[Error: unknown template qotd]Ah, the year was 2003. Peter Jackson's
Lord of the Rings was tops at the box office and the musical stylings of Avril Lavigne and Linkin Park dominated the radio with their own quirky brand of the rock n' roll music kids love.
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batchix invited me to LJ. This was back when you needed to have a friend invite you because Livejournal was like this super elite club you couldn't get into unless you knew somebody who was already in. Now with Facebook curbstomping them out of existence I'm surprised they're not paying people to join. Of course, Livejournal getting sold to some shady shell corporation operating out of Third World Russia didn't help matters either but that was many years later and has no bearing on this story.
When I first joined I had just moved to Kansas City, had few friends here, and spent most of my time being emo over a woman. Time went on and thanks to LJ I made more friends. I did some theatre and gradually quit doing theatre. I worked overnights and moved in with my parents. I wrote and recorded a score for a play. I met my future wife and took some road trips to the south. I got married and the woman I was originally emo over paid for my wedding. We moved out of my parents' house. I finished writing a novel and got it published. I quit working overnights and started working a job I hated. I got fired from that job and went back to the previous job that I liked. Some other things happened and I wound up losing that job too and we wound up back in my parents' house. I'm doing theatre enough now that I don't regret not doing it, but not enough to burn me out and make me hate it. I'm focusing on music, writing, and getting back out of my parents' house.
Looking back it's been a lot of up, up, down, down, left, right. If my LJ were a Konami video game I'd have thirty lives by now.
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