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The Year In Review
Gacked from silvernutmeg, because I can.
1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before? Make good use of my planner, instead of just letting it waste away in my backpack.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I lost a few pounds, but as of yet have failed to learn how to rain fire down from the heavens. I'm still trying for the latter.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Nope.
4. Did anyone close to you die? Tommy. Rest in peace, sweetie.
5. What countries did you visit? None ;_;
6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003? Two finished theses and a bachelor degree.
7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? November 14, the day I got engaged to my Jorge.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Getting into the honors programs for both my majors.
9. What was your biggest failure? Not being able to retain my sanity before the semester ended.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? A two-week flu.
11. What was the best thing you bought? A toaster. Incredibly mundane, but it beat the hell out of having untoasted bread.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? .
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Most of humanity's.
14. Where did most of your money go? Attempting to alleviate my credit card debt.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Christmas vacation.
16. What song will always remind you of 2003? "Clocks" by Coldplay.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier.
ii. thinner or fatter? About the same size.
iii. richer or poorer? Not poorer so much as more in debt.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Reading, hanging out with friends instead of busting my ass, sleeping, eating healthily.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Brooding, studying, living off coffee and Tootsie Rolls
20. How will you be spending Christmas? It was raining so I just spent the whole day inside, in my pajamas, with my family and Beloved.
21. Did you fall in love in 2003? All over again ^_^
22. How many one-night stands? None, but hell, I've got four and a half hours till 2004.
23. What was your favorite TV program? Law & Order Reruns. Forensic Files. Stupid VH1 countdowns.
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo
25. What was the best book you read? The DaVinci Code.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery? Juanes, Vast.
27. What did you want and get? A digital camera.
28. What did you want and not get? A laptop.
29. What was your favorite film of this year? Return of the Freakin' King
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Got really freakin' drunk in Boston on my 20th birthday.
31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? A regular sleep schedule. An extra $7k lying around.
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003? Dark. Or cleavagy
33. What kept you sane? Jorge.
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Jason Isaacs.
35. What political issue stirred you the most? Immigration Rights, War (or anti-war as the case may be), File Sharing.
36. Who did you miss? Jorge, my brother, my parents, oddferkout
37. Who was the best new person you met? Audrey and Di, A few of the people from my honors thesis seminar, Jeff, Myleen and Jonaleen, Prof. Yanni Kotsonis, and obcordate.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003: That people are capable of more kindness than you give them credit for, but also are capable of more harboring more terrible sentiments than you could ever think possible.
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: "I'm addicted to stress, that's the way that I get things done. If I'm not under pressure, then I sleep too long. And I hang around like a bum, and I think I'm going nowhere, and that makes me nervous."
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