Review of the Year, idea stolen shamelessly from rho

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January
Post of the Month (This was previously private-locked.)
Honourable mention (Also previously highly filtered.)
I spent the second week of January in a 'whiny' mood; despite not being a real LJ mood it colonised many of my posts, including whiny song lyrics. This was also the month when I decided what course to do at Uni. Two consecutive posts are called 'Bite me. (But I might just bite back.)' and 'The return of the smiley, happy Chessypig'. I tasted like nuclear waste, but I did thank God for pecans and admit that I would, in a very specific set of circumstances, eat sushi off somebody's naked body. My most siginficant moment 'religiously' was when I forgave God for both killing people and not killing them.

February
Post of the Month (It says a lot about the month that this was a webtest.)
Honourable Mention (The comments are what really makes this entry worth it.)
February was the Month of Dreams (last post friendslocked because it mentions RL people). The main event was the Physics in Perspective thingamy in London (incomplete writeup), which made me feel better about my coping-with-being-away-from-home ability. This was also the month in which we had horses in our garden. I did a quick review of my life, and started storyness.

March
Post of the Month - Church Politics.
Honourable Mention - Thread falling like rain.
Not only is this significantly out of date, it's also had the top spot on my HTTP logs since I started looking at them. (Which linking to it here isn't going to help, but oh well.) I recorded a definintion of slash (previously private-locked) and wrote a haiku about my period. This was also the month in which I wrote a poorly made and mostly broken webtest in stolen Javascript just so I could be Monosodium Glutamate. I got my impressively high module results. I was bitten by a dog. And I did the Power and Light Easter Children's Holiday, which was good in practically all respects.

April
Posting Day of the Month - this was before the days of multiple LJ-cuts in one post, y'see. Or at least that's my excuse.
Honourable Mention
My Posting Day of the Month details the main 'actual' event of the month, and the Honourable Mention deals with the other notable. I wrote another lovely post about God. The main focus of the month, however, lies here - this is the month when the dragons went away, for good. I also managed to clock up a truly impressive number of comments with this controversial little number, which I still agree with wholeheartedly, although part 5 hasn't been getting as much attention as it should.

May
Post of the Month
Honourable Mention
We went to Marseilles, which I never finished writing up. Not even the hippie communists (rainbow banners and songs saying 'Che Guvara' a lot) or the scary marching Algerians, because naturally we went on the weekend of that really controversial election. I stopped worrying about General Studies. I also posted some controversial things about homosexuality, or at least how other people argue against it. Yet again, I proved my hopeless naievity.

June
Post of the Month
Honourable Mention
We went to Letton Hall with the church, which was not a good thing. We went to the RI and the Eye, which *was* a good thing. I had my first driving lesson, and filled in another big thingamy mostly about my past, which is where point five on my 'things I learnt in 2002' list comes from. The spare room was decorated, and incidentally I had exams. I began Haylar The Hapless Goblin, and passage bought me paid LJ, which I proceeded to use muchly. I went clothes shopping with Melody, and actually quite enjoyed myself. I also fell into the trap of writing Harry Potter fanfic.

July
Post of the Month
Honourable Mention
naath and I met up with jaq. I got addicted to Alter Ego. naath and I planned to go to DWCon, and I tried to run a game on Rondak's Portal. The main event is already covered in the Post of the Month, though - I went up in a hot air ballooon!

August
Post of the Month
Honourable Mention
I went poll diving, after seeing a post (I think it was marnanel's) about a 'what don't know you know about me' type poll random people had invaded. The main event of August was probably XF, of course, although some would say that my module results were pretty important, especially because I got 'B's in a couple of modules. The event that I think competes, however, is DWCon 2002. Both that (in which I decided that there would always be normal people around me, and even non-normal people could have those characteristics of normal people that I disliked) and being at home on my own for a week really didn't help my confidence in myself.

September
Post of the Month
Honourable Mention
I actually started Callandria, my Rondak's Portal game, and muttered about XF/DWCon photos I still never did anything with. I also coined my phrase for the year: This isn't living. This is dying on 'frame advance'. I finally gave in and did the Ask Me A Question poll. My mobile phone was fixed. In other words, very little happened (apart from a lot of stressbunnying).

October
Post of the Month
Honourable Mention
Pink Day happened at school. The boy band Blue came and played at our school, because some Y10s had won a competition, while I hid in a computer room to avoid the screaming fangirls. I decided that I ought to write some more. We spent a weekend in Brussels. More importantly, I went to visit marble (and we also picked up rho on the way). We went to Hampton Court, randomly, and my dad got his MBA from APU, or rather the Ashcroft International Buisiness School, which sounds much posier. I decided to do NaNoWriMo. And then my Psion died at me.

November
Post of the Month
Honourable Mention
Predictably, NaNoWriMo was kind of influential in this month. My Practice Subject Interview actually went quite well. I wrote a list of problems that are mostly still all too current. Saw HP2. Went to the Bath Uni open day.

December
Post of the Month
Honourable Mention (this was a close call this month, they're both rather good)
Had my Cambridge interview, which in itself went okay, but I discovered I had to do Evil STEPness. Had a surprisingly good time at the 8-10s Christmas Party. Managed to post quickly on Christmas Day, then wrote up most of the day later. I got a Cambridge offer earlier than I expected, but it was evil, and I made a second post about the first one because I remembered some comments from ages back when I'd been whining about how I should be happy to have such a good life that I was worried about these things, and that's pretty much what my parents had been saying. I also wrote some rather less awful Harry Potter fanfic. And installed Windows XP on both main computers.

Phew, that took an awful long time to write. Mostly it reminded me how terminally uninteresting my life is. I apologise for having inflicted it on you in detail and in short here.