More mementos

[rebeccmeister]

I wound up at least briefly going through those other boxes this morning, mostly because in the shuffled contents of one box, I could see a couple of medals from some athletic event or another, and I knew they weren't grouped with the other box and bag of medals.

I skipped over most of the cards and letters, for now. Should I save all of those wedding announcements? I don't know, but I realized that it was more useful to group them together than try to keep things in any kind of chronological order.

I am glad I went through those boxes. I found some really important items in one box - a cut-and-sewn doily made by my grandma Clark, a crocheted piece by her as well, and that one doily I made once. Plus a tatted table runner.

Here are all of the medals I have wound up with, from 19-plus years of rowing, a little bit of running, and about 10 years of long-distance bicycling in "t-shirt events."



Many of these medals lack very basic information, like the year of the event and category of the race. When I mentioned the dilemma of what to do with all of this stuff last Sunday, S remarked that there should be a rule that medals can only be made of precious metals, so that people won't go around making them and giving them away so willy-nilly. There might be even more medals from high school hiding in a box somewhere in Seattle, or maybe I actually got rid of those. I think I threw away a bunch of ribbons already. For the moment, I think I am going to stuff these ones all back into bags and boxes. Learn from this: Write the relevant information on the back of the medal when you get it. Or don't. If you can't remember how you earned it, it must not have been that meaningful an experience anyway.

A couple of the other items that made me laugh:


My brother made this postcard for me while I was writing my dissertation.


My sister drew this comic for me at some point during graduate school.


I printed out and pasted up this Dilbert comic in an office at some point.


This one you'll just have to look at closely. I don't remember where I got it, but it's hilarious!

Comments

[bluepapercup]

OK, that checklist is a good laugh! Thanks for sharing. Also - best dissertation title.

[annikusrex.livejournal.com]

checklist looks to be seattle in origin (4culture is a seattle organization) but beyond that i can't help.

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

You know, it came from Bumbershoot one year, I now remember. Probably from that section of literary-themed things, which was always so intriguing (where they'd have things like letterpresses and such).