Annual year-end questionnaire!
1. What did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?
Traveled by myself, wrote a full-length television script, attempted to drink alcohol
2. What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
A steady, decent-paying job that I enjoy.
3. What dates from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
My first visit to Jacquelyn's house, hoodratting our way into Illinois, nights at the Muny, seeing Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero at a showing of The Room, visiting Liz, driving to Ft. Collins, showing Lauren around St. Louis, staying up all night reading Artemis Fowl, pnfamily chats, Ashley's birthday, my princess party, helping my best friend move to Texas, s'memorial
4. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
DRIVER'S LICENSE AND CAR OWNERSHIP. Also taking two 400-level capstone classes in the same semester and aceing both of them while dealing with the death of both my grandparents and the departure of my best friend.
5. What was your biggest failure?
I SAW A PICTURE OF MY FRIEND WITH SOME VOICE ACTORS AT A CON AND I MIS-NAMED ONE OF THEM BECAUSE I NEVER REMEMBER WHAT VOICE ACTORS LOOK LIKE ONLY WHAT THEY SOUND LIKE dumb things like this bother me
6. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Consistent and well-paying work
7. How did you spend your summer break?
Completely cleaning out my room, staying up all night reading Artemis Fowl books, researching graduate school, learning how to drive, planning and executing my trip to Chicago, going to the most Muny shows I've ever seen in one summer
8. Who was the best new person you met?
My host brothers for both APO conventions were lovely, I wound up on some great MMOSH teams with total strangers, and I made a ton of new Tumblr pals! Almost tripled my follower count this year!
9. Favorite Night out?
The one I just had, seeing Les Mis Sad Haircut and going to Buffalo Wild Wings
10. What kept you sane?
FFA, Spotify, my smartphone, snacks
11. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2011.
If you don't have anything nice to say, try harder.
12. What's something you learned about yourself?
I can find a way to keep myself happy in any situation.
13. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012?
Bright colors and hair bows and white sunglasses
14. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Phineas & Ferb episodes, visiting Liz, all the amazing animated films, new Nightrunner book, mine and James' third annual Christmas Eve cookie delivery
15. What were your obsessions of the year?
Fictional inventive geniuses, sassy sidekicks, superhero/supervillain romance, texts from last night.
16. What was your favourite TV program?
Phineas & Ferb, Futurama, Adventure Time, Sherlock, and I did spend some quality time with Family Guy and South Park this year too
17. What was your favourite film of this year?
I can't pick an animated one, but for live-action it was defintely The Avengers
18. What was the best book you read?
All my summer books: the surprisingly charming Shadow Magic, the enchantingly rich Casket of Souls, and the emotional rollercoaster that was marathoning the entire Artemis Fowl series
19. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Johnny Flynn, Foster the People, Fun., and everyone else I found through the magic of Spotify
20. What song will always remind you of 2012?
The big radio hits I LISTENED TO A LOT OF POP THIS YEAR? Somebody That I Used To Know, Call Me Maybe, You Don't Know You're Beautiful, Domino, Super Bass, Starships, We Are Young, Some Nights, Lights, Stronger.
"It's All Coming Back to Me Now" - Celine Dion
"Always Be My Baby" - Mariah Carey
"Sax Rohmer #1" - The Mountain Goats
"The Bad Touch" - Bloodhound Gang
"Jump on my Shoulders" - Awolnation
"By Your Hand" - Los Campensinos!
"Skinny Love" - Bon Iver
"All For Love" - Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, and Sting
"Handlebars" - Flobots
"Rocket Brothers" - Kashmir
"Somebody To Shove" - Soul Asylum
21. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"Did you learn just how I love you? Did you see how far I've been?"
1: What fandoms did you acquire in 2012?
Sherlock, Avatar/Korra, Artemis Fowl, Motorcity, Gravity Falls, Avengers, Bartimaeus, and Homestuck, which I still have yet to actually read but I have fallen in love with it via Tumblr.
2: What fandoms did you let go of in 2012?
I still love Harry Potter, but I'm not as emotionally attached to it as I used to be. I see all these sad posts about it where people are like "OMG WHY WOULD YOU REMIND ME ABOUT THAT" and I'm just like "yep that happened"
3: What fandoms did you mean to get into but didn't in 2012? Why?
I never finished Merlin, and now I already know how it ends oops.
4: What fandoms do you intend on checking out in 2013?
I'M STARTING ON HOMESTUCK AS SOON AS I GRADUATE
5: What fandoms do you think you might let go of in 2013 unless things significantly improve?
Nothing? I've been keeping it simple, everything that I watch I really love.
6: What fandoms do you think you'll never let go of no matter how crappy they get?
Pokemon, as always.
7: What show impressed you most in 2011?
Gravity Falls and Motorcity were both excellent additions to the cartoon landscape, and I thought that Amazing World of Gumball was a cute but unremarkable show until I sat down and watched it and wow it's hilarious
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I'm spending tonight eating nachoes and watching netflix and probably liveblogging something for Cartoonology or maybe videochatting with somebody idk