Well all, here it is at 11:40 pm December 31 and since I find myself with a few spare moments on my hands and Copacabana on my iPod, I thought I should reflect back on the year. By month, of course.
January--I don't remember anything, but it was the beginning of a new semester and those are always notable for having paid tuition and health insurance, thereby keeping our kneecaps intact.
February--I remember February well, because it was at the very end of the month that we realized that Paul would not graduate if he couldn't come up with some World Civ credit. Luckily, Independent Study was there to bail us out (for a modest fee, of course). Charisse also got married and Heather flew in from Ohio, so I got to talk to her for a little bit which is always nice.
March--Something probably happened this month, I don't remember. Paul finished his Independent Study course though. Yeah for graduation!
April--I turned 23, which is a singularly unexciting age. The big news came a week later when we officially racked up Bachelor's degrees in History, Russian, and Biochemistry between the two of us and celebrated by not going to graduation.
May--I quit working for BYU and began working on digitizing the back issues of T'ang Studies. It was our 3rd anniversary, so we probably did something for that that. I'm not really sure. Maybe if you remember what we did this year, you could help fill in the gaping holes.
June--June was the granddaddy of all months. We moved out of our beautiful apartment, moved in with Paul's parents, attended my first Muhlestein family reunion, took the GRE, and on the 27th-29th flew half-way around the world to sunny, humid, currently FREEZING Taiwan. (Hey, 62 degrees is really cold when there is no heat, no sun, a lot of wind, and you're not moving around.)
July--Again, no memories, but that was probably a result of the 14 hr time difference and being throw to the hellions. The blog says we went to Bagua Shan. It's probably true.
August--August brought our first experiences with typhoons and squatters (my arch-nemesis). I stand by my original opinions of both fiends.
September--In September, we actually strayed from the work/home/food street intercity triangle to go to Lugang and Taipei. We had quite a good time. We also experienced our first earthquake, which I had flashbacks of on Christmas when a little 5.1 hit in the middle of the night, only it felt much bigger because it was in the next county, not across the island. Heather and Mark had their baby, which they told us about at some point previously. No one died and the emotional trauma seems to have been minimal in the long run.
October--October was a dark time. Morale was low, favorite holidays were undercelebrated, there's no need to dwell on it.
November--Let's see. Paul went to the dentist like every Saturday, I worked fitfully on my grad school applications, we celebrated a nice Thanksgiving with the Colonel, and we sold our souls to the Man.
December--Hopefully, you already remember what we did in December. There's no need to re-hash it all. I finished the graduate school application that had to be finished by January 1st, and the others are complete save that pesky writing sample which will be on its way shortly.
Overall, the highlights of the year would be visiting Taipei, making it through Buffy: Seasons 1-3 straight, and graduating, I guess. It's hard because applying for grad school makes it feel like I never finished college.
Well, midnight is long past, and only tomorrow is a holiday, so I'd better get moving bedward.
2 comments:
I came home in July. But then again, you weren't there. I'm sorry.
You have an adventurous pair of lives my good friends. Like super spies.
You aren't super spies, are you?
Are you?
Yeah, I was thinking about that. But it's hard to remember events you weren't around for. If we're super spies, we are the most boring, most useless super spies in the world. All we could do is supply outrageous amounts of information about the Taiwanese cram school system. Doesn't seem like it would be that useful to the greater intelligence community. Unless....
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