2003-12-24 - 1:06 a.m.
20 Questions. Times 2.
'Cause it makes decent journal fodder, and I could just cut-and-paste my answers from the forum thread on FHDC... Here's my answers to the 40 questions about your year... uhm... thingy...
1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before?
Went to FRFF, saw a hockey game in person.
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No. I'm thinking about not making any new ones, since I never seem to keep them.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
I don't think so. My boss's wife got a new puppy, but I don't think that counts...
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Again, I don't think so. My grandfather on my dad's side is still hanging in there, last I heard.
5. What countries did you visit?
Canada.
6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003?
Lots of things. We'll settle on saying "being a foreman at work." It's very possibly going to happen, too.
7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory?
There's a few of them, but I'm too sleepy to go look them up to make sure I get them right, so I won't list them off.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Payed off the loans associated with my year of college.
9. What was your biggest failure?
There were a lot of them. I'm going with: Didn't try to get anything published.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I've got a spectacularly nasty cold right now. Otherwise, nothing of note. I'm not sure the usual headaches count.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Tickets to FRFF; train tickets to and from NY in November.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Well, my "favorite" Aunt got engaged. That the kind of thing you mean?
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
I'm continually disapproving of some choices one of my cousins continually makes. But it's not my place to tell her how to live her life.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Stupid Government. As mentioned before, I paid off loans, and charges that went with them. Paid off my credit card once (it needs it again). Got essentially screwed out of several month's worth of unemployment pay because of a former employer, which was compounded by a paperwork screw-up.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
FRFF, my November visit to NY.
16. What song will always remind you of 2003?
I usually associate songs with events or feelings. I'm not sure I've ever had a specific song remind me of a specific year.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
Happier over-all, I think.
ii. thinner or fatter?
Thinner! (Not that anyone can probably tell, *sigh*)
iii. richer or poorer?
Poorer, I'm afraid. See above grumbling about the government.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Reading. Writing.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Worrying about things I couldn't change, letting resentment and anger get the better of me. Trying to stop myself from feeling things.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Sprawled on the living room floor in my PJ's. And possibly baking more cookies, since I need to do that before I can send out my (very late) holiday packages to people.
22. Did you fall in love in 2003?
*nods* Yeah. Hard.
23. How many one night stands?
None. Bringing my grand total to... None.
24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Buffy, CSI, West Wing, sometimes Angel.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I don't think so.
26. What was the best book you read?
I didn't read enough. But I'll say either Ender's Game or Nine Horses.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Josh!
28. What did you want and get?
To go to FruCon, FRFF, and then make an extra trip to NY after I stopped working.
29. What did you want and not get?
Not going to think about those things. I'm trying to pull out of the mood I've been in a lot lately, thank you.
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Pirates. It would probably be RotK, but I still haven't managed to see that.
31. What did you do on your birthday?
Almost nothing. Hung out with one of my young cousins. Avoided disasters, which is always a very good thing on my birthdays.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
*shrugs* A lot of things could have done it, some of them that I probably don't even know about.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003?
Workweek: T-shirts and jeans. Weekends: T-shirts and chinos.
34. What kept you sane?
My friends. Music. Trying to write.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Y'know what? Not telling. ;-)
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
A lot of 'em.
37. Who did you miss?
The friends I only get to see once or twice a year. And frequently Talcott, because he just had to move farther away than I'm happy driving more then once in a while.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Zilpha. And the crew at Amici.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003.
Just freakin' calm down and let yourself go with things. Stop worrying about what you can't change. Go with the good feelings. (I'm still trying to learn most of these myself, actually.)
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Hmm... how about: o/~let me file it under "I" for Incoherent o/~ (Now watch me somehow have managed to screw the line up.)
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