Hey, what is this? Anywhere I go I get a meme!

[fpb]

20 years ago I...
1. Was studying to get through my last A-levels and my Oxbridge entrance examination
2. Was living in Oxford with an incredibly chatty and comic landlady
3. Had survived the Army and the horrors of a lost love.

15 years ago I...
1. Was proposing to the love of my life, D***** W******.
2. Was doing my second and final year at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
3. Was having trouble with people who were defaming me to the college authorities.

10 years ago I...
1. Was writing, drawing and reviewing comics almost full-time.
2. Was briefly in love with a butch lesbian, but...
3. ...then met D***** W****** on the steps of Tottenham Court Road tube station after not having seen her for three or four years, and it was like, "Hunh? C**** who?"

5 years ago I...
1. Was over the moon about having my first book of historical research published by a proper academic outfit
2. And made up my mind to commit myself to research, since I seemed to be getting someplace there
3. On the other hand, I could not get over losing DW finally and for ever.

3 years ago I...
1. Was moving towards the end of a gigantic research project about sixth-century Britain.
2. Had finally moved out of the worst house share of my life, thank God! (It was with a criminal and a drug addict.)
3. Thought things would be looking up from now on.

1 year ago I...
1. Knew things would not be looking up in a hurry.
2. Was evicted from a houseshare in Hackney, after a rotten year in which everything went wrong and I lost touch with all my friends.
3. Was becoming familiar with the Internet.

This year I...
1. Moved into a small flat in Ilford.
2. Suffered an atrocious disappointment after hoping to get into a job I would have loved.
3. Got sucked into the addictive vortex that is HP fandom.

Yesterday I...
1. Possessed myself of a book that I wanted by improper means.
2. Borrowed another, by marginally less improper means.
3. Spent most of the day reading.

Today I...
1. Had a singularly pleasant awakening.
2. Decided to do some writing.
3. Stumbled into this meme and found an excuse not to write.

Tomorrow I...
1. Go to Mass.
2. Do some writing - probably finish at least one more HP story
3. Scan some original Celtic material and do some analysis.

Comments

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

Is this a quiz or did you really spend yesterday in a morally ambiguous relationship with a couple of leather-bound beauties?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I did. What of it?

[(Anonymous)]

*fans self* Oh, my. Fifty years from now, write it up in your memoirs as a day you threw off your inhibitions and indulged your wild side. *Goes off to indulge a rubber glove fetish in the kitchen, cleverly disguising it with scouring powder and a sponge.*

[fpb.livejournal.com]

If I had a penny for every time I possessed myself of a book by unfair means, ms.Whoever-you-are, I would be able to fund my own chair at Oxford and dictate who they shall select for it.

It's pretty funny that what you did 20 years ago I just did last year

[thepreciouss.livejournal.com]

20 years ago I...was not alive
15 years ago I...was proud of wearing big-girl underwear and not diapers
10 years ago I...wanted another American Girl Doll
5 years ago I...decidedly became a grown woman (at 13)
3 years ago I...wanted to go to English boarding school after my parents announced we were moving to Arizona
1 year ago I...applied to college

Re: It's pretty funny that what you did 20 years ago I just did last year

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Crikey, I hope you have a vastly happier and luckier next twenty years than I had! Oh, and try not to honk people off quite as much as I seem to...