Triple Feature ...
I spent most of the morning dizzy, recovering from last night's fiesta. It was a slow day highlighted by me not doing any work whatsoever on my Geography essay, like I should've. Most of us who had to do it sat around today talking a lot about needing to do it. Does that count?
We ended up "hiring" three movies (Lee doesn't like it when us Americans say "renting" a video): The impeccably horrible "The Invisible Kid," the hilariously brilliant "Real Genius" and the gory "Re-Animator." We then slumbered in Kenny and Lee's room for the better part of five hours watching these films straight through.
It was a satisfying and cheap evening, which featured a good deal of pointless conversation as well. I finally came out on top in a game of poker tonight, winning a whopping 25p... just enough to enable me to now buy a copy of the Sunday Times tomorrow.
It's great how some things work out.
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It was 20 years ago today...
Welcome to my retro-blog! The year was 1988. Ronald Reagan was in his final months as president. George Michael was rocking the charts with his album "Faith." Gas cost about 90 cents a gallon in the U.S. (or £2.65 for a gallon of petrol in Great Britain.)
It was also at this time that as a freshman at Millersville University in Pennyslvania, I made the decision to spend my sophomore year of college studying at Humberside College of Higher Education in Hull, England. (Note: Today it is known as Lincoln University, and the campus has moved out of Hull.)
One thing I did do was manage to write something about every day I was studying abroad, from my departure from home in Camp Hill, Pa. (a suburb of Harrisburg) on Sept. 20, 1988, until I returned to the States on June 23, 1989.
I chronicled everything I experienced... some of it mundane, some intriguing, and once in a while, a little frightening. You know, typical college student stuff.
It's been years since I've cracked open the worn red notebook binder that holds all 272 pages of handwritten notes that I took while living at 3 St. Martin's, The Grange, Beverley Road, Hull, England. As you can imagine, there are many events that I had completely forgotten that I am rediscovering as I share them here.
Since blogs weren't around in 1988, I really had no way of sharing my journal with others. But now, on the 20th anniversary of this experience, I thought it might be fun to create a retro-blog, and highlight the days' events as if they had just happened.
I intend to recount these events fully unabridged, save for the occasional need to fill in a necessary detail here and there for your benefit, on the dates they occurred.
I'll pepper it with photos and related links as much as possible. Feel free to comment and quiery as you see fit. I will do my best to not reveal any events before they appear in the blog. That way, you can see how events unfold much as they did back then, in the days before e-mail, iPods, digital photography, cell phones (well, for the common among us, anyway) and blogs.
Enjoy!
It was also at this time that as a freshman at Millersville University in Pennyslvania, I made the decision to spend my sophomore year of college studying at Humberside College of Higher Education in Hull, England. (Note: Today it is known as Lincoln University, and the campus has moved out of Hull.)
One thing I did do was manage to write something about every day I was studying abroad, from my departure from home in Camp Hill, Pa. (a suburb of Harrisburg) on Sept. 20, 1988, until I returned to the States on June 23, 1989.
I chronicled everything I experienced... some of it mundane, some intriguing, and once in a while, a little frightening. You know, typical college student stuff.
It's been years since I've cracked open the worn red notebook binder that holds all 272 pages of handwritten notes that I took while living at 3 St. Martin's, The Grange, Beverley Road, Hull, England. As you can imagine, there are many events that I had completely forgotten that I am rediscovering as I share them here.
Since blogs weren't around in 1988, I really had no way of sharing my journal with others. But now, on the 20th anniversary of this experience, I thought it might be fun to create a retro-blog, and highlight the days' events as if they had just happened.
I intend to recount these events fully unabridged, save for the occasional need to fill in a necessary detail here and there for your benefit, on the dates they occurred.
I'll pepper it with photos and related links as much as possible. Feel free to comment and quiery as you see fit. I will do my best to not reveal any events before they appear in the blog. That way, you can see how events unfold much as they did back then, in the days before e-mail, iPods, digital photography, cell phones (well, for the common among us, anyway) and blogs.
Enjoy!
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About Rick of the Future
- Rick Reitz
- Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Today I am a husband and a father of two living in Central Pennsylvania. Graduated from Millersville University in 1991. Worked as a newspaper writer and editor for much of my career. Currently work for Web Services at a large community hospital. I still own that cool hat.
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