Decade 3: The One That Starts With 2

2000
I am bi-millenial.  That is a staggering thought, that I should be able to make sloppy statements inferring that I have participated in at least 2000 years of earth's history.  I look to the east with disgust as Vladimir Putin emerges from the fray, dripping in the blood of his foes, and nests in the Kremlin.

2001
The White House reports unusually high numbers of owl sightings during the day of the inauguration of George W. Bush.  I sit in silence on the school bus as the news of the Twin Towers attack squawks out of the radio.  It was a quiet day, 9-11-01.

2002
Ice is found on Mars.  That's a bit closer, but still, too far to go when you are thirsty.  Me, I just drive my newly acquired pickup down to Circle K.  I also drive it lots of other places, including, on several occasions, the sky.

2003
Graduation, etc.  Boring.  College-ho!  Even though it seems like a terrible re-run, Columbia still disintegrates.  Oh, science.  When will you learn?  I enroll in the business school as ASU.

2004
Yielding to the relentless pressure of accumulated years, I switch to Mechanical Engineering.  It is hard.  I lack even the time to watch the last episode of Friends.  Wait, that wasn't the one with Luke Perry, was it?  No?  Ok. 

2005
The owls give up on people for not heeding their warnings, and just picket the second inauguration of George W. Bush with tiny signs.  They are crushed by the environmental activists who are also picketing.  Life goes on.  Work, school, sleep.

2006
This one is also a blur, but I think I got A's.  Discovery lands safely, to NASA's grateful surprise.

2007
Holy cow!  It's 2007?  I am going to graduate?  Kofi Annan is gone?  There's an iPhone?  It is a year of questions.

And here, dear, patient reader, I leave you.  Perhaps this sheds a ray of light on my sordid past.

 

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