i do this every year
1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
lived outside of Michigan for the first time in my life
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Last year's resolution was: learn to deal with depression in some way. I guess I am doing that.
This year, in a related vein: just be happy, however one does that.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Coulson, Grasper, Coop.
5. What countries did you visit?
Canada, yo.
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
My answer last year was "I would like to live out of the state for the summer and save a bit of money."
I did live out of state...wow! Didn't really save. In 2009, I'd like to make some amazing art work, show in a reputable gallery, get a good teaching job, and travel more.
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
111408 : pain
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Winning a merit scholarship for half my tuition, getting an internship at the Museum of the American Indian in NY, selling artwork in a live auction at school, being chosen as the TA for the studio
9. What was your biggest failure?
my marriage
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
generalize anxiety
11. What was the best thing you bought?
a second computer
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
true friends
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
still mine
14. Where did most of your money go?
what money?
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
moving to ny, going to miami beach
16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Pirates - Mr. Gnome
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? always sadder at christmas
ii. thinner or fatter? thinner
iii. richer or poorer? poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
seeing friends
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
being anxious
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
terrified
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Peter pumpkin
23. How many one-night stands?
0
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Top Chef
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No
26. What was the best book you read?
Choosing Death
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nine, Mr. Gnome
28. What did you want and get?
I wanted (and achieved): all that stuff I wrote about in the achievement question.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Hopefully some of the films I see next week will be one of these.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 28, Gabe gave me a few things (sweater and awesome Michigan and Brooklyn glasses). Ate dinner at the Prickly Pear with Dempz
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Another state of mind
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
death metal loving teacher
34. What kept you sane?
very little has helped
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
i still don't really do this
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
a strange sense of depression after the election. the fear of being let down even more. the fear that my father and grandfather are going to lose their pensions.
37. Who did you miss?
my dad. its his birthday today.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Lynn, Elle, & Kim
Who was the worst?
Those that are hard to be friends with
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
Last years: stakes is high. I suppose that is still true.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
a sun that never sets burns on.
new light is this river's dawn.
when to speak of a word so old
is to relearn what is known.
a time to think back and move on.
rebuild the loves of lives long gone.
the blood that flows through me is not my own.
the blood is from the past, not my own.
the blood that leads my life is not my own.
the blood is strength, I'm not alone.
lived outside of Michigan for the first time in my life
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Last year's resolution was: learn to deal with depression in some way. I guess I am doing that.
This year, in a related vein: just be happy, however one does that.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Coulson, Grasper, Coop.
5. What countries did you visit?
Canada, yo.
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
My answer last year was "I would like to live out of the state for the summer and save a bit of money."
I did live out of state...wow! Didn't really save. In 2009, I'd like to make some amazing art work, show in a reputable gallery, get a good teaching job, and travel more.
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
111408 : pain
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Winning a merit scholarship for half my tuition, getting an internship at the Museum of the American Indian in NY, selling artwork in a live auction at school, being chosen as the TA for the studio
9. What was your biggest failure?
my marriage
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
generalize anxiety
11. What was the best thing you bought?
a second computer
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
true friends
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
still mine
14. Where did most of your money go?
what money?
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
moving to ny, going to miami beach
16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Pirates - Mr. Gnome
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? always sadder at christmas
ii. thinner or fatter? thinner
iii. richer or poorer? poorer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
seeing friends
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
being anxious
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
terrified
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
Peter pumpkin
23. How many one-night stands?
0
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Top Chef
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No
26. What was the best book you read?
Choosing Death
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nine, Mr. Gnome
28. What did you want and get?
I wanted (and achieved): all that stuff I wrote about in the achievement question.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Hopefully some of the films I see next week will be one of these.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 28, Gabe gave me a few things (sweater and awesome Michigan and Brooklyn glasses). Ate dinner at the Prickly Pear with Dempz
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Another state of mind
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
death metal loving teacher
34. What kept you sane?
very little has helped
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
i still don't really do this
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
a strange sense of depression after the election. the fear of being let down even more. the fear that my father and grandfather are going to lose their pensions.
37. Who did you miss?
my dad. its his birthday today.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Lynn, Elle, & Kim
Who was the worst?
Those that are hard to be friends with
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
Last years: stakes is high. I suppose that is still true.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
a sun that never sets burns on.
new light is this river's dawn.
when to speak of a word so old
is to relearn what is known.
a time to think back and move on.
rebuild the loves of lives long gone.
the blood that flows through me is not my own.
the blood is from the past, not my own.
the blood that leads my life is not my own.
the blood is strength, I'm not alone.