I found my original 7 digit ICQ number from high school (5518461). Did any of you have an ICQ account or am I the only nerd? After I found it I decided to download ICQ but none of my contacts were preserved. That led me to download AIM (Screen name: Blasian2k in case you were wondering) and logging into it I saw that ALL of my contacts were preserved, but nobody was on-line. Reading the screen names of my friends from high school brought back a lot of memories and led me to the gem of an e-mail which is partially listed below.
I was digging around in my student E-mail account from SFA and thought it would be fun to check and see if I could find anything interesting and I found a draft version of an e-mail I had written my first semester in college (Aug 2000) to my friends back in Killeen. For your amusement, an exert from an E-mail entitled “Howdy”.
“Hey guys, well, i made it. I’m in college, and college life is waaaayy different. Today i ate lunch at like 10:30 just for the hell of it, so that was pretty cool. Well since i dont have a computer in my room yet, i’m at the library and using my school email (the internet is down in the library, so i cant use my hotmail account just yet. Feel free to add this addy to your address book or whatever. Man! Talk about being a nobody!! In high school i woulda had a cool car, and be a top dog in ROTC, but here no body cares! I guess that’s cool, in a way, but it’s just a big drop! Yesterday I went to the Wesley Center (it’s a Methodist Student Orgaization) for some free food and to meet some new people. Its wierd, cuz i dont know anybody, but everybody know’s me (as Mike’s little brother). Last night we went out to see a movie (i got dragged to a chick flick, Center Stage) and got back around 11:30…”
Apparently e-mail didn’t have spell check back then… In my defense, this was before I completed freshman English. Actually I think this was my second or third day at SFA (judging from the free meal at Wesley which should have been on a Wednesday). I laughed out loud when I read this and then was immediately transported back in time to freshman year; I wouldn’t want to re-live it but I would LOVE to re-play it (maybe God has it on Tivo). What a wild 7 years it has been.
Looks like Miles’ talk at orientation got to ya: “You are a ZERO here!” You did have that back then didn’t you?
It’s always fun to look back and see how you once thought things through…and to look at yourself now and see how much you’ve grown up!
Well, you did have a rep at the Wesley….Mike’s little brother. That’s gotta’ mean something.
And I had ICQ…but I don’t remember what my number was.