If there’s one thing that you are guaranteed to find in my notebooks, it’s doodles. In this first photo you can see my habit of counting down the time until class was over. Oh! And don’t forget the ever popular faceless people. My attempts at faces tend to ruin a picture, so I stopped trying…

Here we see my attempts to duplicate the Professor’s cute doodle. You can’t say I didn’t try. Sigh.

And finally, you can see a bit of my left-handed writing in the date on this one. Apparently I saw a bumper sticker with this motto and it tickled my funny bone. Still does, for that matter. I have a thing for bumper stickers, you see. I need to get one made that says, “Support your local medical examiner. Die strangely.”

One notebook down, a whole stack to go…

From a page with notes for a fanfiction that I don’t remember anything about I found this amusing note:
Doctor’s Answering Machine Message: “Off saving the Universe. Back in 5 minutes. Please leave a message.”

Smack dab in the middle of a to do list is this mysterious note:
“My brain feels like it’s moving through treacle” (I guess that I must have been feeling a bit tired on 4/11/06.)

Apparently, I was planning at one point to make a playlist called “Obscure joy.” I wonder where that idea came from.

How about this one? I have a note (from 4/21/07) that says “Everything was going fine until the Royal Family arrived.” Do I even want to know what was going on before they arrived? [edit: I have found the story that this came from! It appears to be an unfinished chapter of a fanfiction. Mystery solved!]

How about this for an obscure note? “Himself” instead of “his heart”? (Yes, that question mark is part of the note. Again, I mystify myself.)

…And that’s only the first third of the notebook. Stay tuned for more (when I’m done typing up the story that I found.)

This evening I went back to my Great Stack of Notebooks and pulled a red notebook out of the middle. Let’s investigate it together, shall we?

This notebook seems to date from my Master’s Program. The date on the first page is 4/24/00, though I did find some pages from 1999 as well. I found all sorts of notes from my classes, but some of the notes are a bit difficult to figure out. They’re more along the lines of Mysterious Utterances.

A few examples:

“Make 19 photocopies of Planet Biblio.”

“Luddites with bandwidth.” (Sounds like a band name)

“The Day the Earth Didn’t Move Around Too Much.”

“In sometimes painful detail.”

“8,000 Libs 1 door.”

See what I mean? The rest of the notes are boring. So, I’m going to share my [tag]doodles[/tag] with you instead…

It would appear that I needed to purchase a hamper at this point. Check out the little Viking helmet. And yes, hearts are my all time favorite [tag]doodle[/tag]. Do you have favorite doodles?

Here we see another perennial favorite, the combined sun/moon. Eventually the nose would become part of the moon. Hmm…I wonder what future archaeologists will make of the evolution of doodles.

Here we see my repeated attempts to doodle the American Sign Language for “I Love You.” It would seem that my doodle is left-handed. No idea why that is.

A Ha! Here we see something written in a runic alphabet that one of my High School friends developed. What does it say? Well…three words are in English, and two in French. Basically…well…I was saying that I loved my fellow. That is to say, Koshvader. A bit embarrassing, really.

And finally, we see that my perpetual state of tired has been around for quite a while. I even wrote “sleep” in Cyrillic. I must have forgotten how to actually say it in Russian.

There you go. [tag]Notebook[/tag] number two. Now all I need to do is determine if I actually need to keep any of these notes. Then I can recycle what I don’t need, and I have another notebook to use. There are lots of blank pages left.