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1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
* The things I want to keep to myself.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
* I think I did and I think I'll just keep on with them.
3. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
* At a party.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
* Not close, but one of my old TAs from school died. Mid 50s. Sudden. Wrong.
5. What countries did you visit?
* USA
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
* A base.
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
* May 21st. See answer to 22.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
* Teaching some amazing kids for two months.
9. What was your biggest failure?
* Being a total Elijah and getting very despondent after huge success.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
* A deep paper cut gave me a funny turn.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
* Bought presumes disposable income.
12. Where did most of your money go?
* Paying off debt.
13. What song will always remind you of 2008?
* Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
14. What do you wish you'd done more of?
* Acting
15. What do you wish you'd done less of?
* Self critisism.
16. What was your favorite TV program?
* Harry Hill's TV Burp.
17. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
* Yes.
18. What was the best book you read?
* Wild at Heart - John Eldredge.
19. What was your greatest musical discovery?
* Bon Iver.
20. Whose behavior merited celebration?
* Everyone who voted Obama.
21. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
* Not behaviour, but attitude, stance.
22. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
* United winning the Champions League. Again.
23. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier.
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner.
iii. richer or poorer? Richer.
24. How did you spend Christmas?
* With family.
25. Did you fall in love in 2008?
* Nup.
26. How many one-night stands?
* None.
27. What did you want and get?
* Intimacy, peace, joy. Yes, I did.
28. What did you want and not get?
* Answers to questions.
29. What was your favorite film of this year?
* Wall E.
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
* I was 37 and I went out to my favourite pub in Kent and drank lots and lots and lots of red wine with some really ace people I was working with.
31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
* More acting. More 'home'. More friends. More understanding. More assurance.
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
* The green cord jacket I managed to keep from 'The Truth and Other Lies'
33. What kept you sane?
* Silence and solitude.
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
* Jessica Fox.
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
* People forgetting certain things so very quickly and so very easily.
36. Who did you miss?
* The person from answer 17.
37. Who was the best new person you met?
* Jamie. Paula. Denise. John.
40. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
* The more things change the more they stay the same.