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Pompeii?

Some day stuff like this is all that will be left of us, besides our acreage-gobbling burial places.

a typical dayThis is an example of the to-do list I have been making every day since I was in the 9th grade..The 9th grade!I came upon it this morning on one of my million legal pads and,  because I wasn't quite awake yet, thought, "Great, it's my list! Ok, what am I supposed to do first?"It took me a while to realize it was a list that I had made ... when?A year ago? Two years ago?I study it and think 'What a busy girl!' And also, I wonder if I got it all done?   Probably not but I I know I sure tried.Someday, stuff like this is all that will be left of us, besides our acreage-gobbling burial places. It'll be like what we know of the inhabitants of Herculaneum and Pompeii after Vesuvius blew her top: besides our bones-and-dust and a few gold teeth there'll just be a bunch of old kitchenware and some wall treatments - though hopefully not just the sex-and-phallus-glorification kind like they left. The theory is, this was an oil lamp:oil lampNo accounting for tastes I guess. . Right now people rummaging among my things would find a bunch of sample grey damask papers for highly outdated front hall (speaking of wall coverings. :-)grey damask

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