2003 meme from ladylarken

[juldea]

1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before?
Move across the country on my own.

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't recall that I made any resolutions. I don't plan on making any.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes. :) dervish had her second baby.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Someone close to someone close to me did.

5. What countries did you visit?
Just the US. I'm boring.

6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003?
My degree. And a nice, well-paying, non-food-service job.

7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
August 5th was the day I arrived in Boston... Also possibly Oct. 30 - Nov. 27.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Beginning a life on my own.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not graduating.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Over and over again! Most notably the strained back that had me laid up for two weeks and the sprained ankle.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
The Blast! DVD.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My own.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and/or depressed?
Jason's. Adriana's sometimes. Most of humanity.

14. Where did most of your money go?
The expenses of moving.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The OMP and seeing Antonio, the end of Buffy, Kevin's visit.

16. What song will always remind you of 2003?
"Why Can't I?" by Liz Phair is the only thing that springs to mind.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier, definitely.
ii. thinner or fatter? I believe fatter, but I'm not sure.
iii. richer or poorer? Definitely poorer.

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

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Sitting around waiting on other people for enjoyment.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
At my grandparents' house, trying to stand the bustle and not be lost.

22. Did you fall in love in 2003?
Yes.

23. How many one-night stands?
I'm counting any physical activity done with a person for only one day/night... five.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Buffy and Firefly

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No.

26. What was the best book you read?
The Foundation Trilogy by Issac Asimov

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Radiohead

28. What did you want and get?
Experience. Time with people.

29. What did you want and not get?
Several relationships, a job, my degree without having to do the work for it.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
I hope to see Return of the King before the end of the year, and I'm sure it'll count... also Secretary (since I found it this year).

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were ya?
I turned 23, and I finally had a go-out-drinking type of party. I met up with friends in Bricktown, had dinner at Chelino's, then went and drank at Tapworks.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Getting my degree.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003?
I'm consistently a jeans-and-t-shirt type of person.

34. What kept you sane?
Livejournal, maybe. Heh. Having (feeling like I have) to post here and share what's going on in my head with people who will pull me off of the brink.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Orlando Bloom and Viggo Mortensen... :)

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Various stupidities that various political figures caused... Gay marriage was neat, though.

37. Who did you miss?
All of my Oklahoma friends (early in the year I did miss the ones I had broken up with, too)... My family. My 3k friends who are far away. Kevin.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Kevin. No offense to the other people I met, but... yeah.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003:
Be honest to yourself.


There's no 40. I feel like there should be 40, because that's a nice even multiple-of-ten number. Or even better, 42. If you don't recognize the importance of that number, go read a book.

Anyway, I'm adding more.

40. Did you break anyone's heart this year? Did your heart get broken?
Yes and yes.

41. What kept you insane? (cf. #34)
The stresses of finishing school and a relationship plus moving across the country without a job... My parents' divorce proceedings...

42. Did you majorly alter your appearance in any way during 2003?
I think I cut my hair off before 2003. But I did bleach it early in the year! That was pretty drastic. I eventually cut off the bleached ends, and now I'm growing it out again. I also got the second hole in my right ear re-pierced this summer, so that it's even with my left ear and nicely spaced from the first hole.


There, much better.

Comments

[ex-krink990.livejournal.com]

you didn't graduate? that's probably a stupid thing for me to say, like when people say "you didn't get a job?" and i want to punch them in the face. but i didn't know you didn't graduate. and it doesn't matter at all. college was such a waste of time, aside from social and emotional growth.

(i still don't have my diploma - fighting over an "i")

but i did still skim grad presents from all my family. *evil grin*

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I'm fighting two Is. So I will graduate sometime hopefully soon, but I'm not currently a graduate.

And yes, it was such a waste of time. I hope the diploma changes that.