anniversaries

[electricland]

This month is:

10 years since I should have graduated from university, and instead failed nearly all my lab courses and barely scraped through my honours thesis and got an internship at a national magazine and then sat around and did nothing for 6 months until my parents got fed up and told me to get a job.

20 years since we left Kenya.

I don't know what I was doing 30 years ago. Probably nothing that exciting. I didn't fall off the balcony onto my head until I was 3, so it wasn't that.

Still, it's making me feel as though weird portentous things ought to be happening. Or not -- I could probably come up with equally significant anniversaries for just about anything.

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[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

10 years ago this summer, I was working as a night laundry lady at a hotel, and doing summer Shakespeare in a tent.

20 years ago this summer, I was incredibly jealous of my friends across the street, whose parents had taken them to see Back to the Future at the drive-in. My parents never took me to the drive-in.

30 years ago this summer, I was about this big --> .

[electricland.livejournal.com]

clearly you were a fine healthy ovum!

I am constantly amazed by all your jobs.

[gurudata.livejournal.com]

Hiho,

Hey, that beats me. I only fell off a see-saw headfirst. Which I always thought explained many things... :)

Cu,
Andrew

[electricland.livejournal.com]

What makes it even better is that it was an island in Muskoka -- my parents had to take me to Parry Sound (I think) by boat and car! Although I don't really remember anything about that part.

god, we all really DID get dropped on our heads as children ;D

[raithen.livejournal.com]

I didn't fall off the balcony onto my head until I was 3, so it wasn't that.

*hee* I fell down the basement stairs in my walker when I was about 10 months.... ;).

Re: god, we all really DID get dropped on our heads as children ;D

[electricland.livejournal.com]

eek!

And yet, here we all are...

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

*hugs* time is an odd thing, and i don't think it's linear. and *ouch* for falling off the balcony. i kind of like that there are anniversaries for
so many things.

even if it's this one: this august is 10 years since jerry garcia died. this month is the anniversary of my last dead show. *sigh*

five years ago this july i quit my old career and now have a job/work i adore working at a place i respect. who would have thunk? ;)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Who indeed? It is strange -- things can sometimes change so much so fast, and you don't realize until you're looking back at them from a distance.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

very true. and then there are moments from farther in the past that feel present every day as if they are still happening. :)