1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Live on my own in a different country.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Pfft. I don’t remember if I made any resolutions.
Next year: Figure out what the hell I want, find a boyfriend, get better with R, etc., etc. You know the drill.

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

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nope.

5. What countries did you visit?
Canada (and now I live there).

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
Reassurance.

7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory and why?
July 25th. The reason is private.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Graduating again and going to grad school.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Graduating again and going to grad school (I shouldn’t have).

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I got sick once, but that’s it.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My Xbox 360.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Man, I have no idea.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
A few people.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Grad school/grad school apartment.

15. What did you really, really, really get excited about?
Grad school (big disappointment), July 25th (NOT a big disappointment).

16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
SLEEPYHEAD!!

17. Compared to this time last year are you:
Happier? NO.
Thinner? Probably about the same.
Richer? Yes, actually.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Math.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Care.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
With my mom, dad, and a bunch of strangers. And alone, after that.

21. How will you be spending new years?
Alone.

22. Did you fall in love in 2009?
In a way.

23. How many one-night stands?
Hahahahahahahaha…

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Metalocalypse!

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Nope.

26. What was the best book you read?
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

27. What was your biggest musical discovery?
Sleepyhead!!!

28. What did you want and you got?
Got accepted into grad school.

29. What did you want and not get?
To actually LIKE grad school.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Watchmen.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old did you turn?
I did absolutely nothing. I turned 21.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Staying with my roommates for more than half the year.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
Colorful.

34. What kept you sane?
My roommates.

35. Which celebrity did you fancy the most?
None.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Not much.

37. Who did you miss?
The Papins.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Ben?

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
Karma’s a bitch.

40. Quote or Song Lyric that sums up your year:
“In a rut, but what I’ve got
Is in a can, no other human
But I do get lonely, scared I’m phoney”