response 1 of 38:

Mar 2 07:32 UTC 1998

Hmmm, I think I already told this in another item just recvently.
But 1998 started with a bang.
After a mere three months looking for a new house I found one.
The change of address was from campus, where I still was living (not in
American style campus; you can actually live there in apartments of your own)
to a place quite near the center of Amsterdam, but not on a canal (those
houses are for the rich and famous). Atleast this means that from now on I'll
have to cycle to my work at the university with the result that my physical
health is going to be improved. Ha.
In the same month I was in the preparation processess of organizing a seminar,
that's being held once a year for all the staff of the library (+150) and
preparing for the speech I was obliged to give.
The plans for the coming year are obvious: at least I want to come to AA and
the area to visit the people I only know at text basis.

response 3 of 38:

Mar 3 04:13 UTC 1998

Perhaps Clees meant being able to afford that apartment on your own? ;)

response 5 of 38:

Mar 29 09:29 UTC 1998

The newest thing of my 1998 was witnessing one of my best friends get
broadsided as her boyfriend made a left hand turn in front of a vehicle
traveling at about 55 miles per hour.
The single most horrifying thing I've ever witnessed.
She lost her spleen and had a deflate right lung along with numerous
nasty facial cuts.
I still have nightmares about it.
A single moment and so many lives are changed.
I hate change.

response 7 of 38:

Jul 1 17:24 UTC 1998

I have a new job. :)  I just started on Monday, it's only temporary
for the moment- but it might become permanent.  I'm working for
the University of Michigan in their International Institute.
It's rather...  Interesting. ;)

response 9 of 38:

Jul 9 16:28 UTC 1998

U of M?  Yeah, it's pretty big.

response 11 of 38:

Jul 17 14:09 UTC 1998

What's happened where?

response 13 of 38:

Jul 18 13:17 UTC 1998

        Speaking of soap operas, we should change the name of this
conference to "pool-bound". :)

response 15 of 38:

Jul 20 19:35 UTC 1998

I like swimming.  I just haven't found a pool lately.  I like playing 
pool too.  I knew I took high school physics for a reason :)

(soap opera below --- feel free to skip over)

Yup, my life can be summed up as a soap opera.  It's settling down a 
little now.  (Guess you don't read cflirt b/c a few months back I was 
practically having a nervous breakdown asking for advice around there) 
To make a long story not so long, there's a guy whose been in my life 
for over a decade...we were just friends, emphasis on the word _were_ 
here...but we were pretty good friends and we were in touch all these 
years.  So the deal is he happened to get a job pretty close to where 
I'm living and since my current roommate was moving out soon due to 
graduation, we thought it would be mucho easy to kill two birds with one 
stone and have him take over her half of the lease and save me the 
trouble of finding a roommate.

So this was all done and that.  We were pretty good friends and visited 
one another once in awhile.  So the next time I had a break, I went up 
to visit him and that's when the soap opera began.  After more than ten 
years of being just friends, we sort of fell for one another AND we had 
already decided to share an apartment.

It's been over a month since we've lived together now and things are 
working out.  We're still together, both in the relationship and sharing 
the apartment.  We're proceeding very carefully though...VERY carefully.

(Am I the only one whose life is like a soap opera?)

response 17 of 38:

Jul 21 11:10 UTC 1998

REALLY bad joke???

No Anne, I liked it.
Which, I now realize, could suggest that I like bad jokes.

As for soap operas...doesn't sound too soapy to me.
In a real soap your relationship would indeed have lasted for ten years 
up till now, but with all the characteristics of a trafficlight, if you 
know what I mean.
The way things developed sound quite natural to me, certainly when you 
take into account take you were fond of each other to begin with. It 
only demanded the right circumstances, which clearly hadn't happened for
 both of you to realize there was more going on.

response 19 of 38:

Sep 23 22:19 UTC 1998

Free...what? :)
<remembers how free food and free beer got attention...>

response 21 of 38:

Sep 25 01:47 UTC 1998

<lee is going to a symposium this weekend, includes two free lunches!>

response 23 of 38:

Oct 7 22:19 UTC 1998

I can't remember the official name and I've since lost the programs.
Relating to finance and technology.

Do you have any idea how long two days can be when you spend 8:30-4:45 
listening to papers being presented and then discussed with only lunch 
and two snack breaks?  Not that the papers weren't interesting, but by 
the end of the second day...

And I still don't like dressing up :)