I’m going through some old floppy discs and seeing what’s on them, archiving what’s worth keeping and then binning the discs. (In ten years time I’ll be repeating the process with CD-ROMs.)
Found a lot of naff clip art, a pub quiz I wrote, some pieces of fiction, posters I designed in support of a JCR rent strike, and … a whole bunch of e-mails from 1994-7.
There are e-mails there from some of the brilliant and lovely people who I knew back then but with whom I’ve subsequently lost touch. But when I look at the ones I wrote… oh boy. Did I really write those? What sort of person was I back then? Not so brilliant and lovely it would seem. Do I keep the e-mail as a reminder of what a horribly self centred and angsty student I was? Or do I put that all behind me and forget about it?
[Update] Hmm, I guess that the fact that I wrote the above means that I’m not totally over being self-centred and angsty.
