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[aintbroke]

Folks:
Today is my ten year lj-versary.

isilya just mentioned that she's been around these parts for more than a decade, and I checked my calendar- only to realize that I too have been hanging out here for ten years.

Ten years ago, at this time, I was psuedo-interning for Noam Chompski, harassing people of varying importance at the Pentagon, testing out search engines to see what dogpile/google/yahoo considered the best results, learning how to hard code html, getting my heart broken by college admissions boards, and generally not being a whole lot younger than I feel today.

I sort of understand intellectually that it's been a long time. And when I add up the things I have done since then, I guess it has been a while. But I remember riding my bike to the IRC, sitting in that squeaky chair in the only room without a window, and compiling lists of bizarrely specific data- like it was yesterday. (Maybe even better than yesterday, because I can still cite you statistics on what percentage of GDP goes to weapons acquisition in ten countries, but I can not tell you what the 4th line treatments for hypertension are.)

Ten years! I know many people are migrating away to other social networks- and it's true that I spend more time on tumblr than I do here- but I love this space we've built, and I love you all for sharing it with me. Thanks for the good times, folks. Thanks for teaching me, and telling me.Thanks for growing up along with me.

Here's to ten more years of whatever's coming next.

(In this post, the banana represents time, and the old woman represents me, shocked and astonished that time is catching up to me. You'll never take me without a fight, banana!)

Comments

[isilya]

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WOOSH, that is the sound of the last ten years. But the last two years went EVEN FASTER, scary fast!

So glad to know you, you magnificent human being.

Here's to another decade!

[yarrowkat]

yay! and wow, time flies.

i just realized that i read thsi post yesterday, thought about it, and then went and re-read most of my own saturn return, 8 years ago, because this post dovetailed with another thought train i've been riding lately -- and didn't actually respond to you.

so, hi! it's always good to see you here. :)

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

Ten years ago at this time, I was planning my wedding and, um, a huge move across the country from Boston to Albuquerque. No shit. I didn't sign on to LJ until the following April, so it's still approximately 9 years for me.

I'm still here and still reading. I've moved my LJ-style posting to Google+ plus because with migration away from LJ, I was left with about three regular readers, and after a while I felt like I was the tree falling in the woods that nobody heard. The majority of my LJ social community has, for whatever reason, washed up on G+.

I don't know anything about the phase of your life that happened 10 years ago, and I would love to know more.