Happy 10th Blogaversary!

Yep. You read that right. 10th.

10 years. Ten. TEN. X.

I’m only 27. I’ve been blogging (not necessarily daily) for 10 years today. It’s more than a third of my lifetime. I just started two small ones not even two weeks ago (will need to post more on those later). Obviously, I haven’t been blogging on this very domain… Obviously.

I opendiaried. I xanga’d. I livejournalled (and deadjournalled and greatestjournalled). I blogspotted. I’ve typepadded (not personally, though). I wordpressed and geocitied (RIP [Yahoo] Geocities). I twitter (yes, I count that). I’ve been on a lot of domains, I’ve saved most of them. I like to have that footprint to look back on. The young and (sometimes) stupid. The emotional. The mental. The just because.

10th blog anniversary seems so much more important and milestoney (I’m writing this on a severe and inevitable food coma, so you must forgive the tendency to make up words as I go along) than anything else before — though getting past that first year between my senior year of high school and first year of college was pretty monumental at the time. And the 5th year seemed like forever, as well as forever ago.

After the jump, a look back at years past… and my thoughts on them now.

PS: Why do they call it the ‘jump’ anyway? Thoughts?

February 23, 2000 - OD

I gotta admit. This is kinda weird, putting my journal out into the wide open Internet… for a good portion of people to see. But the intrigue is enough for me to try it out. Sure, I’ll still have my handwritten one — especially the entries I have during english class… those are more fun to write about. Considering I type a lot faster than I write, maybe this will be more appropriate. And since I’m on my computer for more time than I actually see my journal, maybe this option will be better. This is obviously my first entry — I really don’t know if anyone’s really going to read this… but the prospect of someone ACTUALLY reading this is scary — and yet, somehow fun. It’s weird, my roommate actually thinks that I’m writing a paper or something. This entire week is horrible. I’ve had 3 papers, 2 late assignments due this week. I have two exams next week. It’s horrid. And to top it all off! I’m SICK! sick sick sick sick. with the Common Viral Cold, they say. No cure. It sucks. It really does. Pounding headache, work –> those two just do not mix. Anyway… to give yall a taste out there of what my mind is REALLY like… maybe I should post a past entry. While I debate about that. I’ll type about today. We had a pointless meeting about sex, alcohol, and drugs in college — try a more inventive and interesting topic: like DEPRESSION in COLLEGE. ooh. there’s something we havent’ heard before. I went to see the BV Hockey game. we beat them good: 4-0. so their record is now 13-9. they still won their last two games. I’m so proud of the boys. Ok. I’m going to post a past entry. besides, I like to procrastinate. and typing is good therapy.

OpenDiary.com - 1827 journal entries. I found OD via bored.com. The 2nd half of this first entry was from a paper journal I wrote while on Sunday detention (I went to a boarding school) from 2/20/00. Obviously, I don’t think it’s nearly as strange for people to be posting quasi-personal entries online for other people to read. The age of information at everyone’s fingertips is the norm now. I don’t know if I realized the future was going to be like this back then. But I was thankful for the online outlet it provided. I was a senior in high school at the time, sick and on the verge of senior spring. And of the rest of my life. Who knew that one innocent little post would be the start of a major career move? Heck, at this point I still thought I was going to pursue medicine.

2001 - OD

for all the effort i thought i put into doing well at school — at the moment i’m not doing all that hot. for someone who was convinced that she wouldn’t miss anymore classes this year — i ain’t doin so hot now.

music lit yes? music lit no? he doesn’t take attendance anyway

chem yes? chem no? he doesn’t take attendance either, but i have a quiz today. lit con just ain’t happening.

wtf am i doing? wtf is happening? it’s like i’ve spiraled down into a world of *don’t give a shit about shit anymore* hell, i don’t even think it’s spiraling anymore… the world just dropped out from beneath my feet and nothing really matters anymore.

in the pit of my stomach, i know that this is a bad way to go. i know that i can go home for the sort of shit that i’m pulling right now. i know that i may never graduate class of 2004 from hws because of the stupid choices i’m making now.

funny, i can’t seem to care.

Yeah, see? Transition from high school to college wasn’t going so well. Even despite the fact I attended a college prep school. And for the record, I didn’t graduate from HWS either. I think I turned out better for it.

2002 - OD

fluffhair.

I actually don’t have any context for this at all.

2003 - OD

3rd year of my dependency to (Free)OpenDiary.

Good lord.

Here’s to another interesting year.

So sometime in those three years, OpenDiary changed their name to FreeOpenDiary. Nothing about the name rolled off the tongue or fingers well. At least I admitted I had a blogging ‘problem’ at this point.

2004 - LJ

Somewhere between then and now I made my transition over to LiveJournal. I remember blogging more than I had (and I may have had a Xanga somewhere)… but I may have had one or two long moments of purging… and these entries may be lost forever. Or another explanation is that I moved back home by this point, and lost my rather awesome and constant internet connection. No internet, no blogging. Makes perfect sense.

2005 - LJ

I copied and pasted a scene from Swingers here. The scene where Rob counsels Mike on whether or not to call back/take back the girl. Except change all the hers to hims and shes to hes (since I’m a girl and all)… and that basically sums up into yet another boy-girl relationship (or in my case, lack thereof) issue. I’m clearly still into the personal blogging stage.

2006 - LJ

Greg Flint, senior pastor at First Congregational Church in Eugeue, OR USA:

“Millions of public dollars have been spent on spreading the basic message that sexuality is a dirty, nasty, and sinful part of yourself that you have to save for the person you marry,” he said. “Imagine that, saving the worst, the dirtiest part of yourself for the one person you are supposed to love for the rest of your life! That’s just so bad, and it’s just so wrong. What abstinence education is really about is power. If you can control people’s sexual lives, you can control people.”

Discuss.

I’ve gone down the ‘blog as a discussion forum’ method. So, anyone still want to discuss?

2007 - LJ

pls tell me why i can’t be happy for J that he gets to go on this cool sounding business trip with skiing lessons and other fun things because he made an excel sheet that does permutations and he’s getting a crazy big raise. and i create something that no one else in my company knows about (blogs) and i get an ipod shuffle. im just avoiding talking about it with him  i figure its better that i just not say anything at all. he creates an excel sheet. i create a whole new protocol for the company. where is that fair?

Only 3 years ago, and STILL young and stupid. Also — NEVER date anyone you work with. Plenty of awkwardness ensues. Please see above. Note: this is about as open about my personal life as I get on here.

2008 - 25centlife.com

• I think I should go into hibernation every winter. I’m phenomenally good at sleeping for long periods of time. In addition to that, I don’t retain heat.
• You know there are people who are just walking space heaters? They just radiate heat all day long. I should be a walking air conditioner. The air surrounding me is a proven 5 degrees cooler than the rest of the atmosphere. **
• Young people like Barack Obama because of his potential to make change happen. For most of my life, I’ve been told that I need to look outside old conventions to be able to do something new and innovative. Hillary Clinton represents the old school, the old convention. Not only that, but she’s also a petulant bitch. Besides, she makes comments about how there’s been too much Bush for too long. So, why would we really want ANOTHER Clinton? Just sayin.
• I hate being political. I’m just plain averse to it. My last stint in politics was in 9th grade. I ran for Student Council Representative. I won once before, in 4th grade. And I was completely awful at it. I don’t know why I ran a 2nd time, nor why any of my classmates even nominated me.
• I hate when I come up with a series of awesome ideas for a post, but by the time I get to the computer, I’ve forgotten half of them.

**NOTE: It’s not really scientifically proven. Be smart about this.

This sums up well why twitter and I get along.

2009 - this site

Last year I was lazy and just reposted my first post ever in its entirety.

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So what have I learned from all of this?

1) I blog a lot.

2) I like blogging a lot

3) This 10 year anniversary post wasn’t nearly as thought provoking or as reflective as I thought it would be. I should work on that for the 15 year anniversary

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