Just a little bit of history repeating...
(Yes, my default icon has changed, if you notice above. Someone lodged a copyright complaint against my icon, which was a scan of a notecard by an artist, Nihad Dukhan. I'm sad to have to lose it, but, on the chance it was, say, Professor Dukhan himself who complained, I deleted it. Sigh.)
Every so often, you come up against pieces of your history, preserved like bugs in amber. In fact, there may be some bugs in amber in my childhood room; I would not be surprised to find an entire fossilized menagerie, or, say, a small island nation, somewhere in the middle of the ugliest yellow carpet you've ever seen. Anyway, my father is going on a cleaning spree, and asked me to jump in. I managed to go through one bookshelf before my allergies got the better of me.
In that process, I found two pieces of evidence than I have, in fact, always been like this.
1. Young Amal: The Elementary School Version.
REDACTED: Five pages of the "alien alphabet," which looks suspiciously like the English alphabet, only in boxes and with extra lines.
Author's Note: Amal Nahurriyeh is in first grade at Whitest Suburb Ever Elementary. She likes cats, reading, and going to museums. When she grows up, she wants to be a teacher.
2. Young Amal, the High School Years
Imagine my surprise to find this on the bottom shelf of my bookshelf, still in perfect condition.
I'm guessing it was a Christmas gift from my folks; my mom's always liked to give calendars.
Every so often, you come up against pieces of your history, preserved like bugs in amber. In fact, there may be some bugs in amber in my childhood room; I would not be surprised to find an entire fossilized menagerie, or, say, a small island nation, somewhere in the middle of the ugliest yellow carpet you've ever seen. Anyway, my father is going on a cleaning spree, and asked me to jump in. I managed to go through one bookshelf before my allergies got the better of me.
In that process, I found two pieces of evidence than I have, in fact, always been like this.
1. Young Amal: The Elementary School Version.
REDACTED: Five pages of the "alien alphabet," which looks suspiciously like the English alphabet, only in boxes and with extra lines.
Author's Note: Amal Nahurriyeh is in first grade at Whitest Suburb Ever Elementary. She likes cats, reading, and going to museums. When she grows up, she wants to be a teacher.
2. Young Amal, the High School Years
Imagine my surprise to find this on the bottom shelf of my bookshelf, still in perfect condition.
I'm guessing it was a Christmas gift from my folks; my mom's always liked to give calendars.