Johnny’s 10 point blog bio

Johnny is passing around a meme wherein you write your blog bio in 10 bullet points, and I have never been one to pass on a meme:

1. Met M. through Match.com in Tokyo
2. I was there doing dissertation research; he was working for Giant Transnational Telecommunications Firm
3. We spent one year apart, when I came back to the US to finish up coursework and do comps
4. He returned in July
5. By October I was pregnant with M2
6. We were married the following January
7. M2 was born that May
8. We moved closer to my parents for help with M2 while M. worked and I wrote
9. C. born two years later
10. Still trying to write my dissertation, the deadline for submission of which is 19.5 months away.