2006-2011

Ok, so this isn't the big post I had planned. I was working on a little "greatest hits" type post, giving a sort of timeline of the past five years according to this little part of the Web.

2006

But, as we all know, life sometimes gets in the way of our blogging plans, and I instead needed to focus my writing attention on a film theory paper that, frankly, I don't understand. Which is tricky, because I wrote it, but such is grad school. I used big words and expressions like "semiotics," "narrative hermeneutics," and "phenomenology," so I'm hoping that will be good enough.

Anyway. I will most definitely (maybe) do the Greatest Hits of Marie-Claire's Online Life at some point, very soon (at some point). (When I have time.)

Suffice it to say, for now at least, that my life is very different than it was on October 31, 2006...

2007

-My hair was much longer, for starters.

-Neither Asbury, Baylor, nor any sort of big geographical transitions     were on my mind. I was livin' large as a high school senior, and loving every minute of it.

-I had zero friends who were married. (Now I have at least eight, if you count brothers.)

-I drank a lot more loose leaf tea. 

-Only about four people in the world called me Marie.

-I was toying with the idea of not going away to school.

-I didn't live in Texas. Nor would I have been able to take that idea seriously if you had suggested it.

...And very much the same:

2007

-I still have the best friends in the world, though the category has shifted around and expanded to make room for some great people. Though, as you can see, some of them have stuck around...

-I'm still just as sarcastic.

-I still hate change just as much. I respect it; but I don't like it.

-I understand more of who I'm made to be, and I'm excited to see what this grad school nonsense has to do with it.

2005

Happy 5th birthday, Blog... We've both come a long way since that night at Caroline's that Annie talked me into making creating you. You've been a sounding board, a place to vent, a way to stay connected to people, a good receptacle for my terrible jokes, and an important step in realizing how much I love to write. Here's to five more years of random posts about finals week, procrastination, and the occasional heart-felt thought.