2008 Instant Replay
1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Auditioned in NYC
Took a free trip
Came out to the Fam.
Saw Audra McDonald in concert
Wore a wig in a show
Did the same show twice
Afforded Christmas gifts for my folks that they deserve
Saw Wicked
Rode a Roller Coaster
Learned to solve a rubick's cube
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Did I make a new year's resolution last year?
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not that I'm aware of.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Thankfully, no.
5. What countries did you visit?
Amurica.
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
My equity card, a little more self confidence
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Election night, Dracula at ACTF
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Working virtually non-stop as an actor after I graduated. And the whole coming out thing.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Waiting so damn long to do #8, letting myself go.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I scraped up my finger during a performance of seussical.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Wasn't a huge year of buying for me. However I'm in love with a pair of jeans I just bought.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Too many to count. I could go on for days. Everyone here did something remarkable
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
The citizens of California, and my own.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Eating out.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Working at MTW and Arvada Center
16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Burnin' Love. No seriously.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? -- A little of both. I had a lot going on for me at this time last year, and it was all stuff that made me happy.
ii. thinner or fatter? -- About the same
iii. richer or poorer? -- Richer, actually
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Saving money
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Getting high and eating my face off.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Already did. With church friends of ours, and their friends (who, oddly enough, were Jewish) I had a great time.
21. How will you be spending New Year's?
Already did. At my friend Erin's Downtown loft apartment over looking the city, watching the fireworks. It was a sexy as it sounds.
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
No
23. How many one-night stands?
Just one
24. What was your favorite TV program?
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
The Office
Project Runway
Top Chef
Good Eats
Mythbusters
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Sarah Palin
26. What was the best book you read?
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. Hilarious.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
KBCO
28. What did you want and get?
MTW, Les Mis are Arvada Center
29. What did you want and not get?
$1,000,000
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Frost/Nixon
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
It was epic. I was on the NY trip. Everyone at this bar in Midtown was buying me shots. Red Bull and vodkas were on special. I drunkenly walked back to the hotel and told new york to "Fuck off" in Times Square. I then got really sick, and Faiz and Lars took care of me. I also saw Spring Awakening and South Pacific. I was a nice, well adjusted 23.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Knowing what was a bad influence
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Dammit, this doesn't fit! Oh hell, I'll just wear sweats.
34. What kept you sane?
Tony, Andrea, Paul, Patrick, Amanda
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Obama
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Some black dude who thought he could run the free world.
37. Who did you miss?
It depends on where I was. In MI, it was my family, in Wichita it was my friends from school, here it's school folks and the Wichita friends.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Earls, Amanda
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
To live within my means. Also, the only way to gid rid of problems is to face them.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
To love another person is to see the face of god
What are your resolutions?
Be more assertive
Live simply
Write things down in a planner
Keep myself healthy
Put myself out there more