2007 recap
I can't believe that everything that happened in 2007 fit in one year. I learned to love tea, visited a labor camp, weekended in Dubai with friends, hiked through Yorkshire, developed two strange allergies, had the most fun birthday party I've ever had, showed my parents around Doha, dyed my hair blue, spent a very unhappy week in Pittsburgh, learned to play soccer and beer pong (not simultaneously), got a helix piercing, came out as an atheist, hung out with gorillas in Gabon, started enjoying my job, took a picture every day for a month, went to absurd costume parties in absurd costumes (hippy, punk, 70s hooker, goth, witch and hippy again), had excellent dosas with amazing students, kayaked in Thailand, started DMARDs, participated very badly in a programming competition, came out as Buddhist, learned how to play guitar, learned how to wrap a sari, organized Thanksgiving, won a grant to research migrant workers, discovered a cave, became director of the ARC, and made it home for Christmas. Sucking marrow out of life: CHECK.
I just went through my last.fm playlist and iTunes library and figured out my most-listened-to song for each month in 2007. I think it says something about my year, although what it says is probably fairly inscrutable (except that the year improved over time).
JanuaryCrazyGnarls Barkley
FebruaryFuck the Pain AwayPeaches
MarchKimi No KoeBeyond the Clouds OST
April9 CrimesDamien Rice
MaySelfless, Cold and ComposedBen Folds Five
JuneWe Do Not Belong TogetherSondheim
JulyIn the Aeroplane Over the Sea Neutral Milk Hotel
AugustGrace KellyMika
September Closer to FineIndigo Girls
OctoberEndlesslyMuse
Novemberthat entire Muse album; I am so obsessed
DecemberKi-Yeled Yulad LanuBoston Camerata
This time last year, I wrote a much more introspective recap of 2006. I kept the post private, though, because I still felt too ambivalent and confused about where I was going. I'm making it public now, because I think that what I said there was something true and important about where I was 365 days ago, and because I'm no longer scared that it's barnacles all the way down.
I joke about having a midlife crisis when I hit 30 this year, but the truth is that the more time passes, the better I know myself, and thus the happier I am capable of being. When I was a kid I thought that adulthood meant not growing anymore. I'm glad I was wrong.
I just went through my last.fm playlist and iTunes library and figured out my most-listened-to song for each month in 2007. I think it says something about my year, although what it says is probably fairly inscrutable (except that the year improved over time).
JanuaryCrazyGnarls Barkley
FebruaryFuck the Pain AwayPeaches
MarchKimi No KoeBeyond the Clouds OST
April9 CrimesDamien Rice
MaySelfless, Cold and ComposedBen Folds Five
JuneWe Do Not Belong TogetherSondheim
JulyIn the Aeroplane Over the Sea Neutral Milk Hotel
AugustGrace KellyMika
September Closer to FineIndigo Girls
OctoberEndlesslyMuse
Novemberthat entire Muse album; I am so obsessed
DecemberKi-Yeled Yulad LanuBoston Camerata
This time last year, I wrote a much more introspective recap of 2006. I kept the post private, though, because I still felt too ambivalent and confused about where I was going. I'm making it public now, because I think that what I said there was something true and important about where I was 365 days ago, and because I'm no longer scared that it's barnacles all the way down.
I joke about having a midlife crisis when I hit 30 this year, but the truth is that the more time passes, the better I know myself, and thus the happier I am capable of being. When I was a kid I thought that adulthood meant not growing anymore. I'm glad I was wrong.