What did you do in 2008 meme
1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Split with my ex fiancée, came out, finished my PhD, moved to Ireland
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Didn't make any and am unlikely to make any
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
I don't think so
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nope
5. What countries did you visit?
Ireland
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Stability
7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
August 2nd, the day I was supposed to get married.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Finishing my PhD
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not dealing with my sexual orientation appropriately and hurting my best friend.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
yeah, my back was SO painful
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My new 50mm f1.7 lens for my camera
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My Dad's, he was very supportive when I split up with Seb.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Well, moving beyond the homeless lesbian incident...
I am a little depressed by my behaviour at times over the last year.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Well, I split up with the person that was financially supporting me when I was on no income in the final year of my PhD...
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Finishing my PhD, moving to Ireland
16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
I kissed a girl (Kate Perry)
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
More single, more employed, better qualified, less confused, more gay, in a different country, better paid, less settled.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Taken time to step back and look at the bigger picture of my life
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Feeling like and angst ridden teen
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
With my grandmother and some family. Opening presents at home first though
21. Did you fall in love in 2008?
22. How many one-night stands?
none
23. What was your favourite TV program?
Dexter maybe?
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope, there is only one person that I have ever really hated, and now I think perhaps I pity him more than I hate him.
25. What was the best book you read?
Letter to a Christian nation, Sam Harris
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
That music video's are actually quite cool, who knew!
27. What did you want and get?
some kind of understanding of my sexual orientation
28. What did you want and not get?
To be straight, and to marry Seb
29. What was your favourite film of this year?
Juno
30. What did you do on your birthday
worked on my PhD
31.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
I don't know
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
What????!?
33. What kept you sane?
I have no idea. My cats, my sense that however hard this year was I have been through harder. I have coped, and that surviving is enough sometimes. If you can survive the worst you can get back to living later. I am back to it now. Just about.
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I don't really do fancying celebrity's
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Right now its the withdrawal of the HPV vaccine from 12 yr old girls in Ireland. It means that around 85 of those children will die from cervical cancer at a result of the HPV virus. I will be going to a rally about it tomorrow evening.
36. Who did you miss?
Seb
37. Who was the best new person you met?
There are a couple, I guess I have to mention Christina, my new housemate. She is great, and I love living with her. Ange, in a few short weeks she turned me upside down, I love her and I am glad she is my friend. Tracey and Ade are also pretty awesome people that I am happy I know! Oooh and Mark, he is pretty funky too.
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year
Cha, ch, ch, Changes...