end of the year

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last year's answers

1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before?
I went to college. I tried to heal. I drank and got drunk. I shared a room with someone. I taught little kids swimming lessons.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Let's see:

1. Be the change I want to see - For a long, long time I was content to be discontent with my life, or circumstances surrounding me. In the past few months, I've learned that nothing will change if I don't get out there and try to do my best to change it. If I give it my all and fail, that's ok - at least I tried. If I succeed, that's all the more reason for me to to get out there and make things happen.
I think I did ok with that one until a few months ago. This summer I think I really did try and have a certain amount of success in employing that outlook on life. But lately I've been failing miserably at it.

2. Not worry and stress so much - This may seem like a joke, but it's something I'm constantly struggling with. Hopefully, after this year stress and worry won't be such menacing adversaries anymore.
Again, partial success. I was pretty calm and relaxed during summer and for the first month or so of school . . . but lately I've been failing.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No

5. What countries did you visit?
None.

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
I think I had everything I need, at some point or another, in 2006. So I think I'm happy. I guess in 2007 I'd like to be at the right school.

7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
February 4th, June 23rd, May 6th, August 18th, July 6th, August 9th
There's a mixture of good and bad in there.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Surviving my first semester of college.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Falling into this horrible funk that I've been in lately.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing serious.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Logan the laptop.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My friends, in putting up with my whining of late

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
My own.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Buying stuff for school.

15. What did you get reall y, really, really excited about?
College, Superstate, prom, graduation, every single break from school since getting to college

16. What song will always remind you of 2006?
So many. Too many. Goodness. I'll list a few.

- 'Bruised' - Ben Folds
- 'Fair' - Remy Zero
- 'Pressing On' - Relient K
- all of Death cab's 'Transatlanticism'
- anything by the Postal Service

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
happier or sadder? Sadder
thinner or fatter? I dunno. Probably fatter.
richer or poorer? Poorer.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Been able to enjoy college.

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

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
IN MUNDELEIN. And I cannot effing WAIT.

21. Did you fall in love in 2006?
No.

22. How many one-night stands?
None.

23. What was your favorite TV program? New one?
New: FRIENDS
Old: Arthur

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No. I don’t think I really hate anyone. That’s a very strong word. I may use it a lot, but I rarely actually mean it.

25. What was the best book you read?
The Tao of Pooh

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
- Everything on the Garden State soundtrack
- The Shins
- The Postal Service

27. What did you want and get?
I wanted to go to a small liberal arts college. And, well, here I am.

28. What did you want and not get?
I wanted to be happy in college. So far I am not.

29. What was your favorite film(s) of this year?
Garden State

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I went to a family thanksgiving celebration and had a dance party with Sara and friends from home. I turned 19, and my day was AMAZING.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Being happy in college.

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
Jeans and a tshirt. Also, my uniform for Adler since that's basically all I wore this summer.

33. What kept you sane?
Music, Becky, and the great people around me in Grinnell.

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Bah.

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Eh.

36. Who did you miss?
Everyone from high school, my family, my dog . . .

37. Who was the best new person you met?
My friends at Grinnell

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:
Don't be afraid to trust. Things aren't always how you want them to be.


The year in a paragraph (although I'm pretty sure even a novel wouldn't be enough to talk about this year in a complete way):

So, it's officially 2006. Current DVD to Watch: Umm . . . Hm. GRINNELL! Yaaay going to Grinnell tomorrow! So, prom was last Friday. And besides the ones on the list, if anyone has some good recs for my summer reading list, I'd appreciate it muchly. I think this time of year sort of brings out the pyro in everyone. This week, like most weeks this summer, has absolutely flown by. There are times when I'm so absorbed in schoolwork and making sense of my new lifestyle that I don't really think about my life before August 18th. Since I am bored, and curious about my odd dream, I decided to look up some of the dream symbols I decided were important in that dream I talked about the other day. Holy mother moses. I guess I like my research topic for Linguistics.

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33. What kept you sane?
Music, Becky, and the great people around me in Grinnell.

I love you and miss you. A lot.

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I miss you tooooooo. More than words can say!