EOY Meme 2022
1. What did you do in 2022 that you'd never done before?
...Build a PC?
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I made none, and this is the tradition I've chosen to continue.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What countries did you visit?
Sharlayan and Thavnair are countries, shut your face.
6. What would you like to have in 2023 that you lacked in 2022?
Energy.
7. What date from 2022 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
...The mind only recalls events, not the dates it happened on. Sorry.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I want to say getting published (and paid!) in Strange Horizons, but it was actually winning the September Gposers Challenge.
9. What was your biggest failure?
It was work-related.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
My foot hurt a lot. Also allegedly got COVID.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My PC.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
...Can't really think of any, sorry. But I'm sure you were a good person.
13. Whose behaviour appalled you?
I'm sure there were very appalling people, but I had the privilege of not meeting them.
14. Where did most of your money go?
New PC, and maybe FFXIV fan merch?
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Getting published and paid.
16. What song will always remind you of 2022?
Click to view17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Sadder
ii. thinner or fatter? Fatter
iii. richer or poorer? Richer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Playing other games?
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Playing FFXIV.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
Ate nice Vietnamese food, saved RM500 not buying fancy Samsung buds to go with my heavily discounted fancy Samsung phone.
21. Where did you ring in 2023?
Roleplaying in FFXIV. On my PC. At home.
22. Did you fall in love in 2022?
No.
23. How many one-night stands?
None.
24. What was your favourite TV program?
I don't watch TV anymore, sad.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No.
26. What was the best book you read?
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow - Natasha Pulley
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
28. What did you want and get?
Gaming PC!
29. What did you want and not get?
A relationship!
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
The final Evangelion movie, it was the only movie I watched too.
31. What did you do on your birthday?
Nurse a migraine, ate nice food.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
More staffing at work so that I can finish my paperwork on time.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2021?
More of the same.
34. What kept you sane?
FFXIV.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
None.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
None.
37. Who did you miss?
None.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
B9.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2022.
Somehow, it will work out.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Say goodnight
With each bite does your sanity die
Sucking the life out, letting the dark
Inside, say a prayer as the light leaves your eyes
Or scream all you like, the gods can't hear you
- Scream, FFXIV