Wandering Aimlessly

John F. Kennedy was shot? (Nov. 22, 1963)
Negative-a-lot-of-years. My parents were in junior high.

Man landed on the moon? (July 20, 1969)
Well, my dad was in college by then... still hadn't met my mom.

Chris Kirkpatrick was born? (October 17, 1971)
We're within a decade of my birth. Getting closer...

America celebrated its Bicentennial? (July 4, 1976)
My parents had celebrated their first anniversary about a month earlier. I still wasn't around.

JC Chasez was born? (August 8, 1976)
Not quite yet...

Joey Fatone was born? (January 28, 1977)
I think my parents had bought our house by then.

Elvis died? (August 17, 1977)
Yeah, my parents were still in the "settling-into-jobs-before-children" stage of their lives.

Lance Bass was born? (May 4, 1979)
I'm feeling REALLY young about now.

Justin Timberlake was born? (January 31, 1981)
Yes! I am girl, hear me roar! I was just over two months old. <.giggle>

Challenger exploded? (January 28, 1986)
I was in kindergarten, had turned five about two months earlier. We did not watch it in school, my parents did not let me see it on the news. My friend Katie told me about it later, and told me a school teacher had died, and I went home and asked my mom, somewhat panicked because she was a school teacher.

The stock market dropped 508.32 points (Black Monday)? (October 19, 1987)
I was in second grade, I believe. I have no memory of this. I think I was too young at age six to be involved in the economy.

The Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed? (April 19, 1995)
I was a freshman in high school. I don't remember the event itself specifically, only seeing it on the news over and over afterwards.

Princess Diana died in a car accident? (August 30, 1997)
I had just started my junior year in high school. I got online sometime before midnight to wish my friend Elaina, who was in the Eastern time zone a happy sixteenth birthday, and my AOL opening screen was Princess Di. A few friends and I chatted about it well into the morning hours.

*NSYNC first appeared on MTV? (April 15, 1998)
Not an *NSYNC fan yet, I'll tell ya that. Um, I was a month or so away from graduating high school. Still deciding whether to go to Michigan or Illinois for college. Actually, I was quite possibly in Vancouver that week with two friends chasing the X-Files and attending the Cure is Out There Cancer Benefit. Meeting Nick Lea and Gillian. *g* I can't remember exactly when that was, but it was mid-April.

Students and teachers were shot in Columbine HS, Littleton, Colorado? (April 20, 1999)
Sitting in my dorm room with Kelly freshman year, in shock. My cousin lives near Littleton, so I was freaked out (she did not go to Columbine, I soon found out).

America was attacked? (September 11, 2001)
I was just starting my first senior year in college, drying my hair when Sarah ran downstairs and changed my channel from MTV to NBC. We moved from "an awful air traffic control mistake" to "oh my god, what is happening?" as the second plane crashed minutes later.