A Year In a Life

[cornerofmadness]

From midnightsjane

She selected 1989 for me and what a year that was. I graduated from Waynesburg College that year with two degrees, one in chemisty and one in biology. It was so hard to leave. I never fit in in high school but I utterly blossomed in college. Within a year I was not only in a sorority but an officer, I was in three bands (marching, symphonic and jazz), I was both acting and/or stage managing three plays a year, had various other clubs and I was working three jobs. I had so many friends there and I was about to leave them behind. I knew that I would never see most of them again and would only keep in touch with a few no matter what I said but it was also time to go.

Because I left there to go to Cleveland OH. I had never lived that far from home before but I wasn't afraid. I was jazzed. I had my own two bedroom high rise condo set up with a roommate by the podiatric medical school I was entering. 1989 saw me going into med school. For the first time in my life I was living and functioning in a city. My undergrad was practically as bucolic as my home town. But now I was in Cleveland, the mistake on the lake as Pittsburghers called it and I was, if nothing else, under Pittsburgh's influence.

In 1989 I met a whole new set of friends. I joined a medical fraternity. I learned that my skills of drinking beer from a bong would not go to waste. I learned that I had known NOTHING about how hard college was and am to this day pitiless on whining undergrads as a result. I was carrying some 32 credit hours. We gave all SIX exams on the same day to prepare us for the rigors of national medical boards. It was hell.

I also for the first time in my life got to spend quality time in clubs I had only seen on TV, down in the Flats. I got spoiled by a condo suite that had two pools and it's own weight room (it is still the finest place I've ever lived but not the friendliest by far)

I got to dissect my first human and found out it didn't disgust me. It fascinated me. I couldn't get enough of lab no matter how horribly hard it was and how much I was convinced at the time that I would wash out and never be a doctor.
midnightsjane couldn't have picked a better year if she had known.

Want to tell me about a year in your life? I'll pick a number out of my hat for you.

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

You remember way too much about 1989.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was a momentous year

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it was an interesting year.

I'd love it if you picked a year for me.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was. Hmmmm okay went to check your birth year....how about 1992

[renegadekitsune.livejournal.com]

Oooh~ I'll do this!

Ready pick! =)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hmmm since i only see high school listed I won't go back too far here

how about 2005

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was quite a year! Actually I'd picked another year first,but changed it..guess I must have known it was an important year for you!
:)

[ishte.livejournal.com]

Yah.. sure you can pick a year for me. ^_^ We'll see if I remember as much about it. ^_^ as you did about 1989

[mjules.livejournal.com]

You can pick a year for me. Not guaranteeing I will remember with any accuracy what happened that actual calendar year, but I can at least guess at what was going on during that era.... LOL

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I'd almost be afraid to do this. I don't remember years too well.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

do it, see how far the dementia has already progressed

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Ditto. Every time I need to rewrite my resume I go nuts looking for old versions, because it's sure as the sun will rise that I won't be able to remember what years I held which jobs. I begin to think the only reason I remember when I graduated various schools is because the diplomas are dated.

(Which reminds me that I need to figure out in what safe place I stashed said diplomas last time I cleaned up the house ... )

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you know, this really is making me feel old. I keep checking year of births and it's like my flist are all kids.

allrighty then. Let's do the turn of the century for you, 2000

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yay finally someone who wasn't in diapers in the 80's.

okay 1984

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

indeed. must have been psychic

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I'm apparently very GOOD at remembering. I move every 2-3 years. I know where I lived in which year. So if I remember what I did at the time and WHERE I can remember the year

also dusting off the old resume at the moment

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Okay, pick a year and we'll see what's remembered. *is vaguely worried*

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

and it's like my flist are all kids.

I know that feeling.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I think I remember impressions rather than actual dates. "Wasn't that the year," I'll ask, say, silvrethorn that we went to Kentucky the first time?" and she'll always say, "No!"

[vampedvixen.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a cool writing excersize. Do me!

I was born in 1982.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

1999, have fun

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

and you've argued with me several times and I'm like I was in such and such place so that movie HAD to come out on these dates

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

1986

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Wow. Talk about a watershed year for you.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh yes. there was plenty more to be sure

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yup, you too.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Hmmm