stellar_muddle | That 20,15, 10, 5, 1 etc meme

Still thumb twiddling (and finished the book).

So, instead of eying up the sewing

alpha_angel has lying around the place (cause that would be impolite to work on), I'll tackle a meme (via

mmy_me) instead.

20 years ago (1987) I was 10 and at primary school. I think by this late in the year the good teacher (Mr Fletcher) had headed off to become a headmaster elsewhere. Can't remember who replaced him. Or was that standard 3? Not that memorable.

15 years ago (1992) 15 years old. School cert year. The year we found out DSIR Chch was closing and the choice was Dunedin or Wellington to move to, though the actual shift didn't occur til the start of 1993. Can't say I was a fan of the local school bullies that year - bookish geeky wallflower target.

10 years ago (1997) 20 years old. 3rd year Uni (on course for doing honours in Astronomy the following year), still in Halls of Residence. Having fun there, having survived a somewhat challenging first half of the year academically - they put most of the interesting courses in the first half of the year. Second half was slow enough I picked up "Medieval Arthurian Romance" as a break from tensors, quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. Still in the quiet bookish, geeky, wallflower catagory, but possibly not as bad. Actually achieved a vague social life that year. Playing SCA by then and making bad garb.

5 years ago (2002) 25 years old. At this time of the year 8 months out from finishing a PhD thesis. Had stopped observing and was probably in the middle of swearing at data. Shacked up with Z by this stage :). He was in the middle of thesis corrections and we were both in the middle of getting ready to head up to NAAMA for

alpha_angel's wedding. Slightly stressful. SCA break by then and playing with UCMRS.

1 year ago (2006) 29 years old. Will have been in Adelaide about a week max by then. We had just found out that we had gotten the rental place we wanted and that Z would head off to WA for some fieldwork that Mon for "2 weeks" or "a while" (it ended up being a monthish). Astronomy postdoc had finished end of June and after a brief wander via Brisbane, Z had found the new rock job. Uncertain what to do next.

Today (2007) 30 years old. Waiting and lurking. Better idea of what I want to do next but still having to wait on a bunch of things. Final interview upcoming. Still waiting on freight stuff (3rd day).

5 years ahead (2012) 35 years old. Not certain if the meme asks about this one, but since it seems to come up in job interview questions, useful to think about. Fingers crossed, settled in withe the cloud gazers. Thinking about, if not started on sproglets. Land with a house if not built, in progress. Mad medievalist harebrained schemes in progress.

Life in progress as opposed to waiting. Can't wait too long, otherwise things will progress without you.

But for now I will just eat sandwich and wonder at the definition of arriving soon (when said around 9am) that hasn't turned up by 2pm... And find another book to read.