...and sometimes the print is too small.*
Meme: How was 2010?:
1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before? Moved back in permanently with my parents after Ye Great Independence that began with university, was afraid of myself standing on a balcony, met
seschat, had a friend over for Christmas, wrote my second novel, discovered a chipped tooth, did not pluck The Three Grey Hairs, went on a university ski trip, bought a suit jacket, graduated from my Masters, started an internship not related to the university, and so forth. One always does things that one has never done before.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? My New Year's resolutions are always the same: get fit. Everything else is just part of the long list of Things I Want to Do (which are mainly creative in nature) and Things I Must Do (which this year included getting a job and at which I failed miserably).
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? No. (Well, Misha Collins had a baby - West Anaximander - and considering how much squee it gives me cause for and how much I adore this man, then I guess it could count.)
4. Did anyone close to you die? No.
5. What countries did you visit? Italy, USA, France (barely), Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Austria
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010? A job, a home of my own, and a cat. Or a rat. I'm not too picky on that first letter.
7. What dates from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory? Dates never get etched in my memory, but I will always remember my last coffee with Willemijn, my first day at Internship, my interview at Organization, my walk with
seschat, and picking up
katarinagram at the airport.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Nanowrimo. This year was pretty much made of fail in all other departments.
9. What was your biggest failure? The whole year, including moving in with my parents and failing at getting a job.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Not more than usual, unless you count mental and emotional distress, which was quite high this year.
11. What was the best thing you bought? Ribs 'n' Bibs The Boss platter. BBQ ribs, oh how I missed you!
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Misha Collins ftw.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? My parents' (and my own).
14. Where did most of your money go? Nowhere. I have no money - it's all my parent's.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Nanowrimo. Excitement this year has been low.
16. What song will always remind you of 2010? Any on either of my "Songs on Repeat" fanmixes for 2010.
17. Compared to this time last year, you are:
Happier or sadder: Sadder.
Thinner or fatter: Fluctuating around the same.
Richer or poorer: Same.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Written, sent out more job applications, enjoyed myself.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Freaked the fuck out, fought with my parents.
20. How will you be spending did you spend Christmas? With my parents and
katarinagram and deliscious food.
21. What was your favorite month of 2010? November. Writing made everything else unimportant.
22. Did you fall in love in 2010? No.
23. How many one-night stands? Zero.
24. What was your favorite TV program? Supernatural.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? No.
26. What was the best book you read? Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Hello Saferide
28. What did you want and get? I didn't get anything I wanted - but then I wasn't wanting anything too strongly. I did get strife, chocolate, books, and a hand sculpture to put my rings on instead. Oh, and an inukshuk key ring, to which my first reaction was omg it's the key ring Steve gave Chip! and I don't know if that's a sad thing or not. Anyway, I have Chip's key ring from Steve and it is made of love.
29. What did you want and not get? I wanted joy, a job, a place of my own, and a pet.
30. What was your favorite film of this year? L'Herrison, although I'm really just throwing a title at this meme to get on to the next question.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I was touristing in a mountain village in the north of Italy, methinks, and I turned 27.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Not living with my parents and having an independent source of income. Immensely more satisfying is an understatement.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008? It's clothes, I'm wearing it, what more do you want?
34. What kept you sane?
seschat and Supernatural and podcasts.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Misha Collins.
36. What political issue stirred you the most? I was too apathetic to be stirred by politics and I went long stretches without watching The Daily Show so I've been very porrly informed.
37. Who did you miss? All the people I missed last year, and the year before that, and so forth.
38. Who were the best new people you met?
seschat (in person!)
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010: I have no employable skills and should have studied something - anything - else.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: I'll be counting up my demons, yeah / Hoping everything's not lost, Coldplay's "Everything's Not Lost"
Media of 2010::
Films:
Drag Me To Hell (2009) - Hilarious
Dylan Moran’s What It Is (Live) - Repeat
Shelter (2007) - Squishy!
Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut (2009)
Recovery (2007) - ;_;
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) - Meh
Tue£day (2009) - Meh
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Little Children (2006) - ♥
Holy awards, Batman!The Zoo Gang (1985) - Two words: Poodle hair.
Precious (2010) - ;_;
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) - Ha! Abominable.
Winged Creatures (2008)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) - ♥
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: Dream Master (1988)
All the King's Men (2006) - Blaaaargh. I have to agree with A.O. Scott of the NY Times: "Nothing in the picture works. It is both overwrought and tedious, its complicated narrative bogging down in lyrical voiceover, long flashbacks and endless expository conversations between people speaking radically incompatible accents."
Iron Man (2009) - ♥ Mechanical sex-on-legs! Welding porn!
Watchmen: Theatrical Cut (2009) - with
seschatDorian Grey (2009) - Unfinished - with
seschatSherlock Holmes (2009)
Up
Up in the Air
Volver
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Shutter Island (2010)
Hamlet MST3K 1009
Avatar - Biology ftw.
Bad News Bears ♥
Bad News Bears in Breaking Training ♥
Dollman
Breaking Away
Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child
Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy's Dead
Nightmare on Elm Street 7: The New Nightmare
Pulp Fiction - Repeat
Head of State - Bwahaha!
Perl oder Pica
Welcome - ;_;
What Just Happened - Blah
Goodbye Again (1961)
Post Grad - ;_;
Blonde - Fandom's edited version
Case 39 (2010) - Eep!
La belle age
Agora
Celda 211
La vida que te espera
Paris
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - ;_;
Inkheart
Neverwas
Sempre Vivu
Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Soul Kitchen (2010) - :D
The Comebacks (2007) - :D
El secreto de sus ojos (2010)
Les Herbes Folles - Pretty and well-acted but boring and non-plotty.
Going Postal (2010)
Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010) - Frustrating, but it's got Mishmish, so all was well.
El Lobo - Repeat
La Vie En Rose - Loooong bt excellent actress
Milk - unfinished due to faulty DVD
Moon - ♥
Whistle (short film) - ♥
Daybreakers (2010) - 'Verse ♥
Cargo (2009) - Boring
Invictus (2010)
Le Concert (2010)
Auf der anderer Seite - D: and frustrating but wonderfully directed
Precious - Repeat
Sea Wolf - Sort of. Was very ill.
Dead Man Walking - Repeat, although I've as yet to watch the whole thing)
My Sister's Keeper
Captives (2004) - Repeat, ♥
Naranjo en Flor - Blargh. What was this thing about anyway? Sex, tango or murder?
How to Train Your Dragon - ♥
Mine Vaganti - :D
Serpico
Hierro - Gorgeous, but ending was gah frustrating
Toy Story 3
Men Who Stared At Goats
Miss Marple: Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
Devour - So bad it's good?
Disney's Anastasia - Baaad.
Triangle - WIN
Starkid's A Very Potter Sequel - ♥
Starkid's Me and My Dick
Inception
Men Who Hate Women (Millenium 1)
Der Kriminalist - end only
Finding Home - D'aw + Misha ftw.
Meres et Filles
Potiche
Bal
Dylan Moran's Monster (Live in New York)
La vaquilla - :D
Everybody's Fine (2010)
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - Meh of mehs.
Mirror Mask (repeat)
Friday the 13th (2009) - The Male View of the camera was awful, but Jared wore a tight T, so all was good in the end.
Legion - Should not have been that funny in so many innapropriate places and o bad all over.
L'Herisson - ;_; and ♥
HP and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Devil - So bad it wasn't even snarkworthy
The Devil
The Traveller
Shelter - Meh
Pirates of the Carrobean 1 - (repeat)
TV Shows:
Human Target Season 1
Human Target Season 2
Castle Season 2
Castle Season 3
Dollhouse Season 2
Ashes to Ashes Season 3
True Blood Season 3
Doctor Who Season 5
Supernatural Season 5
Supernatural Season 6
Lost Season 6
Terminator: The Sarah connor Chronicles Season 1 (repeat)
The Secret Diary of a Call Girl Season 1
The Secret Diary of a Call Girl Season 2
The Secret Diary of a Call Girl Season 3
Grey's Anatomy Season 3
Grey's Anatomy Season 4
Grey's Anatomy Season 5
Grey's Anatomy Season 6
Grey's Anatomy Season 7
Sherlock Season 1
Single Father (2010)
State of Play (2003)
Books:
The World in Six Songs (2008) - DJLevitin
Et Si C'Etait Vrai (2000) - Marc Levy (audio, repeat)
Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett (repeat)
World Without End - Ken Follet
Some Girls Bite - Chloe Neil
Friday Night Bites - Chloe Niel
Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris (audio)
Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris (audio)
Edith Piaf - Simone Berteaut - Oh gods, it's a list that will not die!
Conversations with the Devil - Jeff Rovin
Julie and Julia - Julie Powell
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (repeat) ;_;
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson
World War Z (repeat) - Max Brooks
Small Gods (repeat) - Terry pratchett
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
The Zombie Survival Handbook - Max Brooks (unfinished)
Love and Other Near Death Experiences - Mill Millington (repeat)
Howards End - EM Forster - So slow...
Twice-Bitten - Chloe Niel
Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris
How to Ride a Dragon Storm - Cressida Cowell (audio)
Groovitude: A Get Fuzzy Compilation - Darby Conley (repeat)
Flatland - Edwin Abbott Abbott
Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert K. Massie (1967)
Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett (repeat)
The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett (repeat)
Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre (audio)
How to Tame Your Dragon - Cressida Cowell (audio)
Le Lion - Joseph Kessel (unifinished)
Doctor Who: The Nemonite Invasion - David Roden (audio)
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami ♥
The Last Enchantment - Mary Stewart - Meh
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
The Vesuvious Club - Mark Gatiss (audio)
Fanfic Novellas:
Anything Worth Dying For -
waldorph (
Podfic by
2naonh3_cl2)
Sweet Child of Mine - Anonymous
Series -
i_am_your_spy Now, As Before -
etherati (Podfic)
The Last Outpost of All That Is & Not For Samson in the Temple (Podfic) - eigth_horizon &
maygra The Long and Narrow Rope -
pdragon76Five Futures Dean Sure As Hell Isn't Going to Let Happen -
trolllogic,
tracy_loo_who,
morgane,
veggie17,
naimu (
Podfic by
luvplatinumbaby)
Running on Empty -
chem80 (
Podfic by
chemm80)
The Things We Carry With Us -
lovesrain44 (
Podfic by
chemm80)
Music - Albums:
Hello Saferide - Introducing ; Would You Let Me Play This EP 10 Times a Day?
Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down
Supernatural Original TV Soundtrack
The National - Cherry Tree ; Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers ; The Alligator ; Boxer
Music - Fanmixes:
General
Top 25 of 2009 -
seschatBirthday Mix -
sechat - ♥
New Shoes -
seschatFrosted Window Mornings -
snipethedoctorNeedz Moar Dinosaurz - ?
&herats; Mix -
seschat Faded from the Winter -
amberwing ♥
How Strange, Innocence -
cobaltinkHit the Road Running -
bending_sickleHit the Road Running (Together) -
bending_sickleDo It Perfect (Again) -
bending_sickleThe Undiscovered Country -
bending_sickleNot Anymore -
bending_sickle Supernatural
Don't Say Anything -
seschat MISH MISH -
breakinporcelan I Gripped You Tight -
thejazzter Among A Million Same -
lassiterfics -
mizra This Girl's A Hurricane - ?
I Hear the Voice of Rage and Ruin -
familiardevil ♥
Both Falling Bright -
coyotesuspect Strange Things - gwenbasil @ Dreamwidth
In the Cage -
bending_sickle Music for the Apocalypse, Vol. 1, 2, 3, 4 -
laurie_ky ♥
You Drew Your Grave on Every Single Map -
suchaprince Until I Lost My Name -
telemetries Watchmen
So Many Things Worth Burning For -
metatarsusDoomsday Averted -
roguedemonhunte Doctor Who
No End & No Beginning: A Companions Mix -
dallowaywardMaps Are Made For the Lost -
batsyx The Planets Bend Around Us -
luminessa Harry Potter
Catenaries and Dirigibles -
peverbially Put Out the Fire, Boys -
everything_inme Nightmare on Elm Street
Something's Not Right -
bending_sickle True Blood
In the Deep -
pretty_hostel ♥
Repeats -
A Thousand Times Over (early 2010)-
bending_sickleRepetition is the Key (late 2010) -
bending_sickle Creative Products of 2010:
Fanmix:
Repetition is the Key Hang in There, Baby In the Cage There's Just Me Globo sapiens: International edition Globo sapiens Do It Perfect (Again) The Undiscovered Country Hit the Road Running (Together) Hit the Road Running Something's Not Right One Thousand Times Over Not Anymore Fanfic:
Ninja Pirate Angel on a Zombie Uniciron The Blank Slate Stonehenge Antinomy Eliminate the Impossible A Slip of Comet Original Writing:
Time We Saw a Miracle The Ballast Water Metaphor The Last Wild Angel Blog Like It's the End of the World Other:
The Globo sapiens Condition A Word on Crossovers * David Ives