1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
I ran like no tomorrow.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I'm pretty sure I did.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Thank God.
5. What countries did you visit?
None. How depressing.
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
Motivation.
7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
December 20, 2004. Accepted to Villanova University.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
See above.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Injuring my knee during the second game of the season.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
See above. Again.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
A new guitar.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My own. For learning to think for myself and my own good.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Certain people I once called friends.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Laura, haha.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Villanova.
16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
The Killers - "Somebody Told Me"
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
happier or sadder? happier.
thinner or fatter? thinner.
richer or poorer? poorer.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Thinking for myself.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Not keeping balance.
20. Did you fall in love in 2004?
Indeed.
21. How many one-night stands?
none
22. What was your favorite TV show?
South Park
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I don't like to name names.
24. What was the best book you read?
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The Smashing Pumpkins.
26. What did you want and get?
A car and a license.
27. What did you want and not get?
A large bag of unmarked twenties.
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
EUROTRIP
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
For my 17th birthday I ate dinner at my house and played pool.
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Taking a trip to another country. Or seeing another concert.
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
I nevber thought about my fashion concept. Why start now, lol.
32. What kept you sane?
Music, the football team.
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Billy Corgan.
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
The election of 2004.
35. Who did you miss?
....no one. I don't think so at least.
36. Who was the best new person you met?
I "re-met" a lot of people this year.
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004.
Don't let some imagined ideal of loyalty come between you and happiness.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"I'm never coming back. I'm never giving in. I'll never be the shine in your spit." - "Fuck You (An Ode to Noone)" - The Smashing Pumpkins.