December 23, 2007
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The Seven-Year Itch
Unbelievably, today marks seven years since I first signed up with Xanga. Lucky seven. Store seven years of grain for seven years of famine. In Internet time, that’s an eternity. In 2000, no one imagined anything online lasting for seven years… Yahoo! wasn’t even that old then.
It was quite a different time for me then. I was a graduate student at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, pursuing a Master of Arts degree in English Literature. Thus my choice of screen name, “litboiler”– literature + Boilermaker (the Purdue nickname). I was single– well, a long way from married, anyway– and living in a dorm room in Young Graduate House. Now, I am a middle school teacher, husband, adoptive father of a teenage girl and stepfather to three more, living in my mother-in-law’s tri-level, four-bedroom house in a suburb of Denver, Colorado.
I’ve also changed my Xanga identity a few times since then, from “litboiler” to “enigma42,” back to “litboiler,” then to “education_is_life” and finally ”jasonwrites” The current name serves well because it applies no matter what my life situation may be. I’ve tried blogging elsewhere also. Problem is, much of what I want to write now is potentially troublesome for me if it were read by the people I work for, with, or may work for in the future. So if I’m to stick around here, I’ll have to make some of my posts protected.
There’s so much more I want to write about, but let me put this out here for my anniversary post. Now that I’m on winter break, more will come this week.
Comments (7)
Happy anniversary! My seven-year Xangaversary is coming up in a few months… my life is totally different than it was then, too, but I’m also teaching middle school.
(And, yes, that’s why I haven’t posted any public entries in two years… protected posting is great that way. There’s no worries about students or parents or nosy administrators. It’s hard to get new readers, though!)
Welcome back and happy Xangaversary! What’s sad is that I’ve been here for ages too, but my life is still the same.
Happy holidays to you, Maria, and the kiddos!
Happy Sevenmas!
News has holiday stabbings, carjackings, robberies and etc.
I’ve got a bit of sinus headache. I had thought from Michelle’s cats Saturday night–but I’ve since been told fungus and mold from rain, and ragweed never died and is having growth spurt. Aspirin type stuff helping. Weird dreams from nap/crash. I needed to drive to London to pick up my graded papers? Haha
Happy Xangaversary, Jason, & Merry Christmas!
“I’ve also changed my Xanga identity a few times”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ahem he.
But anyway–yeah and I don’t know really know which of your remaining e-mail addresses I have left is the best one. I think I’m down to 3. 4.
You ever get well?
Supposed to get a few more inches rain.
If Sonny Perdue is McCain’s Veep, then he gets to be President when McCain’s Borg implants self destruct.