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[tylik]

20 years ago today

I was living in Connecticutt, which I disliked intensely (except for the nifty blizzards, the presence of two Steinway pianos in the house I lived in, the indoor garden, and my piano teacher). I was ten, in fourth grade (but placed into the sixth grade advanced sections, as if people didn't despise me already) spent almost all my time reading, playing the piano, or hacking. I had just started my period and already needed a bra. In another month I would go back to Seattle. In another day I would wander into a May Day celebration in the courtyard of my piano teacher's building, and was entranced.

10 years ago today

I was at the UW, about halway thorugh a degree in Chinese L&L with an awful lot of political economics on the side. (Though I'd only taken two years of Kazakh at that point.) I was also taking poetry writing that quarter... And trying to decide if it was a good idea to spend the summer in Turkey with an acquaintance (and briefly lover) who was there teaching highschool. (Verdict is still out, I went, love Turkey, but found myself watching my hostess have an affair with a 15 year old student... And that's aside from the amoebas.)

5 years ago today (1998)

At Microsoft, probably starting to work as a program manager. But my job wasn't overly stressful, and I had plenty of time to carry on email correspondences. Was trying to start up a mailing list to discuss magic related to hearth and home. Infested with kitties.

3 years ago today (2000)

Just started my second quarter of sword, and my fourth of Chen with CWTA. In my fairly recently acquired job with Windows Shell, which was so boring and despressing (okay, and I was burnt out from a recent foo-rah with my last director) that I didn't immediately realize that my neck was deteriorating and I was in constant pain. In about a month I'd pass out at a party after a Gaia Consort Concert, which was kind of my clue that something had to be done.

1 years ago today (2002)

In the final countdown of divesting entirely from Microsoft. Stressed. Hiking frequently. (Oh yeah, I can check livejournal...) On this specific day, I was down with a flu, and about to skip my Chen and Wushu classes the next day. (This was about one month into wushu.) Suffering from great gobs of existential angst and guilt. Trying to justify to myself why I was spending so much time on my martial arts.

1 month ago today

I believe I was brought bread by our wonderful neighbors caeled and phaedra_lari. Getting ready for jadine to move out. Thinking it was time to resurrect the group hikes of last year.

yesterday

Chiro appt, lunch with jadine, Costco, bookstore, PCC, dinner, saying hi and getting tapes from dianthus, heckling dustin_00

tomorrow

Massage in the morning, looking at Nikki's car in the afternoon, bagua at night. Need to do more gardening, and perhaps some genetics research. And stretches. And ruffling kitties. And laundry.