Every year since 2005, I’ve posted sporatic memories here at the end of the year. The last few posts of a year and the first few posts of the next tend to be very mecentric and likely difficult for most other people to understand. But.. you’ll have that. Anyway, here are some random memories from 2010:
- New Year! Yey!
- Driving home only to take a two-hour detour down a random highway in an attempt to think myself into a solution for why 2009 was so terrible and why I hated myself
- A two-month long depression I tried to hide from people but couldn’t.
- Deciding to change my wardrobe, diet, exercise frequency, and attitude toward life
- Finding the Sunday Vegan Brunch in an attempt to expand my circle of friends
- Ugh, I should probably mention that there’s this whole deal with a girl I dated last year and saw this year. Basically, we were in different places in life and fundamentally different people. Anyway, it had a huge impact on me throughout the year. There’s a lot of terrible memories there, but I sort of hate that part of my life, so I’m not even going to put it up here in case it helps me remember it later on in life.
- Hourly Comic Day!
- The death of my weekly creative challenges… 🙁
- Taking a comic-drawing class only to drop it because I feared it would look terrible on my transcript
- Piano lessons
- Lost nights with Bre, which were awesome not just because we had wine and got to discuss Lost, but because we got to hang out in a place that wasn’t a bar.
- Job candidate talks every Friday and parties or bar nights every Friday night
- The UNC Bib party (for passing their third-year exams) in which I bonded with Cathay about the terribleness intradepartmental romance.
- Dinner at Cathay’s house as she tried to set me up with her friend.
- Duke/UNC game in which I drank entirely too much rum, wept, got a stranger’s phone number (that later went on to sleep with two other people in the department), blacked out for two hours (in which I alienated much of the biology department, and went back to the office.
- Liz coming to the office to console me and also smooch.
- Going to DC to visit Trumpet Rob for spring break, learning about his terrible financial situation, and advising him to buy a house.
- NO PROSPIE WEEK! (In which I had people generate character sheets and then participated in a series of events culminating in a party)
- USP interview weekend in which I refriend Andrea
- Going to Indianapolis for the Final Four and realizing I wasn’t nearly as much of an alpha male as everyone else, then subtly mocking and satirizing them for this fact.
- Getting a 2 a.m. phone call from the aforementioned girl in which she attempts to milk me for advice to make her new relationship with “Mr. Right” work.
- Receiving FutureMe.org e-mails from Pixel ©2009 in which he reminds me how miserable 2009 was.
- Playing basketball and Steve breaking a rib and a finger as a result.
- Going to the gym and improving more than I’ve ever improved in my life.
- Going to Arizona and New Mexico for my friend Mayra’s and Jason’s respective graduations… and missing my own girlfriend’s graduation in the process… (fuck!)
- Phil Bio Conference in Madison, Wis. in which I stay at a Twitter friend’s house and meet half of the philosophers of biology in the country.
- Throwing myself a 25th birthday party – spending way too much and stressing too much, but having the most fun I’ve had in years.
- I go to a Phil Bio conference in Montreal in which I give a great presentation and hang out with my little cousin’s best friend.
- My mom goes to visit my brother in Florida and convinces me to meet them there. They remark how fit I am and how fat my brother is (Oh, how the tables have turned!)
- I come back in time for Liz’s birthday
- Sarah left for Cambodia. And it was super friggin’ sad.
- I move.
- SUPER FRIEND BASH!
- Super good food, super good friends, and super great conversations and fun times in VISU (Vienna Institute for Science University)
- Going to Salzburg with Dave and hearing him complain all day only to brag later about how great it was.
- Watching the FIFA world cup with Austrians
- Drinking and going dancing with my new friend Amir
- Making tons of new friends at the dorms
- Daniel and Ben arriving and us leaving for Berlin the next day.
- Daniel’s lost luggage
- Ben insisting on going to the Hard Rock Cafe then insisting on taking taxis everywhere
- Going to see a few museums
- Bar 25 with Stefan (my German friend from 2005 in Australia)
- Nearly convincing Iris to jump in a river
- Prague!
- Going to an American bar in Prague!
- Walking the most beautiful streets of Prague!
- Drinking too much at the (free bar!) in the Hilton Cloud 9 lounge in Prague!
- Finding drugs on the train to Budapest and getting skeeved out
- Losing my passport (in my bag) and everyone but me freaking out
- Meeting spoiled Embassy kids at the US Embassy
- Staying at Ben’s friend’s awesome house
- Touring Budapest: seeing holocaust memorials, having okay food, going to public pools
- Coming back to Vienna for a last night with Christoph (an Austrian friend from Durham in 2009)
- Eating ice cream and going to a tourist trap Mozart-style concert
- Coming back home
- Ending things with Liz..
- A new friendship with Mike (from VISU)
- I start learning mixed martial arts
- Jcak comes to visit and hangs out with Mike and Iris and John
- Andrea leaves for Vancouver
- I attempt a backflip during MMA and land on my head
- Bre’s birthday. I make her a website (for job searching) and a BFF award
- I get a job at a local institute for Ethics (can’t link to it or say it because my boss has google alerts, but it’s a subset of the Duke website)
- I hurt my knee doing MMA
- I’m on crutches
- I work on a paper with a professor for my Systematics class final project
- I start kickboxing
- Hanging out with Bre before we both leave for home and she gives me an awesome scarf, BFF ID card, and beanie.
- … promptly losing the beanie
- I think I got either a stripper or prostitute’s phone number that night, too. I’m not proud of it. I didn’t ask for it. And I deleted it… but still.
- Going home and pissing my brother off tons.
- Borrowing my dad’s car, letting my brother borrow money from my mom, going to hang out with my friends, and bringing my brother along. (My how the tables have turned!)
- Getting to see all my old friends together in a room again and laughing so hard for so long my abs hurt the next day.
