I found this batch of notebooks when I was home for Christmas– I guess I’d missed them on all previous sweeps of my parents’ house. It’s an odd assortment, from when I was in junior high school through my first post-college years when I was living at home again for a little while.

Most of this bunch are the usual 3×5″ spiral notebooks but there are a few interesting oddities. The Doctor Who Diary is not something I ever used, but must have been a gift from someone, as I loved that show when I was a kid. The silvery-looking notebook in the bottom row was handmade– I glued together a stack of little paper slips that my aunt used to bring home from work, and then I covered the outside with duct tape and put an orange address label on it. The duct tape actually made for a nice flexible, durable cover and the notebook is surprisingly intact after about 30 years! The black notebook in the upper row is another odd one– it’s a standard plastic-covered looseleaf, but for some reason I must have decided the covers were too stiff– I sliced them open on the insides and slid out the cardboard inserts.

I can’t even begin to describe all the goofy, fun stuff I found inside the notebooks, so I’ll just leave you with this one mystifying tidbit:  in the 1981 Reminder With Maps, there was a page where I’d scrawled this one word in large letters: “DYMAXION!!!!”