Found Film

So… that roll of film I found yesterday? Turns out that it’s got a ton of pictures of my going-away party. I had just graduated from grad school, and was heading off to Chicago to try and make my way as a Flash designer.

The pictures (below) are presented in order. What a totally crazy, wonderful thing to stumble across after so many years.

Sidenote: I got incredibly drunk at this going-away party, and woke up the next day in severe pain. To top things off, my dad was en route to come pick me up, I still had packing to do and the entire kitchen area made sticky noises everytime you walked over the linolium.

My buddies Matt and Dave were kind enough to stop over the next day (both of them hung over like champs), and helped me clean the apartment top to bottom in record time. I don’t know how we managed to clean that place up, but we did.

My time as a grad student in Columbus, Ohio, was pretty fantastic. I grew a lot as a writer, and had the good fortune to hang around a ton of talented poets, essayists and fiction writers. I look back on that part of my life with a great deal of warmth and fondness. Based on the pictures below, I hope you can see why.