Like the lazy whore that I am, I have decided to keep the updating habit in place with the perfect cop-out entry: a survey.
1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
Give antidepressants a serious try. As for their effectiveness, the jury's still out.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Most of my resolutions are very shallow goals, whose motivation springs from vanity. I did not achieve them, though I'm not proud to admit that i tried my best.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
A handful of significant minor characters faded from the script of my life
5. What countries did you visit?
Canada, a few places around the USA
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
focus, drive, and sanity
7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
the day that I found out that I had Multiple Personality Disorder
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting into Washington University and scoring a full scholarship
9. What was your biggest failure?
When my parents found out that I'd held a raucous bachanalia in my house while they were away on vacation
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
More than I care to really think about. Pneumonia was probably the most interesting bout. Yes . . . how poetic . . . your authress spitting blood into her hankerchief as she perishes of the wasting sickness.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My tattoos, for sure
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My mother deserves a drasticly better lot than she ended up receiving. She's a saint.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
someone very close to me decided that after over a year of devotion, I wasn't worth 5 minutes of face time so he could hand me the pink slip for our relationship. Email. Pussy.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Who knows, eh?
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Reading one of my short stories on NPR
16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
Cirrus - Boomerang, or Beck - Everybody's gotta learn sometime
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
- happier or sadder? sadder
- richer or poorer? about the same
- thinner or fatter? Phat-er
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
starve myself; sleep; think about something more meaningful than the transient plane of superficial existance
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
cigarettes
20. How did you spend the holidays?
in a haze punctuated by satisfaction
21. Did you fall in love in 2004?
yes
22. How many one-night stands?
a gentlewoman never kisses and tells
23. What was your favorite TV program?
this wonderful new programme called READING
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Yes. Marc Anderson. I only loathed him before. Now I want to smother him to the point of asphixiation with a morbidly obese hillbilly's socks.
25. What was the best book you read?
Choke - chuck P.; Tonge First - Emily Jenkins
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Dresden Dolls, Conjure One, Benny Benassi
27. What did you want and get?
A taste of the real world
28. What was your favorite film of this year?
Torremolinos 73 (Spanish independant art film); Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind; Hedwig and the angry inch (not made this year, but seen)
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I partied with some of my best friends at college
30. What one thing would've made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
If I could be less naive and stop believing that people will always give you the best side of themselves
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
black, blue, cherry red, violet. wild stockings. indigo hair
32. What kept you sane?
vodka
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Bjork. But I've loved her for ages
34. What political issue stirred you the most?
Gay marriage
35. Who did you miss?
The kids back in Texas. Jim. People who died. John. Zane. Mom and my sibs.
36. Who was the best new person you met?
Tough call. Rishi Rattan, Alan poppalardo, stuart johnsen, mitch cooper, adam olansky, arthur ryan, greg grubs, jacob the tattoo artist (female), jim (saw him in the flesh for the first time), lauren skilkin, rebecca nagle, jason park, elizabeth weinstien, emily osborn, luke smith, Bernard, alan thomas, clayton shepard, david chang, maia, thomas suter, dov perminger, and a thousand other people i've suddenly gotten too tired to list.
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004.
Oh yes, it is every bit as bad as you think. In fact, it's probably even worse than you can imagine
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"Blood on her skin/Dripping with sin/Do it again/Living dead girl"
"What happens to a day for all those who raged against it?"
"Each day is one day less to live/I want you to be my sedative"
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