day late and a dollar short

[1] What did you do in 2011 that you have never done before? 
I dissected a squid.

[2] Did you keep all of last year’s resolutions?
No.  I resolved to be more selfish and failed utterly.

[3] Have you any resolutions for next year?
Not really.

[4] Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.

[5] Did anyone close to you die?
No.

[6] What countries did you visit?
Canada

[7] What would you like to have in 2012 that you didn’t have in 2011?
security and consistency. a sense of purpose. more cheeseburgers.

[8] What dates in 2011 will remain etched in your memory and why?
I’m terrible with dates. 

[9] What was your biggest achievement of the year?
realizing that I hate library science and doing something about it.

[10] What was your biggest failure?
quitting in the middle of my master’s program to become an unemployed undergraduate in the middle of nowhere.

[11] Did you suffer any illness or injury?
the usual.  depression, anxiety, a slew of self-inflicted wounds. 

[12] What was the best thing you bought?
That’s tough.  Probably my Nook.

[13] Whose behaviour merited celebration?

[14] Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?

[15] Where did most of your money go?
Food, rent, bills

[16] What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Nothing, really.

[17] What songs will always remind you of 2011?
“Tristesse,” based on Chopin’s “Chanson de l’adieu.”

[18] Compared to this time last year are you :
a)Fatter or thinner? Thinner, I think.
b) Happier or sadder? sadder
c) Richer or poorer? poorer

[19] What do you wish you’d done more of?
asserting myself, working out

[20] What do you wish you’d done less of?
playing WoW

[21] How did you be spending Christmas?
With my parents and sister’s BF’s parents

[22] Which OD users did you meet for the first time?

[23] Did you fall in love in 2011?
No.

[24] How many one night stands?
0

[25] What was your favourite TV programme?
The Big Bang Theory

[26] Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Getting there.

[27] What was/were the best books you read?
The Dark Tower Series-Stephen King

Ordinary People-Judith Guest

The Farseer Trilogy-Robin Hobb

[28] What was your greatest musical discovery?
Roy Orbison, Enya…the song “Now We Are Free.”

[29] What did you want and get?
out of library science

[30] What did you want and not get?
no point in dwelling on it

[31] What was your favourite film this year?
I didn’t go see as many movies as usual.  I liked the new Sherlock Holmes a lot, and the new X-men movie.  Oh, and I bought Shutter Island and loved it.

[32] What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
I turned 24.  I had food poisoning and did nothing.

[33] What one thing made your year more satisfying than 2010?
It wasn’t.  In 2010, I graduated from college, and that was immensely satisfaying.

[34] How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
fat, warm, comfy chic.

[35] What kept you sane?
Open Diary, my cats

[36] Which celebrity did you fancy the most?
I had this huge, embarrassing crush on Justin Furstenfeld from Blue October.  Mostly over that.

[37] Which political issue stirred you the most?
I am largely indifferent to politics because both sides and slinging so much shit around that the difference between their opinions is crushed into irrelevancy. 

[38] Who did you miss?
No one.

[39] Who was the best new person you met?
I did not meet any new people in 2011 worth mentioning.

[40] Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned this year?
“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold.”-William Butler Yeats

“All good things must come to an end.”-English proverb

“There’s beauty doing nothing at all.”-The Manic Street Preachers