Your Decade in 250 Words Or Less

**Mara** · 12-29-2009, 08:13 PM

Quoting number8 (view post)

Call me sweet again, Mara.

You know I'm a sucker for men complimenting wives... sweetie.

**D_Davis** · 12-29-2009, 10:28 PM

2000 - survived Y2K. Moved from So Cal back to Fresno. Played lots of music.

2001 - Got married. Got a dog, Simon. Played lots of music.

2002 - Worked 3 jobs. Graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts (to make mad dough). Played lots of video games.

2003 - Moved to Seattle. Watched lots of movies. Stopped playing music.

2004 - Watched lots of movies. Purchased first house.

2005 - Got another Dog, Luna. Watched lots of movies.

2006 - Sold first house. Purchased another one. Watched lots of movies.

2007 - Movie watching slowed down. Reading picking up.

2008 - Stopped watching movies. Read a ton. Started playing music again.

2009 - Played and recorded more music than ever. Finished 6 albums. Released them all. Made billions of dollars in the ambient industry.

**Ezee E** · 12-29-2009, 10:37 PM

D, can I live in your mansion? I'll take care of your dogs.

**D_Davis** · 12-29-2009, 10:39 PM

Quoting Ezee E (view post)

D, can I live in your mansion? I'll take care of your dogs.

Yep.

**Ezee E** · 12-29-2009, 10:43 PM

Quoting Daniel Davis (view post)

Yep.

Can't wait! Can I bring my dog too??

**D_Davis** · 12-29-2009, 10:47 PM

Quoting Ezee E (view post)

Can't wait! Can I bring my dog too??

Yes!

**Ezee E** · 12-29-2009, 10:55 PM

Quoting Daniel Davis (view post)

Yes!

2010 is going to be awesome.

**D_Davis** · 12-30-2009, 06:57 PM

Quoting Ezee E (view post)

2010 is going to be awesome.

Heck yeah it is.

**Qrazy** · 12-31-2009, 06:49 AM

Quoting Melville (view post)

For me, the worst moments are much, much worse than the best, and they have far more significant long-term consequences. It's not worth it. I guess I learned a lot from my first relationship—it was pretty pivotal in forming my entire philosophical perspective—but I don't think I got even that from my second relationship. So relationships be damned I say. It's all movies all the time from now on.

Want in on the 1,001 movies to see before you die race?

**Philosophe_rouge** · 12-31-2009, 07:08 AM

My life is boring

2000 - Do kids stuff, remember the whole Y2K scare, but don't remember actually being scared.

2001 - Graduate from grade school and start high school. Dance with boys for first time, but only boy I really have crush on rejects me.

2002 - Decent year, make a bunch of new friends. Stalked by a naked man in a car who plays with himself. See him three times, traumatic.

2003 - Year from hell, hate everyone and everything, turn 15 which is probably the worst age ever.

2004 - Start what would probably be my best academic year ever, do exceptionally well and probably most un-stressed ever.

2005 - Start last year of high school, go to Stratford Ontario and see some cool plays. And participate in a really crappy one.

2006 - Graduate high school, win some silly awards, deal with traumatic School shooting, depressing.

2007 - Enjoy the joys of second year Cegep, make a film I'm actually proud of, fail my first class ever.

2008 - Finish Cegep, gain a lot of weight, be depressed

2009 - First Job, start University, lose weight, but generally unsatisfied with life.

**Qrazy** · 12-31-2009, 07:16 AM

2000 - Freshman HS. Straight edge. Private school. Play sports. Good student. Shy.

2001 - Sophomore Year. Private school too pricey, change to public school. Hard at first, make some decent friends by the end of the year. Watch Fellowship of the Ring and become obsessed with movies.

2002 - Junior Year. Family moves, change schools again. Same as last year. Stop sports and focus on acting.

2003 - Senior Year. No longer straight edge. Discover drugs and alcohol. Lose virginity to a girl in the wood's. Move to the city and start college.

2004 - University is large and alienating. Marijuana abuse doesn't help mindset. Need time to decide what to study. Finish first year of college.

2005 - Take a year off. Move to New York. Start online gambling. Make a few grand. New York also alienating, move back home and work at a Friendly's with a bunch of ex-convicts. Lose the few grand I made. Stop gambling.

2006 - Realize I don't give a fuck what I'm studying as long as I'm not working at Friendly's. Decide on Psychology and Philosophy majors. More college.

2007 - Part-time student to save money. First real relationship begins. It lasts for a year.

2008 - First relationship ends. Heartbreak. Start a new relationship. Heartheal.

2009 - Finish College. Now life?

**B-side** · 12-31-2009, 08:24 AM

I'll be your new relationship, Qrazy.

**Mara** · 12-31-2009, 12:40 PM

I'm astonished by the youth of some of these posters.

**Melville** · 12-31-2009, 03:03 PM

Quoting Qrazy (view post)

Want in on the 1,001 movies to see before you die race?

Haha. No, you guys would win by a few years. And I actually haven't been watching any movies.

**D_Davis** · 12-31-2009, 03:32 PM

Quoting Mara (view post)

I'm astonished by the youth of some of these posters.

I know, right?

**Mara** · 12-31-2009, 03:37 PM

Quoting Daniel Davis (view post)

I know, right?

With their loud music and disrepect for elders and poor punctuation and--

HEY! YOU! OFF MY PORCH!

**Dead & Messed Up** · 12-31-2009, 04:00 PM

Quoting Mara (view post)

With their loud music and disrepect for elders and poor punctuation and--

HEY! YOU! OFF MY PORCH!

We just want our frisbee back.

**Mara** · 12-31-2009, 04:08 PM

Quoting Dead & Messed Up (view post)

We just want our frisbee back.

WOULD YOU TURN THAT RACKET DOWN?

**Qrazy** · 12-31-2009, 04:36 PM

Quoting Brightside (view post)

I'll be your new relationship, Qrazy.

Ahh the heartheal one hasn't ended yet.

**dreamdead** · 01-01-2010, 11:45 PM

2000-home schooled. Earn GED. Start university life with English composition in the summer. That shifts to natural interest in literature and studying literature. Begin lurking at RT.

2001-as a sophomore take Kerouac essay to English professional conference. See the life of an academic as romantic. Dedicated to the degree. Begin first relationship.

2002-continueto feel the excitement of literature. More conferences. Relationship steady.

2003-More of the same.

2004-relationship ends. devastated. Graduate with BA in English. Go on for my MA. Meet best friend in graduate school. Move in with my older brother.

2005-Begin growing bored with literature. Find nourishment from films now. Start writing all of my graduate essays around films. Teach first composition class to students terrified and over-prepared. Show ESOTSM and Memento my first year. Discover The New World and MatchCut.

2006-Much N64 Mario Kart playing. Finish MA. No university gives me an assistantship for PhD work. Begin adjunct teaching to support myself. Go on conference presentation with best friend and briefly meet future wife as she chairs the panel I’m presenting on at NIU. First scholarly article is published.

2007-several failed flirtations. Receive email in May that NIU is willing to give an assistantship for my doctorate in American literature and film. Move from Ohio to Illinois.

2008-Go on first date with gorgeous, smart, beautiful woman. Steady relationship ensues, as does getting her into participating on Match-cut. Write my best graduate essay on the uncanny and K. Kurosawa’s Pulse.

2009-get engaged in Chicago park to girlfriend. Get married over summer. Life becomes calm and quietly wonderful.

**Qrazy** · 01-02-2010, 02:36 AM

I want dreamdead's life plskthx.

**Spaceman Spiff** · 01-02-2010, 09:33 PM

Quoting Qrazy (view post)

I want dreamdead's life plskthx.

Dunno if I want to get married per se. I'm down for doing whatever the hell it is I do for the next little while. I'm getting fed up of school though, so I could go for being done.

**Llopin** · 01-03-2010, 12:00 PM

Quoting Melville (view post)

I think Llopin was referring specifically to romantic love, which is a very different feeling than other types of love. But thinking about that and Llopin's statement made me think of a feeling that I haven't experienced and don't wish to: parental love. Sure, that's a subject of much literature, and experiencing it would increase my understanding of the pivotal feelings in human existence, but I will never want a child, and I think it would be best for everyone involved if I never have one.

I think some people are meant to be tragic. I've met several folks who just seem to seek anguish as a process of personal enrichness. I think that is pretty twistedly wrong. But then again, the thing is not to rely on extremes - to avoid romantic tension and miseries, I reckon, is also a bit misguided. Even if more "sane".

I'm also under the impression parental love is very second to romantic love.

**Thirdmango** · 01-05-2010, 06:17 AM

2000 -- Went to two mind blowing Phish Concerts.

2001 -- Graduate High School. Move into weirdest apartment ever with Sven.

2002 -- Move into dorms, finish first year. Go on Mormon mission to Maine.

2003 -- Still on mission. Freaky crazy life that is.

2004 -- Finally come home. Meet Sycophant for first time.

2005 -- Move into apartment with Sycophant.

2006 -- Fail out of first college. Start watching immense amounts of TV.

2007 -- Get internship to watch post production of "I Am Legend" and talk for a couple days with James Newton Howard. Watch lots of TV.

2008 -- Need change, move to Boston. Have first real girlfriend for 4 months. Watch lots of TV.

2009 -- Break up with girlfriend, move back to Utah, change major to Psychology and actually do well this time. Watch lots of TV.

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