1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
Take computer science courses. Completely flunk a midterm. (Those are related.) Go to sleep with a head full of hairspray. Break 10,000 pageviews a month. Break 150 subscribers. Watch Freaks and Geeks. Watch so many movies in such a short amount of time. Look forward to starting a college semester. Own leather boots. Successfully experiment in the kitchen. Write what I know without being told to. Finish reading for a fall semester class before Thanksgiving. Make a chocolate cake-in-a-mug. Have an allergic reaction. Meet people at Cal whom I would still want to know a year later. Attend a midnight showing of Harry Potter. (I actually usually wait.) Play SET. Be deeply impressed by a movie script. Get on the Dean's List. Delete my Facebook account. Twice. Consume so many fruit cups.
2. Did you keep your New Year's Resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Probably not, and probably not. Not this year.
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
A Plan B.
7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory and why?
December 20th.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Trying computer science.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Computer science in general?
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My Steven by Steve Madden lace-up boots.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Stephanie's, because she put up with me, Carrie's, because she is the best planner ever, and Steven's, because he brought me fruit cups and baked goods.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
I wasn't appalled or depressed by it, but I found Barack Obama's It Gets Better contribution kind of pathetic.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
PROJECT TANG. So much so that it was embarrassing.
16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
"The Coolest Girl" from A Very Potter Sequel.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
Happier. Basically.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Interacting with the intelligent, slightly snobbish part of the blogosphere.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Waiting. (I don’t think waiting should ever be an independent activity. It’s not productive at all.)
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Freaks and Geeks, which really shouldn't count because it aired ten years ago, but I only watched it this year. Plus, the only show I regularly watch is Glee, so there wasn't much of a contest. What I've seen of Mad Men looks viciously promising, though.
26. What was the best book you read?
I read two new books this year. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius was the better one. It was rather good. It was masturbatory. It was heartbreaking and genius. But I still really like Raptor Red. And Night Watch is ridiculously tightly written.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
I don't know. City and Colour.
28. What did you want and get?
An answer to whether or not I should do computer science.
29. What did you want and not get?
…Imju Fiberwig?
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
...I honestly was going to say Inception, even though the acting was boring and the idea behind it wasn't that amazing to me, just because of the suit porn, elevator fight scene, dramatic music, and hilariously huge Arthur/Eames fandom it spawned, but The Social Network is still weighing heavily in my mind weeks later, which I think means it was more substantial for me.
Although if I get to include movies I watched this year (and not just movies that came out this year), I'd definitely like to see Léon, Brick, and Garden State duke it out for my affection.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Oh my God. Twenty, and I woke up after maybe three hours of sleep, cried, attempted to debug my program, went to class, attempted to debug my program, cried, debugged my program, went to class, went home, and cried. That is literally all I did.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A pony. Or maybe the ability to walk in high-heeled boots without pain.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
It went from "pervy-cute" to "whatever smells okay" to "90s throwback" to "textiles junkie."
34. What kept you sane?
Writing and music.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
It's a tie again, guys. Keiko Lynn, Allie Brosh, Darren Criss (again), Tom Hardy, and Daniel Radcliffe.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Either Stephanie, my former lab partner, or Isabella. I wish I could put Daniel on here too, but I knew him before this year.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.
Until you take yourself seriously, you're just fogging up the glass trying to catch a glimpse through the window.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"blooming out from pain"
Although if I get to include movies I watched this year (and not just movies that came out this year), I'd definitely like to see Léon, Brick, and Garden State duke it out for my affection.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Oh my God. Twenty, and I woke up after maybe three hours of sleep, cried, attempted to debug my program, went to class, attempted to debug my program, cried, debugged my program, went to class, went home, and cried. That is literally all I did.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A pony. Or maybe the ability to walk in high-heeled boots without pain.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
It went from "pervy-cute" to "whatever smells okay" to "90s throwback" to "textiles junkie."
34. What kept you sane?
Writing and music.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
It's a tie again, guys. Keiko Lynn, Allie Brosh, Darren Criss (again), Tom Hardy, and Daniel Radcliffe.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Either Stephanie, my former lab partner, or Isabella. I wish I could put Daniel on here too, but I knew him before this year.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.
Until you take yourself seriously, you're just fogging up the glass trying to catch a glimpse through the window.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"blooming out from pain"
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