Here is my year in review, with some memorable major events and milestones, some smaller events, and some reminders of what I was reading or thinking or doing during the year.  It’s meant to create a different experience of time, or of what a year is like.

• January: New Year’s in Baltimore
• January: first full year of Bikram yoga practice
• January: ended practicum at Center for Children & Families
• January: began Physiological Psych course (fourth year, second semester)
• January: participated in focus group at Persad
• January: began practicum at intensive outpatient program for persons with early psychosis/ who have experienced a first break
• January: presented preliminary dissertation proposal at CIQR meeting
• January: epic birthday karaoke at Nico’s Recovery Room
• January/ February: Snowpocalypse
• February: saw Small Cities (now “The Slow Reel”) at Howler’s
• February: completed teaching portfolio per Duquesne’s Center for Teaching Excellence requirements
• March: dissertation committee fully assembled, proposal approved
• March: attended a lecture by Edward Tick
• March: attended a lecture by Maria Elena Buszek
• April: awarded dissertation writing fellowship for the year
• April: Joe’s parents visit
• April: saw Arthur Miller’s “The Price” at Pittsburgh Public Theater
• April: saw Richard III performed at Carnegie-Mellon
• April: started reading Kirkman’s Walking Dead graphic novel series
• April: attended Croquet
• May: Lost finale party
• May: begin subscription to Stunner of the Month
• May: terminated with all clients at all practicum sites
• May: courses I taught, Social Psych at Duquesne and Intro to Psych at Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC), end
• May: cohort “graduation”; all coursework completed, beginning dissertations and internship
• May: won department’s Excellence in Teaching Award
• May: began forensic psych job; started co-leading therapy group for internet sex offenders
• May: read What Things Do by Peter Paul Verbeek
• May: begin working with a mentee/ research assistant for the summer
• June: attended AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists) Conference
• June: became associate editor for Janus Head
• June: watched most of Red Dwarf
• June: read The Psychoanalytic Adventures of Inspector Canal by Bruce Fink
• July: went to upper peninsula Michigan for Joe’s family reunion
• July: saw Flaming Lips at Station Square
• July: first Communiteach event, home brewing 101
• August: saw Metropolis with restored footage at Melwood
• August: massive car repairs
• August: Nick and Elena visited
• August: Pirates game (they lost)
• August: party on a boat!
• August: saw The Moth at New Hazlett
• August: reading Jay Prosser, Second Skins
• August: Four years in Pittsburgh!
• September: saw Attack Theatre dance performance, Site/Re-Site
• September: read The Corrections (Franzen)
• October: began year one training at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
• October: saw 39 Steps at City Theatre
• October: visited Colorado for cousin’s wedding
• October: went skydiving
• October: Communiteach event, Vegetarian Indian Cooking, and party
• October: watched The Social Network and Catfish
• November: took a basic knife skills workshop, bought a good quality chef’s knife
• November: all internship applications submitted
• November: celebratory dinner at Eleven
• November: saw Gogol Bordello at Mr. Smalls
• November: attended lectures by Patricia Gherovici
• November: accepted to present at Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences, but did not attend because internship apps demanded my attention
• November: Thanksgiving in D.C.
• November: end of third season of getting CSA boxes from Penn’s Corner Farm Alliance
• December: Grammie Taylor dies: http://tinyurl.com/2bkt8pg
• December: visited Colorado
• December: began internship interviews
• December: reading Love and Its Place in Nature by Jonathan Lear
• December: watched True Grit and I Love You Phillip Morris
• December: new laptop!

Update: Thought I’d do 2009, too.

• January: New Year’s in D.C., with Bill and Rachel
• January: began Phenomenology & Feminism course with Eva Simms, research independent study with Martin Packer (second semester, third year)
• January: began second semester of practicum at Chatham University
• January: began teaching Intro to Psych at Duquesne and CCAC
• January: had a party at our apartment for my birthday
• January: presented “Body and Technology” paper at GAP symposium
• January: received teaching award from the Social Psychology Network
• January: attended inauguration party
• January: began taking Bikram yoga classes in Pittsburgh
• February: Superbowl party at Remedy
• February: began working with second couples’ therapy case
• February: handed in proposal for Comprehensive Exam
• February: read/ re-read Don Ihde‘s Bodies in Technology
• February: started watching Saw series
• February: presented history of my research question as part of “audition” for CIQR Proseminar
• March: presented with other psychology teachers at Eastern Psychological Association meeting
• March: another party at our place
• March: watched Lawnmower Man
• April: attended Croquet
• April: presented at Resistances: Technologies and Relationalities Conference at SUNY Binghamton
• April: presented my final Phenomenology & Feminism paper to an audience of peers, my proto-dissertation proposal
• April: attended Duquesne’s Undergraduate Psychology Conference where two former students presented papers written in my Psychology of Gender course
• April: new glasses
• April: read Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (David Foster Wallace)
• May: began working as Clinic Coordinator, screening new patients for the Clinic
• May: Eva agrees to direct my dissertation
• May: read Elementary Particles (Houllebecq) and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Murakami)
• June: went to Denver, then to Seattle with family
• June: read Wittgenstein’s Poker
• July: Fourth of July in Canada with Ian and Gill
• July: Scaife Advanced Medical Fellowship Program in Alcohol and Other Drug Dependency
• July: saw Girl Talk at Station Square with Bill in town
• July: began brewing kombucha
• August: attended ghost bike lock-up
• August: completed, and passed, Comprehensive Examination.
• August: began teaching Developmental Psychology II and another section of Intro to Psych at CCAC
• August: began CIQR Proseminar, auditing Merleau-Ponty course (first semester, fourth year)
• August: began practicum in family psychotherapy
• August: began watching Hellraiser series
• August: read Lindner’s The Fifty Minute Hour (best psychotherapy case studies ever!)
• September: saw The Sounds at Mr. Small’s
• September: visited Jillian on the farm where she worked
• October: presented a poster at Society for Humanistic Psychology annual conference, visited parents
• October: Gabriela’s wedding in Baltimore
• November: attended a lecture by Alphonso Lingis
• November: discovered Sonny’s and the pickle shot
• November: saw Candide by Quantum Theatre
• November: watched A Serious Man
• November: Thanksgiving in D.C.
• December: started watching Lost
• December: Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in Anaheim, CA, met and saw lectures by Yalom, Kernberg, Gendlin, Minuchin, and others
• December: visited Colorado

2008.

• January: New Year’s in Pittsburgh
• January: Teaching Intro to Psych at Duquesne, taking Advanced Assessment (Rorschach), Social Psychology, Bruce Fink’s Psychoanalytic Theory, and Cultural Diversity (second semester, second year)
• January: presented paper on Freud’s theory of gender at Graduate Association of Psychology symposium
• January: watching The Medium on television
• January: watched Fat Girl
• February: read The Master and Margarita
• February: participant in social drinking study (trying to make extra cash through these)
• April: participant in sleep study
• April: began working in Ohio doing Social Security Disability assessments
• April: began summer practicum at a residential treatment facility for people in recovery from substance dependencies
• April: complete graduate certificate in Women and Gender Studies
• April: win paper award from department of Women and Gender Studies
• May: begin independent study in psychodynamic psychotherapy
• May: Hawaii Social Science Conference/ Hawaii vacation
• May: began a lasting course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy/ psychoanalysis
• May: watched The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• June: Human Science Research Conference at Ramapo College, New Jersey
• June: Pennsylvania Psychological Association Conference in Harrisburg, win Existential-Humanistic Theory and Application Research Award for presentation
• June: parents visit
• June: attend Pittsburgh Passion football game (they totally won)
• June: read Murakami’s After Dark
• June: ride Critical Mass
• July: visit Colorado
• July: read We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver)
• July: Joe starts a new job
• August: present papers at Division 32 (Humanistic Psych) and American Psychological Association (through Div. 39, Psychoanalysis) conferences in Boston
• August: watched Alphaville at Regent Square
• August: began teaching Psych of Gender, and taking Case Formulation with Bruce Fink, Advanced Research with Martin Packer, (first semester, third year)
• August: attend Roller Derby (Steel Hurtin’)
• August: begin practicum at Chatham
• September: attend SJC Homecoming
• September: began CSA with Penn’s Corner Farm Alliance
• October: attend SPEP, see Don Ihde panel on postphenomenology
• October: saw Radio Golf performed by Pittsburgh Public Theater
• October: watching presidential debates
• November: saw Poona the F**kdog performed by the University of Pittsburgh Theatre Arts Department
• November: saw Electric Six at Mr. Small’s
• November: attended Handmade Arcade
• November: saw Reggie Watts at the Warhol
• November: saw Neighborhood Narratives at Firehouse Lounge
• November: Joe’s parents visit for Thanksgiving
• November: stated watching Mad Men
• December: saw The Goat at the Pittsburgh Playhouse
• December: volunteer for Persad’s glassware sale fundraiser
• December: visited Colorado