What was special about the 200Xs?
I thought a lot about what happened in the last ten years that was really important to me, and finally I decided that the one thing that most impacted my daily life was how the intertubes exploded. The rise of the blogosphere paved the way for a new generation of feminists and feminist-sympathizers to communicate, fight, and revolutionize, something that really radicalized me. The invention of various communication and social networking applications — everything from WordPress to Wikipedia to Movable Type to Facebook to eMusic to Gmail to iTunes — allowed me to expand my social and cultural life and keep in touch with all kinds of people I’d never otherwise have the privilege of meeting and ideas I’d never otherwise encouter, and, conversely, gave people I have no intention of talking to ever again alarmingly easy access to my life.
Other milestones? Beginning and graduating from college, getting married, acquiring the cats, redeveloping a healthier relationship with my family, the boy starting school and doing rather well at it, getting my first “real job” (as much as I hate it), memorable trips to Memphis, Michigan, Arkansas, St. Thomas, and Eastern PA, quitting blogging, quitting blogging again, and finally deciding that this is as close as I’m getting to writing every day so I might as well accept it.
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