Via 12 Frogs, a meme to ease back into things.

20 Years Ago, I… was starting yet another new private school, unhappy, and frustrated by the lack of prospects for change that were available to an 11 year old.

15 Years Ago, I… was getting myself admitted to college early, starting my second year at my first job, and falling in love for the first time.

10 Years Ago, I… was working in National Accounts at UPS and bleeding brown. I was on the fence about the whole going-back-to-school thing, which I finally did at the last possible second in the spring semester.

5 Years Ago, I… quit my job and started graduate school full-time. My whole life changed that semester in a number of ways, not the least of which was that I met Mister Husband-To-Be.

2 Years Ago, I… started my second year of Ph.D. work and second year of Minnesotaness. I had just gotten back from a late-September conference sprint and driven across Wisconsin for the first time.

1 Year Ago, I…. was sweating over exams prep and driving everyone around me crazy. I also turned 30.

So far this year, I’ve… taken up photography again, cooked nearly every day, written a prospectus, amassed a pile o' Diss Stuff that terrifies me, and discovered coffee.

Yesterday, I… drove back to St. Paul from Jefferson City, MO.

Today, I… got up early for an appointment, then came back to start sorting through email, prepping for class tomorrow, and contemplating a grocery run. I’m thinking chile verde for dinner. Or else pozole.

Tomorrow, I’ll… teach and swim and dissertate, and then head over to the other campus in the evening for Matt Barton’s talk on teaching with wikis. Prof. Beach originally invited me, but I thought Matt would be better for this topic and I would be better for blogs, and that’s how it worked out.