This is my chronological account of my many misadventures through life. I figured putting it in year form would paint a pretty accurate picture of what I've done and where I've been.

1971: Born in Uniontown, PA on April 6th.
1975: Moved to California,PA following my parents' divorce. Lived in these kind of Crappy apartments.
1976:Moved to some rinky dink town in Pennsylvania that began with a "B". Don't remember much about it, except we went there for my mom's first teaching job. Dad remarried.
1978?:Moved to the much classier Greensburg,PA. My mom quit said teaching job and worked in the admissions office of Seton Hill College.
1979? Switched schools. My mom started teaching ESL at St. Vincent's College in Latrobe.
1982:Moved to Jeanette,PA (right next to Greensburg) and switched schools. It was a pretty dismal little town, so we only stayed there for a year.
1983: Moved back to Greensburg. My mom stopped teaching ESL sometime around this point, occasionally substitute teaching.Switched schools. My half-sister, Emily, was born.
1984:Mom didn't want me going to the public junior high, so I went to the Catholic middle school.
1985:Mom got a job as a technical writer. We moved to a town about an hour from Philadelphia which my brother affectionately nicknamed "armpit of the universe" I, of course, switched schools.
1986:I started high school, thus switching schools.
1987: I discovered The Cure and The Smiths around this time, launching a lifelong enjoyment of both bands. My mom remarried. We moved from the sticks to the suburbs. Oh yeah, and I switched schools.
1988: Guess what? I switched schools. Shocking, no? I also became an extremely obnoxious goth club kid.
1989: I dropped out of high school. Hung out with squatters. I took off for Pittsburgh, hanging around a variety of punk and hippy and goth sorts. I was quite broke though, and after being unsuccessful in getting hired at various fast food joints, returned to the Philly area. Quickly got a job, and a place in a very bad area of Philadelphia.
1990:Went to Philadelphia Community College, and did a semester as an English major. That summer, I took off to San Francisco with about $70 to my name. Boy howdy, was I hanging out with hippies then!
1991:Got my first boyfriend, by the name of Alex Christmas. Met him while working as a walking courier.
1992:Spent the summer hitchhiking around the southwest. Got this idea in my head that moving to Flagstaff, AZ would be fun. Worked in some divey mob joint that fleeced tourists to get the cash.
1993:Found my way to Flagstaff. Realized a small, hippie town in the mountains was not much fun. Had very few friends since my big city ways harshed their buzz too much. So, I moved to Tucson. I made many friends hanging around coffeehouses and working in nightclubs.
1994:Came up with an idea for a self published comic, had the world's most mellow roommate (tm). Was buried in cats.
1995: Published comic, and began hobnobbing with every variety of cartoonist and gallery owner in Tucson.
1996: Having dated too many people in Tucson, and realizing how small it actually was, I moved to Austin.
1997:Started hanging out at Little City cafe in Austin, where I became friends with a Russian girl obsessed with the mob. Began writing my existential novel, and began reading Kierkegaard. Little did I know how much of a lifelong obsession it would be.
1998: Moved to Chicago with a rather psycho guy I was dating at the time.
1999:Dumped said psycho guy and moved to Milwaukee. I moved back from Milwaukee four months later and began dating Rob, who I'm still with.
2000:My older half-sister, Jennifer died of a drug overdose.
2001:Moved to Kalamazoo, in a moment of insanity.
2002:Moved to Detroit, and started at Wayne State.
2003:I decided to major in Psychology with the aspirations of becoming a clinical psychologist. Worked in a lab studying attitudes towards homelessness.
2004:Began what was at the time a minor in Philosophy. Was a research assistant in a neuroscience lab, using animal models to study the effects of inhalant abuse both prenatally and in adolescence.
2005:Realized I did not, in fact, want to become a clinical psychologist. Which is good, since I suck at statistics.
2006:Transferred to University of Detroit Mercy, where I'm finishing my last year of undergrad. I plan on applying to graduate school in Philosophy next year.
2007: I moved to Milwaukee to attend Marquette for graduate school.
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