2008 meme

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40 Questions about 2008: An End-of-the-year meme

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
   • Moved to Australia for the year
   • Taught an actual class
   • Got some A's in class
2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
   I did not make any
   
   
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
   No
   
4. Did anyone close to you die?
   Great Uncle.
   
5. What countries did you visit?
   Hong Kong and Australia
   
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
   Strength and confidence
   
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory?
   • Nothing I can really think of
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
   Getting my teaching degree done
   
9. What was your biggest failure?
   Letting others get to me
   
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
    Minor colds
    
11. What was the best thing you bought?
    My uggs ... Most comfortable things ever
    
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
    • Hm ... Not quite sure
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
    MM, and politicians ... oh and the bus drivers that are currently on strike
    
14. Where did most of your money go?
    Traveling and tuition
    
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
    Travelling, my history class I taught
    
16. What song/album will always remind you of 2008?
    Nothing
    
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
    1. Happier or sadder? Hm ... sadder, I guess
    2. Thinner or fatter? Fatter
    3. Richer or poorer? Poorer.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
    Travel
    
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
    Procrastinating and worrying
    
20. How will you be spendingdid you spend Christmas?
    Christmas mass ... Christmas dinner on Christmas day ... Not sure what else
    
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
    M most likely
    
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
    Before
    
23. How many one night stands in this last year?
    None.
    
24. What was your favourite TV programme?
    Neighbours and Gossip Girl
    
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
    Um ... no
    
26. What was the best book(s) you read?
    • Boleyn Inheritance
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
    musical "Wicked"
    
28. What did you want and get?
    Um ...
    
29. What did you want and not get?
    No clue
    
30. What were your favourite films of this year?
    • Er ... the new Batman
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
    I turned 23 this year and for my birthday went to the beach and out for dinner
    
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
    Not having such a mean mentor
    
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
    Um ... A lot of shorts and tees and tanks if not in professional
    
34. What kept you sane?
    Friends and email.
    
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
    Oh you know ... Jonny Depp
    
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
    Parlaiment getting suspended and the three stooges thinking of making a coalition
    
37. Who did you miss?
    A and M
    
38. Who was the best new person you met?
    L and AA
    
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
    Bring it up as soon as it's a problem or you think it is because you are the only one backing you up and it won't just go away.
    
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?Will do this later