year in review, hey there

Year: 2009

Age: 21

Idol: E. Findlay, J. Waters.

Favorite Song: Everything's Easy, Girlyman

Prized Possession: still kittens.

Best Shoes: I love my patent ribbon pumps from Old Navy, and my rain boots, and my Old Navy skimmers, too

1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
Went to Eastern Europe!
Volunteered, for real
met a 4-star commander in the Coast Guard, or something

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Yes, because easy resolutions happen to me, and yes I suppose

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
There is baby Grabby but I think perhaps she was born in 2008.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Michael Jackson?

5. What countries did you visit?
Heathrow (is its own country), Hungary, Romania

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
money, and a few intangibles

7. What date(s) from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 20
March 6
July 27
September 24

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
not dying?

9. What was your biggest failure?
my fall 2009 GPA!

10. Did you suffer any illness or injury?
stuck my foot in a revolving door, dropped a huge thing of laundry detergent on my foot, dropped a chair on my foot... also pulled my hamstring in March and that is just starting to get fixed fo rillz.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
vacuum cleaner

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Jon Stewart, George Tiller

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Scott Roeder, Glenn Beck, my cat

14. Where did most of your money go?
rent, kittens, alcohol, food, printing money. probably in that order.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Inauguration weekend! Natalie visiting! Lindsey visiting! What!

16. What song(s!) will always remind you of 2009?
Everything's Easy, Trees Still Bend, People Got A Lotta Nerve, The Next Time You Say "Forever," Testarossas for Everyone!, all MJ songs, much of the Lady Gaga

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? WAY happier.
ii. thinner or fatter? samezies?
iii. richer or poorer? poorer
iv. younger or older? I am exactly one year older.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
sleeping, homework

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
sleeping, homework

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Midnight Mass at the Cathedral, homework

22. Did you fall in love in 2009?
putting that off

23. How many one-night stands?
hm?

24. What was your favorite TV program?
-30 Rock
-Glee
-Boston Legal

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
no!

26. What was the best book you read?
Books? Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev; part of Trinity, Leon Uris

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Neko Case (re-discovery), Super Mash Bros., Glee? Lady Gaga? yeah babyyy

28. What did you want and get?
What

29. What did you want and not get?
What

29.5. What did you get and not want?
Eeeek

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Battle Royale? White Nights, This Is Spinal Tap, Imagine Me and You. I don't remember if I saw any films that were released this year, but those are movies that I saw this year.

31. What did you do on your birthday?
Babysat! drank! made poor decisions! Got paid for that first thing and did not pay for those second two!

32. What surprised you most this year?
Scandal!

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
normal.

34. What kept you sane?
Ballet, Natalie, Lindsey, getting things out of my head, babbies

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Jon Stewart

36. What political issue/news story stirred you the most?
all of them.

37. Who did you miss?
Stella

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Marta and Janos, 22 or so of my chambersingermates, Captain Bananio and Zannah and Prince Philip and their parents, Stellina and her mom, Paola and Mary, W, and Tim's housemates they are good fun.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
um, pay your credit card bills on time.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Because my life is only mine to hold
The nights are cold and it's snowing
In Vermont, but all that I want is here
In the clear light of the streetlight
Still on most days, I hear myself say
Everything's easy

or

Not quite lost, not quite found
Just somewhere different now