End of 2010 Meme
Stolen from properpoise
1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
I went to Wales
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't make any last year, I doubt I'll make any this year either
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope not this year
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes, my brother & my uncle
5. What countries did you visit?
Wales, USA, Japan & UAE (technically)
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
emotional stability
7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 17th & February 11th, the day Steve died & the day of the funeral
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I had 7 abstracts accepted. I finished most of my practical work. I got 5 students through their dissertations with 67 the lowest mark. I passed the PGCSSSL. I moved house. I didn't throw myself in front of a tube train.
9. What was your biggest failure?
being shit at staying in touch with people
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Mine & Al's trip to Japan
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Al graduating
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Al. What he did in Jordan.
14. Where did most of your money go?
alcohol & traveling for conferences & theatre related trips
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
nothing really
16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
Airplanes - BOB
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Writing my thesis
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Crying
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I was at home
21. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
I spent it with my flatmates & my best friend dressed as a 70's glam rock drummer
22. Did you fall in love in 2010?
No
23. How many one-night stands?
zilch
24. What was your favourite TV program?
Lost Girl or Rizzolli & Isles or Pretty Little Liars. All guilty pleasures.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No
26. What was the best book you read?
The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The Baseballs, Kacie Sheik, Streetlight Manifesto and Marina & the Diamonds
28. What did you want and get?
erm Japan I guess
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
I didn't actually go to the cinema in 2010 but I saw Black Swan the other day, that was pretty awesome in a fucked up kind of way.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 25. I signed the contract for my new house & had dinner and wine with al, nix & denny
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
trampy student sheek
34. What kept you sane?
work actually i think.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Ryan Reynolds
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
the general screwing up of education and healthcare.
37. Who did you miss?
My brother
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Ciara or Zatman
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.
Life is to short to waste on hating people or insignificant things or things that upset you
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there,
Become so tired, so much more aware.
1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
I went to Wales
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't make any last year, I doubt I'll make any this year either
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope not this year
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes, my brother & my uncle
5. What countries did you visit?
Wales, USA, Japan & UAE (technically)
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
emotional stability
7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 17th & February 11th, the day Steve died & the day of the funeral
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I had 7 abstracts accepted. I finished most of my practical work. I got 5 students through their dissertations with 67 the lowest mark. I passed the PGCSSSL. I moved house. I didn't throw myself in front of a tube train.
9. What was your biggest failure?
being shit at staying in touch with people
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Mine & Al's trip to Japan
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Al graduating
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Al. What he did in Jordan.
14. Where did most of your money go?
alcohol & traveling for conferences & theatre related trips
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
nothing really
16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
Airplanes - BOB
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Writing my thesis
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Crying
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I was at home
21. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
I spent it with my flatmates & my best friend dressed as a 70's glam rock drummer
22. Did you fall in love in 2010?
No
23. How many one-night stands?
zilch
24. What was your favourite TV program?
Lost Girl or Rizzolli & Isles or Pretty Little Liars. All guilty pleasures.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No
26. What was the best book you read?
The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The Baseballs, Kacie Sheik, Streetlight Manifesto and Marina & the Diamonds
28. What did you want and get?
erm Japan I guess
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
I didn't actually go to the cinema in 2010 but I saw Black Swan the other day, that was pretty awesome in a fucked up kind of way.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I was 25. I signed the contract for my new house & had dinner and wine with al, nix & denny
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
trampy student sheek
34. What kept you sane?
work actually i think.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Ryan Reynolds
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
the general screwing up of education and healthcare.
37. Who did you miss?
My brother
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Ciara or Zatman
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.
Life is to short to waste on hating people or insignificant things or things that upset you
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
I've become so numb, I can't feel you there,
Become so tired, so much more aware.