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[1.] What did you do in 2006 that you have never done before?
Got married :). Also graduated, rented non-college accomodation, gained my first non-placement/work-experience type job, became reliant on my own income rather than the generosity of my parents...
[2.] Did you keep all of last years resolutions?
It appears that I helpfully failed to make any, which means that I can state with confidence that I kept every one of last year's resolutions in perfect detail. Also, this question no apostrophe. Grr.
[3.] Have you any resolutions for next year?
I don't know what life will hold for me next year. Or rather I feel like I do, and all resolutions I can think of making refer to stasis, to keeping things. I don't know what new things I will do next year.
[4.] What countries did you visit?
Spain (Tech Ed conference in Barcelona, courtesy of work). Scotland (over Christmas, with Nicholas' grandmother).
[5.] What would you like to have in 2007 that you didn't have in 2006?
I currently have absolutely everything that I want or need. Mostly, I would like to be a better person.
[6.] What date in 2006 will remain etched in your memory?
The 5th of August, naturally. (Except I'm betting that within five years at the outside, I'll have completely forgotten the date and will have to look it up, because I'm like that.)
[7.] What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Landing an excellent job.
[8.] What was your biggest failure?
Getting a 2.2, mostly on account of the hideous depression that my third year of university brought. If I'd been able to drag myself out of bed and apply my brain more often, I would have a 2.1, which would make me less back-of-mind-paranoid about my current employment (as I got it under the 2.1 I had from my second year and would probably find it much harder to get a new job should it suddenly disappear for some reason).
[9.] Did you suffer any illness or injury?
I was constantly ill with various cold-like affairs through the first 2/3 of the year, on account of stress and depression really doing a number on one's immune system.
[10.] What was the best thing you bought?
The only significant purchase I remember was my wedding outfit. It was pretty and all, but I learnt why you don't reveal anything about it to the groom before wearing it, the veil melted during the photographs (the glue attaching it to the comb just melted away and the whole thing failed awkwardly), and the dress (which started falling to bits during the reception) is now occupying space in our bedroom in a sad melted-blancmange fashion.
[11.] Who's behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Firstly, that's *whose*. Secondly, the majority of the human race, most especially those living in America, but I fear they were just the most obvious and powerful.
[12.] Where did most of your money go?
Rent, specifically the Enormous Deposit on this flat (because I hadn't yet started my job the agency were quite twitchy and demanded much rent up front and an enormous deposit).
[13.] What did you get really really really excited about?
I expect I actually got most excited about some LARP event or other, most likely a Maelstrom event of some kind. I'm sad like that.
[14.] What songs will always remind you of 2006?
Recovering the Satellites by Counting Crows:
Catapault sounds like depression to me: "All of these quiet battered voices wait for the hunger to come / We've got little revolvers and stupid choices and no-one to say when we're done" - and self-inflicted depression triggers at that - "I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes \ Cause I know there's little things about me that would sing in the silence".
Angels of the Silences reminds me of being angry with God: "Little angels of the silences that climb into my bed and whisper every time I fall asleep, every time I dream 'Did you come? Would you lie? Why'd you leave us 'till we're only good for waiting for you \ All my sins I said that I would pay for them if I could".
Daylight Fading expresses how I wanted to give up on life because I thought it was basically over now: "She said 'everybody loves you' \ She says, 'everybody cares' \ But all the things I keep inside myself they vanish in the air \ If you tell me that you'll wait for me \ I'll say I won't be here \ I want to say goodbye to you \ Goodbye to all my friends \ Goodbye to everyone I know \ Daylight fading \ Come and waste another year \ All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear".
I'm Not Sleeping expresses the mixed feelings I had about sleeping with Nicholas before we were married (I do mean sleeping, for the peanut gallery): "Spend my nights in self defense \ Cry about my innocence \ But I ain't all that innocent anymore, more, more" - and feeling bad about being led into patterns of thought and behaviour that I wasn't sure were right - "I'll follow you down baby, down into this valley \ I'll follow you down baby, but I won't come up again".
Goodnight Elizabeth contains the seed of getting on with it despite everything - "then i just light myself on fire \ and i walk out on the wire once again"
Children in Bloom is of course about growing up anyway, of moving from being a dependant to being independant: "and she'll never be a little girl again \ I gotta get out on my own \ I gotta get up from this waiting at home \ I gotta get out of this sunlight \ It's melting my bones \ I gotta get up from this slumber and get myself home \ I can't find my way home"
Have You Seen Me Lately has a triumphant note to me, of having won past the changes. I can't quote a particular lyric because much of it is in the tune, and the actual lyrics are more of a 'mixed triumph' than the feeling it evokes.
I've never much liked the track Miller's Angels. Having read the lyrics (which I couldn't remember for the verses at all) it actually reminds me much more of an earlier time in my life.
Another Horsedreamer's Blues is actually about depression and attempting to carry on and please everyone anyway: "She's tired and lonely \ Scared and depressed \ Her visions of one day go racing the next \ She's tryin' to be a good girl \ And give 'em what they want" - it was rather about my relationship with my mother and with trying to pretend I was coping.
The title track, I could quote the whole song; it's got the whole 'old dreams gone away', the 'leaving parental oversight for good', the hopeful bit about shooting stars and comet tails which is like the moments of joy there were from time to time.
Monkey (again, I could basically quote the whole song) has very strong resonances with my relationship with God over this year, although I feel a bit daft saying that because it's a very irreverant tone to address to God, it does sound like many of the things we've been saying to each other.
Mercury, just the first line: "She is trapped inside a month of grey \ And they take a little every day" was very much like my day to day existance for much of the year.
A Long December has that wary hope for the future that kept me going through much of the year: "A long December and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last", "The smell of hospitals in winter and the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters but no pearls", "I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower, makes you talk a little lower".
Walkaways is a little about changes and a little about the encroaching stasis I felt approaching and feared: "No big differences these days \ Just the same old walkaways \ And someday \ I'm gonna stay"
Much of This Desert Life felt rather relevant too:
Hangin' Around sounds very much like the 'can't do anything' part of depression, although the protagonist of it finds escape in nightlife, which obviously wasn't what I was doing.
Mrs Potter's Lullaby has lots of reflections on aspects of being trapped and unhappy and feeling socially inadequate and some aspect of the excuses I was making to myself: "Well I woke in mid-afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the most \ I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host", "All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep \ Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleep", "You can see a million miles tonight \ But you can't get very far"
Amy Hit The Atmosphere has the somewhat guilt-inducing "Things are getting worse, but I feel a lot better
\ And that's all that really matters to me" which is something of the case (the world situation appears to be getting worse, but my moods are far more dependant on little things like how much water I've drunk recently). It also has the fear of stasis again: "There has to be a change I'm sure \ Today was just a day fading into another \ And that can't be what a life is for"
Four Days is already claimed by an earlier phase of life, with the dragons.
All My Friends And Lovers has a bit of the self-destructive 'want to turn my back on everything', but also has the important line "One way or another / I'm not coming undone" which was my mantra more than a few times.
High Life has the depression: "All my friends got flowers in their eyes \ But I got none this season \ All of the last ten years' blooms have gone and died \ Time doesn’t give a reason" - and the feeling of changing for the worse - "Beginning to believe in the disappearing nature of the people we have been \
We have begun to change into the worst kind of people"
Colourblind has that haunting 'blank feeling': "I am ready \ I am ready \ I am ready \ I am...fine" and the hermitting: "I am covered in skin \ No one gets to come in \ Pull me out from inside"
I wish I was a girl had two things in, first: "For all the things I'm losing \ I might as well resign myself to try and make a change", and secondly the part "I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me \ And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep" was a line from my attempt to come to terms with the idea that girls might also feel the emotion of lust.
St Robinson In His Cadillac Dream has the line "There's a hole in the ceiling down through which I fell \
There's a girl in a basement coming out of her shell \ And there are people who will say that they knew me so well" which was a line in my head from where I thought I was changing.
[15.] Compared to this time last year are you :
[A] Fatter or thinner? Probably fatter, on account of being ridiculously overfed (I walk to work, that's an hour of walking every weekday, then during term I run around like a mad thing on weekends LARPing, so I'm not sure I'm that much under-exercised, just woefully overfed, as I eat amazing quantities of gaming snacks at tabletop sessions and work feeds me enormous buffet or pub lunches on a regular basis).
[B] Happier or sadder? Much happier. Last December I was still heading out on what I knew was going to be a hopeless struggle of an academic year; this December I have a beautiful husband, a flat with an entire wall of bookshelves, an interesting and well-paid job, a church where I rarely feel like throwing things at the speaker but also feel a sense of community and belonging, and the reasonable expectation that the next year will continue in a similar vein.
[C] Richer or poorer? Significantly richer, as not only do I have about the same level of savings (having built them back up after spending lots of money securing the flat) I also have a generous regular income.
[16.] What do you wish you'd done more of?
Writing. Playing computer games. Trusting in God.
[17.] What do you wish you'd done less of?
Lying vacantly in bed. Crying. Declaring in a woeful fashion that my life was over and I'd done everything positive I was ever going to do.
[18.] How will you be spending Christmas?
How I spent Christmas was eating lots of food with my husband's family. There was also some walking in Pretty Hills With Rocks On and some playing Arcanum and quite a bit of being terribly impatient with polite people. It was, on balance, a good thing and I'm glad I went. I think this was helped by the absolutely glorious sunny weather and I'm not sure I'd ever want to go back, as I imagine it could get quite miserable if rainy and dreary.
[19.] Which LJ users did you meet for the first time?
Whilst I might have metbouteillebleu in passing previously, I hadn't managed to assign her username to a real person before this year. cesy is similarly new to me. Both are new LARPers. I'm fairly sure that lowellboyslash's brief sojourn to England crossed paths with me during this year and not before, but my hopeless lack of journalling makes it hard to confirm. I think everyone else is from earlier than that; abologies to everyone I've forgotten.
[20.] Did you fall in love in 2006?
Only in the continuing kind of fashion.
[21.] How many one night stands?
None.
[22] What was your favourite TV show?
Firefly. I'm not entirely sure I had much to do with it this year, but in that case I haven't had anything to do with *any* TV shows this year.
[23.] Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I rarely get up to hate. I generally just feel sorry for people instead. I certainly rarely stay at 'hate'. This may be because nobody has really hurt me.
[24.] What was/were the best books you read?
The Chronicals of Narnia, the entire set of which I read at Word Alive, are the only ones that really stand out. I'm sure I've read a lot of excellent science fiction - Accelerando, for one - but there is quite a lot of excellent science fiction I read that I can't remember the titles of, so singling out too much of it would be unfair.
[25.] What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nightwish, very recently, although unfortunately I was spoilt by the track Sleeping Sun and much of the rest of their stuff isn't nearly as good.
[26.] What did you want and get?
Nicholas, an interesting job that I enjoy, a church that I feel is right rather than just a holding pattern.
[27.] What did you want and not get?
A 2.1.
[28.] What was your favourite film this year?
A Scanner Darkly, and even that was 'worth watching' rather than 'best film ever'. PotC 2 was fairly decent entertainment but little more. I also went to see Snakes on a Plane with a group of people and some toy snakes, but I thought it contained too much filler with boring Americans and too little snakey violence. 'Through a
[29.] What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
On my birthday, I had an exam. Then I went to someone else's birthday party. I was 21.
[30.] What one thing would have made your year more satisfying?
Getting a 2.1. (I might be slightly bitter.)
[31.] How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
Ebay, with a generous dash of 'whatever comes first to hand' and aging clothing my parents bought me many years ago.
[32.] What kept you sane?
Nicholas. Friends, especially Edith. LARP. Also, sane is a relative term, and I'm dubious of its applicability to me through much of the year.
[33.] Which celebrity did you fancy the most?
I had a complete lack of contact with celebrities, which kind of precluded fancying any.
[34.] Which political issue stirred you the most?
The depressing right-wing bias in US politics, and in general the tendancy of people to be shortsighted, selfish, and fail to understand basic economics ('if you don't give the government any money, they can't provide you with public services').
[35.] Who did you miss?
No-one that I can remember. Recently I have been slightly worried about the missing-ness ofsath from the internet.
[36.] Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned this year?
I think claiming to have learnt anything from this year yet would be somewhat premature. I suspect in the future it will be labelled 'Don't Panic' in nice friendly letters, though.
[37.] Quote a song lyric that sums up your year...
"One way or another I'm not coming undone"
rochvelleth:[1.] What did you do in 2006 that you have never done before?
Got married :). Also graduated, rented non-college accomodation, gained my first non-placement/work-experience type job, became reliant on my own income rather than the generosity of my parents...
[2.] Did you keep all of last years resolutions?
It appears that I helpfully failed to make any, which means that I can state with confidence that I kept every one of last year's resolutions in perfect detail. Also, this question no apostrophe. Grr.
[3.] Have you any resolutions for next year?
I don't know what life will hold for me next year. Or rather I feel like I do, and all resolutions I can think of making refer to stasis, to keeping things. I don't know what new things I will do next year.
[4.] What countries did you visit?
Spain (Tech Ed conference in Barcelona, courtesy of work). Scotland (over Christmas, with Nicholas' grandmother).
[5.] What would you like to have in 2007 that you didn't have in 2006?
I currently have absolutely everything that I want or need. Mostly, I would like to be a better person.
[6.] What date in 2006 will remain etched in your memory?
The 5th of August, naturally. (Except I'm betting that within five years at the outside, I'll have completely forgotten the date and will have to look it up, because I'm like that.)
[7.] What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Landing an excellent job.
[8.] What was your biggest failure?
Getting a 2.2, mostly on account of the hideous depression that my third year of university brought. If I'd been able to drag myself out of bed and apply my brain more often, I would have a 2.1, which would make me less back-of-mind-paranoid about my current employment (as I got it under the 2.1 I had from my second year and would probably find it much harder to get a new job should it suddenly disappear for some reason).
[9.] Did you suffer any illness or injury?
I was constantly ill with various cold-like affairs through the first 2/3 of the year, on account of stress and depression really doing a number on one's immune system.
[10.] What was the best thing you bought?
The only significant purchase I remember was my wedding outfit. It was pretty and all, but I learnt why you don't reveal anything about it to the groom before wearing it, the veil melted during the photographs (the glue attaching it to the comb just melted away and the whole thing failed awkwardly), and the dress (which started falling to bits during the reception) is now occupying space in our bedroom in a sad melted-blancmange fashion.
[11.] Who's behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Firstly, that's *whose*. Secondly, the majority of the human race, most especially those living in America, but I fear they were just the most obvious and powerful.
[12.] Where did most of your money go?
Rent, specifically the Enormous Deposit on this flat (because I hadn't yet started my job the agency were quite twitchy and demanded much rent up front and an enormous deposit).
[13.] What did you get really really really excited about?
I expect I actually got most excited about some LARP event or other, most likely a Maelstrom event of some kind. I'm sad like that.
[14.] What songs will always remind you of 2006?
Recovering the Satellites by Counting Crows:
Catapault sounds like depression to me: "All of these quiet battered voices wait for the hunger to come / We've got little revolvers and stupid choices and no-one to say when we're done" - and self-inflicted depression triggers at that - "I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes \ Cause I know there's little things about me that would sing in the silence".
Angels of the Silences reminds me of being angry with God: "Little angels of the silences that climb into my bed and whisper every time I fall asleep, every time I dream 'Did you come? Would you lie? Why'd you leave us 'till we're only good for waiting for you \ All my sins I said that I would pay for them if I could".
Daylight Fading expresses how I wanted to give up on life because I thought it was basically over now: "She said 'everybody loves you' \ She says, 'everybody cares' \ But all the things I keep inside myself they vanish in the air \ If you tell me that you'll wait for me \ I'll say I won't be here \ I want to say goodbye to you \ Goodbye to all my friends \ Goodbye to everyone I know \ Daylight fading \ Come and waste another year \ All the the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear".
I'm Not Sleeping expresses the mixed feelings I had about sleeping with Nicholas before we were married (I do mean sleeping, for the peanut gallery): "Spend my nights in self defense \ Cry about my innocence \ But I ain't all that innocent anymore, more, more" - and feeling bad about being led into patterns of thought and behaviour that I wasn't sure were right - "I'll follow you down baby, down into this valley \ I'll follow you down baby, but I won't come up again".
Goodnight Elizabeth contains the seed of getting on with it despite everything - "then i just light myself on fire \ and i walk out on the wire once again"
Children in Bloom is of course about growing up anyway, of moving from being a dependant to being independant: "and she'll never be a little girl again \ I gotta get out on my own \ I gotta get up from this waiting at home \ I gotta get out of this sunlight \ It's melting my bones \ I gotta get up from this slumber and get myself home \ I can't find my way home"
Have You Seen Me Lately has a triumphant note to me, of having won past the changes. I can't quote a particular lyric because much of it is in the tune, and the actual lyrics are more of a 'mixed triumph' than the feeling it evokes.
I've never much liked the track Miller's Angels. Having read the lyrics (which I couldn't remember for the verses at all) it actually reminds me much more of an earlier time in my life.
Another Horsedreamer's Blues is actually about depression and attempting to carry on and please everyone anyway: "She's tired and lonely \ Scared and depressed \ Her visions of one day go racing the next \ She's tryin' to be a good girl \ And give 'em what they want" - it was rather about my relationship with my mother and with trying to pretend I was coping.
The title track, I could quote the whole song; it's got the whole 'old dreams gone away', the 'leaving parental oversight for good', the hopeful bit about shooting stars and comet tails which is like the moments of joy there were from time to time.
Monkey (again, I could basically quote the whole song) has very strong resonances with my relationship with God over this year, although I feel a bit daft saying that because it's a very irreverant tone to address to God, it does sound like many of the things we've been saying to each other.
Mercury, just the first line: "She is trapped inside a month of grey \ And they take a little every day" was very much like my day to day existance for much of the year.
A Long December has that wary hope for the future that kept me going through much of the year: "A long December and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last", "The smell of hospitals in winter and the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters but no pearls", "I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower, makes you talk a little lower".
Walkaways is a little about changes and a little about the encroaching stasis I felt approaching and feared: "No big differences these days \ Just the same old walkaways \ And someday \ I'm gonna stay"
Much of This Desert Life felt rather relevant too:
Hangin' Around sounds very much like the 'can't do anything' part of depression, although the protagonist of it finds escape in nightlife, which obviously wasn't what I was doing.
Mrs Potter's Lullaby has lots of reflections on aspects of being trapped and unhappy and feeling socially inadequate and some aspect of the excuses I was making to myself: "Well I woke in mid-afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the most \ I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host", "All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep \ Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleep", "You can see a million miles tonight \ But you can't get very far"
Amy Hit The Atmosphere has the somewhat guilt-inducing "Things are getting worse, but I feel a lot better
\ And that's all that really matters to me" which is something of the case (the world situation appears to be getting worse, but my moods are far more dependant on little things like how much water I've drunk recently). It also has the fear of stasis again: "There has to be a change I'm sure \ Today was just a day fading into another \ And that can't be what a life is for"
Four Days is already claimed by an earlier phase of life, with the dragons.
All My Friends And Lovers has a bit of the self-destructive 'want to turn my back on everything', but also has the important line "One way or another / I'm not coming undone" which was my mantra more than a few times.
High Life has the depression: "All my friends got flowers in their eyes \ But I got none this season \ All of the last ten years' blooms have gone and died \ Time doesn’t give a reason" - and the feeling of changing for the worse - "Beginning to believe in the disappearing nature of the people we have been \
We have begun to change into the worst kind of people"
Colourblind has that haunting 'blank feeling': "I am ready \ I am ready \ I am ready \ I am...fine" and the hermitting: "I am covered in skin \ No one gets to come in \ Pull me out from inside"
I wish I was a girl had two things in, first: "For all the things I'm losing \ I might as well resign myself to try and make a change", and secondly the part "I wish I was a girl so that you could believe me \ And I could shake this static everytime I try to sleep" was a line from my attempt to come to terms with the idea that girls might also feel the emotion of lust.
St Robinson In His Cadillac Dream has the line "There's a hole in the ceiling down through which I fell \
There's a girl in a basement coming out of her shell \ And there are people who will say that they knew me so well" which was a line in my head from where I thought I was changing.
[15.] Compared to this time last year are you :
[A] Fatter or thinner? Probably fatter, on account of being ridiculously overfed (I walk to work, that's an hour of walking every weekday, then during term I run around like a mad thing on weekends LARPing, so I'm not sure I'm that much under-exercised, just woefully overfed, as I eat amazing quantities of gaming snacks at tabletop sessions and work feeds me enormous buffet or pub lunches on a regular basis).
[B] Happier or sadder? Much happier. Last December I was still heading out on what I knew was going to be a hopeless struggle of an academic year; this December I have a beautiful husband, a flat with an entire wall of bookshelves, an interesting and well-paid job, a church where I rarely feel like throwing things at the speaker but also feel a sense of community and belonging, and the reasonable expectation that the next year will continue in a similar vein.
[C] Richer or poorer? Significantly richer, as not only do I have about the same level of savings (having built them back up after spending lots of money securing the flat) I also have a generous regular income.
[16.] What do you wish you'd done more of?
Writing. Playing computer games. Trusting in God.
[17.] What do you wish you'd done less of?
Lying vacantly in bed. Crying. Declaring in a woeful fashion that my life was over and I'd done everything positive I was ever going to do.
[18.] How will you be spending Christmas?
How I spent Christmas was eating lots of food with my husband's family. There was also some walking in Pretty Hills With Rocks On and some playing Arcanum and quite a bit of being terribly impatient with polite people. It was, on balance, a good thing and I'm glad I went. I think this was helped by the absolutely glorious sunny weather and I'm not sure I'd ever want to go back, as I imagine it could get quite miserable if rainy and dreary.
[19.] Which LJ users did you meet for the first time?
Whilst I might have met
bouteillebleu in passing previously, I hadn't managed to assign her username to a real person before this year. cesy is similarly new to me. Both are new LARPers. I'm fairly sure that lowellboyslash's brief sojourn to England crossed paths with me during this year and not before, but my hopeless lack of journalling makes it hard to confirm. I think everyone else is from earlier than that; abologies to everyone I've forgotten.[20.] Did you fall in love in 2006?
Only in the continuing kind of fashion.
[21.] How many one night stands?
None.
[22] What was your favourite TV show?
Firefly. I'm not entirely sure I had much to do with it this year, but in that case I haven't had anything to do with *any* TV shows this year.
[23.] Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I rarely get up to hate. I generally just feel sorry for people instead. I certainly rarely stay at 'hate'. This may be because nobody has really hurt me.
[24.] What was/were the best books you read?
The Chronicals of Narnia, the entire set of which I read at Word Alive, are the only ones that really stand out. I'm sure I've read a lot of excellent science fiction - Accelerando, for one - but there is quite a lot of excellent science fiction I read that I can't remember the titles of, so singling out too much of it would be unfair.
[25.] What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nightwish, very recently, although unfortunately I was spoilt by the track Sleeping Sun and much of the rest of their stuff isn't nearly as good.
[26.] What did you want and get?
Nicholas, an interesting job that I enjoy, a church that I feel is right rather than just a holding pattern.
[27.] What did you want and not get?
A 2.1.
[28.] What was your favourite film this year?
A Scanner Darkly, and even that was 'worth watching' rather than 'best film ever'. PotC 2 was fairly decent entertainment but little more. I also went to see Snakes on a Plane with a group of people and some toy snakes, but I thought it contained too much filler with boring Americans and too little snakey violence. 'Through a
[29.] What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
On my birthday, I had an exam. Then I went to someone else's birthday party. I was 21.
[30.] What one thing would have made your year more satisfying?
Getting a 2.1. (I might be slightly bitter.)
[31.] How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
Ebay, with a generous dash of 'whatever comes first to hand' and aging clothing my parents bought me many years ago.
[32.] What kept you sane?
Nicholas. Friends, especially Edith. LARP. Also, sane is a relative term, and I'm dubious of its applicability to me through much of the year.
[33.] Which celebrity did you fancy the most?
I had a complete lack of contact with celebrities, which kind of precluded fancying any.
[34.] Which political issue stirred you the most?
The depressing right-wing bias in US politics, and in general the tendancy of people to be shortsighted, selfish, and fail to understand basic economics ('if you don't give the government any money, they can't provide you with public services').
[35.] Who did you miss?
No-one that I can remember. Recently I have been slightly worried about the missing-ness of
sath from the internet.[36.] Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned this year?
I think claiming to have learnt anything from this year yet would be somewhat premature. I suspect in the future it will be labelled 'Don't Panic' in nice friendly letters, though.
[37.] Quote a song lyric that sums up your year...
"One way or another I'm not coming undone"
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