Personal writing left over from grammar school can be a rich source of embarrassment, but it's also a brutally efficient means of personal archaeology: a fossilized layer of personality revealing the obsessions that drove a life and, more often than not, still do. Endearing misconceptions about the way the world works stare out from looseleaf paper alongside some wonderfully immature ideas on success, all suffused with an overarching need to get rich. Animator Laurie Hill, age 34, has recently recycled and reinterpreted a piece of future prognostication written by his 12-year-old former self about his future self: My Life at 40.