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1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Fell in love, fell out of love, did not contemplate suicide, went to college, got my meds lowered for once, contemplated quitting riding.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
My only resolution was to live my life in such a way that I would be able to sleep with myself at night. I was.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No. But I got the news that someone close to me will.
5. What countries did you visit?
Ireland, England
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
A better grasp of my own identity.
7. What date(s) from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 26, July 17, July 21, November 11
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Developing some concept of self-worth.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Oh, don't get me started.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
None worth mentioning.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Spot.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Benazir Bhutti.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
I'd need a cut for a cut to get into this.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Tip, school, books.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Callum et cetera, Tip et cetera, coffee, Phantom of the Opera.
16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
Damien Rice, "Nine Crimes"
17. Compared to this time last year, are you
a) happier or sadder? On the whole? Happier. Shocking, I know.
b) thinner or fatter? Fatter and I do not like it and it will not last for long.
c) richer or poorer? Richer in experience.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Living for the moment.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Living in the past and what-if-ing.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
I don't remember.
21. How will you be spending New Year's?
Hiding from the relatives.
22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
Yes.
23. How many one-night stands?
None.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
CSI and House
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I don't hate. It takes too much energy.
26. What was the best book you read?
Probably something either by Terry Pratchett or Kathy Reichs.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The Spill Canvas
28. What did you want and get?
Love and a digital camera.
29. What did you want and not get?
Lasting love and mental security.
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Pan's Labyrinth.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I don't remember, but I was 18.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
If I could have ended it with the same person I started it with... but life is a learning experience, and I'd rather regret something I did rather than something I didn't do.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
T-shirts and jeans, same as always, except for a pair of nice knee-high leather boots with stiletto heels that make me feel like someone immeasurably prettier than I am.
34. What kept you sane?
Tip is my constant.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Greg Sanders.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Genocide, assassinations, and the same old political games.
37. Whom did you miss?
Let's not even go there.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Hillary and Vicki.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:
The weasel may tread the lowly earth, but eagles get sucked into jet engines. Soar like a weasel.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"Nobody wants to be half a world away at times like these, so I sat alone and waited out the night... I'm not writing my goodbyes." (Brand New, "Guernica")