Back In Time

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Hug Your Cats Day
Loomis Day
Memorial Day (Traditional)
Saint Joan of Arc Feast Day
Anniversary - First American Daily Newspaper Published
Anniversary - Lincoln Memorial

I stole this meme from jill_calico: Draw Yerself As A Teenager!

Enjoy my clumsy first attempt at using fancy arty markers,* courtesy of the incomparable lycheetwist! 

 
DISCLAIMER!  Kids!  Don't carry your bass bow in your backpack! This is purely an artistic liberty on my part! Put the thing in a case, for the love of god! I never ever did this, Bean, I swear!

When I was 15, I
• Was in my last year of junior high school (9th grade)
• Was working actively to get my tae kwon do black belt
• Had my first depressive episode
• Played bass in jazz band and orchestra
• Finally got those braces off
• Had a birthday involving cycloptic sheep heads floating in formaldehyde and an impromptu abstinence-only non-sequitur lecture
• Was close friends with Jess and Heather
• Hiked a lot in the desert, which I was in love with (and still am)
• Began to develop crushes on people, none of whom were contemporaneous to me
• Got to go into the OR and watch Dad do a brain surgery (and passed out)
• Took all the honors classes available because they were the most interesting
• Took the same math class as my brother, even though he was a grade lower than me, and we had fun**
• Mismarked the National Spanish Exam demographic page and took state in the “native speaker” category 
• Began to realize that people seriously believed in all that Bible stuff.

It’s kind of scary how damn consistent I am. There have been a few changes, but not a whole lot.

Partly I’m doing this meme because of all the artists who I want to see do it. So for this I specifically tag lycheetwist, Liz the Art Nerd, jadewing, gundamkiwi, and chibicharibdys. Add to this anyone else who is arty and wants to do it!


*HOLY SHIT those are fun. If they weren’t prohibitively expensive I’d buy dozens and go art bonkers

**To this day my brother and I remain the stereotypical male and female learning types. He was moved up to my level in math (which confused our already-confused calculus teacher, because while we didn't have the class during the same periods it turned out we had picked the same desk to sit in) and is now the great and mighty engineer, but he's not a fan of English or humanities and is good but not great with languages. I'm the language whiz with a penchant for the soft sciences and a flair for writing, but I'm average at math and have been known to get lost in 3-D video games.