Moving sucks, you guys. But hey, look, old fic!

[bessyboo]

So, when my family moved out of the house I grew up in after my parents' divorce, I ran out of time to go through all the stuff in my bedroom, and it all ended up getting thrown in boxes (without any organization or looking at), which got stuck in the back of my kitchen in my current apartment

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[reena_jenkins]

To make you feel better about your fifth-grade Harry Potter nerdism (you're in good company):

When I was in fifth grade, me and two other friends were the Harry Potter NerdsTM of our class. Chamber of Secrets had just come out, and the three of us were racing through the book, so as to be done with reading it before summer break began. We used to compare what page number we'd reached each night at snack time the next day- it was pretty competitive. We also had deep and philosophical discussions about where Voldemort was hiding THIS year, and snickered about breaking into the girls bathroom. I don't exactly remember whose idea it was, but our fifth grade teacher was a big fan of 'creativity' and 'self expression' in the form of Drama Time, and we decided to re-enact a scene from the book. A scene where Fred and George dropped a stack of books on Ron's head. In mime.

Needless to say, our skit was not met with critical acclaim.

[bessyboo]

Oh, me and my friends (mainly smashfantastic, green_griffin1 and aviria, but there were a couple other too) were TOTALLY the Harry Potter Nerds all the way through 7th grade, at which point it turned into the Fanfiction Nerds. I actually found an "I Am" poster (pictures/collage expressing who you are, including a poem written with a template where every line starts "I am...") when going through stuff for the move, made for 7th or 8th grade health class (can't remember which) in which I put the word "fanfiction" in every line of the poem. I even put "I am Bess "Fanfiction" [last name]" in the first name line, so that I'd actually have "fanfiction" in every line XDDD The popular boys in the class LOVED that one--I heard about it for WEEKS. I was utterly unapologetic. LOL junior high...

In MIME? What are you talking about, THAT IS AWESOME :DDDDDDDDDD

[reena_jenkins]

The creative genius behind MIME might seem awesome now, but in fifth grade, when no-one else in the class had read the book, and when the scene itself was mostly dialogue and a pratfall adapted by 12-year-olds with no real experience in theater....... I think the nicest thing you could honestly say about it, was that we 'tried'. You know, A for effort and all that....

As for digging up nostalgic writing projects while packing: I found a report I wrote in the third grade, on why Egypt was the best country to go visit. It contains the (unedited for spelling) following paragraph:

"Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure are all dead Egyptian Kings. You can see where they are burried in the Egyptian desert. Their pyramids are the Great Pyramids because they are the biggest."

(I also included a drawing of the pyramids in oil pastel in the report (I don't recall why I used oil pastels instead of markers, however)).

[bessyboo]

That still is awesome, albeit in more of a "haha omg how ridic were we as children" sort of way. And totally the sort of thing me and my friends would have done too, so you're not at all alone XD

LOL I remember finding a bunch of those sorts of things last move, from all the storage units in our old basement. I remember finding what was probably my earliest fanfic, which was, of all thing, for a class assignment. It was an alternate ending to "The Great Gilly Hopkins", from when I was in fourth grade.

I definitely remember also finding a report on Egypt, which was in one of those default script fonts, set inside a default clip art scroll shape, on printer paper stained with tea. I clearly put more work into the presentation than I did the actual report XD

Their pyramids are the Great Pyramids because they are the biggest.
New favorite description of the Great Pyramids. Totally. XD

And clearly you used pastels because they are awesome :DDDD

[queelez]

Re: fanfiction. Oh dear.

On a real life sort of thing, where's this new apartment?

[bessyboo]

Haha, you know you love it :P (I still kind of can't get over "Shenaynay". Just.....WAT >.<)

Actually, it's a block and a half past aviria's house XD It's in Como area.