15 years ago: June 1989 - I was 11, and just finishing sixth grade. My family spent all of that July traveling around the country seeing national parks and family members.
10 years ago: June 1994 - the end of 11th grade. I had an immense crush on a friend, who by then had mostly stopped talking to me (he didn't get nasty until the following fall). My brother had broken an arm and a leg at a school dance, and was probably actually in the hospital on this date. He was a pet rock most of the summer. That August, I did college tours and interviews, and decided I wanted to go to Drew.
9 years ago: June 1995 - Classes were over, and I was preparing for graduation, mostly consisting of writing out a speech I'd been composing for several years. I was dating
8 years ago: June 1996 - I was very sad to be at home after my first year of college, and spent a lot of the summer writing letters to everyone I knew. I worked at one of the Hallmark stores in the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, NH, with Melissa. My grandfather died that June. I had an amazingly serious crush on someone I'd recently met and never expected to see again, and a much smaller one on someone I'd been sort of involved with, which I focused on to try to get the other guy out of my head. It didn't work.
7 years ago: June 1997 - I was in Egypt. The new experiences and completely different environment served to break me out of the deep depression and fog I'd been in since deciding I had to break up with
6 years ago: June 1998 - spent my summer at Drew, working for Telecom. While cleaning phones wasn't the best job in the world, the summer was unforgettable. I was collecting
5 years ago: June 1999 - Shortly after graduation from Drew, by June 3, I would have been back in NJ and into the frenetic preparations for
4 years ago: June 2000 - living in New Providence with
3 years ago: June 2001 - still living in New Providence and still with
2 years ago: June 2002 - This was the month of nothing but moving; on June 3, I had just taken possession of my Madison apartment and was learning the joys of bleach in an attempt to make it habitable before I moved.
1 year ago: June 2003 - we were preparing for the cruise to Alaska, a trip that was well worth the time and energy. There was only about a month left in my relationship with
Today: I'm in a holding pattern, which I need to break as soon as possible, but not until after the
