2012 Meme From samincittagazze
1. What did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?
Started work in F1, slept in the back of a van, cut my own hair and passed my driving test!
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I wanted to get a 'proper' job and pass my driving test in 2012, mischief managed!
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
My beloved Phoenix Bird :(
5. What countries did you visit?
France, oh my god, that is pathetic!
6. What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
I would like to be renting a house/flat in a few months time, rather than just a room. Don't get me wrong, I really like where I'm staying, but I am essentially living in their front room and sleeping in a bunk bed. It is not a good look ;) I also really want to get out riding as much as possible, and increase my driving experience.
7. What date from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
July 5th, when my now boss called to offer me the job at Caterham.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Not getting sucked back into working at the Chess shop, getting a job in F1, not getting to maudlin about things related to Switzerland and reading so many books!
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not seeing some friends as much as I should, and not writing enough.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
*touches wood* Thankfully, aside from a couple of colds, I was disease and injury free in 2012!
11. What was the best thing you bought?
A pile of "Soap & Glory" stuff from Boots, it is working miracles, and my ticket to Le Mans!
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My Aunt, for being incredibly supportive and driving me to interviews.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
I don't think anyone made me that depressed in 2012. I was annoyed at the way my ex behaved at the Amanda Palmer gig I went to, someone else falling out of contact with me because I chose a job over him was kind of depressing, um, I think that is it really.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Driving lessons.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Kimi Raikkonen, Nelson Piquet Jr, starting work, going to Le Mans, seeing 'The Hobbit', new Stargate SG-1 books, 'The Avengers' and never having to talk to Chess customers ever again.
16. What song will always remind you of 2012?
Urgh, probably something like "Gangnam Style" or "Call Me Maybe", just through overexposure. I listen to an insane variety of music, and my 'song of the moment' is constantly changing. Oh , actually, I did listen to The Irrepressibles - In This Shirt (Röyksopp Remix) MANY times in 2012, I find it weirdly motivational AND heartbreaking.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? (About a million times happier.)
ii. thinner or fatter?
iii. richer or poorer?
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Exploring the Island.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Brooding, applying for jobs and over-thinking.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent it with my family. I read a lot, I ate a lot and I watched a lot of bad movies.
21. Did you fall in love in 2012?
My existing love for someone got turned 'up to 11' and then began a slow decline back to the constant background level that it will probably always be at.
22. How many one-night stands?
Technically, none.
23. What was your favourite TV program?
Of 2012 specifically, it would probably have to be 'Grimm', so many Nick feels that sometimes it actually hurts to watch a new episode. I also adored "The Hollow Crown".
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I strongly dislike a few new people, but not hate, yet.
25. What was the best book you read?
Most of China Miéville's books, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", Bernard Cornwell's "Warlord Chronicles" and "The Windup Girl" by Paolo Bacigalupi.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I listened to a lot of mash-ups, anything composted by Ennio Morricone and Lana Del Rey.
27. What did you want and get?
A job in F1.
28. What was your favourite film of this year?
GAH. Probably "The Avengers", although I really loved "Skyfall".
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
My parents and I tried to go for Mexican, but instead ended up at a pub next to an airfield. We also went to the Isle of Wight Donkey Sanctuary.
30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Kimi winning the Championship, Caterham scoring a point and seeing "Thirty Seconds To Mars" live again.
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012?
January-June, alternating between slobbing around at home clothes and interview clothes. July-December, all clothing choices now revolve around a horrific white blouse, dog-walking, an office than be as cold as the Arctic/hot as the jungle, and not looking horrific in an office full of men!
32. What kept you sane?
Vix, Pickle, littlestella06 and aitakute
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Nelsinho Piquet (I still cannot believe that I have his gloves next to me on my desk!), Vitaly Petrov (it's getting quite bad), Rupert Graves, JR Bourne, Gillian Anderson and Scarlett Johansson.
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
None of them enough for me to remember them without doing some research.
35. Who did you miss?
Phoenix.
36. Who was the best new person you met?
Probably my boss, how lame does that sound/ Seriously though, he's mental and amazing and annoying and kind and a pain in the ass and incredible.
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012:
Never give up on a dream.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
There's a crane, knocking down all those things, that we were,
I awake, in the night, to hear the engines purr,
