[Play] A Year Of Newness And Selfishness {Cut}

[jhaelan]

Almost at Christmas already, certainly enough of the year past to look back and think on the latest revolution of this fair earth. It's been a very different year from either 2003 or 2004: more selfish and self-centred by far

1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before? Bought a flat, started a MSc, asked a stranger to dinner, engaged a financial advisor and explored certain aspects of my sexuality
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? No resolutions, thoughts on how my Uberlist went to follow at some stage
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? No
4. Did anyone close to you die? Pip
5. What countries did you visit? France, Singapore and Australia
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005? Space. It kept me sane last year and I forgot to protect it from other influences this year
7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? 22nd April, WGW Break-up
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Engineering an opportunity to relocate
9. What was your biggest failure? Keeping up with people
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Not of note
11. What was the best thing you bought? Flat
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? natassja13, nisaba, kitty_goth
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Thankfully no one
14. Where did most of your money go? Debt or rent mortgage
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Picnic, and foreign parts
16. What song will always remind you of 2005? Bleed Like Me by Garbage
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
    • Happier or sadder? Happier
    • Thinner or fatter? Same
    • Richer or poorer? Richer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Boundaries and introspection
    
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Snacking
20. How will you be spending Christmas? With family
21. Did you fall in love in 2005? No, though I was tempted
22. How many one-night stands? None
23. What was your favorite TV program? Lost
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? No, I don't do hate
25. What was the best book you read? The Wreck Of The River Of Stars by Michael Flynn
26. What was your greatest musical discovery? Danzig
27. What did you want and get? Opportunity and stability
28. What did you want and not get? Discipline
29. What was your favorite film of this year? Citizen Kane
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Found myself not in the mood, so did nothing. I was twenty-eight
31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Pondered this for a while, my first thought being "being in a relationship". I suspect however, the answer is nothing and the reason for that answer is the same as the one I give when I say I don't have regrets
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005? Same old, same old
33. What kept you sane? Friends
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? None, I don't do people from afar
35. What political issue stirred you the most? Only the volume of non-news
36. Who did you miss? As usual scatterbeetle, mr_prickle and emeraldgrrl
37. Who was the best new person you met? Wendy
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005: Friendships come before relationships
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: Therapy is speedie's brand new drug
    Dancing with the devil's past has never been too fun
    It's better off than trying to take a bullet from a gun
    And she cries:
    Hey baby can you bleed like me?
    C'mon baby can you bleed like me
    
    [...]
    
    You should see my scars
    And try to comprehend that which you'll never comprehend