2009 a year in review taken from TurboTango
1. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
graduated from college, applied for, got in, and started going to graduate school, lived in a house without living with my parents, went to bars.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I used to make resolutions, but they came from nice ideas rather than lessons learned. I would like to think that this year lessons were learned. '
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
my cousins’ girlfriends, although that might have been 2008, time starts to blend together.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No funerals for me in 2009.
5. What countries did you visit?
I didn’t leave the country this year.
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
An acceptance letter from USC’s PhD communication program so that I can work with Henry Jenkins.
7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
February 21st -- when I met Michael.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting into graduate school
9. What was your biggest failure?
not having the sense enough to explore more options for my MA, which probably stems from my dislike of cold and my Los Angeles centered life, which has recently been changing as I went back to Bloomington for part of this winter break and staying at Mike’s place felt like being at home where as living in LA in the house I grew up in seems like student housing, just where I am while I am in school here, but not really where I belong anymore.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I am glad to say 2009 was a fairly healthy year for me.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Plane tickets and a parking pass for UCLA.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Mike’s, my sister for being awesome, that guy who let me couch surf when I was looking at UT Austin.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
lets not dwell.
14. Where did most of your money go?
plane tickets, Graduate School (granted this money is student loan money).
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Mike, Argentine Tango, WCS, graduate school, Henry Jenkins.
16. What songs will always remind you of 2009?
"If It Kills Me" Jason Mraz
"Boom Boom Pow" and "I've Got a Feeling" by Black Eyed Peas"
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. Happier or sadder? Happier.
ii. Thinner or fatter? I am not sure. I gained weight at IU but am not sure if I lost any of it, so I would wager about the same.
Richer or poorer? That is relative. My savings account is higher than it was last year, but I am also taking out loans in my name and in debt rather than my student loan money be in my parents’ names.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
reading, dancing.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
hating my living situation, being stressed out about life, being far away from my sweetie
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I spent X-Mas with Mike and his family, chilling out, exchanging presents, playing games and eating food. We went to church. I cried. It reminded me of my grandfather and my late-grandmother.
21. How will you be spending New Years?
I will be having a few friends over and attempting to get some stable social life in Los Angeles.
Bloomington with Mike would have been a great adventure, but school starts Monday, we have a family tradition and I am a big fan of tradition and being in Bloomington doesn’t solve my problem of not yet having a solid friend set in Los Angeles.
22. Did you fall in love in 2009?
Why yes, I did. That was something on my list of things not to do in 2009, however in the great tradition of How I Met Your Mother, once you don’t want a relationship you wind up with a wonderful one not too shortly after.
23. What were your favorite TV programs?
Glee, Fringe, Dollhouse, Leverage, Defying Gravity, Gossip Girl, Castle, White Collar.
Those are just the favorites, not the ones that I watched regularly or for the first time in 2009. That is a much longer list.
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope. everything that happened in my past has led to my present and I am very happy with my current situation, so although there are things that happened between this time last year and now, without them I might not have what I have.
25. What was the best book you read?
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Owl City, DJ Earworm,
27. What did you want and get?
graduating from college
28. What did you want and not get?
Mike to get into USC
29. What was your favorite film of this year?
I didn’t watch a lot of movies, so I guess I will go with the one that surprised me the most, Beverly Hills Chihuahua
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I went to a series of bars and turned 21.
31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
If I had gotten into USC, or if Mike had gotten into USC, or if we both got into USC, and we were living in the same place.
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
grad student casual, with a touch of Mad Men.
33. What kept you sane?
TV, Skype.
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
This year must have been, much like many other years, Robert Downey Jr.
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Prop 8.
36. Who did you miss?
loads of people. Friends from LA who are not in LA, friends I made in Bloomington that I am not there to hang out with. Mike while we weren’t in the same city, friends from my past who I have lost touch with.
37. Who was the best new person you met?
Mike.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
If you are specifically not looking to be in a relationship, one will find you.
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
“sweat pants, hair tied, chillin’ with no make-up on/thats when you’re the prettiest/ I hope that you don’t take it wrong” Drake
In 2010...
1. Will you be looking for a new job?
Yes, in that I will apply to doctoral programs, and might get an internship/be looking for marketing positions at studios and things
2. Will you be looking for a new relationship?
I already have a perfectly good boyfriend.
3. New house?
I will probably still be living with my dad in 2010 unless I suddenly run into enough money to not be living at home rent free.
4. What will you do different in 10?
I will dance more and be more optimistic about UCLA.
5. New Years resolution?
Be even more awesome.
6. What will you not be doing in 10?
Failing out of graduate school, actually there are a number of things I will not be doing in 2010.
7. Any trips planned?
Maybe France over the summer, maybe Boston this spring, Indiana of course.
8. Wedding plans?
I don’t know anyone who is getting married next year.
9. Major thing(s) on your agenda?
be a rockstar grad student, improve my Argentine tango, spend as much time with Mike as I can afford to do.
10. What can't you wait for?
finishing PhD applications, maybe taking a class with Henry Jenkins, SCMS,
11. What would you like to see happen differently?
I would like to see a public option for healthcare, gay marriage federally legalized along with pot, the USA to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
12. What about yourself will you be changing?
Be more academically openminded and less afraid of the real world.
13. What happened in 09 that you didn't think would ever happen?
I don’t think I have an answer to this one.
14. Will you be nicer to the people you care about?
I always hope to be nicer to the people I care about.
15. Will you dress differently this year than you did in 09?
I really want to dress like a grad student with brown knee high leather boots and corduroy skirts and sweaters.
16. Will you start or quit drinking?
Neither.
17. Will you better your relationship with your family?
I'll try.
18. Will you do charity work?
Honestly, probably not.
19. Will you go to bars?
Likely.
20. Will you be nice to people you don't know?
I try to do that anyways.
21. Do you expect 10 to be a good year for you?
I sure hope so.
22. How much did you change from this time last year till now?
I went through a fairly large personality transformation. I mellowed out a whole lot and learned some valuable life lessons.
23. Do you plan on having a child?
I am too young to be thinking about that.
24. Will you still be friends with the same people you are friends with now?
Mostly. I like my friends.
25. Major lifestyle changes?
Probably not. I moved back home this year and I think my lifestyle is locked in until at least the end of my MA program.
26. Will you be moving?
Probably not.
27. What will you make sure doesn't happen in 10 that happened in 09?
Yes, this goes in the same vein as lessons learned and major personality changes.
28. What are your New Years Eve plans?
New Years 2010 going into 2011? Hopefully spending it with my sweetie, the rest of the where/what seems less important.
29. Will you have someone to kiss at midnight?
I sure hope so. :) 2010 to 2011 would be nice, although I have yet to kiss someone at midnight in New Years previous and 2009-2010 won’t happen do to geographic barriers, but fixing my social life is more important right now than kissing at midnight.
30. One wish for 10?
That I have a healthy year.
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