Jan 04, 2006 08:28
Well, I'm not going to pass up this chance to talk about myself.
1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Listened to several straight hours of accordion music
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? i do not make new years resolutions
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
no
4. Did anyone close to you die?
not really
5. What countries did you visit?
england and ireland
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
a job with a competent boss
7. What dates from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory?
3/17, 10/13...or was it 10/12?
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? presenting my thesis at a conference, getting into law school
9. What was your biggest failure?
losing a battle with gravity
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
i learned a lesson in newtonian physics from a horse, oh and i can't eat sugar
11. What was the best thing you bought?
plane ticket to London, semester of law school
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
mine
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
well, the president made me depressed, but appalled seems to have the connotation of surprise and it didn't really surprise me
14. Where did most of your money go?
university of new mexico school of law
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
conference/traveling to England/Ireland, getting into law school,
David Bowie, living by myself, my last trip to a thrift store (very
successful), coming home for christmas, music, swing dancing, cheese,
classes, horses, the dublin irish festival, visiting nicole in seattle,
etc.
16. What song/album will always remind you of 2005?
Brave Combo, The Jimmy Hendrix Polka
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder?: happier
ii. older or wiser?: can't i be both? i'm both
iii.thinner or fatter?: thinner (woohoo)
iv. richer or poorer? so much poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
horseback riding
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? horseback falling
20. How did you be spend Christmas?
lounging around my parent's house
21.? There is not question for 21, so I will answer 7.
22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
nope
23. How many one night stands in this last year?
that would be telling
24. What was your favorite TV program?
House, Crossing Jordan In fact, it would be the best thing ever
if they combined them into one show. Hugh Laurie how I love you.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Nah, I kept all my hatred the same
26. what was the best book you read? geez, that's hard... um...
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Richard Thompson
28. What did you want and get? Into law school, into the conference in liverpool (i wonder how many times i can use this answer)
29. What did you want and not get? a hammock
30. What was your favorite film of this year? harry potter? lion
the witch and the wardrobe? i don't think i saw any other films.
31. What did you do on your birthday?
i think i went out to dinner with nicole
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
dating David Bowie
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
covered in glue
34. What kept you sane?
who says i'm sane?
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you like the most?
David Bowie
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Iraq, Katrina, the lack of national health care, minuteman project
37. Who did you miss?
the city of dayton
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Luce Irigaray
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005.
Do not assume that you will stop with the horse. Also, don't lean
against the walls of Buckingham Palace or try to sleep in the Dublin
airport.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. "She came from Galway to Graceland to be with the King."