Time for a Little Break (Dance)
I’m sure all you’ve done since I’ve been gone is pray that I’d return, and that’s sweet and all, but I’m still doing what I said I was doing before at a decent pace, so this is merely a brief interruption to my sabbatical, not an end.
(I know I’m pushing it. If I stay away too much longer, the few Record fans left will give up hope and I’ll have to start all over. Just give me a little more time, please. Would it help if I told you that I have missed you?)
I’m just dropping in to share a couple gems I found in a box in the top of my closet today while I was looking at old photographs instead of packing for our trip to Abilene. It’s not really my fault I got sidetracked. Chris is the one who announced that the software update that would make our scanner work with our computer again had finally come out. How I could think about anything else with all that scanning I’ve had backing up?
Anyway, right now, I’m really just focusing on scanning in pics from undergrad. (I don’t know what I’ll do with them. Maybe I’ll put a few on Facebook or something.) But I came across one from way before undergrad and couldn’t resist pairing it up with it’s partner from HSU. Enjoy.
Me (and most of Papa Joe) at our house in New Jersey, Christmas 1985.
Me (and Janice, Darrah, and Kelly) dressed like 1985 outside The Black-Eyed Pea before some costume function at HSU, Fall 1999.
It’s too bad you can’t see the back of my hair. It was pretty incredible. If only I’d been born 10 years earlier. (Incidentally, some of my Basic Writing students thought perhaps I went to Senior Prom in 1987.) When C.C. saw this picture, he didn’t even notice our clothes. He just gave me this disapproving look and said, “Gee, Katy, you’ve really started wearing a lot of make-up since you went to college.”
Break over.
6 comments
Awww… Freshman year! And a photo of 4 girls I love! At least I know what one of you is up to! :)
Katy, were you a freshman at HSU in 1999?
And you said that you’d never wear so much makeup that mom would have to hand you a tissue every day to wipe some off before school!
The pic of you in ‘85 could be C in 2 or 3 years - of course, you already knew that :)
Jules — Aw, shucks. You know, I’ve got a pic from that night with you in it too!
Steve — I’ve already answered you elsewhere, but for the sake of anyone else wondering the answer: I was a Freshman at HSU in 1999.
JSmo — You know, I almost always lightly brush my face with a tissue after I put on make-up, even though I don’t need to. I can’t help it! I always thought it was just about not wanting to have any excess on my face (a.k.a. not wanting to have “make-up lines” & not wanting to get make-up on anyone who might give me a hug), and it is about that. But! I think subconsciously I must hear Mom’s warning to you every morning in the car on the way to school!
Trev — I know she looks like me (and a little like a Merritt, too), but I forget in day-to-day interaction. This pic was an uncanny reminder!
Katy! Your fans are never far away. :) And “for the record,” all these old photos prove what I’ve long suspected: you’ve always been a fox. :)
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