Are you serious, shithead?
1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
I learned how to accept responsibility for my actions and stop being a child. Hopefully I'll put these lessons to use eventually.
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't remember this sorta shit.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Hahaha. I'm imagining this like, locationally close to me and I just got this great image of a woman suddenly and laboriously giving birth on an El train. No.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No, but someone close to someone close to me died, and it was very shocking.
5. What countries did you visit?
...
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
a routine and a spot of self-discipline
7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
It's all a blur already, but I'll probably remember Thursday, September 20th for a good long while. And of course LOOPTOPIA 2007.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
getting over it
9. What was your biggest failure?
autumn quarter
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I discovered new and exciting chronic ailments, but nothing special happened.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
I buy a lot of things.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
everyone at home, except for the usuals
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
...
14. Where did most of your money go?
clothes and stupidly expensive meals, as usual
15. What are you really, really, really excited about?
six months in Europe, writing my BA
16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
"Down on Me" and "Foxhole, Foxhole"
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? MUCH happier
b) thinner or fatter? definitely fatter
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
reading, thinking
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
procrastinating, complaining, SLEEPING
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
This is behind us now.
21. What was your favorite month of 2007?
May, because of LOOPTOPIA and a fabulous weekend with my mother, the only person who consistently isn't an asshole to me
22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
check
23. How many one-night stands?
one...night...STA-ANDS
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Arrested Development
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I try not to hate. It's bad for my complexion.
26. What was the best book you read?
Probably Nicomachean Ethics, but I didn't read much so I'm not the person to ask.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Television
28. What did you want and get?
boy
29. What did you want and not get?
to know what I want to do with my LIFE
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, obviously
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I did homework and went out to dinner with Brandon on my 19th birthday. The day after I threw a party.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
routine and self-discipline
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
miscellany
34. What kept you sane?
no
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
James Spader, because this is a year that begins with 2
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
uh...
37. Who did you miss?
everyone, at times
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Second-string hipsters & co., Andy
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
Nobody likes someone who's all talk, especially if she's boring.
40. Quote that sums up your year:
"Who am I?"
Oh and I forgot why I came here in the first place: GOING ABROAD IS GOING TO BE MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE THAN I HAD EARLIER ANTICIPATED.