Jan. 1989

•      Born. Being born later than doctor's predictions led young Joe to have a lazy personality.

Nov. 17th 1993

•      Won the epic duel against preschool nemesis, Daniel. Young Joe decides to pursue an honor-driven mentality and decides that his days watching Batman: The Animated Series have been well spent. He seeks to watch more cartoons after that.

May 23rd 1998

•      Lost the 3rd grade science fair. Childhood dreams of working in the field of science are shaken.

Summer 2001

•      Introduced to anime, and the culture of Japan. This year cemented Joe's cartoon watching, drawing, and obsession with samurai, warfare, and mythology.

Spring 2002

•      Crushed then enemy, Aaron after repeatedly telling him to leave Joe alone.

May 23rd 2003

•      After losing 6 straight science fairs, young Joe decides to abandon his shildhood dreams of science and do something easier. Realising that he was never too bad at drawing, he figures there may be a career there somewhere.

March 16th 2005

•      Whilst sitting in Geometry class, Joe realized that taking an art class was a smart idea.

April 2006

•      After seeing the movie "Downfall", playing "Conker:Live and Reloaded", and being informed that he is part German, Joe becomes obsessed with dictatorships and Nazi Germany.

April 2006

•      Joe decides to run for school president, modeling his capaign and platform after other authoritarian regimes. As the administration, revokes his ticket, he realizes that not only can one person make a difference, but that he is a charasmatic leader, breaking his formerly quiet and shy demeanor.

May 2006

•      Joe's disdain for being preached to led him to destroy a teacher's system of beliefs. That teacher left the following semester. Joe argued with every religion teacher  as well as anyone preaching scripture to him as fact, since. It was here that Joe realized he doesn't like religion, but that he likes to argue with people and is very good at it.

Summer 2006

•      Discovered "Its always Sunny in Philadelphia". Anyone who knows me, knows that this is pretty damn important.

April 2007

•      Joe visits Otis of College and Design, deciding that this is where he wants to go for college. He decided to put it all on the line by ONLY applying to Otis. To much celebration Joe was accepted.

April 2007

•      After seeing "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and reading the book, Joe decides to be more like the late, great Hunter Thompson, and decides to become a doctor to spite his teachers.

Mid June 2007

•      After graduating Joe recieves his Litterarum Doctorate. Joe is saddened he doesn't get to rub his teachers' faces in his newfound glory.

May 23rd 2009

•      Joe wrote a timeline about his life and realized he is kind of a dick, doing a lot out of spite, and messing with      people's beliefs pretty often, even now.

HISTORICAL

Jan. 1989

•      George Bush succeeds Ronald REagan as the 41st President of the U.S. I grew up in a democratic household, where my father and grandfather criticized both Bush administrations relentlessly.

May 1998

•     Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols used a truck bomb to destroy the Alfrend P. Murrah Federal Building, a government office complex in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. I remember that occuring. 

2001

•      September 11th attacks. Led to Invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the death of Saddam Hussein, racism     against the middle-east, and the whole "Mission Accomplished" thing. Being a Democratic house, i heard a     fair share of arguing between my family about at least one of these.

May 2003

•  President Bush safely lands on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln returning from operations in Iraq. Bush makes a primetime address, surrounded by hundreds of sailors, in which he declares major combat operations in Iraq over while standing in front of a banner reading "Mission Accomplished". More Political stuff in my house. I didn't really care though, because Yu Yu Hakusho was on, and I still remember that was the episode where you found out that the masked fighter was really Genkai! What?!

May 2006

• Immigrant workers and their supporters across the U.S. stay home from work or school and abstain from commerce during the 2006 Immigration Policy Boycott in the U.S., also called the "Great American Boycott" or "Day Without Immigrants", a protest against the enforcement of immigration law. Because i went to private school, we were on lockdown the entire day, so no one could try ditching. I was asked several times by classmates why I wasn't out there, (I'm of Mexican descent) and my response was, "I don't care, I'm an American" That was a fun day at school as the latino students and the rest were split down the middle during a lockdown. 

Jan. 2009

• Barack Obama is inaugurated. I voted for him so I feel alright. Political discussions in my house go away for a while.