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counting at war ([personal profile] kerpingtack) wrote2008-12-31 09:44 pm
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2008 retro: memes

1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Get drank and get high.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
hurr hurrrr

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.

5. What countries did you visit?
None!

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Oh my god a functioning brain and willpower and a heart and everything in the Wizard of Oz basically, including ruby slippers that take me back home.

7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
None?

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Fuck I don't think I achieved anything remotely positive this year.

9. What was your biggest failure?
The Marine situation and anything school related.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I fucked up my feet so badly at the beginning of fall quarter. Urgh.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Panda Express! And the Back to the Future trilogy on DVD!

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
wtf this is a weird question. But I'd say relivingstars for being A+ all the time, and for PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
My own. Republicans. KATY PERRY. Also, this is really ridiculous to say, but the Mumbai terrorists. Yes, I shame their behavior.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Food and transportation. And school, so basically into the trash.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
UMMM LA DISCOTHEQUE.

16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
I cannot answer these kinds of questions.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder?
Sadder.

ii. thinner or fatter?
I think about the same.

iii. richer or poorer?
Poorer.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Work.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Being stupid.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
At hoam, feeling warm and lazy.

22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
BDEN. *____*

23. How many one-night stands?
0.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
JON AND KATE PLUS 8, Ace of Cakes, the Big Bang Theory.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
KATY PERRY.

26. What was the best book you read this year?
AHAHA reading. I read like four new books this year, and three of them were for class, but by far the best of out them was Dan Savage's The Kid (What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant): An Adoption Story. So that 'un.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Sam Cooke; Life Without Buildings. Also, not strictly new discoveries, but I hella deepened my shallow puddles of love for Guided By Voices and Tegan and Sara.

28. What did you want and get?
dicso's "... Live in Chicago" DVD/CD; love frum fambly and fronds.

29. What did you want and not get?
Happiness, peace with myself, ability to be the person I need to be.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
TWILIGHT; Be Kind Rewind; Paris, je t'aime; La Haine; 27 DRESSES.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I ate and I turned 20.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Being a different person.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Alternating between "Who gives a shit" and ""

34. What kept you sane?
NOTHING! disco kept me alive, but certainly not sane.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
LOL omg.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
THE ELECTION. Props 8 and 4.

37. Who did you miss?
Everyone.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
~shrug~

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
Don't hope for anything.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"You'd be okay if you just stay in school." The Roches' Hammond Song.

[identity profile] relivingstars.livejournal.com 2009-01-18 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
OMG I JUST SAW THIS NOW. IT IS AMAZING. WHO CARES IF IT'S 2009, I SHOULD HELLA DO THIS ON MY LJ AMIRITE.

[identity profile] counttheplanes.livejournal.com 2009-01-18 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
YOU ARE RIGHT!!