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1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before? - Started eating spinach on a regular basis, went to LaGuardia Airport by myself, adjusted myself to a Mac, what the fuck? It's been a long year, I'm not going to remember this.
2. Did you keep your New years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? - I don't remember. They were probably to lose weight and to make more friends; in which case, sort of and no.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? - Yeah, you could say that. He didn't give birth to it but he helped produce it.
4. Did anyone close to you die? - My neighbor in Wisconsin. We weren't amazingly close, but we've lived next door for a long time and my parents were pretty friendly with her.
5. What countries did you visit? - Italy (Rome and Venice and thirty minutes in Florence) with a layover in Germany (Munich, to be exact).
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005? - Real friends in New York and less sweet things to eat.
7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? - I don't remember the exact date, but probably something to do with my dad and my brother. ... but a happier date is 7/16, come on, Harry Potter nerds.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? At least having a chance at making straight A's this semester, though since my grades haven't been posted yet, I won't know. We'll at least say that I had straight A's at midterm time.
9. What was your biggest failure? - I got a B+ in Anthro, which was just fucked up. I was also terrible to a person who didn't deserve it.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? - I get sick at midterms or finals every semester. That's it. Oh, I pulled a muscle in my back this summer that is still fucked up.
11. What was the best thing you bought? - My favorite pair of jeans (and HBP)
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration? - My mom's.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed? - My dad's.
14. Where did most of your money go? - Groceries, movies, awesome Christmas presents for bitches.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
16. What song will always remind you of 2005? - "Fix You" by Coldplay. But I am listening to it right now. Probably also "Forever Young" by Youth Group.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you...
i. happier or sadder? - Ambivalent, I think.
ii. thinner or fatter? - It fluctuates. At the moment, fatter, in general, thinner.
iii. richer or poorer? - Richer; at least I was before Christmas.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? - Socialize.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? - Stewing.
20. How will you be spending Christmas? - Probably in Racine, though my father is insisting on New York.
(21?) Where IS 21?
22. Did you fall in love in 2005? - Yes, with Sam Bevington.
23. How many one-night stands? - None.
24. What was your favorite TV program? - The O.C., but it's not anymore.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? - I don't hate anyone right now, which I think is a feat.
26. What was the best book you read? I read 54 books this year, guys. If you REALLY want me to list the best one, you're crazy. But I really enjoyed The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, I couldn't put down Memoirs of a Geisha, it was exhilerating to finally read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and for school I really loved Stories of Scottsboro or Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places. I am a huge fucking nerd.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? - I do love the Rent soundtrack, I listened to Coldplay a lot more than in previous years, and I got into a huge Elvis Costello kick, too. None were really "discoveries," and I can't even think back far enough to figure out a real one.
28. What did you want and get? - An iBook.
29. What did you want and not get? - To see a Red Sox game while in Boston.
30. What was your favorite film of this year? - Brokeback Mountain, Crash, Rent. I really can't remember anything that came out before September.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? - I turned 19, and went out to lunch and dinner with my parents, did a little shopping, played board games, and talked to my bff. Lame, I know, but most people were already going home from vacation, and anyway, it was a good, relaxing birthday.
32.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? - Being able to finally have the capacity to write a novel.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005? - "This is nice."
34. What kept you sane? - My friend Drew.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? - James Franco as always, baby. But Jake Gyllenhaal was nice too.
36. What political issue stirred you the most? - Hurricane Katrina was pretty bad.
37. Who did you miss? - Lisa. Yes, that's right, Lisa. I also missed Charles, Ali, and Brianne way too much for my own good this time around.
38. Who was the best new person you met? - Sara Ashley at NYU.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005 - Just be positive.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year - I think that's fantastically stupid, and I wasted way too long doing this anyway.
Happy New Year, everyone.