Everybody's Doing It So Why Why Can't We? Or rather, I? I've seen this on quite a few blogs now, so it's my turn. I don't share everything on the ol' blog, so some answers may be vague or avoided, but that's the price you pay for not knowing me in real life!
[Someday there will be real content on this blog, but I have no amusing observations about life right now because I sit at home all day and play The Sims.]
1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
Make websites for money, learn PHP (sort of), commute, get a big girl coat and a laptop...
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't remember making any last year and don't see any reason to start now!
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Everyone's Favorite Project Manager and his wife, to Finnian Charles in November.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
I lost my paternal grandfather in September.
5. What countries did you visit?
France, England and Canada.
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
Free time in order to do fun things without feeling guilty for doing something other than homework. A real live grownup job.
7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
There doesn't seem to be one, but there are very few dates etched upon my memory anyway, from any year. I think I'm not good with dates or the remembering of them.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I was rather proud of myself for being a leader rather than a follower in my Marketing class. Surviving the summer without quitting and running home (although I'm not sure that was an achievement - probably more stubbornness and laziness).
9. What was your biggest failure?
Personal.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
A touch of plague here and there and an eye tic, but nothing serious.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Mon petit chouchou, mon cher Isidore.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
I'm very proud of my mommy, who's recovering very well and doing a lot better after her knee surgery.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Michigan voters, a friend.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Isidore and bubble tea!
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Isidore, the end of my internship. Alternative Spring Break to some extent, perhaps.
16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
Uh... Nothing in particular. Probably a few of them. "Kathy's Song" by Simon & Garfunkel? I am never really up on my modern music, so probably nothing that actually came out this year.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? I think I feel sadder than this time last year.
ii. thinner or fatter? Probably about the same.
iii. richer or poorer? Richer.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Applying for internships, progress on the job search, concentrating on schoolwork, socializing.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Crack cocaine-- I mean, wasting time, waffling around in confusion, being lonely.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Already done spent it: Opening presents, eating, opening presents, seeing friends and family.
22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
Yes.
23. How many one-night stands?
None.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Probably the Sunday night Adult Swim lineup, Jeopardy! and now Lost. They're the only things I made a conscious effort to see.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
My internship boss... I didn't even know him last year!
26. What was the best book you read?
Book? What is this book of which you speak? I devoured the library at the abbey, but that's not saying much because it was all textbooks and trashy romance novels. I think it'll be The DaVinci Code - it was very entertaining.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
iTunes. :) That and Badly Drawn Boy.
28. What did you want and get?
Isidore! Big girl coat!
29. What did you want and not get?
Coatrack!
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Hmmmm. Nothing is jumping out at me. Prisoner of Azkaban? There were a lot of pretty good sequels (PoA, Spiderman, Shrek) but nothing new and original that I remember taking me by surprise. I can't remember the beginning of the year, though. Did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind come out in 2004?
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I went to Albion to hear Sam Donaldson give a lecture. I was 24.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Money, time, love and friendship.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
More skirts! Scarves galore!
34. What kept you sane?
Friends (thank you).
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Colin Firth, I guess. Who woulda thunk it? I always teased my sister for liking him.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Gay marriage, perhaps.
37. Who did you miss?
An awful lot of people, considering I was so miserable and lonely for so much of my summer. Now that I'm back, I do miss the people I met this summer.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Does Jez count? Otherwise, probably my roommates at the abbey or some of the HCI n00bs.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
Don't mix your work and home lives. Work stays at work. And I don't think I have the ambition and drive for the Corporate World.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"I'm 23, will I ever see 24?" Coolio, Gangsta's Paradise (Because, you see, at the beginning of the year, I was 23... oh never mind, this one was hard.)
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Clearly, you need to cut back on the one-night stands in 2005.