I don't care if this is self-absorbed...
I feel like writing proper year-end lists for my own amusement. But first I need quiet time to reflect, which I won't be getting until my brother goes back to Philly. That will hopefully happen tomorrow. For now, I'm just writing personal lists for myself, so when I feel depressed again, I can look back and smile.
Hopefully these won't make me seem as if I'm bragging. Remember, I'm a reclusive backwoods girl 95% of the time. Sometimes I think I deserved all of this:
Top 10 Awesome Things I Did This Year:
10) Went to both Motherfucker in NYC and Making Time in Philly, and made it out of both STD-free!
9) Managed to do excellent at school, despite going into academic overload and taking a horrific independent study on Martin Heidegger.
8) Got Thurston Moore's email address (even though he didn't email me back, its still awesome!), and asked him who his favorite poet was.
7) Inspired (?) a boy to write a terrific mini-profile of me for my NYU class, the best of its kind that the professor had ever seen (!)
6) Helped out with mega-successful midnight screening of Hedwig and the Angry Inch
5) Held a conversation with Sean Lennon. That was pretty cool.
4) Got filmed for a Manics docu.! And actually gave good soundbites!
3) Saw Nick McCarthy's underoos
2) Succeeded in not alienating Christina, Elizabeth, Rachel, or my German penpal of many years!
1) Lived a very well-adjusted existence in NYC for a month! A little over a month, actually!
Top 5 Bat Events of the Year:
5) This site
4) The New-Wave bat that sang "You Spin me Round (like a record)", which I saw at Wegman's.
3) Batman Begins
2) The Bat....Thong!
1) Giving Carlos the Vampire in the Box
Top 5 Things I Did this Year that Helped me Grow as a Person:
5) Did not put up with Motherfucker groping
4) Actually talking to my grandmother at Xmas
3) Made Brian Chase feel good about himself, despite being constantly overshadowed by his bandmates
2) Donating food to animal shelters in the name of my dearly departed dog
1) Finally bought Different Class (although I should actually be extremely ashamed that I did not purchase it sooner)
Top 5 Awesome Things I Made This Year:
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Top 5 Celebrity (?) Physical Encounters of the Year:
5) Shaking Brian Chase's irresistably Jewish hand
4) Shaking Daniel Kessler's wee and bewildered hand
3) Tapping Carlos D's ridiculously broad shoulder
2) Shaking Chuck Palahniuk's demented yet awesome hand
1) Getting my arm rubbed by John Cameron Mitchell
Top 5 Fantasy Celebrity (?) Physical Encounters of the Year:
5) Washing Daniel Kessler's hair
4) Getting my photo taken with Chuck Palahniuk, thus opening up the possibility of shoulder/arm action
3) Hugging Thurston Moore's knees
2) Rubbing John Cameron Mitchell's arm back
1) Giving Nick McCarthy a wedgie
...If #1 would have happened, then I would be certain that 2005 could never be topped. Some of this year is still an absolute blur to me, and there are only 4 days left! I mean, I actually talked to people this year? And some of those people were famous? And I didn't make a fool of myself in front of them? My mind's been permanently boggled.