Where were you 20 years ago and what were you doing?

[begin_within]

1987. I was riding my bicycle through Balboa Park and constructing Halloween decorations and generally goofing off.

[bicentennial_baby]

1. I was 10, and I have no idea what I was doing

:shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

2. I was recovering from radiation treatments for Hodgkins Lymphoma

1987 was not a very fun year.

[Shine]

31. ...

onward and upward, baby. :hug:

[volstork]

37. Glad you made it through!

Congrats on 20 years!

[Aristus]

3. Getting ready to start classes at the local community college.

B-)

[lizziegrace]

4. Lelapin was 6 months old then

I was sleep-deprived! :)

[EstimatedProphet]

5. Sophomore year in college

At the time, I was pushing a broom paying my way through school. that was the semester I had Botany and Land Use Planning.

[WinkyDink]

6. Building my current house. What a PITA.

[1gobluedem]

7. I was working for a conservative corporate pig and bemoaning the loss of the love of my life

Happily, I ditched the corporate world two years later; also the guy, who kept coming back. Turns out he wasn't the love of my life and I was a lousy corporate employee.

[cloudbase]

8. I was the first assistant engineer

aboard the motor vessel Marine Princess, a tramp bulk carrier. We carried grain all over the place. We used to refer to that ship as the "cornhauler."

[SPKrazy]

9. I was starting graduate school

in Little Rock...

living in a studio apt. with my then girlfriend

[RFKHumphreyObama]

48. Clinton was your Governor then

That would have been interesting

[SPKrazy]

112. it was interesting

i had just moved to Arkansas to go to grad school from Oklahoma (they paid for me to go)

Little Rock was kind of an exciting place at the time it seemed.

:shrug:

[skygazer]

10. I was pregnant with my third child

At this point, I was probably in the hospital with one of the four kidney infections the little brat inflicted upon me. :eyes:

I was 26.

[cobalt1999]

32. Thrid child by 26?

I'm your age and I couldn't handle a cat at 26. :hi:

-- I'm not kidding, the cat died on me.

[skygazer]

87. The first was born when I was 19

But then, I was on my own and supporting myself when I was 15. :shrug:

[uppityperson]

11. making UP Jr.

[SeattleGirl]

12. 31 and in college.

I loved that time.

[flvegan]

13. September, 1987, I was 15 and living small town life, delivering papers and lifting weights

Looking forward to a "real job" a car and chicks. I was hitting big ramps on my bike and watching pro wrestling in my free time. Oh, how I loved World Class and those Von Erichs.

Some things never change, I guess.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Wondering what the hell I was gonna do

since the second-greatest summer of my life had just ended. :(

[lizziegrace]

16. ...

:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. You shoulda been there

The Spurs (minor league ball club) had a GM that year from the Dodgers' PR department, and she knew the value of a photo, so she gave me the run of the place — including freebies at the concession stands.

It was also the year I shot my first wedding — Jeff and Collette Nelson, he later of the Seattle Mariners and New Jork Jankees. They got married on the field before a game.

I fell head-over-heels in love that April, too.

[lizziegrace]

25. Sounds like your kind of year

:)

Life was very, very good. :pals:

or should I have said your kind of summer?

[jgraz]

15. Finishing college, working as a chef, playing jazz gigs, sleeping 4 hours a night

I made around eight grand in income that year and I thought I was richer than god.

[PeaceNikki]

17. It's eerily weird that you ask.

I'd not realized that 20 years ago this past week was a very major change in my life. It prompted a call to mom.

Oh... if I could only travel back in time and kick my own ass. <sigh>

[begin_within]

38. There are a lot of things I would change if I could go back through my life and edit it!

[Kali]

18. here on the ranch, we had moved down a year and a half previously

would have been still taking care of my Grandfather - maybe getting ready for my first son's 2nd birthday Oct 1. Honestly I would have to dig up old photo's to really remember - we might have gone camping to White Sands and City of Rocks NM around this time.

[The Straight Story]

19. I was married, had one child, one on the way, and I was a cop

Nothing too exciting :)

[DS1]

20. come back in 2 years and ask that question

THEN the answer will be interesting.

[idgiehkt]

68. this is like one of those math word problems

What will you say you were doing 20 years ago in two years which really would be 22 years ago then but now is only 18 years ago...or something?????

:nuke:

[Mojambo]

21. My 14th birthday. I was terribly sick with the flu.

I remember that the entire family had plans to go to the fair and I got left behind at home. I spent the whole day alone, in bed, shivering with the chills.

Delightful memory. Thanks for bringing it up.

[cobalt1999]

23. Out of college, in my 2nd year at my "real" job.

Making money that, compared to college, seemed amazing, living with a wild and wonderful woman, drinking, staying out all night, living a carefree and no responsibilities life. On the negative side, I was also the most sexist, egotistical, arrogant little asshole with a permanent shit eating grin you've ever met.

I've come a long way in 20 years.

[Seabiscuit]

24. Working in a law firm. n/t

[SarahB]

26. Sophomore in HS; just moved to CT

Thinking about school and why didn't my Connecticut high school have enough cool, progressive, hot-looking, cool guys? (It really was a vast wasteland of overdone Drakar cologne and Cameros. :eyes:)

[NewJeffCT]

111. and I was starting my junior year in college in CT

wondering why I couldn't find any cute liberal women to date (though, a high school sophomore was probably two years too young for me at the time)

It was probably mostly because I was too shy to go out & find them, however.

[Rabrrrrrr]

27. I was between my Junior and Senior I years of college, at the last month of summer break

or, technically, my summer work section, which ran July through September.

[bluethruandthru]

28. I had been married a year...

I was working as a radio newscaster. We had just purchased a great house and I was four months pregnant with my first child.

[Shine]

29. I was 23, living in Santa Cruz county, working in print advertising sales

It was a really fun time for me. I worked for a local newsweekly called The Sun and I got into a LOT of concerts for free b/c they were always comping us "media folk". :D Back then I felt like I had my hands on the pulse of the community, working with lots of different businesses, helping with their ad campaigns. I liked the people aspect of it. I didn't like the pressure of weekly deadlines, though. Ad sales can be very stressful. Sadly, after the earthquake, The Sun had to set cuz most of their ad revenue came from the decimated downtown area and so advertising budgets became non-existent for a while. I had fun while it lasted, though.

I'm still living in SC county and am now married with a family. I mark my 25th anniv of living in Santa Cruz later this month. Came here to go to UCSC and just never left. :thumbsup: It's a hard place to leave.

:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

30. Presiding over a Masonic Lodge in Texas

During the installation of officers ceremony, my wife pregnant with our second child, poses for a picture with her best friend (also pregnant) belly-to-belly.

[ThomCat]

33. In college, undergrad.

It's a weeknight evening, so I was almost certainly doing volunteer work somewhere on or near campus.

[NMDemDist2]

34. considering I've only been sober 15 years...

I'm not really sure, but I think drinking was involved......

:silly:

[dropkickpa]

35. I was 10

I was most likely playing in the creek down the street. Or tormenting/being tomented by at least a couple of my brothers.

[Left Is Write]

36. I was in Minnesota, working fulltime to support my baby daughter

and her underemployed father.

[volstork]

39. Just starting Senior year

of college. Taking the MCAT :P

[GOPisEvil]

40. About to start my sophomore year in college at San Antonio College.

[stuntcat]

41. bein a square

'86/'87 was when I first got a social life, I had 5 friends who'd come to my house every weekend and order pizza and watch horror movies :D This time of year we'd have been driving around in the country to old scary houses and getting ready for Halloween.

[angrycarpenter]

42. I had just got married to the most selfish, evil bitch ever.

I still have nightmares.

[Bullwinkle925]

50. Soooooooo - my (ex) brother's wife is a bigamist???? . . .

Don't tell me there is another Renae out there!!!!!


:puke:

[angrycarpenter]

51. her name was so close to Renae

that it made me spit mountain dew. Lasted 6 miserable years.

[Bullwinkle925]

59. wish my (ex) brother would wise up - but o well. . .

que sera sera! glad you're living a happier life.

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

43. I had graduated H.S.

And was starting secretarial school.

I looked like this

[AwakeAtLast]

44. Senior year of High School

Playing volleyball and trying to narrow down my college choices.

Cannot believe it was 20 YEARS AGO!!!

[Tektonik]

45. I was almost two years old

And I was a happy, quiet kid in the San Fernando Valley dreading the lack of attention I'd receive when my mom was going to give birth to my evil evil brother in a month :P

[Auggie]

46. Celebrating one year of unemployment.

Just turned 40 with no job prospects. One year into a bad marriage. I was totally defeated. My worst year as an adult.

Thanks for reminding me.

[TK421]

47. Probably masturbating...but I have to look back on that date to see what

I was really doing...probably nothing too exciting...just in my room, by myself


Sorry..couldn't resist that

[mike_c]

49. I was 32 and in college at George Mason University....

Damn, those were intense times.

[Taverner]

52. 1987 - Intent on self destruction at age 17

Either that or having a really good time

[rockymountaindem]

53. Probably laying in a crib n/t

[jeff30997]

54. Sex,Drug and Rock n',Roll!

[Dukkha]

55. graduated h.s. and working in a hardware store

spent most of my free time practicing guitar and going to concerts

[philosophie_en_rose]

56. I was in pre-school.

At this time, I was probably watching taped cartoons or getting ready for bed.

[mitchum]

57. Playing in a band, going to college, living on $60 a week...

living very well on $60 a week

[Bullwinkle925]

58. 1987 was a horrid year . . .

so whatever i was doing - it wasn't especially fun.

[Cabcere]

60. I was about a year and a half old...

I think that's around the time I broke my wrist. :shrug:

[NoPasaran]

61. I had just quit the absolute worst job I have ever had

Working in a photo lab in El Paso. I went out to lunch one day and never came back. I decided my life there was over and began making job hunting trips to Austin. That went on for about six months until I finally found one.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

62. I was mourning the loss of my mother and struggling to survive alone

Well, not alone - I did have my beloved kitty Fergus.

[Bullwinkle925]

92. and you DID survive!!

:hug:

[DarkTirade]

63. 20 years ago I was five years old

and I would have been at my apartment in upstate NY. :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

64. Well....I was living here, at my current address...

The old house, though...

And that year, I had graduated from a 2 year nursing program and had taken my State Boards....and passed!

So I was a newly licensed RN!

It was a scary and wonderful time...

:bounce: :bounce:

[Bennyboy]

65. I was a tile contractor with the best looking, sexiest

woman in the world.

[yardwork]

66. In my first semester of graduate school.

[Joe Fields]

67. Hey, you can't prove a thing! Besides, isn't there a statute of limitations?

[RetroLounge]

69. Just moved to Milwaukee and started college

at the ripe old age of 26.

I was also living with a cute redhead who later became the first Ex-Mrs-Retro.

RL

[Fire Walk With Me]

70. I was in college studying music and psychology, DJing on the tiny campus station, and loving a

very interesting woman. Too much drinking and mayhem was had by all. And I still managed to nearly make the Dean's list one semester (3.53 average). I was also getting to know my biologic father and mother, and attempting to beat back those who damage anything they don't understand (I was weird man on campus). Had several decent friends on and off campus. Did well in spirituality and comparative religion classes. Rebellion and social disgust took me into music such as Foetus, SPK, and Killing Joke.

This is the time that stands out as the second largest infusion of music I've had. The first was 1978-1983.

[libnnc]

71. 1987...I was stressing out about marching band

listening to my section leader whine about her college aged boyfriend (she was too young to be dating him), trying not to fail Algebra 1A, falling in love with my best friend (who had fallen in love with some jerk from Pennsylvania named John), trying to figure out how to pass my driver's ed test...

I miss those days. :(

[LaraMN]

72. Being nine.

Probably fawning over my new baby sister.

[JTG of the PRB]

73. I was 4 1/2 years old and i was probably asleep by now.

I mean, 11:30pm is kind of late for a 4 1/2 year old to be awake...

[deadparrot]

74. Teething and learning to crawl.

:woohoo:

[mvd]

75. I was in 6th grade

Doing nothing special - just being a kid.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

Seven years old and getting as much accomplished as I am now.

:rofl:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

76. Keeping SonOfGoG the Elder's butt clean and dry.

and playing gigs here and there.

[ghostsofgiants]

77. I was probably in my crib pooping or sleeping.

2 year-olds sleep in cribs right? (I don't know shit about babies, haha.)

[nickgutierrez]

78. I was three.

I have no idea what I was doing - probably getting myself in the same kind of trouble any three-year-old gets himself in.

[last_texas_dem]

79. Let's see....

I was four years old so I figure I was going to preschool, running around outside, jumping on the trampoline, playing in the neighborhood, getting read to, whining... you know, typical four-year-old activities. haha It doesn't seem all that bad in retrospect...!

[CalebHayes]

80. I wasn't anything

[ZombieNixon]

81. Pooping.

I'm going to guess. Probably crying and throwing up, too. :P

[CrownPrinceBandar]

82. Freshman year of college......

I feel so old.

[RebelOne]

83. Living in Miami, FL and working for a city magazine.

Then in 1989, I moved up here to the Atlanta, GA area and I am working for a hunting and fishing publication.

[Orsino]

84. Teaching high school. Just married. n/t

[Fox Mulder]

85. I was five years old and I was in kindergarten.

[Burma Jones]

86. Just started working for Dun and Bradstreet

Moaning and bitching about my rapidly deteriorating Ford Taurus. Hanging out in the DC Punk scene. Going to Dead Shows.

[MissMillie]

88. I was right here... doing right about the same thing

only I was nearly 9 months pregnant.

[bikebloke]

89. Australia

After travelling through Asia.

[grace0418]

90. I was just starting my senior year of high school. It was a pretty sucky year and

I couldn't wait to get out. The summer after my senior year was the best though. And college was a blast, even though I was dirt poor.

[NaturalHigh]

91. I was in high school...

enjoying myself and doing nothing useful.

[LSK]

93. In High School

[Seashell Eyes]

94. I was almost four

I was writing and drawing with both hands. My family had just moved to Kansas City. The only thing I remember about turning four was that my birthday cake was a chocolate cake with dark chocolate icing and I didn't like it because it wasn't sweet enough.

[dolo amber]

95. Raising hell with these crazy broads

(I'm second left)

:D

[ceile]

96. Starting the 6th grade. n/t

[triguy46]

97. Same as today. Working. Only the cities change.

[malta blue]

98. 1987 - I was taking the year off from college....

working and playing on Fire Island with my dear friend Cole (RIP)...

[rbnyc]

99. LSD

I was doing boat loads of acid and sometimes gong to class. I was writing about a song a day and having sex with all my friends. I was writing a lot of poetry and short fiction and winning all kinds of awards. I was in shape and I was cute. I was designing make-up for all the major theatre productions at my college. I was on the IM softball team called joint effort for female pot smokers. I was a part-time switchboard operator for the campus. I was a TKE little sister. That's about all I can remember.

[fizzgig]

100. i was six

given the time of day and year, i was probably in school

[China_cat]

101. Right here. 9 months into having my own business open.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

102. Half of me was inside my mother as she was newly married.

The other half had not been generated yet within my father.

:evilgrin:

[Greyskye]

103. Working at the same company I'm still at now.

I had just done an internal job transfer to a different job description. I'm now a senior member of the group.

My company has recently spun-off my group into a new joint-venture. So around the 1st of the year I'll be at a new company for the 1st time in almost 25 years.

[Amaya]

104. i was 15 and starting my sophomore year

living in southern california and wildly partying..
:party:

[QMPMom]

105. In Northern Alberta and I was 7 months pregnant

with a very large male child who was making breathing very difficult! He was worth it though.

[Lethe]

106. i was most likely playing nintendo

which i got christmas 1986.

[HEyHEY]

107. Being repressed by the shitty public school system at eight years old

[huskerlaw]

108. I was 9.

I really don't know what I was doing, exactly, but I'm sure it involved elementary school and Barbie dolls.

[closeupready]

109. Madison, Wisconsin.

Entering my final year of college. Tommy Thompson had just become governor if I recall correctly. And Donna Shalala was UW chancellor and we used to make jokes about her driving an SUV around town.

[deepthought42]

110. 1987...5 years old...

probably starting kindergarten. Precocious little scamp, I was. *bats eyes* :evilgrin:

[Arugula Latte]

113. Starting my senior year at UC Berkeley.

*sigh* I can't believe it was 20 years ago ... x(

[Rising Phoenix]

114. I was 10

and probably drawing

[graywarrior]

115. I was 7 months sober and a raving lunatic in Lynn Ma

[Lydia Leftcoast]

116. In my second year of teaching at a college in a small town in Oregon

:-)

[Greyskye]

117. It wasn't Monmouth was it?

:hi:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

118. No, it wasn't Monmouth, but I've driven through Monmouth

many times.