2007 seems to have been a great year for couples. N and I are one of the several couples I know who will be celebrating their 17th anniversary this year.
N told me today that his life only truly began when he met me, and I feel the same. About my life, too, and not only his.
And what great things happened to you in 2007?
OK, that stinks. SA has been going from bad to worse since the 1990s, unfortunately, which is a great shame.
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I think the government themselves would love to return to the glory days of the 90s when they embraced Clintonist moderation. A major problem is that they engaged in various disastrous socialist megaprojects, especially a deal to buy nuclear power plants from Russia. Now, they seem to want to move away from the nuclear deal by waffling in support of Putin while slow waking him on the nuclear deal.
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2007 was an enormous year for me in terms of relationships. A very bad relationship ended on Valentine’s Day in 2007, I went through a period of serious personal growth and change in the spring and summer, and I met my current spouse a few days before Thanksgiving. When I think back on pre-2007 me, I hardly recognize the person I used to be. I am a much happier and much saner person now.
In telling you. 2007 was big for relationships. Something aligned in the stars, even though I don’t believe in astrology.
So happy for you!!
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I’m sorry to hear this! Mine was 2013.
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2007 was the year I had my first miscarriage, my first serious relationship ended, and I started breaking out in severe cystic acne which plagued me until 2009. All 3 events pretty much happened at the same time. I did not enjoy 2007. But yeah, I learned quite a bit from it.
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July 2007 was when I spent the greater part of the month in hospital with septicaemia …
2007 is also the year I realised I couldn’t retire where I was because the doctors were killing me with care.
Another fun fact: doctors in the US would repeatedly refuse to operate on the botched job of surgery from 2007.
Instead they preferred to throw antibiotics at the problem whenever anything would come up.
The last remnants of that fiasco were what got dealt with recently.
I got to see what they pulled out of me, and how they thought that was somehow inoperable beggared belief.
So about 2024 …
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Gosh, that’s rough. I’m happy you defeated the healthcare system and are with us.
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I was in high school—I found your blog something like three or so years later. Summer 2007 I learned that if I did AP everything it would be too much. It was one of the first years I was faced with that, but not that last. Growing up in that way is painful (that summer it wasn’t, but I kind of wish I had paid more attention to that lesson through college).
While nothing much happened relationship-wise in 2007 (Mrs. Lurker and I had been together for 7 years by that point), it was a big year for me because I successfully secured my first RO1 grant. For those not familiar, if you have a faculty position in most bio-related fields, the rule is “get an RO1 funded or forget about tenure”. Needless to say it was a big relief.
(Commenter formerly known as AcademicLurker)
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