Decade in Review: 2007 - 2008

2007
College Football: Florida over Ohio State 41-14, January 6, 2007
Superbowl XLI: Indianapolis Colts over the Chicago Bears 29-17, February 4, 2007
World Series: Boston Red Sox over the Colorado Rockies 4 games to 0, October 28, 2007
Highest Grossing Film: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Best Picture: No Country For Old Men

After a year blissfully unemployed, I spent this year temping. I worked for UCSF, as a recruiting coordinator for Bank of America, and then in September I took a two week temp gig at McKesson which turned into much more. The true highlight of the year, however, was Diana. We started dating in May. A mutual friend invited me to Diana's birthday outing at a Giants game to set me up with one of her former co-workers. I didn't hit it off with the former co-worker, but Diana and I did. Yay!



2008
College Football: LSU over Ohio State 38-24, January 7, 2008
Superbowl XLII: New York Giants over the New England Patriots 17-14, February 3, 2008
World Series: Philadelphia Phillies over the Tampa Bay Rays 4 games to 1, October 29, 2008
Highest Grossing Film: The Dark Knight
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire

In 2008, I started this blog. The two-week temp gig at McKesson that had turned into several months, turned into a regular full-time permanent job. Before I started as a regular employee, I took a few weeks off to go to Italy with my mom to visit my sister and her family where they were spending 6 months as my brother-in-law taught the Italy semester for the architecture department at Iowa State. But that's not all! In August I went with Diana to her sister's wedding in Japan. Ah, nothing like international travel with your girlfriend, her parents, sister, and her sister's Japanese in-laws, to a high-stress family event to test the mettle of your budding relationship. But I figured if I survived that, she could survive summer at the lake with my sisters and the kids.