The catch-up thread

[chinesefireball121]

Due to me being largel awol for the last few years, it has resulted in me only half remembering people, and even then we were all in high school, and now we are all in uni/college/workforce.

So I thought we could all catch-up

I still live in the same place in Australia (with my parents). I'm at uni, studying a double degree in mathematics and computer science. Don't really have a major for computer science (other then what i think looks interesting). With the maths I'll probably end up with a pure maths major (and avoiding stat as much as possible).
I'm still chinesefireball121 or pyro if you prefer. I'm always a bit lazy in that regards - got a username so i keep on using it

So what about you?

[nancy]

I used to be known as HPFan. Then (and now) either by Nicks or Nancy or variations thereof. I live in the same old city, still with my parents too.
I actually like stats, but I'm not doing a degree in it, ever. I'm majoring in biotech engineering, and I'm not sure what my electives will be. Some bioinformatics and a bunch of labs. Also, I'm minoring in arts (cinema, creative writing, music...), languages (german, japanese, planning on dutch, portuguese and russian), and still trying to decide if I should do another one (Investigation, includes undergrad research), as it would probably mean staying for another semester at uni, for a total of 5 years (just started the second one last month.)
For some odd reason, outside of my biotech friends, most of my friends are architecture/industrial design/animation majors. It's odd.

[chinesefireball121]

Nance - you are one of the few people I still recognise the username off. And I could remember roughly what you were doing at uni/college or what ever it is called.

Weired about your friends outside biotech... I don't know anyone doing architecutre or inducrial design - probably because my uni doesn't offer it. Know a few people with animation (well game design and multimedia major), but thats mainly because I'm doing an animation subject now.

With the investigation minor - is that similar to journalist investigation or more acadcemic research. Academic research subjects are fun (I do one right now - only have 1 hour of contact hours for it

[nancy]

The investigation is academic research. You do four half-classes, I think they're called workshops, but I never can remember... anyway, you do four of those and then you spend 12 or 15 credit hours doing research... that can be done in a single semester or over two summers or in two semesters or whatever.

also my uni had a birthday today, and there was free food! yay!
I blew my biochem exam reeeeal bad, but what's that compared to free pop and ice cream and so on?

[Me]

Blah. I'm still hanging out although I've moved out, not sure if it really counts since I'm home a lot. What can I say, homecooked meals and not having to do chores never gets old.

I'm majoring in political science and am considering a minor or possibly double major in history but we'll see how things work out. I should be wroking on a paper right now but we all know how it goes.

[hermoine]

How long's it been since I've been around? Geez gazages! I can't even remember my font colour code, which is kinda sad.

Life's been...busy...as hell. heh Anyone remembers me at all? I do speak to some of you via MSN or Facebook or LJ which is splendiforous! ^.^ The amazingess of technology hehe


But for those of you who had forgotten me (oh poo on you! ) I'm hermoine the evil Gryff HoH and Headmistress who seemingly had run away (I know shame on me ) but actually got caught up in the busyness of real life. I am now a 1st Year Law student writing and managing a university newspaper and juggling between my studies, friends and a competition I'm taking part in again. I'm supposed to be reading Brave New World for an assignment as I'm writing this haha.

*runs off to lighten up some threads*

[Lianne]

Im still alive too guys!! haha

I have been incredibly busy with school, i was being careless and getting to the point where i was slipping to an edge of getting kicked out of school... so! I have been hard at it and my marks are improving which is exciting for me. Im still in uni studying biology in my fourth year now, but i will be taking an extra year i think. .. and yeah

i had a car crash this summer and rolled my car, i was alight and no one was hurt. Some lady just cut me off on the highway and i lost control when i swerved. But it wasnt my fault and i am driving a different car and life is good again. Still healing with the soft tissue damage in my face.

Ive kind of gotten more into photography, even though i only have a regular canon point and shoot, i still have fun with it. So yeah

I shoudl get runnign though, i have my last final of the semester tomorrow afternoon and i must study!!

Hope everyone is well

[Calantha]

Hey--it's Calantha--of course

I'm graduating from college and teaching next year in inner-city Baltimore at a pretty neat school with an emphasis on nonprofits, which is pretty much right up my alley. I'm rolling up my classes this semester with a bang (including lots of research). I'm hoping to get my M.A. at Johns Hopkins (cross your fingers to see if I get in!).

Busy, but procrastinating (I understand, Hermione!)...and right now I'm teaching GED courses at the regional jail in town.

I think that's any fun info. : )

[Emma]

Wow, you all exist!
Well Im still Emma so far as I know
I moved house 3 years ago
and Im now at college, second year of A Levels
hoping to go to uni next year
if I get in of course.

I came back on here a month or so ago to see if it still existed
and surprisingly enough it does. but its heartbeat is only just holding out..
not quite dead, but almost
Its very sad, this was such an era of my life!
With all you lot!

[e-mail] is my email address
I look forward to hearing from any of you

[KoNeko]

Hello ghosts of TD past,

I am still here too. What's new? Let's see, when I started out at TD way back when I was in law school being a lawyer brat wannabe. Right now I am still in law school, but now with three degrees to my name (BA, LLB, MA) and in May I'll be finishing my Masters in Law. And then it's onto a PhD. I'm moving to Canada! I really like how all of you guys are in school/college these days, I remember when I met a lot of you and you were what, 15? How you have all grown! (I feel old, bah!!)

What else? My cooking skills have improved substantially, I'm such a foodie these days. My dog died last summer (he had an asthma attack, and he was really old ). I had two pet rats when I was in the US but I had to give them away. I traveled to Europe over summer and randomly picked up German, Spanish and Italian (although I have to say that knowing French already kind of helped with the other romance languages), and when I came back I had a really strange but understandable desire to learn Latin. I still do, but it's on the back burner with other projects such as brewing beer, skateboarding properly and proficient knitting.

Anyway, things are well. I go to school (still ) and when I'm not doing that I am writing stuff for journals and whatnot. Academia is fun, although I think it makes me a mental bully when I talk to normal people. I'm on FB if people want to find me, let me know and I'll send you the details.

Oh, and there's a channel on TV here that has taken to showing one HP movie each week on Saturdays as their "family movie" thingy. Last week I think they were up to #4 or something.

I miss you guys.

[Me]

Wow so even though it's been AGES since I've been on here its like I never left. Being here seems to be second nature (I remembered the code for this font color). Trippy.

Wow so since my last post in this thread so much seems to have happened. Sometimes I stop and think what my ____ year old self think of me now? It's interesting to think about how life seems to take you in it's own direction.

I'm living in Santa Barbara, California. In a couple months I'll be having a "What am I going to do with my life crisis." I think I'm going to take a year off to work and hopefully travel and then apply to grad school. I don't think I would mind being a student just a while longer.

Right now I'm focusing on enjoying my last year in Santa Barbara. I mean who knows where I'll go after college so I'm intent on hitting up as many restaurants/ bars/ beaches and points of interests in the area. I'm also trying to be more pro-active in keeping up with people. There's this quote that sometimes pops into my head "Don't let people you know become people you knew" or something to that extent.

I'm going to San Francisco in a couple weeks to visit my friend for her birthday and to hang out with a close friend from high school. I'm looking forward to a little traveling. I plan on a Vegas trip later in the summer. Also if I'm responsible and save my money a trip to New York in September. *crosses fingers*

Like usual, I'm always up for random adventures. I still love spontaneity. Looking back my life this past year doesn't sound particularly exciting but I know I've done a lot. There have been smiles, joy, tears, heartbreak, grief and unfortunately deaths. At the end of the day I like to turn on some music and think about the things I hope to get done the next day.

Like Ko said, I really do love all you guys. How could I not, it's been years that you've all been here for me.

(I'm on FB too, look me up)

[Leon]

Wow. Just wow. I haven't been on here in so long, and the few times I have logged in I saw a bunch of names I knew that I didn't quite remember. People I know I used to talk to, but I no longer remember who they are at all.

As for me, I joined when I was what, 13/14? Now I'm going to a university for undergrad, and I'm gonna dual major. One major is gonna be computer science and the other I'm not quite sure, mayb Economics or Psychology or Japanese. I'm also planning on minoring in music and Japanese (if i don't major) and possibly physics. I still live in florida aaaand i guess that's all.

[Sarah]

haha woo! Everyone is growing up! ._.

I've been on TD since...what? 5th grade? 6th grade?...and I just graduated from high school.
I'm still the nerd as always...mainly a knowledge nerd these days --I'm a sponge, as well as a frequent googler
I'll be attending the University of Ulster this fall. It's located in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. This is a big step for me, seeing as I currently live in Texas. I'll be leaving everyone I know and have known, as well as loved ones, and the ever-caring boyfriend (we're on our 16th month today). Buuuut I'll still have my social-networking sites, eh?
Oh! I'll be studying Law and International Politics I've always had a thing for law, but I think the vast majority of you TrapDoorians pushed me closer toward it. ^-^

I really don't know what else to say...
I adore each and every one of you; you have all had a major part in who I am today. Thank you so very much for all of that...

[Emma]

Wow, so much
so many lives

yet here we still are...


from time to time that is.

Miss you all!

[Ritsu]

Greetings from Europe! I somehow can't remember the code for my ex-font colour, so I guess plain normal will have to do. And then again, maybe not.

Hah. So, I'm still Rita as well, still alive and kicking though more kicking than alive. I don't know when I last posted here, maybe around the time Deathly Hallows came out? When was that? Two years ago? Anyway, I guess I was still studying at the north back then. Well, I ended up giving up the course at its very end - as I usually do - and ran back home. It was a hard time, I was getting used to all the liberty and independence of living alone in a student rez, doing my own stuff how I wanted it... and coming back home was a step back. Which is what I usually do, too. So now I'm trying all over again, but in the eminence of failing. Again.

I still feel like a teenager most of the time. That's why, maybe, I can't let go of some things. Like this board. Sudden moments of "I wanna go back" still haunt me, though they shouldn't, because life goes on.

Currently, I'm battling with depression again. My shrink changed my meds, we're trying something new, I started it today so maybe, this time, it will work. I don't know if I can make it through the school year, but as long as I'm feeling happy and cheerful again, I don't really care. I just want to be me, feel like myself and not this apathic, non-feeling, arrogant and pessimist person I know I'm not.

The best thing out of all this is something that happened to me in May, last year. I met someone who changed my life entirely, who is the reason for everything I try to do and why I still keep on trying. And the main reason why I want to be free of this stupid disease is to make him happier, and make us feel happier, because the thing that pains me the most is seeing him sad because of me. He's my bestfriend, my partner, my shoulder to cry on, and I never thought loving like this could be possible. Ever. So kudos for that!

I have a couple of websites:

incrivelmenteperto.wordpress.com -> my blog, although it's in Portuguese.

kittenbraden.hi5.com -> I rarely use it, but I do get alerts on my mail.

lastfm.com.br/users/hermyowninny

And I'm working on a Facebook account to keep in touch.