2004: The Year in Review

1. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before?
worked in a library, went to graduate school

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t think I made any real resolutions

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
no

4. Did anyone close to you die?
friends of friends

5. What countries did you visit?
just my own

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
stability, confidence

7. What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory?
January 15th
May 29th
July 24th
August 8th

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
graduating from college

9. What was your biggest failure?
my relationship

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
nothing major

11. What was the best thing you bought?
my cat, Ida ($40 fee for ASPCA)

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
close friends and family for supporting me, grandmother/parents for loaning me a car

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Doug’s

14. Where did most of your money go?
moving, twice

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
graduating, moving to La Quinta, Jaime and Ben’s wedding, starting graduate school

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
The Ocean Breathes Salty – Modest Mouse

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? sadder
b) thinner or fatter? on average? thinner
c) richer or poorer? poorer

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

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
sitting around crying and feeling bad

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
with my family in Oregon

(21 is missing)

22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
yes

23. How many one-night stands?
zero

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Showbiz Moms (and Dad)

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
hate is such a strong word, no longer respect? sure.

26. What was the best book you read?
Middlesex

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Modest Mouse

28. What did you want and get?
a job in a library

29. What did you want and not get?
Doug

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I went to a lovely dinner in Santa Barbara; I turned 28

32.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
not being dumped?

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
Librarian Chic

34. What kept you sane?
friends, family, my job

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
can’t think of anyone in particular

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
state laws barring same-sex marriage/the election

37. Who did you miss?
Doug, far away friends and family

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Mrs. Lisa Loving, the lovely ladies of the library

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
Nothing lasts forever and the only constant is yourself, but that was a bit of a redudant lesson for me.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
tell me why are you like this
are you the same with anyone?
save me from my sickness and tell me
why do you treat me like this?
(Grace Cathedral Park – Red House Painters)

Final Thoughts:
2004 has been a year of the highest highs and lowest lows of my life thus far. I hope 2005 is utterley boring and full of security and consistency. I want to be able to trust and be happy in the year to come.