It has been the year 2008, a year that for the preceding year and a half I knew would be turbulent, full of changes, and having just about anything happen. I don’t know why I got that sensation, dating all the way back to mid-2006. Just did. Had this strong feeling that upon going into 2009, the world would be a very different place. And you know what? This year has pretty much lived up to it! So let’s review! 😀
January: Septic Shock
-Started Facebook group “End Discrimination Against Young Shoppers”
-Grandma went to hospital for mysterious illness 2007 ended with
-NYRA prepared for second Facebook Moneybomb, but again unsuccessful (though the forums users who didn’t pay up were blocked off from all but one forum for a while!)
-Buying music online rules!
-Grandma’s leg is dead and need to be amputated
-Grandma still didn’t get better and died on the 24th :bored:
-Coworker is back from India and engaged! Wait, she’s never even mentioned the guy before…
-There’s a broom in Grandma’s grave, LOL
February: Leap!
-Very late company holiday dinner!
-LOL, Superbowl upset, Pats = pwned
-Spent Superbowl taking down Christmas tree
-Saw Vista Minesweeper and shat brix
-Primary election day, was sleeting!
-Supervisor announced she was resigning
-Alex and I tabled at JSA, and he spent much of the time at the second one on the phone for a CAFETY board meeting
-Family fighting over shit about Grandma’s estate, and I much more seriously pursuing getting the fuck out
-A 29th day?! OMGWTFBBQ!!!11!!
March: Ping Chi
-Screw work, I’m going to the NYRA meeting in New York!
-Goddamn it, I got on I-95 north by mistake! :irked:
-Bought fuckton of Easter candy
-Had routine car maintenance, and while there walked over to my dentist to schedule appointment
-Had dentist appointment and discovered a lot of shit I needed to have done. Lame.
-Went to a friend’s birthday party, at a steakhouse and then a bowling alley.
April: Malleable
-Got dental work done, making me unable to chew on the right side of my mouth for a while. Fail.
-NYRA got lots of drinking age coverage, including a prime time Fox News appearance, and a witch hunt appearance on the Mike and Juliet Show. Ugh.
-MADD founder’s dumbass anti-military comment caught on video prompted us all to Digg it to raise awareness, getting NYRAnians on Digg, and there I found an amusing Cracked.com post, prompting NYRAnians into Cracked. Domino effect, ftw!
-Was supposed to have my dental work finished, but the inlay piece wasn’t finished yet so I had to delay the appointment. Blah.
-Gave up apartment search for the much less expensive option of a shared house, so starting searching for that.
May: Mai’s Space
-Went back to dentist to have work finished, only for lidocaine to NOT WORK so I was in horrible pain! :irked:
-Friend’s mother-in-law had a Tupperware party. Haha.
-Then came my 25th birthday, where not a whole lot happened.
-Put up some NYRA flyers at various bus stops. A lot of them! Some stayed up a while. Wonder how many people read them.
-Visited a house where they needed a housemate, little ground floor room with private bathroom, decent location. Sure! So a week later signed the lease!
-Got pulled over for speeding while taking dad to airport. LOL
-Spent several days moving shit out and into new place! Yay! I escaped!
June: Red Eye at Night
-Friend’s game night is kind of rowdy.
-Coworker’s rather lulzy bridal shower with yummy Indian food.
-More setting up new place
-Electricity goes out all over place after big ass thunderstorm, causing ruckus at work!
-Alright, smoke detector, I don’t like you and you don’t like me, but if I can just cook something and you stay quiet, we’ll be cool
-Housemate set smoke detector off a few days later when she turned the oven on too high or something.
-NYRA tabling at Takoma Park, pretty boring, except I had to lug heavy crap back to my car.
-NYRA-DC meeting the following weekend, with just me, Alex, and the intern.
-Engaged coworker traveled back to India for her wedding
-Local water gets possibly contaminated after water main break, causing carnage and lulz
-Local FedEx facility has divide by zero error when I try to drop off a dry ice shipment
-NYRA board rips each other up over NYRA brochure: Alex and Chip liked the ridiculous stock photo, Stefan and I said NO WAI! We were, of course, ignored.
July: DO IT RITE
-Despondent over the brochure fiasco and some other crap, I began to think of anything cool I could to do cheer myself up. A visit to Delaware worked!
-Then, I don’t know, bunch of crap already mentioned in the 100 Days recap.
August: Hopefully Nothing
-Annual meeting!!!
-Alright, got reelected to board.
-WTF? What do you mean Roeder wasn’t reelected?!
-LOL, paper plates
-LOL, Smash Brothers
-LOL, drunk Pam
-Yay, concert!
-WTF?! What do you mean you took down the name?!
-No, you idiots, don’t vote to leave the name off, are you nuts?
-That’s it! Dear Soldier’s Mother…
-Board: “Oh no she didn’t!”
-Me: “Oh yes I did!”
-Board: “Vote the bitch out!”
-Motion fails
-Shit more or less fixes itself
September: A Well-Oiled Machine
-Work: “Stop phailing at your job or GTFO!”
-Me: “Shit, better fix that!”
-Keith: “Donate for the NYRA ad!”
-Me: “Jesus Christ Monkeyballs, that NYRA ad rules!”
-o snap, Middle Eastern bazaar! *drools*
-Party store: “No one under 14 allowed in without adult.”
-Me: “Bitch, age discrimination is illegal in Maryland.”
-To me, from Dell… laptop! 😀
-Alex: “Lulz, can you go to some Mobilize conference thing and talk about how kewl lowering the voting age is?”
-Me: “Yeah, probably would be nice for someone other than you to be at these things for a change.”
-Mobilize: “Lowering the voting age? O RLY?”
-Me: “YA RLY! A lower voting age would be like kewl and stuff. Just check out this ad.”
-Mobilize: *shat brix* “Well, we’ll give you a couple cameras.”
-ZOMG! I met Adam King!
October: Basement Monster
-Like, OMG, NYRA voting age ad is airing soon!
-LOL, Sarah Palin vs. Joe Biden
-Ah, it’s fun making fried potatoes.
-Goddamn it, smoke detector, STFU!!!
-You know, NYRA sucks, think I’ll take a break… A Link to the Past seems much more interesting.
-Oh, fuck, do I have appendicitis?!
-No, no, just random stomach ache.
-All these Snopes articles about Disney World deaths are making me want to go!
November: Radio Free Florida
-Come on, Obama… Come on, Obama…
-OBAMA WINS!!!
-Okay, I’d better reserve this Disney trip if I really want to go.
-Oh no, newly married coworker is moving to England! 🙁
-What do you mean I’ve been randomly selected?!
-ZOMG! Disney World!
-Fuck, Orlando is cold!
-What do you mean I’ve been randomly selected AGAIN?!
-Alright, time for NYRA tabling at SSDP conference!
-Goddamn it, why is there no parking on the College Park campus?!
-Mmmm, turkey
-Awww, Bolt!
December: Nine Seconds
-Stupid NYRA board is again being useless with holiday cards.
-Oh, good, Alex is helping!
-No, bad Alex, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG! :doitnow:
-Okay, I think I have 302 address now, I’ll order another 20 cards
-D’oh! I miscounted and only have 270!
-Wait, I can make this work… yes, I’ve made it work!
-Hooray, third annual NYRA holiday cards sent! 😀
-I’d better go Christmas shopping. Think I’ll go to the mall.
-Goddamn it, the fye in the mall has an ageist policy. Now I have to do something about it! :irked:
-How come this YouTube video for Collective Soul’s “The World I Know” has nine seconds missing from the song?
-Oh, wait, was just that one clip of it, this other one isn’t missing nine seconds.
-I have to work on Christmas Eve?! Shit!
-Good, we were let out at like 11:30.
-Aw, crap, but I still have to stay and wait for FedEx package.
-Or, no, screw FedEx package. It’s Christmas Eve. Way too much other crap to do!
-Yay, Greek food!
-Hey, for once I didn’t get all teary when the church sings Silent Night! Awesome.
-Yay, Christmas Day!
-Shit, I think Cedric has dropsy!
-Alright, got some pills for the fish tank, hope it helps.
-Okay, he seems better. Good!
-For New Year’s Eve, I think I’ll go skiing.
-Awesome.
-Once again, I have made an entry every day in December! Bitchin’.
So farewell, 2008. Despite some bad shit happening, you were very interesting and I call that good. It’s almost 2009, in just 20 minutes or so.
*looks off into eerie unknown mysterious new year*
