My life in the past decade, part 1
It's been almost 2 and a half months since this year began and I still haven't done that review of the last decade yet. I think I'm going to break it in half or thirds, since it's going to take so long else wise.
A summary of the past 10 years:
People call the last decade the "Lost Decade" because of how much it sucked. 9/11, terrorism, failed wars, bad economy, crazy fundies, Bush. My own decade was lost too, because I failed in getting my life anywhere, and it was mostly my fault.
In the last decade, I got one associate's degree. But I spent over half the decade in school, have probably enough credits to get one or two bachelor's degrees, and am going to school for another associates and maybe a bachelors, and what do I have to show for it? I certainly don't have a good job. The entire decade I worked in minimum wage jobs, and I fear that unless I get out there and look for something better, degree or not, I will be doing the same thing next decade as well.
Look at what the decade amounted to. Didn't get a bachelors. Didn't get a better-than-minimum-wage job. Haven't had any good relationships with females (just some bad ones). Lived with my mother for about 2/3rds of the decade (until mid-2006). There are people my age who have done wondrous things in the same time, completed college and got married and got nice jobs. What do I have to show for the decade? I have one Associates Liberal Arts degree and I'm not living with my mother. Talk about fail.
I just hope I can succeed in the next decade and finish college and get a nice job that's NOT minimum wage. I do not want to be some guy working at a checkout when I'm 40.
2000-2002
It's hard to remember everything that happened up to 2003 because my journal didn't start until then. Photo albums helped.
2000
A summary of the past 10 years:
People call the last decade the "Lost Decade" because of how much it sucked. 9/11, terrorism, failed wars, bad economy, crazy fundies, Bush. My own decade was lost too, because I failed in getting my life anywhere, and it was mostly my fault.
In the last decade, I got one associate's degree. But I spent over half the decade in school, have probably enough credits to get one or two bachelor's degrees, and am going to school for another associates and maybe a bachelors, and what do I have to show for it? I certainly don't have a good job. The entire decade I worked in minimum wage jobs, and I fear that unless I get out there and look for something better, degree or not, I will be doing the same thing next decade as well.
Look at what the decade amounted to. Didn't get a bachelors. Didn't get a better-than-minimum-wage job. Haven't had any good relationships with females (just some bad ones). Lived with my mother for about 2/3rds of the decade (until mid-2006). There are people my age who have done wondrous things in the same time, completed college and got married and got nice jobs. What do I have to show for the decade? I have one Associates Liberal Arts degree and I'm not living with my mother. Talk about fail.
I just hope I can succeed in the next decade and finish college and get a nice job that's NOT minimum wage. I do not want to be some guy working at a checkout when I'm 40.
2000-2002
It's hard to remember everything that happened up to 2003 because my journal didn't start until then. Photo albums helped.
2000
- In the beginning of 2000, Y2K began without much of a hitch, and few computer errors. I was working at the Walmart-clone Meijer as a bagger, and I hated it. I was a senior in High School, and I lived with my mother.
- Early that year, I found myself fired from Meijer because they thought I was stealing. No charges were brought against me. Hated the job anyway.
- My high school was going to be shut down. As I actually had some fond memories of the place (mostly gaming after school in the labs), I protested against the school board, but to no avail. My class was the last one to graduate from it. Ironically, the superintendent who shut it down was later sent to prison for embezzlement of the district.
- I did graduate though. Had a huge graduation party.
- And I got a car as a graduation present. My mother's old car, as she had bought a newer one.
- I started that summer at a 2 year community college. The same one I'm at now, actually. FML.
- I had gotten a new computer for my last birthday, and started hanging out at Yahoo! Chats. Here I roleplayed, hung out, and met Kabi and Kerensa there. I cannot remember if I online dated Kerensa the fall of this year or 2001, but it was the first serious relationship I had been in.
- I think this was also the year when I got onto EZ-board and met Dama on there.
- I had been curious about anime while in high school but this was the year I decided to get into the fandom by joining the club at college, and also going to the club at University of Michigan.
- I think either 1999 or this year is when I started roleplaying star trek on AOL, and then switched to a board-based RP (I rejoined the AIM RP in 2006, but left both the same year).
- I started at a job with K-mart at the beginning of the year.
- I also believe this is when I broke up with Kerensa, due to immense fail. Online relationships suck anyway.
- I went on a trip to Arizona with a church to a Christian school for Native Americans to help them fix up stuff. The school probably brainwashed people for all I know, but at the time I felt I was doing a good charitable thing. We got to see a lot of sights in Arizona including petrified wood and the second largest canyon in the state.
- I also went to Chicago and Toronto. In Toronto we saw the Phantom of the Opera, with Paul Stanley (Kiss lead singer) playing the Phantom, at the Pantages Theater *fist pump!*. And I convinced my mother to go up into the CN tower.
- I went to my first anime convention, Otakon in Baltimore. It was a half-assed road trip, I didn't have any hotel reservations and ended up staying in a cheap love motel with a heart-shaped tub and porn on the tube the first night, and the next night crashing with some friends. But it was fun as hell. Never have been back to Otakon.
- I got banned from a bunch of places on EZ-board, but became a member of two boards I'm still a member of, Nuri's Sphere and the Zarbon Shrine Forums.
- 9/11
- My interest in Nekomimi and Kemonomimi (catgirls and animal girls), as well as having a character on Yahoo! that was a catboy led a coworker of mine to get me into the furry fandom. 2001 was the first year I found out anything about furries and went to a furmeet, and discovered most of them are pretty normal geeks.
- LORD OF THE RINGS BITCHES!!!
- Near the beginning of the year, I found myself laid off from K-mart. Due to the recession after 9/11, they went bankrupt.
- In the summer, me, my late grandfather, my mother, and my aunt went to St. Louis and then California. St. Louis is where my late grandpa grew up and we visited family there. Then we went to San Diego to visit my uncle. There we went down to Mexico. We visited the Zoo and Balboa Park, Little Italy, the beaches were people surfed, the seaside cliffs where people threw themselves off with hand gliders, and the aquarium. We went up to LA for a day and saw Hollywood and Disneyland. We drove up to San Fransisco. Rode the Napa wine train. Stopped at Pier 39 and watched the sea lions. Did Ripley's Believe it or Not. We climbed Lombard St. We rode a street car and ate at Chinatown.
- My uncle decided to move to Arizona so I came with him, and we had fine adventures while our piece-of-shit Uhaul truck fell apart along the way (driveshaft fell out, parking brake failed, just to name a few problems).
- Kabi dragged me over here and I started this journal in December.
- I failed a bunch of classes.
- Some other things might have happened, but I think it was a pretty slow year.