End of 2008 Survey!

1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before? Went on an all expenses paid job interview.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? The constant struggle with lady nicotine.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? I missed Julie and Mikes child by a matter of hours. Way to be a little late Anika!

4. Did anyone close to you die? Gilanna... although we had been out of touch for a while.

5. What countries did you visit? This was my first year spent ENTIRELY in the USA in a while.

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008? A semi-permanent place to live. I seem to move every few months.

7. What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? November 4. It was surreal and fleeting… and totally worth it.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Getting my Equity Card and a faculty position all in the same week.

9. What was your biggest failure? Staying in touch perhaps. Oh and dealing with men. I suck at that.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Got health insurance just in time to get a BAD cold, followed by strep. Merry Christmas!

11. What was the best thing you bought? FELIX ☺ Runner-up… my bed.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration? I’ve actually been rather disappointed in my friends behavior a lot this year. So I’ll pick Jane. Because she rarely lets me down.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Everyone who voted Yes on Proposition 8 in California, Proposition 2 in Florida, Proposition 102 in Arizona, and the Adoption Ban in Arkansas.

14. Where did most of your money go? Drinking my way out of Richmond and then moving to Missoula… which also involved drinking.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Opening night of the Little Dog Laughed was pretty surreal for me.

16. What song will always remind you of 2008? “Bushel and a Peck”, specifically during the Entr’acte. Dance Jason and Mary-Page

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? happier
b) thinner or fatter? Fatter… my weight has been in such flux this year!
c) richer or poorer? Um… I have a very healthy income… but am still drowning in debt. Lets call it a draw.

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

19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Stressin’ about other folks

20. How will you be spending Christmas? South Bend, IN baby!

21. Did you fall in love in 2008? No

22. How many one-night stands? A lady never tells… okay like 5

23. What was your favorite TV program? Do you really have to ask? Battlestar Galactica!

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Maybe. Hate is a strong word. Lots of disappointments though.

25. What was the best book you read? I finally got around to His Dark Materials this year.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery? I’m really loving In the Heights. It just works for me.

27. What did you want and get? Nearly everything but a boyfriend. Isn’t that strange? 2008 was sort of a banner year.

28. What did you want and not get? I don’t want to nitpick the good things this year.

29. What was your favorite film of this year? I haven’t seen enough movies this year to have a favorite. Movies require free-time on nights and weekends. Tropic Thunder was pretty fabulous though. I’m not going to lie.

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? For my 26th birthday I had a champagne bash for the opening of Little Dog Laughed and got to meet Douglas Carter Beane who was such a sweetheart.

31.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? I would say someone to share the good stuff with… but I had so many wonderful people to share my highs and lows with that… who care if we were always wearing our clothes!

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008? Richmond/Missoula transient

33. What kept you sane? Getting paid to do what I love.

33A. Who kept you sane? IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER Jane. Katie (if only be comparison dear). Jimmy. John H. Shelley. Diego. Mike. Julie. Glynn. Kat. Aaron. Erin. Wendy. Lisa Marie. Sal. Jere. Noreen.

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? I’m sort of falling in love with the guy from Pushing Daisies. He might be my dream dude.

35. What political issue stirred you the most? My second-class citizen status

36. Who did you miss? Spring Semester. Janet. Summer. Jane. Fall Semester. EVERYONE

37. Who was the best new person you met? I’m not going to rank them. I met so many new folks. Working for Barksdale was a real blast though.

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008: Things can work out.

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

Ive loved, Ive laughed and cried.
Ive had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.

To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
No, oh no not me,
I did it my way.