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2004: Year in Review
(Questionnaire courtesy of Melquiades)
1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
Quit my job, drove cross-country, lived in a tent at a Buddhist retreat center in the Rockies, got an apartment and a job in Manhattan
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Yes, and it's unprecedented! 4 out of 5.And yes, because the fifth one will have to be one of my 2005 resolutions.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No, and they shouldn't, babies are messy
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Someone very close to someone dear to me has.
5. What countries did you visit?
This surprises me, too, but I actually stayed put in the good ol' US of A this year
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
-A valid student card
-A couple of new stamps in my brand new US passport
-Geographic stability
7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
April 8th :The day I left NJ for good
September 17th: Asiate
October 2nd
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Overcoming my fear of rejection and plunging myself into reality: growing up.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not getting in shape, but I’m going to think about that tomo...ur, next year.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing out of the ordinary and stayed clear of bronchitis
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Dell 700m laptop
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My parents’, for not only supporting their crazy daughter’s decision to move across the country to a Buddhist campout and to work for a job that paid nothing, but also flying out from California and driving me over all the way to Colorado
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Bush voters’
14. Where did most of your money go?
Ugh, down the fucking drain
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Flipping my life around 180 degrees, shaking out the dust, reprioritizing, and trying out an old relationship in a grown-up way
16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
Postal Service’s “Nothing Better”
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder?
ii. thinner or fatter?
iii. richer or poorer?
Far happier, I really wish I could say thinner, and definitely a lot, lot poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Exercising, meditating, listening to my ipod before it died
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Obsessing about flaws
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Ugh.It never works out as you planned, does it, when you get your hopes all up about something.
21. Hey! Who ate #21?
Yummy.
22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
In and out, in and out…you know how it goes.
23. How many one-night stands?
Hah!
24. Your favorite TV program
Used to be Nigella Lawson’s cooking show but they don’t show it any more. Shame.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No
26. What was the best book you read?
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Postal Service
28. What did you want and get?
Confidence
29. Oh, I suppose the chinchillas ate this one.
There is no feather on my lips
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 25, had dinner with a few friends and boyfriend in New Brunswick, NJ (and I said I’d never be back)
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Nothing at all, it was an immeasurably satisfying year
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
Hippie Layer Chic with yoga pants worn underneath skirts because you have to sit cross-legged to meditate
34. What kept you sane?
Hah, what makes you think I am?Meditation and good conversations help, however.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Nigella Lawson and Kate Winslet.I am not a lesbian nor an anglophile, I promise.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Oh god, let’s not
37. Who did you miss?
Everyone!Colorado was full of lovable people but there’s nothing like your old friends
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Bill McKeever
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004
If you shut up sometimes you learn something useful from your heart
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
They will see us waving from such great
Heights, 'come down now,' they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away,
'come down now,' but we'll stay...
(from Such Great Heights by Postal Service/Iron & Wine)
(Questionnaire courtesy of Melquiades)
1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
Quit my job, drove cross-country, lived in a tent at a Buddhist retreat center in the Rockies, got an apartment and a job in Manhattan
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Yes, and it's unprecedented! 4 out of 5.And yes, because the fifth one will have to be one of my 2005 resolutions.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No, and they shouldn't, babies are messy
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Someone very close to someone dear to me has.
5. What countries did you visit?
This surprises me, too, but I actually stayed put in the good ol' US of A this year
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
-A valid student card
-A couple of new stamps in my brand new US passport
-Geographic stability
7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
April 8th :The day I left NJ for good
September 17th: Asiate
October 2nd
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Overcoming my fear of rejection and plunging myself into reality: growing up.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not getting in shape, but I’m going to think about that tomo...ur, next year.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing out of the ordinary and stayed clear of bronchitis
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Dell 700m laptop
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My parents’, for not only supporting their crazy daughter’s decision to move across the country to a Buddhist campout and to work for a job that paid nothing, but also flying out from California and driving me over all the way to Colorado
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Bush voters’
14. Where did most of your money go?
Ugh, down the fucking drain
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Flipping my life around 180 degrees, shaking out the dust, reprioritizing, and trying out an old relationship in a grown-up way
16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
Postal Service’s “Nothing Better”
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder?
ii. thinner or fatter?
iii. richer or poorer?
Far happier, I really wish I could say thinner, and definitely a lot, lot poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Exercising, meditating, listening to my ipod before it died
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Obsessing about flaws
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Ugh.It never works out as you planned, does it, when you get your hopes all up about something.
21. Hey! Who ate #21?
Yummy.
22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
In and out, in and out…you know how it goes.
23. How many one-night stands?
Hah!
24. Your favorite TV program
Used to be Nigella Lawson’s cooking show but they don’t show it any more. Shame.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No
26. What was the best book you read?
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Postal Service
28. What did you want and get?
Confidence
29. Oh, I suppose the chinchillas ate this one.
There is no feather on my lips
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 25, had dinner with a few friends and boyfriend in New Brunswick, NJ (and I said I’d never be back)
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Nothing at all, it was an immeasurably satisfying year
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
Hippie Layer Chic with yoga pants worn underneath skirts because you have to sit cross-legged to meditate
34. What kept you sane?
Hah, what makes you think I am?Meditation and good conversations help, however.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Nigella Lawson and Kate Winslet.I am not a lesbian nor an anglophile, I promise.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Oh god, let’s not
37. Who did you miss?
Everyone!Colorado was full of lovable people but there’s nothing like your old friends
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Bill McKeever
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004
If you shut up sometimes you learn something useful from your heart
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
They will see us waving from such great
Heights, 'come down now,' they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away,
'come down now,' but we'll stay...
(from Such Great Heights by Postal Service/Iron & Wine)