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Ten Years Asleep
Jan. 3rd, 2010 09:12 pmHappy new year!
So, that decade meme. A few points before I start:
1. It's surprisingly hard to reconstruct the LiveJournal-less years, and surprisingly hard to reconstruct some of the actual events even from the years with a LiveJournal (I do seem to write an awful lot of rubbish, don't I?).
2. I've not gone into details about all the relationships because I don't know to what extent other people want to forget things, particularly since most of them are now in other relationships too; the only ones I've mentioned are the ones which I'm fairly sure are public knowledge. Shout if you want me to delete anything.
3. It's surprisingly hard to find any kind of narrative thread. I did some stuff, and then did some other stuff. (I guess that's life; maybe if I spent more time on it I could turn it into a real story, but then it'd be a grillion words long and nobody would read it.) It came as quite a shock to the system, though, after 19 years in full-time education, just how little structure there is to life when you're not subject to the tides and terms of a school or university. I think that's one of the reasons I wanted to go back, if I'm honest with myself; I still like being able to divide the year up into terms and holidays, though I'm starting to find my own kind of rhythm to things in addition to that.
4. This is long and boring and I don't really expect anybody other than myself to be interested in it! There's no easter-eggy tickybox-poll at the end to see if you did read all the way through, I promise.
So, here goes...
( 2000: studying, romancing, examining, defecting, working )
( 2001: Perl-munging, driving, househunting, singing, drinking )
( 2002: moving, festivalgoing, blogging, driving, engaging )
( 2003: driving, disengaging, quitting, fiddling, volunteering )
( 2004: temping, crying, webmastering, escaping, loving )
( 2005: moving, raining, working, eating, singing )
( 2006: meeting, twittering, moving, returning, rethinking )
( 2007: jobhopping, geeking, engaging, running, spodding )
( 2008: running, queueing, marching, planning, waiting )
( 2009: wedding, running, homeowning, protesting, sparkling )
And now here we are in 2010, continuing to potter along through life. I've done a lot in the last 10 years; I've done next to nothing in the last 10 years. It all depends where you're standing. Either way, though, it's a lot of coffee-spoons. End of a decade: it's nothing special.
So, that decade meme. A few points before I start:
1. It's surprisingly hard to reconstruct the LiveJournal-less years, and surprisingly hard to reconstruct some of the actual events even from the years with a LiveJournal (I do seem to write an awful lot of rubbish, don't I?).
2. I've not gone into details about all the relationships because I don't know to what extent other people want to forget things, particularly since most of them are now in other relationships too; the only ones I've mentioned are the ones which I'm fairly sure are public knowledge. Shout if you want me to delete anything.
3. It's surprisingly hard to find any kind of narrative thread. I did some stuff, and then did some other stuff. (I guess that's life; maybe if I spent more time on it I could turn it into a real story, but then it'd be a grillion words long and nobody would read it.) It came as quite a shock to the system, though, after 19 years in full-time education, just how little structure there is to life when you're not subject to the tides and terms of a school or university. I think that's one of the reasons I wanted to go back, if I'm honest with myself; I still like being able to divide the year up into terms and holidays, though I'm starting to find my own kind of rhythm to things in addition to that.
4. This is long and boring and I don't really expect anybody other than myself to be interested in it! There's no easter-eggy tickybox-poll at the end to see if you did read all the way through, I promise.
So, here goes...
( 2000: studying, romancing, examining, defecting, working )
( 2001: Perl-munging, driving, househunting, singing, drinking )
( 2002: moving, festivalgoing, blogging, driving, engaging )
( 2003: driving, disengaging, quitting, fiddling, volunteering )
( 2004: temping, crying, webmastering, escaping, loving )
( 2005: moving, raining, working, eating, singing )
( 2006: meeting, twittering, moving, returning, rethinking )
( 2007: jobhopping, geeking, engaging, running, spodding )
( 2008: running, queueing, marching, planning, waiting )
( 2009: wedding, running, homeowning, protesting, sparkling )
And now here we are in 2010, continuing to potter along through life. I've done a lot in the last 10 years; I've done next to nothing in the last 10 years. It all depends where you're standing. Either way, though, it's a lot of coffee-spoons. End of a decade: it's nothing special.
