People love memories. It's how we cherish them that makes us unique from everyone else. Some people keep photo albums, some people make scrapbooks. For me and Kelsey, my best friend and roommate, we keep our memories on a wall. Not like pictures, but items we find in our travels and outings together.
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This all started sophomore year of college. Kelsey lived one floor above me in the same big "33" room in Summit. She came across a particularly unusual paper sign and decided to take it and pinned it to her wall next to her huge vanity mirror. Thus began the Wall of Randomness. Everywhere we went from there on out, we looked for something to capture the excitement or adventure for the day in more than just a Kodak moment. Sometimes the items found us. Her wall grew and the time came to pack up the memories into a shoebox and find a new place to live for the next two years.
Kelsey and I moved into a house with a third person in May of 2006. I was enrolled in summer classes and Kelsey was working a pharmacy internship/rotation for the school in our home town of Wheeling, West Virginia. She came to visit me the last weekend of May for a local band's last concert ever. The minute she arrived, we discussed the continuation of the old tradition. Luckily, that night, it was a good one to remember. This started our Wall of Randomness which shoots up the staircase to the second floor and just to the point of the huge Mario Lemiux poster next to the bathroom door.
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It's now May of 2008. Kelsey and I are ready to pack up and move again. This time we have two whole years worth of memories to take off and shove into boxes. We spent $40 in thumb tacks (push pins as one of my former roommates always called them) and strained ourselves physically and sometimes legally to obtain some of the items on our wall.
We're drinking our Bud Lights, listening to the AOL Holiday Party Mix (it's so bad, it's good), We were being rowdy and sad at the same time. We started tearing down the items which started the wall...
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2 comments:
So far everything sounds good. It follows a good flow and easily leads the reader from paragraph to paragraph. To be honest, it makes me wonder how I am going to be able to break a 10 day vacation with friends into a limited length blog for this first assignment. One of the few questions I am left with regarding your writing though, is a curiosity as to what exactly you and your friend have collected over the past two years? With this in mind i might recommend that you mention a few items, ones of a harmless nature, that you have gathered over the past two years, and where you have gathered them from.
So, pictures, not a problem. I think I'll definite picture the particular items that I'm going to mention. I literally have thousands of items on this wall. It stretches from the door on the first floor to the bathroom door on the second floor. It's massive. I'll try to map out the rest of the house to get a general idea of how massive this is.
Some of the stories won't make sense without some background so I will deviate enough to get the required background information to have the reader feel he/she actually participated in the event the first time and that he/she is sitting there with Kelsey and me reliving it.
I'm going to sit down and plan out the best memories I have with the items on my wall. It's pretty much a 2-year life story of living in that house with Kelsey. It should show the audience that pictures are worth 1000 words, but random crap is priceless to the memory.
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