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Twenty+ Years of Sean

I wasn’t tagged, but I’m doing this anyway. I am aware that this is cheating.

20 years ago I:

1. Was seven.
2. Lived with my family in Hemet, California, in my grandma’s house.
3. Read all the time.
4. Had just finished my first year of homeschool.
5. Was the second of four siblings.

10 years ago I:

1. Was seventeen years old.
2. Had just started my third year of college and my first year at BYU.
3. Had just moved into the French House at BYU’s Foreign Language Student Residence (FLSR).
4. Was a senior in mathematics.
5. Was taking piano lessons and voice lessons, and the next semester would take my first ballroom dance class and sing with the BYU Men’s Chorus for the first time.
6. Was the second of nine siblings (a situation which continues, unabated, to this day).

5 years ago I:

1. Was 22 years old.
2. Had just gotten back from a Mormon mission to Southern Italy.
3. Was living once again in the French House, trying to get my French back.
4. Was a super-senior in mathematics.

3 years ago I:

1. Was 24 years old.
2. Had gone through my first three relationships—a girlfriend and two boyfriends—in rapid succession. (Two of those relationships were so short they probably don’t count, but they’re on my list anyway.)
3. Was living at my sister’s house in American Fork for the summer.
4. Was about to come out publicly (and briefly) for the first time.
5. Was a super-super senior in mathematics.

So far this year I:

1. Attended my graduation for my first master’s degree and finished the second semester in my second master’s degree (without actually failing any classes!).
2. Have started swimming with QUAC at least once a week.
3. According to Goodreads, have read 74 books this year.
4. Have been working at the S— Public Library for 2-1/2 years.
5. Have been out as gay and an atheist, and out of the Mormon church, for almost three years.
6. Have hit the 3-year mark on this blog.

Yesterday I:

1. (See yesterday’s blog post.)

Today I will:

1. Finish downloading the first episode of the Doctor Who second series and the 2005 Doctor Who Christmas special.
2. Watch more Doctor Who.
3. Lie awake, sleepless, wishing I hadn’t finished off the pizza that was left over from last night.

Tomorrow I will:

1. Drink coffee.
2. Eat breakfast.
3. Work out.
4. Go to work.
5. Watch more Doctor Who.

In the next year I will:

1. Get down to 13% body fat.
2. Go on vacation (this summer) with my family for the first time in over ten years.
3. Go on vacation (next summer) outside of the country.
4. Start a story idea notebook.
5. Start actually writing again.

I tag Craig, David, Daisy, chosha, Nick and WHOEVER ELSE FEELS LIKE IT GOD I’M NOT YOUR MOTHER.

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7 Responses to “Twenty+ Years of Sean”

• Nick Says:
  July 1st, 2008 at 7:45 am

  You were starting your third year of college at age 17? Whoa!
• Sean ( PizzoC) Says:
  July 1st, 2008 at 3:12 pm

  Yeah, homeschool totally messed with my academic timeline. I took my first test—the ACT—when I was fifteen, without any kind of preparation or real understanding of what a “test” was. I started college way early, but I didn’t take biology or American history until I was just about to graduate. I have yet to take any kind of chemistry class, because my brain just doesn’t work that way. Apparently.
• chosha ( chosha) Says:
  July 4th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

  I did not pick you for a homeschooler. Interesting.
  I am also catching up on Dr Who at the moment. Good, good stuff.
• Sean ( PizzoC) Says:
  July 5th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

  I did not pick you for a homeschooler. Interesting.
  I conceal the scars well.

  Doctor Who is currently taking over my life. I haven’t bittorrented an entire season of a series in years, but… that is what I have been reduced to over the past couple days.
• willy dial Says:
  August 31st, 2008 at 12:34 pm

  there’s one thing we have in common sean… we both spent a lot of time with your mom. did you ever hear about the time i bit her? on the arm. real hard. surprising considering i was scared of cuties [a well know bug that infests only girls.] at the time. well you know her better now than i do. i’m sure i’ll find a few less ancient stories in here about her among all your blogs. i suppose i should go check the “mom” category… or is it under “uncle willy’s sister?”
• Sean ( PizzoC) Says:
  September 1st, 2008 at 12:11 pm

  Mom has told me lots of stories about her childhood, but I’ve never heard that story! Was there a reason for it?
• willy dial Says:
  September 5th, 2008 at 8:42 am

  of course there was a reason for it… unfortunately i have no idea what that was. the reason kinda got lost in the shuffle of me getting into trouble for doing it. i was only about 7 i think.