Alone and Unobserved

I did this meme back in 2007, and liked it so much I thought I’d do it again. I’m not going to tag anyone, but if you do it, feel free to link to your post in the comments. Happy New Year, everyone!

The rules for the meme: Take the first line from the first post of every month for the last year, and post them together as a kind of cross-section of what you were blogging about during the year. Remember to link to all the posts you are excerpting.

January
Back Home, for the Nonce

After Christmas with my family in American Fork, a week and a half at the Tibbitts Family Manse in California and a day of driving with a friend, I’m finally back in Salt Lake City.

February
In Which I Am SO BORED I Finally Resort to Blogging: or, All About Me (motto: “Every Paragraph Begins with ‘I’ ”)

I am sick.

March
“And if my cat looks scared it’s because it knows it won’t be going to heaven.”

Because I was bored, and had nothing better to do, I spent several hours over the past week compiling a mix of all my very most favorite music, and then uploading it—byte by byte—to my DivShare account so that everyone in the whole world could enjoy it.

April
Fester, Fester, Fester. Rot, Rot, Rot.

I teach a beginning internet class at my library every month, and every time I get up in front of the students I remember why I wanted to become a math professor.

May
Bewitched, Be-lei’d and Bewildered

I had my master’s commencement and convocation today (for the degree I received last August), and my parents came up from California to attend.

June
“Mom: The Most Common Nickname of a Meth User in Utah”

Every morning in my neighborhood, the meth moms come out in force, with their babies and their toddlers and their strollers.

July
In Which Madame de Pompadour Owes Her Life to Doctor Who

My online friend Misty (Hi, Misty!) introduced me to DailyLit a week or so ago, and since then I’ve been soaking up Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of Seven Gables and Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, delivered via RSS feed in easily digestible chunks to my Google Reader inbox every morning.

August
Watch This Space for Future Developments

I got back yesterday afternoon after two exhausting, up-and-down weeks on the road camping with my family.

September
Thanks Be to the Google Thesaurus Function

A man just came up to the reference desk, saying he had called in a hold for a book and had come in “before anyone else could get it.”

October
If You Wait Long Enough

…it’ll be too late, and then you won’t have to worry about it, right? Right??

November
Mr. Clayton, It’s a Bit Late to Talk About “Civility,” Don’t You Think?

Proposition 8 just passed in California, amending the state constitution to take the right to marry away from gay couples. And I will be blunt: I blame the Mormon church.

December
Why Can’t Boys Just Figure It Out?

I have a straight female friend who regales me occasionally with tales of the latest Boy she is interested in, and I’m always fascinated by the things she takes for granted about her role in her dating relationships.