dorky year in review
1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Got a master's degree; got a full-time job; went to Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Cedar Point, and Schlitterbahn; went snowboarding; coached volleyball
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
no and yes
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
my aunt had a baby
4. Did anyone close to you die?
not yet
5. What countries did you visit?
the country of Texas?
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
my own apartment
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
sep. 2
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
graduating. getting a job. getting hugs from the cute kids i teach.
9. What was your biggest failure?
not getting a better job. the one i have is still ok though.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
nothing major
11. What was the best thing you bought?
a new ipod. and my macbook.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
tina fey
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
sarah pallin
14. Where did most of your money go?
macbook, vacations - disney and texas
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
not having to go to school anymore, going to disney, going to texas, winning my march madness bracket, seeing broadway shows - title of show, idina in concert, billy joel concert, lbi
16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
so what - pink
17. Compared to this time last year, are you sadder of happier?
happier in some ways, but sadder in others
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
travel
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
wasting time
20. How will you be spending Christmas/Winter Break?
sleeping. christmas was at my grandma's. my holiday party was saturday. new year's at mel's, then gypsy!
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
no
23. How many one-night stands?
zero
24. What was your favorite TV program?
30 Rock
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
no
26. What was the best book you read?
Paper Towns, The Book Thief
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Sondheim
28. What did you want and get?
Guitar Hero World Tour
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Australia, Slumdog Millionaire
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I went to work, got observed, went to a volleyball game, and I'm 23
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
my own place
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
sporty/comfy
34. What kept you sane?
krysta, the internets
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
tina fey
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
the economy, recently gay marriage
37. Who did you miss?
colleen and all my friends that live far away
38. Who was the best new person you met?
christian
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
move on. be kind.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"but the mundane sets in
we play by the rules and plow through the days
the years take us miles away
from the time we wondered when
we'd find a way back to then"
"then die the vampires
filling you with life, creativity
all that your art should be
out go the vampires
die vampire
die vampire
die vampire die"
"and i won't be far from where you are
if ever you should call
you meant more to me than anyone
i ever loved at all"
"all of our friends who think that i'm blessed
they don't know my head is a mess
no they don't know who i really am
and they don't know what i've been through
like you do
and i was made for you"