2007 survey
1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
Graduated an honor student, gone college in Savannah, traveled to NY and saw 4 Broadway plays and 1 off-Broadway and did too much other cool stuff there to list, dressed up for no good reason and actually went about my day as normal(that's exciting b/c normally I am lazy and dress like a bum)
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t think i made any resolutions, or if I did I don’t remember them now. Resolution on New Years is just a specific day lots of people decide to change themselves or do better. Stop waiting until then and start changing today!
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not that i know of! But one friend should very soon
4. Did anyone close to you die?
An old best friend’s mother
5. What countries did you visit?
none.
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
more constant good health and more college friends, and a more accepting attitude towards others
7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
The days at New York that first week of June, May 25-graduation
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
graduating an honors student and surviving my 1st semester in college without losing HOPE scholarship
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not embracing the present (still trying to do this really)
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
pulled shoulder/back muscle at the end of softball season, major allergies problems now in college
11. What was the best thing you bought?
can’t remember
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
my parents-for helping me get through everything school throws at me and all my friends that sent me emails when I was feeling really depressed
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
I’ve forgotten it all already (:
14. Where did most of your money go?
online shopping! Ebay has become a money-sucking place now that I have a debit card.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Today I’m excited about Peter Jackson producing The Hobbit! Discovering Hugnation made me excited once I figured out what it was, and coming back to Camden and seeing all the things that have changed and stayed the same always makes me happy, Harry Potter book 7!! Pirates of the Caribbean 3! Sending and getting pen pals and random mail from www.postcardx.net and www.sendsomething.net
16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
to many to choose at the moment.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Sadeder at the moment because I don’t really know what’s wrong with me and how to stop my allergies
b) thinner or fatter? Definitely thinner. Forget the freshmen 15-I don’t(can’t) really cook so I’ve lost almost 15 lbs since August
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Gone out and just hung out with people and visit downtown Savannah more, learn more about photography, gone to at least one yoga or dance class
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
been sick and hermit-like
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
In PA with relations and maybe snow. Too cold for this Georgia girl but I’ll just stay in with my cup of hot chocolate reading books (Libba Bray’s The Sweet Far Thing comes out Dec 26!) and maybe occasionally going out to make a snow man if someone helps me.
21. What was your favorite month of 2007?
hard to remember but I’m thinking March or June.
22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
No
23. How many one-night stands?
None!
24. What was your favourite TV programme?
M*A*S*H and the short lived Pirate Master
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Nope :)
26. What was the best book you read?
Far too many to list here.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I found lots of good musicals, Manoel Felciano (who just came out with his new cd) and Emilie Autumn (who is just crazy and amazing. Fellow Victorian girl love)
28. What did you want and get?
A lap top, pink hair for a while, a waistcoat
29. What did you want and not get?
a proper corset.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
PotC 3, but some good holiday movies are coming up to challenge it.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 18, and I was helping out at Girl Scout camp and I brought cupcakes and the girls and my fellow helper attacked me and dumped a bucket of water on my head.(We were in charge of water games that day) Mom made some of my fav foods for supper and we had a small cake, other than that I didn't do much.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Getting out more with friends and taking more photographs
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
Dressier. And I discover steampunk which I’m gathering more elements to incorporate into my outfit and Gala Darling (www.galadarling.com ) has been influencing me.
34. What kept you sane?
emails ect from friends, phone calls to and from home, internet, my camera
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Johnny Depp
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
don’t even remember
37. Who did you miss?
Everyone
38. Who was the best new person you met?
got re-acquainted with Sammi who I knew a little in high school, and my English professor Jane Rago has been really cool helping me learn more about my opinions in class and out
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
Be yourself. I’m the sort of person who is constantly changing myself depending on the people around me and the situation, but I’m learning not to value others opinions quite as much and work in things I love and dress up for no reason.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
I am somewhat of a quote collector and I found some real good ones this year.
-“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
-One of Madeline L’Engle’s books. The book also contains one of the most beautiful descriptions of human life that I've ever heard. Mrs. Whatsit compares life to a sonnet:
It is a very strict form of poetry is it not?
There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That's a very strict rhythm or meter, yes?
And each line has to end with a rigid rhyme pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet, is it?
Calvin: You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it?
Yes. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.
-From Hugnation- The world would rather hug you than hurt you.
-Hunter S. Thompson-Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting “holy shit…what a ride!”