I took of Shady Side Academy (where I went to high school) back from when I was but a teenager. It’s not a great camera and I think that’s my finger blocking the lower-left corner, but still.
I’m not sure what I was thinking when I took this picture. I was probably attempting to capture the serene snowy landscape and a piece of SSA history. I’d guess it was probably taken senior year.
Snow wasn’t uncommon in Pittsburgh, so this isn’t too extraordinary. Except that the same picture now wouldn’t be the same. A new performing arts center has been built in the middle of the hill and a new path has been put across the quad. So, that picture above could never be taken again. And, of course, there are students in it that have long graduated.
Something else we came across: the Kudos Award we got right before I proposed to Katie. Notice that Theresa put a cute paw sticker on the bottom corner.
Time is relentless. I wonder what new Kudos awards S’n’S has instituted and whether they’ve dropped any of the old ones. I doubt they’re still using the web app I wrote for Kudos proposing and voting.
There are also a few props I swiped from various S’n’S produtions, which one of the best morally ambiguous things I’ve ever done. Any people still in S’n’S reading this: take a small piece of a production you’re in. It’ll be the best way to keep a memory of the shows that mean that most to you after you graduate. I was told that by Hunter Howe, and I wish I had begun to do it earlier.
To finish off, here’s a young Katie with some friends. And a blue man.
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