Some random events that have happened to me, in no particular order:
- Successfully went to State Level for History Day. Was the only one who used a screen with media and slideshows that year if I recall.
- Successfully pulled off a Senior Recital. Granted, I'm still horrible compared to others, but it was a nice feather in my cap.
- Created and maintained a recurring LAN event. A 24 hour LAN event. We were seriously delusional by the end.
- Got punched in the face. Hard. Not while doing martial arts.
- Learn the basics of martial arts. As in enough to know to run the hell away from almost everyone.
- Got a job.
- Got an internship.
- Went to one of the most high-octane amazing colleges ever and learn a crap ton. Plus meet amazing people.
- Went to a medicore school that showed me some bad sides of academia but provided me development on the social and spiritual sides. Also meet amazing people.
- Got a car. Expect it to last 6 months. Have it last over a year.
- Edit lots of videos. Be really bad at it. But excite brother enough that he does badass job at it.
- Found several clubs. They mostly don't matter. Except that one that got funding to build a game library. It's doing awesomely.
- Learned to cook. Still learning to cook.
- Became Section Leader.
- Kickin' ass in Drill Downs.
- Lived in Austin Texas. It was really freakin' hot that year. But had some quality times there. Like swimming in a spring.
- Learned to be competent at dancing. And by competent I mean not a complete fool on the floor.
- Lots and lots of games. Including playing pro for a very brief period (for certain definitions of "pro").
- Plenty of late nights.
- Massive road trips. Both with and without family. Thank goodness I don't get carsick and can read and play games.
- Playing at Disneyland. Repeatedly. Their backstage is crazy cool.
- Traveling! China is furthest so far. Still have to hit up Europe and Japan.
- Running through the airport with my Clinic team to try and catch our flight.
- Getting on the wrong plane.
- First taste of alcohol. On a flight home from a successful presentation.
- Being completely messed up after going wine tasting.
- Realizing the academic structure of High School wasn't conducive to my plans and forging my own path.
- Changing clothes in a bus. Weekly. For four years.
- Switching school districts and realizing everything had changed.
- Listening to things on a CD Player. Heck, listening to records and tapes!
- Playing games from floppy disks and being required to know what our sound card was.
- Mowing lawns. Lots and lots of lawns. I miss the old lawnmower that didn't break.
- Making forts inside the piles of orange branches after a long day of trimming the tree.
- Sitting down to start a game, realize I can't save, and just powering through the rest of the game. Much to the enjoyment of the spectators.
- Winning at giving speeches. Also being forced to give speeches every week.
- Learning to powerwalk so you can race to the classroom while not "running".
- Realizing after the fact that the flute is considered a girl instrument in elementary/middle school.
- Being mocked incessantly for being the only one wearing the school uniform.
- Being really bad at basketball. Mostly because I never practiced. Turns out that's kinda helpful for being good at something.
- Getting in trouble for programming my calculator while I was supposed to be taking notes. Still aced the class.
- Getting into too many arguments over things that don't really matter.
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