Year in Review: 2008

January: Start spring semester and Education 10, Populations Biology, Archery

February: Hang out with Wyatt, Carri, and Jon for his birthday; movie rentals cease at work; talk to Beth Child, former bio professor, for a letter of recommendation; work the polls for the presidential primary election

March: Begin fieldwork with Ms. Brown at Rancho Cucamonga High School; go on first ever camping trip with pops class and Professor Robin Ikeda; begin surveying Day Canyon for fungus with fungus buddy Jenny; submit application to UCR for internship

April: Go on second camping trip; finish fungi survey; accepted by UCR for Copernicus internship

May: Receive A- in pops; see Speed Racer; finish the first version of my teaching portfolio

June: Work the polls for the CA state primary; get the flu and remain sick through my birthday; my mom has shoulder surgery; I start playing Pokemon Ranger for the DS; my grandma gets me a new bike for my birthday and for getting all As at school

July: I am chosen to be Green Team leader at work; I "lose" my car and report it stolen, then find it in the other side of the parking lot; I start the internship at UCR

August: Finish at UCR and leave enlightened and gracious; become an obsessive DBZ fan once again; restart my Tenchi/DBZ crossover with the intent to finish this time; go to Carri's 21st b-day party; start Chaffey following my new ed plan; finally work as a true GM clerk at work; someone from my store wins a car

September: Finally become an ardent Obama supporter and buy a shirt and some buttons

October: Halloween party at Wyatt and Carri's

November: Obama wins the election by a landslide; the beginning of a new era for the country

December: Finally buy a new iPod; have someone steal my debit card number and buy something from Canada online; find my lost DBZ figures again