Timeline

(I don't really think of this site as a blog, but that's mainly because I'm a stuck-up prat. Anyway, here's a bloggy list idea I thought I'd try, courtesy of Lisa by way of Jill.)

10 years ago: Playing D&D. I can't remember what I was doing on today's exact date 10 years ago, but I was 14 so I'll give 5 to 1 odds I was playing D&D. Oh shit, and this would have been when Jeremy had cancer, during the stage when our biggest fear was that he'd have to stay back a year because he'd missed so much school staying in the hospital. Hospitals make people get better, right? We played D&D at Jeremy's house with him making jokes about the tube coming out of his stomach and the worst that we were worried about was that he'd repeat a year of junior high while the rest of us went on to high school. I can't think of what else was 10 years ago, I have to go cry now.

5 years ago: Finishing up my first year at college, where I was still considered a fairly bright kid with a good future and a career in engineering. This year had the beginnings of my first webpage, meeting more friends than ever before, terrifying my roommate, my second serious months-long heartbreak, and the overall feeling that life was really picking up and I was going somewhere.

1 year ago: I was in the "this isn't funny anymore I really need to find a job NOW" stage of unemployment, and more importantly began writing Monkey Week. Give or take a few months I was also writing the story that was to become my first published work.

1 month ago: Celebrating Troll's birthday by ditching his sick carcass to go to a party two hours away. Lost a purity point before even getting to the party. The last actual date of my relationship before it finally fell apart.

1 week ago: Recovering my van from the garage where it had been stranded all weekend in Iowa City. Demonstrating how fine the line is between honesty and being insensitive scum.

Yesterday: INVADER ZIM! Added the door-to-door fundraising episode to my growing video archive. (Warning: Candy made entirely of sawdust.)

Today: I've been asleep all day, it's what I do. Though in the wee hours of the morning I was discovering more retarded policies at my workplace.

Tomorrow: It'd be nice to say this is when I get really disciplined and commit myself to writing, avoid distractions, and finally finish some more of my stories, but I think we all know I'll be buying a Gamecube. (free Best Buy gift cards rule)

1 year from now: Probably still wasting most of my time. Have a few more stories published, hopefully building my writing credits so that if I ever finish a novel there's some chance of it being successful. Maybe around here I'll update the David Bowie's Area page again, who knows?

5 years from now: By here I'd better be writing full time, if not by getting fiction published then just a column or something. I may have gone back to college in the meantime, though it won't have been to finish an engineering or com sci degree, but journalism or something else to just friggin' write.

10 years from now: I'll be "patient zero" in the plague that wipes out all mankind. I'd like to think at this point I'm married, having finally found someone who can put up with me for more than a few months, but I'll probably just be well upon my way to becoming a dirty old man. Maybe I'll dig up my archives of that old webpage that I used to have, read this post and ultimately sigh "Oh, I've wasted my life."