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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2011 5:02:25 GMT -5
October 2008 I was studying for my final exams of high school, preparing to help sail a replica ship and then go off to university. I was also just getting into Neopets again after a long hiatus and had made friends with some of you already, Scar included. ^_^ It was terrifying, but then so is every big step. I was due to move out of home in a few months. x3
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Post by Celestial on Oct 1, 2011 9:04:00 GMT -5
Four years ago I was a 13/14 year-old NTWF noob embarking upon my first year of a two year standard grade course. My life was pretty bland back then.
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Post by Huntress on Oct 1, 2011 9:23:56 GMT -5
Start of the second year of uni, nothing particularly special. My uni years were my quiet smooth years. By that point in time I think I'd settled down in a fairly good groove of independence and was just following it day after day. Haven't changed much since then.
...and I'd already been in the NTWF for a good two years. Aurgh, I'm old.
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Post by Alyssa on Oct 1, 2011 9:37:05 GMT -5
October 2008?
I was 17, on the brink of turning 18, and in the beginning of my senior year.
Enjoying the year with my friends, completely unprepared for what life was gonna throw at me after high school.
As for the NTWF, I didn't find out about it until the end of '09 and didn't even join till the beginning of 2010.
EDIT: oh my. that's three years ago. ummmm *embarrassed*
2007 I was just a junior, kind of floundering along. At that point, didn't have a clear sense of what I was doing or even who I was.
But I made it.
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Post by Fj0rd on Oct 1, 2011 9:38:20 GMT -5
Start of the second year of uni, nothing particularly special. My uni years were my quiet smooth years. By that point in time I think I'd settled down in a fairly good groove of independence and was just following it day after day. Haven't changed much since then. ...and I'd already been in the NTWF for a good two years. Aurgh, I'm old. I'd been here for three. *waves cane* Junior year of high school, at this time of year probably just switching out from annoying psychology class to a theater workshop that was one of the best things (if not the best) to happen to me in high school. Weird to think that was so long ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2011 9:40:54 GMT -5
I was 13, just starting middle school. I was excited about my elective classes.
My cat was still alive, and we did have our first dog by then.
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Post by Shadaras on Oct 1, 2011 9:51:46 GMT -5
Four years ago is October 2007, why're people talking about 2008? That's just three years past.
Four years ago I was fourteen. I was spending a lot of time out in nature, I think I was just about to really do NaNo for the first time... I would've been nearing the completion of my first year here, which would also mean I would've been starting to understand what it meant to be social. Also would've just started having my head get screwed over by life, I think? Yeah. I can't really remember that year very well; the next year ('08) kind of overrides it in terms of awesomeness and meeting-folk and stuff like that.
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Post by Alyssa on Oct 1, 2011 9:52:53 GMT -5
because I apparently can't count that well ;-;
*facepalm*
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Post by Dan on Oct 1, 2011 10:21:26 GMT -5
Start of the second year of uni, nothing particularly special. My uni years were my quiet smooth years. By that point in time I think I'd settled down in a fairly good groove of independence and was just following it day after day. Haven't changed much since then. ...and I'd already been in the NTWF for a good two years. Aurgh, I'm old. I'd been here for three. *waves cane* Ha, I can beat that too! Four years. XD |
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Post by Pacmanite on Oct 1, 2011 10:26:16 GMT -5
Four years ago I was in year 10... that was 2007. I was super Harry Potter crazy because that was the year that Deathly Hallows was to come out. I read and wrote a lot of crackpot theories and I loved it.
And I drew a lot. My old art school had closed down, and that was sad, and I wasn't doing an art subject at school until second semester, so for the first half of the year I made myself draw a whole digital painting every weekend. (Or most weekends anyway.) That was epic, I remember. By the middle of the semester, I felt like I could paint anything, anything at all.
Gee, and those paintings would take between four and ten hours of work... every weekend. That was all before I filled up my Saturdays with hours and hours of orchestra practice.
And I used to do my painting in clunky old Paint Shop Pro 7, while listening to classical music through my headphones. Although the texture I got from painting in PSP7 was sometimes yucky and oddly pixellated, I still miss some of the "feel" of using that brush tool. Namely, I love the way it linked pressure sensitivity to brush opacity... AND allowed the artist to build up greater opacity by running the same stroke over itself multiple times without lifting the pen from the tablet. If I try to do the same thing in Photoshop, I just continue to get a glaze of about 50% opacity unless I press really really hard with my tablet pen, or lift up the pen and lay another separate stroke over the top of the previous one. For that reason, the move to Photoshop CS3 in 2009 took me a lot of grumbling and getting used to, I remember. (But I don't regret it because PS is awesome and makes things look awesome.)
...What did I do in the second half of 2007? I had a work experience week with an artist (a magnificent pastel artist, Judy Drew). I brought in a painting I was doing as a 50th-birthday gift for my favourite violin-teacher/conductor/mentor person, and set myself up on an easel in the artist's studio and painted the time away. It was a very pleasant work experience. And she was a nice lady. I wasn't very useful to her when she actually gave me work like sorting through her filing system.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2011 11:19:44 GMT -5
I was in the seventh grade. My bat mitzvah was fast approaching and practice was driving me up a wall. I listened to pop music from Disney Radio. I was obsessed with Neopets and the Warriors series. I sat with the eighth graders at lunch and walked home with them. The Flute of Fire was the main story I was writing. I loved the Twilight series, though I hated New Moon. I thought all I would ever be good for was writing and drawing, and barely even that. I was taking algebra and I loved it apart from weighted averages, which were my kryptonite. Friends from elementary school were drifting away. Socially I was bizarre, immature, and stupid.
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Post by Crystal on Oct 1, 2011 12:41:39 GMT -5
...and I'd already been in the NTWF for a good two years. Aurgh, I'm old. I'd been here for three. *waves cane* Ha, I can beat that too! Four years. XD But not compared to me! Ha! Now get off my lawn, ye liddle buggers! |
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Post by Nova on Oct 1, 2011 13:06:05 GMT -5
Four years ago I think I was almost changing my forum name from Jockylocky to Nova xD It was around the October-December mark. Nothing major was happening then, just going to school xD; This was before the really awful phase of my life. And I was a NTWFer for five months then  WHOO |
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Post by Kathleen on Oct 1, 2011 14:05:31 GMT -5
Four years ago I was thirteen, and I was silly because I thought I was already old. xD Eighth grade felt like the end of everything, and I was so confused, trying too hard to be mature and live up to imaginary expectations. Everything intimidated me.
I started writing for the NT that year (meaning I started actually finishing stories with plots, wow), and in December, I joined the NTWF. <3
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Post by Gelquie on Oct 1, 2011 14:36:20 GMT -5
Ha, I can beat that too! Four years. XD But not compared to me! Ha! Now get off my lawn, ye liddle buggers! I clearly *cough cough hack* win this *cough* competition you *wheeze* whipper *cough* snappers... *Stumbles on her cane, sits in a rocking chair, and shakes the cane at you all.* |
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