All the cool kids are doing it.
It's a bit late, as this is preparatory, but I suppose I'll fill it in factually.
1)Was 2007 a good year for you?
I suppose it was. I had a really lame breakup, but all the time before that was awesome, and I've been doing pretty well for myself since. I've done some exploration, and really discovered myself a good deal. Even if I don't quite know why or how, at least I finally have a good idea as to who and what I am.
2) What was your favourite moment of the year?
Have five:
-> Singing the fake encore One Winged Angel in the choir for PLAY!
-> "Commemorative pose!"
-> "OMG Cupcakes!"
-> Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings
-> The Audiophiles making a fantastic profit on an a-capella show whose theme was more or less pulled directly out of my ass.
3) What was your least favourite moment of the year?
"Well, you're not in the garage anymore."
4) Where were you when 2007 began?
At Lucinda's, watching The Fifth Element among other exciting acts.
5) Who were you with?
The majority of the Middle Collegian clique.
6) Where will you be when 2007 ends?
Hanging out with Seejay, apparently playing beer pong of some variety or another.
7) Who will you be with when 2007 ends?
Seejay and a circle (hypersphere?) of friends.
8) Did you keep your new years resolution of 2007?
If I could remember them, I'm sure the answer would be no.
9) Do you have a new years resolution for 2008?
Not yet. I still want to make use of that damned tablet, but after finally accepting how much I'm not a visual artist, it's really hard to convince myself.
10) Did you fall in love in 2007?
Not quite as much as I used to.
11) If yes, with whom?
Girls, mostly. You'd think it'd be easier to find boys at an engineering school, but no.
12) If yes, do they know?
I'm sure at least one does, but I haven't told any directly.
13) Are you still in love with them?
I'm pretty sure that's how it works.
14) Do you regret it?
Not at all. That doesn't mean it isn't hard, though.
15) Did you break up with anyone in 2007?
Unfortunately, yes.
16) Did you make any new friends in 2007?
That depends on your definition of "friend", but I'd like to think that I did.
17) Who are your favourite new friends?
My soon-to-be new roommate is a lot cooler that he seemed the first time I met him. It's just further proof that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.
18) What was your favourite month of 2007?
May was exciting, even though my favourite "moments" mostly happened in July. I got to hang out with Alex at her home in MD, and we road tripped up to visit Michelle and her boy Colin as well. Good times were had by all.
19) Did you travel outside of the US in 2007?
Nope.
20) How many different states did you travel to in 2007?
Count 'em: California, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Virgina, New York, any states Alex and I may have passed through in-between MA and MD...
21) Did you lose anybody close to you in 2007?
Scott says it well: "Not in terms of them dying, no. In terms of drifting apart from them, or them moving away, or just general loss of communication, yes, very much so."
22) Did you miss anybody in the past year?
Again, Scott delivers: "Only EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD."
23) What was your favourite movie that you saw in 2007?
Despite all the bad things I say to compare it to the stage play, Sweeney Todd was flippin' fantastic. Also, 300 was epic as all fuck and I'm so glad I saw that shit in theatres.
24) What was your favourite song from 2007?
Still Alive and everything else from Jonathan Coulton I only discovered in the past couple months.
25) What was your favourite album from 2007?
Since I don't really listen critically to contemporary music, I will instead opt to give you instead my favourite Musical from 2007 (and as balls-tighteningly fantastic as the other two this year for me were, this is still an easy choice), and that is Eric Whitacre's Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings. It may seem small fries compared to your big-budget Broadway shows, but don't let the intimate theatre fool you. Shadows and Wings is one of the best scored, best acted, best choreographed, and overall best quality shows I've seen in YEARS (and believe me, there have been ... well, not several, but three or four maybe).
26) How many concerts did you see in 2007?
I think OK Go was 2007, and I saw They Might Be Giants at the Discovery Meadow Independence Day Fair. As mentioned above, I also sang in PLAY!
27) Did you have a favourite concert in 2007?
PLAY!-hands down. I just wish the union could lighten up a bit and let us have a recording or at least have let us played the full setlist-we had to cut both Dancing Mad and Liberi Fatali, two of my favourite Final Fantasy pieces. The suites for World of Warcraft and Metal Gear Solid made up for it though. Those were fucking AMAZING.
28) Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2007?
More than I had planned to. It comes of having a full liquor cabinet in one's apartment, with the additional damage of wastefulness guilt-I ended up finishing off drinks for too many drunk people over the course of the last few months. On the plus side, it helped build up my tolerance, but not enough that I can't still pull the lightweight card to avoid drinking more than I want.
29) Did you do a lot of drugs in 2007?
Not at all. A joint and a matchbook were shoved into my hands tonight, and I opted instead to mouth a match, and hand the joint back with the book.
30) How many people did you sleep with in 2007?
Literally? Two or three. Figuratively? One or two.
31) Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year?
Large Cobb salad + large quantity of alcohol = large stain on the doorstep of my friend's apartment.
32) What was the biggest lie you told in 2007?
All forms of "Maybe", "Sure", or "I Guess". I have a real problem coming right out and saying "Yes" on a hard question, even when it should be easy.
33) What was the worst lie someone told you in 2007?
I wasn't so much lied to as the truth was withheld from me. The result would have been disastrous either way, but it's harder when I've been in the dark.
34) Did you treat somebody badly in 2007?
I certainly did, and I am both sorry and glad for it at the same time. As a result, we were able to end a harmful relationship before it could do even more damage.
35) Did somebody treat you badly in 2007?
I think so, but it's hard to recognize it as such when you love someone.
36) How much money did you spend in 2007?
A damned lot. I've spent about 70% of the money I made over the Summer, which means at this rate, I'll be in debt by the time I get another job. It doesn't help that I've wasted money on stupid shit like lost keys and late fees.
38) What was your most embarrassing moment of 2007?
Discovering that I could cartwheel and subsequently losing Alex's car key right out of my pocket in the middle of a huge lawn at Smith College at 1AM
39) If you could go back in time to any moment of 2007 and change it, what would it be?
Nothing. Everything happened for a reason, and so much of where I am today is entirely dependent on the furstratingly stupid acts of yesterdays that to change any bit of it could upset the temporal balance and fracture the timeline.
40) What are your plans for 2008?
Above all, to stabilize.
41) What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Thrown a party. Thrown a successful party. Played an actual first-person shooter (i.e. not Metroid, not a multiplayer frag fest, and not Chex Quest). Slept in a closet. Purchased furniture. Purchased goods (other than textbooks) on the internet. Used Craigslist. Refrained from playing a game until more than a month after purchasing it (Bonus: without conscious restraint, either). Participated in an Alternate Reality Game I was not running. Actually played a figurine war game (with the real rules and everything). Encountered 4chan (I checked out 2chan back in the day when I heard my high school friends raving about it, but turned away when I discovered that I'd have to either learn to read Japanese or become very handy with a translation device to understand anything-and most of the time not even that). Consumed alcohol at a public establishment (not counting sips from parents' wine)-this one was New Year's Eve, so cutting it a bit close.
42)Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not of which I am immediately aware.
43)What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
Income.
44)What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
October 31st, the day that the Hellgate: London Beta was sold for money. Okay, I don't really have any interesting dates this year, so that's probably the best.
45)What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Straight A's, C term, and would have been D term as well, if I spent less time worrying about the ARG IQP and more time actually doing the homework for Advanced Calc. Also, just doing that ARG for the IQP was a pretty fuckin' big achievement. I need to get around to printing myself out a copy of our final paper and binding that shit.
46)What was your biggest failure?
Ironically, the ARG itself was probably also the biggest failure. We planned so hard for it but just didn't even get a tenth of the audience we expected. I have a little "I told you so" feeling, because I saw it coming a mile away, but I couldn't easily convince anyone else on the team of it, and it was so hard already that planning the contingencies alone would have fuckin' drained me. Aside from the ARG, I'd say realizing mid-B-term that I'm not a visual artist, in the middle of two heavy visual art classes. I failed them both hard, but at least I stopped stressing so much about 'em midway, so I could focus on passing my remaining class. Math Major, here I come.
47)What was the best thing you bought?
My sofa. Three cushions, comfier than my bed, and the best part: 99¢ at Savers. Best bargain short of free.
48)Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Michelle and Alice pulled together some fucking amazing costumes for The Mikado in like a week, then re-did a bunch of them completely last minute thanks to the arbitrary whims of the director. Major applause to them both.
49)Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Television executives who are unwilling to fork over a completely reasonable cut of profits from internet broadcasts to show writers. It's appalling to think about, and incredibly depressing when I realize how much I've been clinging to television this year and how much the writers' strike is impacting my personal life.
50)What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A fantastic musical and a fantastic movie (though the latter is a rather weak adaptation of an even greater musical). I was also rather excited about The Mikado, and about several of the 30-some-odd megahyped video and computer games which released this fall.
51)Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? I'd say I've broken even, but my gauge for happiness has changed over the last year.
ii. thinner or fatter? Probably fatter. I've discovered that my waist size noticeably increases after I've eaten, and I had a rather hearty dinner last night.
iii. richer or poorer? Poorer. My parents haven't paid me back for textbooks or travel expenses and my bank account is on its last legs D :
52)What do you wish you'd done more of?
Writing.
53)What do you wish you'd done less of?
F5
54)How will you be spending Christmas?
Discovering that the flyer which advertised "70% off Christmas!" actually meant 70% off all Christmas-related items, rather than 70% off all items in the store on Christmas day. Also, making delicious delicious cranberry sauce.
55)How many one-night stands?
Well, I actually did sleep with a girl once and then never again, but that was in the literal sense. I'm not really one for the stands, one-night or otherwise.
56)What was your favourite TV program?
DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE! Let me see if I can list all the shows I am current, have finished, or am catching up on (the quick answer is no): Prison Break, StarGate SG-1 (which ended 2007 so it still counts), StarGate: Atlantis, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Dexter, House MD, Private Practice, BattleStar: Galactica, LOST, Dennou Coil, Death Note, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Bionic Woman, 24 (still need to finish last season), and I really want to go back and re-watch Smallville, since it's theoretically getting good again... but it's just SO HARD TO WATCH WITHOUT GOING OUT, PURCHASING A BASEBALL BAT, AND SMASHING IN THE TELEVISION SCREEN IN THE VAIN HOPE OF BEATING SOME FUCKING SENSE INTO CLARK "THIS IS MY POUTY FACE" KENT.
57)Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I'm sure I do, but when you hate someone, it's so hard to remember a time when you didn't hate them. Also, though, I tend not to hate.
58)What was the best book you read?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which, coincidentally, is also the only book I read.
59)What was your greatest musical discovery?
Jonathan Coulton.
60)What did you want and get?
That fucking tablet I've been wanting for like ten years. I finally went out and spent a hundred dollars on it and I've gotten like two real uses out of it, tops. At least now that I have it, I can stop complaining that I don't.
61)What did you want and not get?
Sex with a very specific person. On the bright side, it's a damned good thing I didn't get that, or things would have turned out even more fucked up than they did.
62)What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I worked. Parent appreciation potluck and talent show. I also got some fucking delicious cake, and OMG CUPCAKES. I turned 20.
63)What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Income.
64)How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
I rediscovered the wonder of thrift stores, and purchased several cheap suits at Savers, which I proceeded to wear one after the other for an entire week. Thereafter, I interspersed them with my standard wardrobe of matching colour tones, but little attention to actual fashion.
65)What kept you sane?
Ironically, alcohol. Not in the sense that I drank it to keep sane, but the act of planning an apartment party was some major catharsis after the big breakup. In some ways, I wish we hadn't stocked so well, because now that the major startup investment is over with there's not as much to do each time.
66)Which celebrity figure did you admire the most?
I'm gonna say Lee Presson, because he's the only celebrityesque of whome I have the slightest clue. Also, he's awesomely fancy and handsome, and was a great inspiration for my big suit-getting spree (though he doesn't quite strike me as the Savers type).
67)What political issue stirred you the most?
The discovery that I have lived my entire life knowing only the Clinton and Bush regimes, and if the upcoming election goes the way it looks like it's gonna, that's all I'll know for another eight years.
68)Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
If you're gonna go to college, go to a school with open enrollment, where you don't have to apply to your major and you don't have to be in a certain major to take certain classes. Make sure there's wiggle room because god damn things can change so fast from what you expect. Don't let grades get you down, but don't let being down get your grades too.
69)Quote a song lyric.
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
1)Was 2007 a good year for you?
I suppose it was. I had a really lame breakup, but all the time before that was awesome, and I've been doing pretty well for myself since. I've done some exploration, and really discovered myself a good deal. Even if I don't quite know why or how, at least I finally have a good idea as to who and what I am.
2) What was your favourite moment of the year?
Have five:
-> Singing the fake encore One Winged Angel in the choir for PLAY!
-> "Commemorative pose!"
-> "OMG Cupcakes!"
-> Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings
-> The Audiophiles making a fantastic profit on an a-capella show whose theme was more or less pulled directly out of my ass.
3) What was your least favourite moment of the year?
"Well, you're not in the garage anymore."
4) Where were you when 2007 began?
At Lucinda's, watching The Fifth Element among other exciting acts.
5) Who were you with?
The majority of the Middle Collegian clique.
6) Where will you be when 2007 ends?
Hanging out with Seejay, apparently playing beer pong of some variety or another.
7) Who will you be with when 2007 ends?
Seejay and a circle (hypersphere?) of friends.
8) Did you keep your new years resolution of 2007?
If I could remember them, I'm sure the answer would be no.
9) Do you have a new years resolution for 2008?
Not yet. I still want to make use of that damned tablet, but after finally accepting how much I'm not a visual artist, it's really hard to convince myself.
10) Did you fall in love in 2007?
Not quite as much as I used to.
11) If yes, with whom?
Girls, mostly. You'd think it'd be easier to find boys at an engineering school, but no.
12) If yes, do they know?
I'm sure at least one does, but I haven't told any directly.
13) Are you still in love with them?
I'm pretty sure that's how it works.
14) Do you regret it?
Not at all. That doesn't mean it isn't hard, though.
15) Did you break up with anyone in 2007?
Unfortunately, yes.
16) Did you make any new friends in 2007?
That depends on your definition of "friend", but I'd like to think that I did.
17) Who are your favourite new friends?
My soon-to-be new roommate is a lot cooler that he seemed the first time I met him. It's just further proof that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover.
18) What was your favourite month of 2007?
May was exciting, even though my favourite "moments" mostly happened in July. I got to hang out with Alex at her home in MD, and we road tripped up to visit Michelle and her boy Colin as well. Good times were had by all.
19) Did you travel outside of the US in 2007?
Nope.
20) How many different states did you travel to in 2007?
Count 'em: California, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Virgina, New York, any states Alex and I may have passed through in-between MA and MD...
21) Did you lose anybody close to you in 2007?
Scott says it well: "Not in terms of them dying, no. In terms of drifting apart from them, or them moving away, or just general loss of communication, yes, very much so."
22) Did you miss anybody in the past year?
Again, Scott delivers: "Only EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD."
23) What was your favourite movie that you saw in 2007?
Despite all the bad things I say to compare it to the stage play, Sweeney Todd was flippin' fantastic. Also, 300 was epic as all fuck and I'm so glad I saw that shit in theatres.
24) What was your favourite song from 2007?
Still Alive and everything else from Jonathan Coulton I only discovered in the past couple months.
25) What was your favourite album from 2007?
Since I don't really listen critically to contemporary music, I will instead opt to give you instead my favourite Musical from 2007 (and as balls-tighteningly fantastic as the other two this year for me were, this is still an easy choice), and that is Eric Whitacre's Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings. It may seem small fries compared to your big-budget Broadway shows, but don't let the intimate theatre fool you. Shadows and Wings is one of the best scored, best acted, best choreographed, and overall best quality shows I've seen in YEARS (and believe me, there have been ... well, not several, but three or four maybe).
26) How many concerts did you see in 2007?
I think OK Go was 2007, and I saw They Might Be Giants at the Discovery Meadow Independence Day Fair. As mentioned above, I also sang in PLAY!
27) Did you have a favourite concert in 2007?
PLAY!-hands down. I just wish the union could lighten up a bit and let us have a recording or at least have let us played the full setlist-we had to cut both Dancing Mad and Liberi Fatali, two of my favourite Final Fantasy pieces. The suites for World of Warcraft and Metal Gear Solid made up for it though. Those were fucking AMAZING.
28) Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2007?
More than I had planned to. It comes of having a full liquor cabinet in one's apartment, with the additional damage of wastefulness guilt-I ended up finishing off drinks for too many drunk people over the course of the last few months. On the plus side, it helped build up my tolerance, but not enough that I can't still pull the lightweight card to avoid drinking more than I want.
29) Did you do a lot of drugs in 2007?
Not at all. A joint and a matchbook were shoved into my hands tonight, and I opted instead to mouth a match, and hand the joint back with the book.
30) How many people did you sleep with in 2007?
Literally? Two or three. Figuratively? One or two.
31) Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year?
Large Cobb salad + large quantity of alcohol = large stain on the doorstep of my friend's apartment.
32) What was the biggest lie you told in 2007?
All forms of "Maybe", "Sure", or "I Guess". I have a real problem coming right out and saying "Yes" on a hard question, even when it should be easy.
33) What was the worst lie someone told you in 2007?
I wasn't so much lied to as the truth was withheld from me. The result would have been disastrous either way, but it's harder when I've been in the dark.
34) Did you treat somebody badly in 2007?
I certainly did, and I am both sorry and glad for it at the same time. As a result, we were able to end a harmful relationship before it could do even more damage.
35) Did somebody treat you badly in 2007?
I think so, but it's hard to recognize it as such when you love someone.
36) How much money did you spend in 2007?
A damned lot. I've spent about 70% of the money I made over the Summer, which means at this rate, I'll be in debt by the time I get another job. It doesn't help that I've wasted money on stupid shit like lost keys and late fees.
38) What was your most embarrassing moment of 2007?
Discovering that I could cartwheel and subsequently losing Alex's car key right out of my pocket in the middle of a huge lawn at Smith College at 1AM
39) If you could go back in time to any moment of 2007 and change it, what would it be?
Nothing. Everything happened for a reason, and so much of where I am today is entirely dependent on the furstratingly stupid acts of yesterdays that to change any bit of it could upset the temporal balance and fracture the timeline.
40) What are your plans for 2008?
Above all, to stabilize.
41) What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Thrown a party. Thrown a successful party. Played an actual first-person shooter (i.e. not Metroid, not a multiplayer frag fest, and not Chex Quest). Slept in a closet. Purchased furniture. Purchased goods (other than textbooks) on the internet. Used Craigslist. Refrained from playing a game until more than a month after purchasing it (Bonus: without conscious restraint, either). Participated in an Alternate Reality Game I was not running. Actually played a figurine war game (with the real rules and everything). Encountered 4chan (I checked out 2chan back in the day when I heard my high school friends raving about it, but turned away when I discovered that I'd have to either learn to read Japanese or become very handy with a translation device to understand anything-and most of the time not even that). Consumed alcohol at a public establishment (not counting sips from parents' wine)-this one was New Year's Eve, so cutting it a bit close.
42)Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not of which I am immediately aware.
43)What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
Income.
44)What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
October 31st, the day that the Hellgate: London Beta was sold for money. Okay, I don't really have any interesting dates this year, so that's probably the best.
45)What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Straight A's, C term, and would have been D term as well, if I spent less time worrying about the ARG IQP and more time actually doing the homework for Advanced Calc. Also, just doing that ARG for the IQP was a pretty fuckin' big achievement. I need to get around to printing myself out a copy of our final paper and binding that shit.
46)What was your biggest failure?
Ironically, the ARG itself was probably also the biggest failure. We planned so hard for it but just didn't even get a tenth of the audience we expected. I have a little "I told you so" feeling, because I saw it coming a mile away, but I couldn't easily convince anyone else on the team of it, and it was so hard already that planning the contingencies alone would have fuckin' drained me. Aside from the ARG, I'd say realizing mid-B-term that I'm not a visual artist, in the middle of two heavy visual art classes. I failed them both hard, but at least I stopped stressing so much about 'em midway, so I could focus on passing my remaining class. Math Major, here I come.
47)What was the best thing you bought?
My sofa. Three cushions, comfier than my bed, and the best part: 99¢ at Savers. Best bargain short of free.
48)Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Michelle and Alice pulled together some fucking amazing costumes for The Mikado in like a week, then re-did a bunch of them completely last minute thanks to the arbitrary whims of the director. Major applause to them both.
49)Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Television executives who are unwilling to fork over a completely reasonable cut of profits from internet broadcasts to show writers. It's appalling to think about, and incredibly depressing when I realize how much I've been clinging to television this year and how much the writers' strike is impacting my personal life.
50)What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A fantastic musical and a fantastic movie (though the latter is a rather weak adaptation of an even greater musical). I was also rather excited about The Mikado, and about several of the 30-some-odd megahyped video and computer games which released this fall.
51)Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? I'd say I've broken even, but my gauge for happiness has changed over the last year.
ii. thinner or fatter? Probably fatter. I've discovered that my waist size noticeably increases after I've eaten, and I had a rather hearty dinner last night.
iii. richer or poorer? Poorer. My parents haven't paid me back for textbooks or travel expenses and my bank account is on its last legs D :
52)What do you wish you'd done more of?
Writing.
53)What do you wish you'd done less of?
F5
54)How will you be spending Christmas?
Discovering that the flyer which advertised "70% off Christmas!" actually meant 70% off all Christmas-related items, rather than 70% off all items in the store on Christmas day. Also, making delicious delicious cranberry sauce.
55)How many one-night stands?
Well, I actually did sleep with a girl once and then never again, but that was in the literal sense. I'm not really one for the stands, one-night or otherwise.
56)What was your favourite TV program?
DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE! Let me see if I can list all the shows I am current, have finished, or am catching up on (the quick answer is no): Prison Break, StarGate SG-1 (which ended 2007 so it still counts), StarGate: Atlantis, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Dexter, House MD, Private Practice, BattleStar: Galactica, LOST, Dennou Coil, Death Note, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Bionic Woman, 24 (still need to finish last season), and I really want to go back and re-watch Smallville, since it's theoretically getting good again... but it's just SO HARD TO WATCH WITHOUT GOING OUT, PURCHASING A BASEBALL BAT, AND SMASHING IN THE TELEVISION SCREEN IN THE VAIN HOPE OF BEATING SOME FUCKING SENSE INTO CLARK "THIS IS MY POUTY FACE" KENT.
57)Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I'm sure I do, but when you hate someone, it's so hard to remember a time when you didn't hate them. Also, though, I tend not to hate.
58)What was the best book you read?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which, coincidentally, is also the only book I read.
59)What was your greatest musical discovery?
Jonathan Coulton.
60)What did you want and get?
That fucking tablet I've been wanting for like ten years. I finally went out and spent a hundred dollars on it and I've gotten like two real uses out of it, tops. At least now that I have it, I can stop complaining that I don't.
61)What did you want and not get?
Sex with a very specific person. On the bright side, it's a damned good thing I didn't get that, or things would have turned out even more fucked up than they did.
62)What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I worked. Parent appreciation potluck and talent show. I also got some fucking delicious cake, and OMG CUPCAKES. I turned 20.
63)What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Income.
64)How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
I rediscovered the wonder of thrift stores, and purchased several cheap suits at Savers, which I proceeded to wear one after the other for an entire week. Thereafter, I interspersed them with my standard wardrobe of matching colour tones, but little attention to actual fashion.
65)What kept you sane?
Ironically, alcohol. Not in the sense that I drank it to keep sane, but the act of planning an apartment party was some major catharsis after the big breakup. In some ways, I wish we hadn't stocked so well, because now that the major startup investment is over with there's not as much to do each time.
66)Which celebrity figure did you admire the most?
I'm gonna say Lee Presson, because he's the only celebrityesque of whome I have the slightest clue. Also, he's awesomely fancy and handsome, and was a great inspiration for my big suit-getting spree (though he doesn't quite strike me as the Savers type).
67)What political issue stirred you the most?
The discovery that I have lived my entire life knowing only the Clinton and Bush regimes, and if the upcoming election goes the way it looks like it's gonna, that's all I'll know for another eight years.
68)Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
If you're gonna go to college, go to a school with open enrollment, where you don't have to apply to your major and you don't have to be in a certain major to take certain classes. Make sure there's wiggle room because god damn things can change so fast from what you expect. Don't let grades get you down, but don't let being down get your grades too.
69)Quote a song lyric.
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten