some meme
1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
I got my own apt (it is on campus, but not a small dorm) and started professional school... I also went beyond my previous relationship max length of 2 weeks and had my heart broken a few times...
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't make any, when i need to make a change i need to make a change and stick to it and the date does not matter...
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?:
my sister is due on the 13th...
4. Did anyone close to you die?:
no
5. What countries did you visit?:
none
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?:
a few things, self confidence, clothes, relationships
7. What dates from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?:
celeste's wedding, graduation, moving
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?:
getting into law school
9. What was your biggest failure?:
self confidence
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?:
real bad mono, and a very persistant uti (a few times)
11. What was the best thing you bought?:
best? i bought all kinds of shit but i don't have it ranked... most used my wireless router, most needed laptop, most appreciated, prolly one of my books i got myself
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?:
much laud to bill, marcia, and celeste, not sure if there is anyone else offhand, meebe andrew
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?:
bill, khalida, a few other random people
14. Where did most of your money go?:
borrowed for school, moving, books and laptop, bar review
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?:
RULE AGAINST PERPETUITIES O->A for life then to the first child of B to reach 21 WHAT MAKES YOU EXCITED!!! OH YEA, A HARDCORE RAP ANALYSIS! (sorry got carried away)
16. What songs will always remind you of 2005?: Pussycat dolls doncha, blackeyed peas my lumps
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i) happier or sadder?:
both
ii) thinner or fatter?:
thinner
iii) richer or poorer?:
both
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?:
gone out, enjoyed myself
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?:
withdrawing from others because of internal strife
20. How will you be spending Christmas?:
sadly going down to socal to see my dad and step mom
22. Did you fall in love in 2005?:
sadly a few times
23. How many one night stands?:
2 or 3 iunno
24. What were your favourite TV programmes?:
I don't watch tv
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?:
this time last year???...??? hmmm, no?
26. What was the best book you read?:
i read a few good ones, prolly that one set crystal made me read the black jewel trilogy, that profoundly affected and changed me...
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?:
some forms of pop that i had avoided
28. What did you want and get?:
aspiration
29. What did you want and not get?:
emotional independance, self esteem, worth
30. What was your favourite film of this year?:
harry potter, north country, crash, a few others that i can't think of right off
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?:
25 and i went to park ultra lounge and got lots of wonderful presents from my great friends here
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?:
too embarrassed to say... some ppl would roll thier eyes and stop reading too
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
gained an intent to get one, now i need to make an objective manifestation of that intent (that was for you celeste)
34. What kept you sane?:
bar review, ben coming by for videogames
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?:
ummm no one seriously that i can remember...
36. What political issue stirred you the most?:
this year? umm, i found myself strongly anti-marriage, anti-solomon amendment and gender deconstruction in the laws... other than that various random things...
37. Who did you miss?:
would make me sad to name them all
38. Who was the best new person you met?:
best... hard to say, i would not say there is a best, all of you know that i fully love and fully hate anyone in my life, i would have it no other way
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
one cannot be a true hedonist (nor a true self denominational pagan) unless they are also a existentialist... you cannot fully enjoy your journey unless you can make your own path