I was learning about the end of the 1980's and the beginning of the 90's in my weekly reader (that we got to take home at the end of the week).

12/9/2009 1:21:34 AM

12 years old.

In grade 8.

Eagerly awaiting the splitting of science into Chem/Bio/Phys in grade 9.

Beginnings of my religious non-obedience.

Came to know about sex from a classmate (or maybe a year earlier?).

Started wearing glasses (also a year earlier, I think).


[Edited on December 9, 2009 at 9:12 PM. Reason : ]

12/9/2009 9:09:39 PM

This is when I started getting really sick. I had just moved to NC and got scarlet fever and all kinds of crazy shit. I got so sick the doctors thought it was leukemia.

Turned out not to be and I got better, but 20 years ago was about the time it started.

12/9/2009 11:36:54 PM

8 years old, 2nd grade, sometime between having seen Back to the Future 2 in the theater & getting a Nintendo

12/10/2009 12:47:37 AM

8 years old, sleeping in the top bunk with my brother in the bottom bunk. Listening to Michael Jackson and Bon Jovi religiously. School was in Mrs. McGuire's second grade class at Moncure Elementary, moving to the newly built Rockhill Elementary in January. Mom was president of the PTO, Dad was still stationed at the Pentagon, had just been promoted to Major.

Getting ready for Santa Claus to come see me, and hopefully bringing some Ghostbusters and Batman figures.

12/10/2009 2:52:18 AM

Quote :

"and got scarlet fever"

I didn't know people still got scarlet fever

1989 I was still living in NJ.

12/10/2009 5:39:31 AM

Quote :

"1989 I was still living in NJ."

I was 7 years old, in Mrs. Orchuli's second-grade class at Fairview Elementary School in Bloomfield, N.J.

12/10/2009 9:25:40 AM

9 years old, in Ms. Ellis' class in 4th grade, wore big coke bottle glasses

Got my first C earlier that year, played the heck out of my NES when I could even though we had maybe 4 games

12/10/2009 10:39:39 AM

I had just turned 11 years old.
5th grade.
Moved from a nice house house in a shitty neighborhood, 1 block from the housing projects; to a neighborhood for well-paid rich folks.
Teacher called my mom and said I had missed more homework than the whole rest of the class combined (because I didn't actually do any of it, lol). Thus started my tradition of slacking off in school.

[Edited on December 10, 2009 at 10:56 AM. Reason : s]

12/10/2009 10:56:33 AM

In love with DJ and Stephanie on Full House

12/10/2009 1:28:19 PM

i had just turned 7 years old

12/10/2009 1:45:39 PM

I was still living in Abu Dhabi.

12/10/2009 3:17:37 PM

I guess I was 7. Had just moved to Atlanta, Ga

12/10/2009 8:59:29 PM

turned 7 ... my dad died


yes im a party pooper what can i say.

12/10/2009 10:15:14 PM

^

>----<

12/10/2009 10:28:29 PM

I was 7 years old and my universe had just been changed by Hugo blowing through Charlotte. I knew from that point on that weather would drive everything I did. Ninja Turtles and NES ruled the world!

12/11/2009 9:58:49 AM

^hugo tore up my parents house too. still not totally repaired by christmas time

12/27/2009 8:38:31 AM

Quote :

"I was learning about the end of the 1980's and the beginning of the 90's in my weekly reader (that we got to take home at the end of the week)."

I loved "Weekly Reader". My school switched to "Time for Kids".

12/27/2009 12:31:05 PM

I was 6. I don't remember if I had a Christmas that year or not

12/27/2009 7:00:56 PM

I was 8, in the third grade, thinking how cool it was to be entering a year ending in zero.

12/31/2009 6:11:00 PM

I was in first grade, and we had just had a blizzard in eastern NC.

12/31/2009 8:28:08 PM

about 6 months removed from moving to London.

man, invading kuwait was still a glimmer in saddam's eye at this time...

12/31/2009 10:46:03 PM

. . .Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. . . .

1/1/2010 12:54:50 PM

I was 2.5 months old.



[Edited on January 1, 2010 at 2:07 PM. Reason : Whoops just realized this was in old school. I feel retarded now. Admin feel free to delete.]

1/1/2010 2:06:23 PM

^how in god's name did this dude get old school posting abilities?

1/1/2010 2:33:31 PM

^^ for the law school thread. I thought I was browsing in the lounge my bad

[Edited on January 1, 2010 at 2:43 PM. Reason : .]

1/1/2010 2:42:41 PM

Could have been eating a Book It personal pan pizza.

1/2/2010 2:33:34 AM

Quote :

". . .Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. . . ."

1/15/2010 6:55:32 PM

Was still living in Missouri and I though George Brett was god and was thoroughly convinced that professional baseball was in my future (might even have happened if I hadn't completely ruined my shoulder shortly after moving to NC).

1/16/2010 1:22:46 AM

i had a broken ankle

1/16/2010 12:48:37 PM

i was in kindergarten and just realized it wasn't the 80's anymore

1/17/2010 9:59:30 AM

i was in 5th grade and kicked a kindergartner's ass.

1/17/2010 10:50:34 AM

I was in 7th grade, and struggling with being in public school for the first time.

1/17/2010 10:59:28 AM

I was in 3rd grade, and I hated it.

1/17/2010 2:48:00 PM

I was 11 and in 6th grade. I would have been between sports seasons (football and baseball), so I would probably be playing nintendo.

1/17/2010 4:03:57 PM

6 yrs old & going on 7

We had just been to Disney for Christmas, and returned to NC to the big snow storm. Molly, our dog, got lost in it. We let her out to pee, and she didn't come back. She had been missing for 3 days when my mom went out again to try to find her, and heard her whine. Molly had caught her leg on a barbed wire fence near our house. With the snow having been so deep, we figure she didn't see it. Luckily, she had laid very still so there was little damage to her leg, and ate the snow around her.

1/17/2010 7:41:04 PM

8th grade. probably playing my NES.

1/20/2010 1:27:06 PM

I turned 10.

1/24/2010 12:33:08 PM

My time would be occupied mostly with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

3/17/2010 11:35:05 PM

I was 6

4/26/2010 6:22:32 PM

i think i was moving back to nc

4/26/2010 8:12:56 PM

Age 9, in 4th grade at Guilford Middle School. We did class changes for the first time that year--was in Mrs. Herring's class for homeroom, math, and history, Ms. Atkins' for language arts, and Mrs. Estes' for science.

4/26/2010 10:34:12 PM

Quote :

"My time would be occupied mostly with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

4/27/2010 9:13:14 AM

My time would be occupied mostly with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Legos

4/27/2010 9:44:45 AM

I was 4

4/27/2010 11:47:52 AM

I was seven...probably playing with TMNT or some other BS.

4/27/2010 12:02:46 PM

I was 9 years old and lived in pinebluff, nc.

4/27/2010 2:22:11 PM

I was 11, probably listening to a skid row tape on my walkman while trying to download 16 color porn from a BBS on a 1200 baud modem.

4/29/2010 11:55:30 AM

oh man i remember my friend had an external US Robotics modem which was incredibly awesome

and his moms office had a T1 which was unreal amounts of speed

4/29/2010 1:16:52 PM

spring 1990 right? paranoid about unwanted erection. I was a blacksmith apprentice too. I lived in a Historical town. some time that year I started using Prodigy and started my life on the internet. I was playing Red Baron, Civilization, Space Quest 4, Wing Commander 2, ahhh the memories. Choose your own Adventure books! lol
I was into Pink Floyd because my brother liked it.

[Edited on April 29, 2010 at 6:03 PM. Reason : added gaming and internets]

[Edited on April 29, 2010 at 6:07 PM. Reason : added pink floyd]

oh yea a year before that i made a tape with all the music from my favorite Turbo Grafix 16 games and took it to school for a show and tell. nobody was interested. but years later i heard ppl are into 8-bit music and i was like aaaarrrrggggg!!!

[Edited on April 29, 2010 at 6:12 PM. Reason : aaaarrrrggggg!!!]

4/29/2010 5:57:28 PM