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Aug. 25th, 2003 12:20 pm::comes out of dwc::
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mcbarnes1970, I'm going to try and name my top ten most life-changing events, but I'm gonna try to change it up a bit. Of course getting married, Ewan's birth, meeting Heather, etc. are important. Duh. Don't need to waste space with the obvious. So I'm going to try to do the top ten other things. These are only in the order in which I think of them.
1. Seeing Star Wars for the first time. Yeah, I know this is probably a duh too, but it's pretty important as you have read about many times in here. No need to bore you with the details again, but it's important. Very important. Life changing.
2. The Challenger explosion. That was a huge one for me. I still can't watch it on TV. I can watch the towers collapse a million times, but I always turn my head when the Challenger explodes. I can still remember Mrs. Biederman coming back into the room after being called outside and leaning against the wall with her hands placed one over the other over her heart. Such a horrible day for this eleven-year-old who loved everything about space and thought that nothing could ever happen to our astronauts.
3. Moving from Texas to Ohio. That was the third time we had moved in five years-- from Indiana to Arkansas to Texas to Ohio. I was so upset because I had made really good friends and was finally happy where I was and so on and so forth, and there we were moving again. I guess I just yelled "I can't take this anymore!" at my dad and he was really upset by it. I don't remember that, but it's been documented in my mom's journal, so it's true for sure.
4. Working at Geauga Lake. Now I know that a summer job isn't exactly a life-changing event for most, but it definitely was for me. I had 0 self confidence, very few friends, no girls interested in me, etc., and then I got to the park and was told by much older girls that I was funny, cute, a good listener, and anything else that could help build a dorky sixteen-year-old's self esteem. Even hooked up with a nineteen-year-old chick too hehe
5. Working in the Writing Lab. Much like GLP, it was another self-confidence booster. Made good friends, learned a lot about myself and my profession, did naughty things, good times.
6. The Diary of Anne Frank blow up. To this day I still hate thinking about that argument with Kay and how upset most of you got because of it. It was so unprofessional and petty and stupid on both sides. I'll probably never go into details about it around most of you b/c you all have opinions about the subject and her and everything that it wouldn't be fair. It was definitely one of the final straws in my battle with AHS and one of the reasons why I knew that I could never work there for my entire career.
7. Deciding to quit teaching. Best decision I ever made, hands down. It was the right moment to do it-- never would have done it now with Ewan and such-- and I never regret it for a second. Sure I'd have job security and all that, but I wouldn't have been happy. When I went back last semester and saw how unhappy everyone still looked and how people complained about things the second they saw me I knew I was right to leave. Besides if I hadn't I wouldn't have met so many people, some of whom I consider to be very good friends.
8. The Chach Pad. Those 3 years living with Nate on campus were great. We had such a great time. Nope, not sharing more than that. Well, get me drunk enough and we can put up a tent in the living room and tell stories hehe
9. My freshman year of college. God, that year sucked. Can't even tell ya. Changed my major 3 times, almost flunked out, horrible stuff. But if it hadn't happened I wouldn't have learned how to be more independent and such.
10. Just growing up during the 80s in general. Yeah, it's kind of a cop-out answer, but I think it made a tremendous difference for those of us who lived through most of it and can remember it vividly. When you're the product of a decade-- meaning whatever decade it is that you can remember all of-- your life is molded by those particular events. Although I was alive for over half of the 70s, I wouldn't say I'm a product of them. I'm certainly a product of the 80s, however. I'm sure most of you can agree to that as well.
Ok, that killed like a REALLY long time, so that was good. Back to doing nothing now :)
::heads back to dwc::
So to follow the lead of
mcbarnes1970, I'm going to try and name my top ten most life-changing events, but I'm gonna try to change it up a bit. Of course getting married, Ewan's birth, meeting Heather, etc. are important. Duh. Don't need to waste space with the obvious. So I'm going to try to do the top ten other things. These are only in the order in which I think of them.1. Seeing Star Wars for the first time. Yeah, I know this is probably a duh too, but it's pretty important as you have read about many times in here. No need to bore you with the details again, but it's important. Very important. Life changing.
2. The Challenger explosion. That was a huge one for me. I still can't watch it on TV. I can watch the towers collapse a million times, but I always turn my head when the Challenger explodes. I can still remember Mrs. Biederman coming back into the room after being called outside and leaning against the wall with her hands placed one over the other over her heart. Such a horrible day for this eleven-year-old who loved everything about space and thought that nothing could ever happen to our astronauts.
3. Moving from Texas to Ohio. That was the third time we had moved in five years-- from Indiana to Arkansas to Texas to Ohio. I was so upset because I had made really good friends and was finally happy where I was and so on and so forth, and there we were moving again. I guess I just yelled "I can't take this anymore!" at my dad and he was really upset by it. I don't remember that, but it's been documented in my mom's journal, so it's true for sure.
4. Working at Geauga Lake. Now I know that a summer job isn't exactly a life-changing event for most, but it definitely was for me. I had 0 self confidence, very few friends, no girls interested in me, etc., and then I got to the park and was told by much older girls that I was funny, cute, a good listener, and anything else that could help build a dorky sixteen-year-old's self esteem. Even hooked up with a nineteen-year-old chick too hehe
5. Working in the Writing Lab. Much like GLP, it was another self-confidence booster. Made good friends, learned a lot about myself and my profession, did naughty things, good times.
6. The Diary of Anne Frank blow up. To this day I still hate thinking about that argument with Kay and how upset most of you got because of it. It was so unprofessional and petty and stupid on both sides. I'll probably never go into details about it around most of you b/c you all have opinions about the subject and her and everything that it wouldn't be fair. It was definitely one of the final straws in my battle with AHS and one of the reasons why I knew that I could never work there for my entire career.
7. Deciding to quit teaching. Best decision I ever made, hands down. It was the right moment to do it-- never would have done it now with Ewan and such-- and I never regret it for a second. Sure I'd have job security and all that, but I wouldn't have been happy. When I went back last semester and saw how unhappy everyone still looked and how people complained about things the second they saw me I knew I was right to leave. Besides if I hadn't I wouldn't have met so many people, some of whom I consider to be very good friends.
8. The Chach Pad. Those 3 years living with Nate on campus were great. We had such a great time. Nope, not sharing more than that. Well, get me drunk enough and we can put up a tent in the living room and tell stories hehe
9. My freshman year of college. God, that year sucked. Can't even tell ya. Changed my major 3 times, almost flunked out, horrible stuff. But if it hadn't happened I wouldn't have learned how to be more independent and such.
10. Just growing up during the 80s in general. Yeah, it's kind of a cop-out answer, but I think it made a tremendous difference for those of us who lived through most of it and can remember it vividly. When you're the product of a decade-- meaning whatever decade it is that you can remember all of-- your life is molded by those particular events. Although I was alive for over half of the 70s, I wouldn't say I'm a product of them. I'm certainly a product of the 80s, however. I'm sure most of you can agree to that as well.
Ok, that killed like a REALLY long time, so that was good. Back to doing nothing now :)
::heads back to dwc::
