1000 Journals Project

Have you ever heard of the 1000 Journals Project? No? Well, neither had I until one day whilst living on Anna Street in Denton I happened upon a plastic sack on my back porch filled with:

A) An old t-shirt, black, faded, plain
B) A Nintendo Game controller
C) A Journal

I had no idea where the bag came from and to this day I don't know HOW it got there, but later I find out who it belonged to - Jimmy McWhinney.

At the time Jimmy was in China and I had no way of knowing that the bag was for him, he didn't tell me that the bag was coming, and I don't think he had any idea that it was coming with one of these coveted journals.

If you find one you are supposed to log on to www.1000journals.com and then register and tell them where you found the journal. I logged on and was suddenly flooded with requests for the journal. People all around the globe kept requesting the journal.

Inside the journal were writings and drawings and all this cool stuff about other people, sort of like a mini diary excerpt from a bunch of random people. I wrote 10 things I have learned in this life, and some other dumb stuff. I then sent the Journal to Sydney, Australia to a girl named Sara. Apparently the journal never resurfaced because 3 years later I get an email from 1000 Journals asking me if I have the address of the person I sent the journal to. I said, "Um... No". At the time I had no reason to keep that information. Then, the thousand Journals people wanted to interview me, IN PERSON, and I was like yeah, okay, and they wanted me to answer all these questions, and then they kept hounding me about that stupid journal and if I could remember any more details about Sara and if you read my "How to annoy me... " section then you would know that it just don't pay to hound me so I finally put them on IGNORE and stopped respoding to their emails.

If I had it to do all over again I would have been more careful with the journal and where I sent it, when I sent it I actually asked the post office for one of those receipts that you get that lets you know when the person actually got the package, well, I never got a card saying they received the package and I lost the card that would allow me to track the package down... I know, sumo lame.

So, I think they started a second set of journals over at 1000 journals. It is a really cool idea so if you are bored, pop over to their site and check it out...

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