Day 21: My timeline
Idea 42 from Maggie Mason's book No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog: Make a personal timeline of your past.
Age 5: Discover that you are terrified of Ferris wheels.
Age 10: See Star Wars for your birthday. Realize you are a Han Solo-type of girl.
Ages 15, 16, 17: Suffer through high school.
Age 18: Give the valedictorian address at your high school graduation. To this day, remember nothing of what you said.
Age 21: As editor of your college's political magazine, aptly named The Polemic, paste condoms in the back of a special issue to encourage the student body to have safe sex.
(lillithj...I mean, someone on LJ helped.)
Age 29: Surprise your friends by taking a job at an all-male, religious, military board school and liking it.
Age 33: Become a mother, immediately become sleep-deprived.
Age 38: Discover that you still don't like Ferris wheels.
Age 5: Discover that you are terrified of Ferris wheels.
Age 10: See Star Wars for your birthday. Realize you are a Han Solo-type of girl.
Ages 15, 16, 17: Suffer through high school.
Age 18: Give the valedictorian address at your high school graduation. To this day, remember nothing of what you said.
Age 21: As editor of your college's political magazine, aptly named The Polemic, paste condoms in the back of a special issue to encourage the student body to have safe sex.
(lillithj...I mean, someone on LJ helped.)
Age 29: Surprise your friends by taking a job at an all-male, religious, military board school and liking it.
Age 33: Become a mother, immediately become sleep-deprived.
Age 38: Discover that you still don't like Ferris wheels.