The story behind the title

You are all probably wondering why I came up with such a strange title for this blog. Back in college, I seemed to consistently lose laundry in the dorm, socks being the main item lost. After a while it became quite the joke! My roommate that year and I also seemed to collect a lot of interesting stories and observations about our classes, teachers, and campus life in general. Some of those stories are still quite funny. Others weren’t funny at the time, nor are they today, but were great life experiences that I know helped shape me, and I’m certain did the same for her.

One day we were joking around and started talking about how we should one day all write a book about our experiences, not necessarily for publication, or for anyone else to read, but just because it would be fun. We eventually got around to talking about what we might title our books. Of course it was laundry day, and after losing a few more socks in the dryer, I half out of annoyance, and half joking said I was going to call mine “The Dryer Eats My Socks.” She decided she would write the sequel, “And the Washer Spits Them Out Again”, but then decided she couldn’t really write her life experiences and say it was a sequel to mine because that didn’t make sense, so she picked a different title, although I can no longer remember what it was.

Anyway, 20 years later, the title still sticks with me, and as I will probably never actually write a book, and you can’t really title a series of individual e-mails, I figured this blog thing was a close as I’d get.

So that’s the story! Probably not as exciting as you were hoping for, but isn’t it funny the memories that stick with you for so long? I’ve long since lost track of my roommate, can’t remember any of the Calculus, German, or “Fun with Ancient Rhetoric” class I took in college that year, and still don’t know where all those socks went. Al Gore hadn’t even invented the Internet yet! But from that silly series of events 20 years ago, you get the title of this blog, and I get a chance to share a little of my life with you.

Have a great day!