Dec 29, 2009 17:07
1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
Worked a job that I dislike out of the need to support myself. Proposed.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I actually make resolutions on my birthday, and I didn't make many last year. I wanted to find a ring and buy it without help, which I did, and graduate on time, which I did. I also wanted to be ripped and published and have superpowers. Which... I didn't.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No, but my cousin got pregnant.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Not that I can think of, so I suppose not.
5. What countries did you visit?
None.
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
Published material.
7. What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Graduated and proposed. Also some drama.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Probably proposing. I wanna say graduating... but it really doesn't feel that accomplished anything except losing me most of my friends.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Trusting Particle9 Productions and Quarterton Industries, respectively.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
h1n1!
11. What was the best thing you bought?
a .5 carat diamond ring in a cathedral setting.
12. Whose behavior merited thanks and praise?
Nicole, Mom, Dad, Jake, Evan, Russ got much better, and Kyle is doing some growing up.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Chasen and Laasch. Mine.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Car, illness, rent, and food.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Proposing, jeezus. Also meeting Laasch and discussing projects. Getting the rights to Masquerade (fat lot of good that was)
16. What song(s) will always remind you of 2009?
God, probably lol smiley face, drunk as fuck, and smell yo dick. I feel awful that that is true. I'll probably think of the Brother Ali stuff too.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Sadder. I have less purpose, less to work for. I can feel my laziness taking over, and most of the things I wanted for this year have not happend.
b) thinner or fatter? Fatter. I was working out the first half of the year in Tallahassee, partially with Savage (who is great motivation). then I moved and stopped.
c) richer or poorer? Technically richer but I have much less spending money.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Writing. But I did a lot of it.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Whining. But I did a lot of it.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
In Fernandina ALL DAY.
21. How will you be spending New Years?
Probably with Nicole in Jacksonville.
22. Did you fall in love in 2009?
Well, technically, no.
23. How many one-night stands?
no
24. What was your favorite TV program?
New one for the year? Lost season 5 was mad good. Still Angel of all time tho.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I don't have the energy to hate them, but I really don't like publishers as a rule now.
26. What was the best book you read?
Lies of Locke Lamora
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Brother Ali
28. What did you want and get?
Netbook, diploma.
29. What did you want and not get?
Fame and Fortune.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Star Trek, actually.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
22. Thanksgiving. I ate potatoes. I had a brunch with some friends on a different day.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A job in any way related to what I want to be when I grow up.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009
Plain tshirts baggy khakis
34. What kept you sane?
Nothing, really. I went a bit crazy.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Still totally Amy Acker, she was on Dollhouse this year.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Gay marriage.
37. Whom did you miss?
I miss Jake and Evan and Mike and Chester. Before that I missed Chris and Nicole.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Laasch was cool, so was Artem. Devin, I didn't know him too well before.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
Oh, now that would just be depressing.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
There's no useful drugs to keep from being numb