Another Survey

[vovat]

This is an end-of-the-year thing that zimbra1006, countblastula, and zaph have all done already.


1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?

Voted by absentee ballot

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

I don't have any, and I don't plan to make any.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

Well, bethje's cousin and aunt both did.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

My great-grandmother did, as did Beth's uncle's dog Gypsy.

5. What countries did you visit?

None. I haven't left the States since 1987 or so.

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

A full-time job

7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

I really can't think of any offhand. Maybe some of them will become important in retrospect, though.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Well, one of my Oz stories is being considered for Oziana. Don't know if it'll make it, but it's an honor just to be nominated, right? {g}

9. What was your biggest failure?

Not getting a full-time job

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Nothing serious, no.

11. What was the best thing you bought?

I'm pretty fond of my Game Boy Advance SP.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

There are celebrations for behavior now?

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

I'm going to go along with several other people who took this quiz, and say Bush and the people who voted for him.

14. Where did most of your money go?

Transportation, probably

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

The release of a new They Might Be Giants album was pretty exciting. Not sure about "really, really, really," though.

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?

I don't know that I generally associate songs with years. Albums, maybe, but in that case it would be pretty much every new album I've heard this year.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

i. happier or sadder? Happier overall, I think. I've been kind of grumpy as of late, but I remember myself as being kind of depressed last December. The fact that I waited longer to do my Christmas shopping probably didn't help matters.
ii. thinner or fatter? Fatter
iii. richer or poorer? Poorer

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

Writing

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

Getting stressed out over stupid stuff

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

I'm going down with my mom and brother to visit my grandmother in Virginia.

[This question is out of order.]

22. Did you fall in love in 2004?

Not anew. I'm still just as much in love with Beth.

23. How many one-night stands?

None.

24. What was your favorite TV program?

The Simpsons, as usual

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?

Maybe.

26. What was the best book you read?

Hmm, what did I even read this year? Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett, was good.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

While I didn't really "discover" them this year per se, I finally got some Magnetic Fields albums.

28. What did you want and get?

The Game Boy Advance mentioned in #11.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?

The new Harry Potter, maybe?

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

On my 27th birthday, I went out to an Italian restaurant with Beth, then went to work, then had cake at my mom's house.

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

Getting a full-time job. (Anyone noticing a trend here? {g})

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

The same as it's been for the past few years. T-shirts at home, shirts with buttons at work. I also very rarely wear jeans.

34. What kept you sane?

I don't know that I HAVE been sane.

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

Dick Cheney! Okay, I'm just kidding. Seriously, John Ashcroft.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

Well, there's the election in general, but, based on how much I wrote about it, I think gay marriage might have been the biggest one.

37. Who did you miss?

Um, everyone I knew but didn't see?

38. Who was the best new person you met?

The only new people I can really recall meeting this year were onib and floatyfish.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:

God has abandoned the local congregations.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:

"They taught me how to work, but they can't teach me how to shirk correctly."


By the way, it looks like Amazon finally shipped my order. I doubt I'll get it until after Christmas, though.

Comments

[revme.livejournal.com]

One nice followup w/r/t my Amazon Troubles is that the stuff actually showed up pretty quickly.... though, since there's only 3 days... I figure you might be right.