A WHOLE YEAR IN ONE-LINERS. (STOLEN FROM KEVIN BOYER).
2005-01-03 @ 12:51 p.m.

1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before? independently sustained myself.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I never make new years resolutions since nobody ever keeps theirs.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Andy and Holly had their second baby, Nate. Debbie so really, really pregnant.

4. Did anyone close to you die? No.

5. What countries did you visit? Banff?

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004? more free time to read leisure books.

7. What date(s) from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? the first week of july.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? finishing first semester.

9. What was your biggest failure? dropping comms.

10. Did you suffer any illness or injury? 2004 was the year of the sinus infection and the headcold.

11. What was the best thing you bought? it's a toss up between my cowboy boots and our christmas tree.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration? my brother.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? I was really dissapointed in the new Tom Waits album.

14. Where did most of your money go? cigarettes, coffee and groceries.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Renovating the new place, graduation, university and ink.

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?: The Constantines - St. You.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

i. happier or sadder? Happier.

ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner.

iii. richer or poorer? Richer.

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

19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Over stressing.

20. How will you be spending Christmas? with family.

20. How will you be spending New Years? with family.

22. Did you fall in love in 2004? I fell in love in 2003. I was still in love in 2004. I'm curretly in love in 2005.

23. How many one-night stands? none.

24. What was your favorite TV program? We don't have cable.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? No, I don't think so.

26. What was the best book you read? Green Grass, Running Water. Thomas King. I also really really enjoyed Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery? andy stochansky.

28. What did you want and get? freedom.

29. What did you want and not get? a puma dufflebag.

30. What was your favorite film of this year? The United States of Leland.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I worked a show for Roadbike, and I turned 18.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Being somewhere new.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?Immeasurably more mature.

34. What kept you sane? homemade dinner with Jessica and Mike.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Jake Gillenhal....?

36. What political issue stirred you the most? the sudanese genocide.

37. Who did you miss? John. I don't see John nearly enough.

38. Who was the best new person you met? Neil. Neil makes me laugh.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004: Not to give up on myself. To believe in my capacity for acheivment and my ability to make decisions for myself.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: "I scaled a street called, St.You."

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