Not unhealthy childhood focus.

I’m finding it strange to get older. I’ve hit the age where I’ve had fully formed thoughts, and completely forgotten them. Much like Shippy, I’ve been coming up with some of these more and more lately. The most recent was shocked back into the frontal lobe by a Boing Boing post about a new Flickr genre – photographs of the contents of a purse, bag, manpurse, etc.

I’ve always really really enjoyed learning what was in other people’s wallets and purses. When I was a girl, I thought it was interesting what other little girls thought they needed to put in their little girl purses. I think I went through a brief purse phase (it was stone washed denim) but it was brief. Up until AmeriCorps, I never carried a purse, and the only reason why I did after AmeriCorps was because my roommate, Hottie Katie, gave me the one she had that I happened to like.

I also found it fascinating that although a wallet is supposed to be a succinct version of a purse, they often have just as much crap in them. Random things written down on paper are just as good as finding a small hammer or packet of McDonald’s maple syrup in a purse.

So, I’m excited about this Flickr page, and will take more pleasure out of it than the average bear.