Jan 01 2009
101 Things I Did in 2008
WELCOME TO ANOTHER YEAR! Happy new year! It seems like 2008 went by really fast. Last year was a filled-to-the-brim year. A lot of things happened. A lot of things got accomplished. A lot of things are still waiting on the jury. Hopefully 2009 will be just as good, just a bright, just as productive, and just as fun plus one. Just a little bit more, please. And go lightly on the bad, the crap, the sad, the disappointing, the troubling, the bruises and the bumps, and the treating people badly (here and abroad).
101 Things I Did in 2008
1. I met Greg on New Year’s Eve. He let me kiss him at midnight.
2. After a couple of emails, Greg and I had our first official date. Dinner and a movie.
3. I saw The Savages (with Greg).
4. I did some last minute reading, cramming, and pre-writing for my PhD exams, including writing one whole essay a week ahead of time banking my committee would ask me that particular question.
5. I saw In the Name of the King.
6. I went to English Grad Pub the Thursday before my exams. I got well-wishes and just wanted to have an “everyday” night before I took my writtens.
7. I took my written PhD exams over the weekend of January 25-28.
8. I saw Juno.
9. I went to a little house party at Lindsay’s.
10. I saw Cloverfield.
11. I taught ENGL 242 E: “Literature as Worldmaking” during Winter quarter.
12. I passed my writtens.
13. I prepped for my oral exams.
14. I celebrated Chinese New Year, the Year of the Rat, but did not make dumplings.
15. I passed my orals on Valentine’s Day.
16. I had a Valentine’s Day date with Greg.
17. I saw The Spiderwick Chronicles.
18. I saw Jumper.
19. I went with Greg to a presentation of the documentary films It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School (from 1996) and the 2007 follow-up It’s Still Elementary, which were presented by the Safe Schools Coalition.
20. I started to try to plot my dissertation prospectus.
21. I taught my ENGL 111: Critical Approaches to Harry Potter class again for the Spring Quarter.
22. I took a trip with Greg to San Francisco in late March. I wanted to visit my sister, take a little vacation, and hang out with Greg. It was a really great trip.
23. While in SF, Greg and I stayed at a fancy, boutique hotel called
Hotel Triton.
24. I visited the De Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco for the first time ever.
25. I went to the ocean while in SF. It is one of my most favorite things to do.
26. While visiting with my sister, she took Greg and I to explore and to wine-taste in Sonoma.
27. We went to the Roshambo winery.
28. We went to the Benziger winery.
29. We went to the Kunde winery.
30. I had a burrito from the Mission, from Taqueria Cancun. Yum.
31. Greg and I reached three months together.
32. I worked on an article on composition and computer games for Computers and Composition Online.
33. I attended a Queer Worlds lecture by Elizabeth Povinelli called “The Obligations of Intimacy.”
34. I was an officer for the English Department’s Graduate Student Organization.
35. I attended my friend Andrew’s annual kegger, where I created my first ever “chipscape.”
36. I saw Iron Man, which I liked a lot.
37. I helped launch the English GSO’s wiki on departmental procedures, information, and lore.
38. I turned 38.
