New Year meme
1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
I covered a presidential campaign.
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No, my New Years' Resolution last year was to have sex again and I didn't. Next year's resolution is to lose weight and purge my brain of hang-up boys like in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes. my cousin Judith.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What countries did you visit?
The Netherlands.
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
A steady job with health insurance.
7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
July 22, because it was my birthday and Ethan and Brian took me to a water park. Yay water!
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Covering the Republican Convention on my own with little to no editorial support.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Continuing to be overly emotional.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I broke my foot in kendo practice.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My second cat, Locke.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Rent, books, DVD sets.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The election, the Badgers.
16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
"The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane" by Nick Cave
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
Older or wiser?
Both
Thinner or fatter?
Probably fatter. But soon I will be thin. Oh, yes.
Richer or poorer?
Absolutely no clue.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Work to get out and be social with new people.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Spend money.
22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
No no no.
24. What was your favourite TV program?
The Sopranos, Futurama, Family Guy
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
More vaguely dislike.
26. What was the best book you read?
The Vice Guide to Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Old 97s
28. What did you want and get?
A good internship.
29. What did you want and not get?
Sex. Except at the end of the year, where I didn't really want it.
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Probably Kill Bill 2, Spiderman 2, or Shaun of the Dead.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
As I said above, I turned 21 and went to Noah's Ark with Ethan, Brian, and other Ruddigore cast members.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
No comment.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
Ramones.
34. What kept you sane?
Prozac.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Mmm ... Colin Farrell.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Probably gay marriage.
37. Who did you miss?
Max, Alex, Jacob, Abby.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Ummm .. I didn't 'meet' Ethan and Doc but I got to know them better. I met Brian and Abe and a bunch of people whose names I can't think of right now.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
Some things are too hot to touch.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"So now my coffee's cold and I'm getting told that I've got to get back to work. So when the sun goes low and you're home all alone, think of me and try not to laugh. And I'll wear it well, I don't object if you call collect. 'Cause I ain't forgetting that you were once mine, and I blew it without even trying. So I'm eating my heart out trying to get back to you."