Grew both in height a little bit and in weight (really a LOT), and at my highest weight I was 260lb. Made a few friends in 8th grade, then completely lost them freshman year in High School, and that year kinda sucked. Sophomore year I started to get really depressed a lot and was like that up until almost halfway through my junior year of high school when I started working out, and from there (this last year 2011), I got healthier mentally and physically. Became really good friends with a guy I've hung out with since about 8th grade, and became good friends with this group, and we hang out all the time and my life has kinda just gone from being really shitty to really great!
Five years ago, I was in the second half of my academic year in Japan. I was 10 pounds heavier, 6" fatter around the waist, enjoying my time overseas but frustrated with my physical appearance (especially compared to all the petite natives I was surrounded by every day). I was probably on the verge of my first massive GET FIT effort, which dropped me down to about where I am now.
Between then and now, my weight yo-yo'd a bit, I took a fifth year to finish up a second major in Studio Art, after which I decided art needed to be my career. I was hired right out of school to do product and packaging design at a novelty item manufacturing and distribution company, laid off almost two years later (on the same day I found out I didn't get the Associate Designer position at PA), and took another shitty job for 6 months because I was too scared to go full-time freelance yet. I was an office manager at a lawn care and landscaping company. I thought I'd try to stick with it for a year and build up a cushion before starting my own company, but my bosses were ornery, dumb, and incredibly disrespectful. Couldn't tolerate it any longer than I did.
My freelance business started out REALLY GREAT, and I also ended up getting accepted to SCAD, which I had applied to some time ago as an out from my crappier jobs. Attending grad school while trying to maintain a fledgeling business ended up being a bad move, though, and now I'm struggling to regain my momentum after making the tough decision to drop out.
Life is pretty good, though! I'll catch up on my work soon enough, and then devote as much time as I can towards the production of my own webcomic, which I'm incredibly excited about. I'm also attending a ton of conventions this year, both for fun and for work, and other nice things are happening, so I'm really looking forward to this year.
hm
Graduate middle school, this is no big deal
Went through all of high school. Had some phenomenal teachers, and some good times
Traveled abroad for the first time, discovered London is AWESOME.
got ready to leave my hometown
realized that I might not be going to school with my brother
BB leaves for college, we are apart for the first significant amount of time in our lives
I leave for college
5 years ago I was unemployed and seeking work desperately, but at least I had like 40+% kidney function.
Right now I am unemployed and have significantly less kidney function, and am pretty much in and out of hospital for checkups and minor procedures and such.
All I want is to be healthy enough to try and get a job without losing my mind with guilt over constantly needing time off for hospital stuff, and maybe the ability to move to America and live with that one poster I love.
okay some of you people who were in middle school five years ago are making me feel old.
now is the first time in years that I don't know what I'll be doing/where I'll be three months from now. five years from now is just impossible to consider. this is way more scary than exciting at the moment.
All I want is to be healthy enough to try and get a job without losing my mind with guilt over constantly needing time off for hospital stuff, and maybe the ability to move to America and live with that one poster I love.
In 2007 I joined the forums after lurking around the Artist's Corner for a year, posting there pretty much exclusively. I was a fifteen/sixteen year old nerd in entereing my second-to-last year in school, still cripplingly shy with few social skills but getting on a little better thanks to an amazing group of friends. Unfortunately 2007 marked the start of the crappiest period of my life, thanks to remaining social jitters. I started exercising, lost far to much weight, and then exercised still more until I landed myself in hospital half-dead and wishing I was.
Fast-forward five years and things are going great. Thanks to an expanding social circle and breaking from a sheltered high school life in to a trendy design course I'm much less shy and much healthier and happier than I once was. Now I'm working on catching up on all the things I missed out on as a teenager.
ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
All I want is to be healthy enough to try and get a job without losing my mind with guilt over constantly needing time off for hospital stuff, and maybe the ability to move to America and live with that one poster I love.
You know who you are.
I'm here for you
Only if I get to watch.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
All I want is to be healthy enough to try and get a job without losing my mind with guilt over constantly needing time off for hospital stuff, and maybe the ability to move to America and live with that one poster I love.
All I want is to be healthy enough to try and get a job without losing my mind with guilt over constantly needing time off for hospital stuff, and maybe the ability to move to America and live with that one poster I love.
You know who you are.
I'm here for you
Only if I get to watch.
I'll allow it
Ummm, do I get a say here?
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
Five years ago today?
I was writing a history of Iraq discussing the formation of national identity and why the Iraqis don't really have any on account of the British fucking up the place so badly for my Division III project at Hampshire College. I had just started dating the person who I thought I would like to marry but who would eventually leave me and basically crush my soul to the point that I'm a completely different and substantially more cynical and angry person today.
It's odd thinking about because I have basically nothing in common with that guy except my love of American folk music and Bluegrass, which I was really just beginning to get into at the time in terms of playing the mandolin, which is actually how I met the viola-playing soul-crusher I mentioned above. It's kinda the only thing I carry with me from that era at all.
All I want is to be healthy enough to try and get a job without losing my mind with guilt over constantly needing time off for hospital stuff, and maybe the ability to move to America and live with that one poster I love.
I actually commute every day
but um, I think the only good food is in the Camus center cafeteria area, paradise cafe blows
it depends which dorm you get, since the more expensive ones have more isolated rooms so it would be quieter
my brother dormed in the cheapest one the first year, it was hot and kind of sucked, then he went to the most expensive one, it was all air conditioned separate rooms
In 2007 I was half way through my undergrad, living with my parents, not really doing much aside from playing video games and going to clubs and putting a bare minimum into my schoolwork.
In the past five years I've moved out, joined a band, learned to cook, finished my undergrad, finished my master's, and started a PhD. I still hang out with the same group of people every week. They've all grown in their own ways in the past five years, but that hasn't changed the fact that they're like family to me. I lost most of my hair and shave off the rest, but I still like the way that I look. I still spend a lot of time playing video games, but I drink a lot less now.
Sara LynnI can handle myself.Registered Userregular
5 years ago I was almost 21
in college, dating an asshole
probably on anti-depressants and being a semi-normal human being
my memory is pretty shit so that's all I got
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ZoelI suppose... I'd put it onRegistered Userregular
deffo jerkin it.
I was fresh outta college
workin for the man
poor as shit.
also playing puzzle pirates with a ridiculous amount of my time.
A magician gives you a ring that, when worn, will let you see the world as it truly is.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
Late January 2007, I was 21 and just finishing up winter break during my senior year in college. I was living off campus in a house with six of my friends, where I was the only one who wasn't on the school's ultimate frisbee team. Pretty good times, overall.
Things I remember:
-I was planning a spring break trip to London with two of my friends. Pretty sure one of them lost his virginity on that trip.
-I was desperately trying to find a writing job before graduation in May, when I would have to start paying back my student loans (I would eventually find a job at a newspaper as a reporter two weeks before graduation, and I'm still working there now).
-This would be around the time where I started smoking the devil's weed on a semi-daily basis (it would eventually become a daily habit, but I've since quit altogether).
-I think this was around the time I stopped hooking up with my friend's ex-girlfriend. He knew what we had been up to, but didn't hold anything against me. She then moved on to one of my house mates. They just broke up last summer.
2007 my life was blissfully free of anyone with the word Blue in their name. Life was good then.
What do you have against SyphonBlue and BlueBlue?
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MrMonroepassed outon the floor nowRegistered Userregular
I guess I forgot the how things have changed since then part;
I took a job after school as mostly a help desk guy for a company that made data analysis and graphing software, managed to survive several months of vivid fantasies about shooting myself in such a way as to necessitate a closed-casket funeral, got out of that slump by going to law school, and now that I'm graduating, I'm realizing that being an attorney is just about the last fucking thing I want to do in the entire world. I guess going back to my old dead-end job would be worse.
But now I'm Out and looking for a job doing... basically what Mitt Romney used to do, I guess. Anything in risk analysis or value analysis for a private equity firm or a bank. Might go take the Series 7 exam and just try to pick up a job as a trader that will pay off my law school loans in like five years.
And then I can change my life completely again and start trying to live like a halfway decent human being.
5 years ago I was 22.
- I was working for Telstra as a call centre operator/manager and utterly despising it. This was the year that I decided to get the hell out when, while I was helping and comforting one of my team members who was in the middle of recovering from an asthma attack, one of my superiors told me that it would be a mark against my name if I chose to stay with them instead of attending a sales meeting.
- I was about halfway through a ridiculously unhealthy, superficial and extremely nonreciprocal crush on my friend's sister. I get amused and embarrassed just thinking about it now.
On the plus side:
- Started working out and generally keeping fit. This did wonders for my self esteem, health and attitude and I feel great today because of it.
- Started drawing and actually enjoying it. Looking back at my 2007 work, it was teeerrrrrriiiible, but I guess it's less terrible now so that's cool.
5 years ago I was 19 and had been in college for about 4 months. I am still at the same college, only now I'm going to graduate with two degrees instead of the 1 I had originally planned on. 5 years from now, who knows?
Come on... We both know you're never leaving Central.
In five years you'll be an assistant professor.
I will burn this town to the ground before I let that happen.
5 years ago? I was working part time at an electronics store cashiering (It would shut down that summer, so damn depressing), also working through community college (Which only partially panned out) and rehearsing for the Rocky Horror Picture Show. (fun production)
I'd eventually run through another job after a month's panicked hunting, meet my SOs in the fall via chatting, and attend my 2nd PAX.
I feel like barely anything's changed, but I know stuff's stabilized more, so here's to hoping.
Matev on
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
I was living in an apartment with 2 other ladies. Learned that living with girls is hard. Had recently turned 21.
Think that was the year that I had somewhat of a breakdown of sorts. Ended up withdrawing from most of my classes. Sought help. Therapy through the school. Eventually figured out medications. Was tough. Really glad I had mongoose with me.. and that he didn't go running away.
5 years ago I was 16 and life was good because I didn't have to work and all I did was go to school, play video games and go out drinking every other weekend.
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I Win Swordfightsall the traits of greatnessstarlight at my feetRegistered Userregular
Posts
Pff, barely.
Grew both in height a little bit and in weight (really a LOT), and at my highest weight I was 260lb. Made a few friends in 8th grade, then completely lost them freshman year in High School, and that year kinda sucked. Sophomore year I started to get really depressed a lot and was like that up until almost halfway through my junior year of high school when I started working out, and from there (this last year 2011), I got healthier mentally and physically. Became really good friends with a guy I've hung out with since about 8th grade, and became good friends with this group, and we hang out all the time and my life has kinda just gone from being really shitty to really great!
Of that much I am certain.
Five years ago, I was in the second half of my academic year in Japan. I was 10 pounds heavier, 6" fatter around the waist, enjoying my time overseas but frustrated with my physical appearance (especially compared to all the petite natives I was surrounded by every day). I was probably on the verge of my first massive GET FIT effort, which dropped me down to about where I am now.
Between then and now, my weight yo-yo'd a bit, I took a fifth year to finish up a second major in Studio Art, after which I decided art needed to be my career. I was hired right out of school to do product and packaging design at a novelty item manufacturing and distribution company, laid off almost two years later (on the same day I found out I didn't get the Associate Designer position at PA), and took another shitty job for 6 months because I was too scared to go full-time freelance yet. I was an office manager at a lawn care and landscaping company. I thought I'd try to stick with it for a year and build up a cushion before starting my own company, but my bosses were ornery, dumb, and incredibly disrespectful. Couldn't tolerate it any longer than I did.
My freelance business started out REALLY GREAT, and I also ended up getting accepted to SCAD, which I had applied to some time ago as an out from my crappier jobs. Attending grad school while trying to maintain a fledgeling business ended up being a bad move, though, and now I'm struggling to regain my momentum after making the tough decision to drop out.
Life is pretty good, though! I'll catch up on my work soon enough, and then devote as much time as I can towards the production of my own webcomic, which I'm incredibly excited about. I'm also attending a ton of conventions this year, both for fun and for work, and other nice things are happening, so I'm really looking forward to this year.
hm
Graduate middle school, this is no big deal
Went through all of high school. Had some phenomenal teachers, and some good times
Traveled abroad for the first time, discovered London is AWESOME.
got ready to leave my hometown
realized that I might not be going to school with my brother
BB leaves for college, we are apart for the first significant amount of time in our lives
I leave for college
and then, here we are
now I'm 27 and not doing anything with my life
Man, I dunno.
Right now I am unemployed and have significantly less kidney function, and am pretty much in and out of hospital for checkups and minor procedures and such.
All I want is to be healthy enough to try and get a job without losing my mind with guilt over constantly needing time off for hospital stuff, and maybe the ability to move to America and live with that one poster I love.
You know who you are.
now is the first time in years that I don't know what I'll be doing/where I'll be three months from now. five years from now is just impossible to consider. this is way more scary than exciting at the moment.
I'm here for you
Fast-forward five years and things are going great. Thanks to an expanding social circle and breaking from a sheltered high school life in to a trendy design course I'm much less shy and much healthier and happier than I once was. Now I'm working on catching up on all the things I missed out on as a teenager.
Only if I get to watch.
I'll allow it
Ummm, do I get a say here?
I was writing a history of Iraq discussing the formation of national identity and why the Iraqis don't really have any on account of the British fucking up the place so badly for my Division III project at Hampshire College. I had just started dating the person who I thought I would like to marry but who would eventually leave me and basically crush my soul to the point that I'm a completely different and substantially more cynical and angry person today.
It's odd thinking about because I have basically nothing in common with that guy except my love of American folk music and Bluegrass, which I was really just beginning to get into at the time in terms of playing the mandolin, which is actually how I met the viola-playing soul-crusher I mentioned above. It's kinda the only thing I carry with me from that era at all.
So, I guess that's what I've been up to, really.
so there's that too I guess...
I actually commute every day
but um, I think the only good food is in the Camus center cafeteria area, paradise cafe blows
it depends which dorm you get, since the more expensive ones have more isolated rooms so it would be quieter
my brother dormed in the cheapest one the first year, it was hot and kind of sucked, then he went to the most expensive one, it was all air conditioned separate rooms
In the past five years I've moved out, joined a band, learned to cook, finished my undergrad, finished my master's, and started a PhD. I still hang out with the same group of people every week. They've all grown in their own ways in the past five years, but that hasn't changed the fact that they're like family to me. I lost most of my hair and shave off the rest, but I still like the way that I look. I still spend a lot of time playing video games, but I drink a lot less now.
in college, dating an asshole
probably on anti-depressants and being a semi-normal human being
my memory is pretty shit so that's all I got
I was fresh outta college
workin for the man
poor as shit.
also playing puzzle pirates with a ridiculous amount of my time.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
Things I remember:
-I was planning a spring break trip to London with two of my friends. Pretty sure one of them lost his virginity on that trip.
-I was desperately trying to find a writing job before graduation in May, when I would have to start paying back my student loans (I would eventually find a job at a newspaper as a reporter two weeks before graduation, and I'm still working there now).
-This would be around the time where I started smoking the devil's weed on a semi-daily basis (it would eventually become a daily habit, but I've since quit altogether).
-I think this was around the time I stopped hooking up with my friend's ex-girlfriend. He knew what we had been up to, but didn't hold anything against me. She then moved on to one of my house mates. They just broke up last summer.
now going to community college and hoping to find work that doesn't blow
What do you have against SyphonBlue and BlueBlue?
I took a job after school as mostly a help desk guy for a company that made data analysis and graphing software, managed to survive several months of vivid fantasies about shooting myself in such a way as to necessitate a closed-casket funeral, got out of that slump by going to law school, and now that I'm graduating, I'm realizing that being an attorney is just about the last fucking thing I want to do in the entire world. I guess going back to my old dead-end job would be worse.
But now I'm Out and looking for a job doing... basically what Mitt Romney used to do, I guess. Anything in risk analysis or value analysis for a private equity firm or a bank. Might go take the Series 7 exam and just try to pick up a job as a trader that will pay off my law school loans in like five years.
And then I can change my life completely again and start trying to live like a halfway decent human being.
You'll get 'em next time.
also: there's some great post/avatar symbiosis going on there.
uh
mostly i got boners and led my school's robotics team. to victory.
- I was working for Telstra as a call centre operator/manager and utterly despising it. This was the year that I decided to get the hell out when, while I was helping and comforting one of my team members who was in the middle of recovering from an asthma attack, one of my superiors told me that it would be a mark against my name if I chose to stay with them instead of attending a sales meeting.
- I was about halfway through a ridiculously unhealthy, superficial and extremely nonreciprocal crush on my friend's sister. I get amused and embarrassed just thinking about it now.
On the plus side:
- Started working out and generally keeping fit. This did wonders for my self esteem, health and attitude and I feel great today because of it.
- Started drawing and actually enjoying it. Looking back at my 2007 work, it was teeerrrrrriiiible, but I guess it's less terrible now so that's cool.
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and I'm only 22!
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I will burn this town to the ground before I let that happen.
I'd eventually run through another job after a month's panicked hunting, meet my SOs in the fall via chatting, and attend my 2nd PAX.
I feel like barely anything's changed, but I know stuff's stabilized more, so here's to hoping.
I was living in an apartment with 2 other ladies. Learned that living with girls is hard. Had recently turned 21.
Think that was the year that I had somewhat of a breakdown of sorts. Ended up withdrawing from most of my classes. Sought help. Therapy through the school. Eventually figured out medications. Was tough. Really glad I had mongoose with me.. and that he didn't go running away.
6 years ago right now i had not yet jerked off for the first time.