Going along with end-of-the-year looking at old stuff bit, I wanted to share these notes I saved/found from junior high. Did any of you do this? It's only thing all that Sanrio stationery our parents wasted money on was good for. Everyone laid claim to a different character. I messed around with Spotty Dottie for a while and eventually settled on Keroppi the frog, because...I mean...look at him.
Weenie was my nickname since I was a baby up through high school. My oldest friends still call me that.
Vanessa was up on all the hot folding techniques (my thing was layout - I wrote in spirals, wrote in code, made puzzles, and eventually it got so complicated no one read my notes). I haven't opened these in years because I'm afraid I won't be able to fold them back again.
 |
| Front and back |
|
|
Many of our notes revolved around the cultural misadventures of two characters known as Chinaman and Chinawoman. Needless to say, they were not adjusting well to their new life in America. One of my last notes to Vanessa had the pair kicking flowers and wondering whether or not they should go back to China. Judge me if you must, but the series was a hit in Miss Jasso's science class.
I have a shoebox full of these somewhere. I used them to make a prop bulletin board for the
Superhumanoids video I did earlier this year and it was very emotional. Call it method production-design : )
Have a Merry Christmas! Be nice to your parents!
