1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
Got committed for being sane.
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Fuck off.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My sister had Conor, my new nephew.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What countries did you visit?
Long Branch
6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
An abundance of recreational pharmaceuticals
7. What dates from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
February 26. She fucked me over and got away scot free.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Red Sox.
9. What was your biggest failure?
I quit working at Nelson Communications. Despite their love for me.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Don’t go there. Does 4 days in a rubber room count?
But I was on crutches for two weeks thanks to a wicked knee sprain.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
iPod.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Pat Tilman. The man who gave up millions of NFL dollars to fight in Afghanistan, just to die from friendly fire.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and deppressed?
Mine.
14. Where did most of your money go?
The bank.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Red Sox.
16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
U2- Vertigo.
17.Compared to this time last year, you are:
Taller.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Get good at video games. Watch movies. Understand culture.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Eat Xanax like candy.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Spent with Lefty.
21. How would you rather be spending Christmas?
With my future family.
22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
Yes.
23. How many one-night stands?
None.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No.
26. What was the best book you read?
Feed – M.T. Anderson,
Wider than the Sky – Gerald Edelman,
Stranger Than Fiction – Chuck Palahniuk,
Magical Thinking – Augusten Burroughs,
A Short History Of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
iPod
28. What did you want and get?
iPod
29. What did you want and not get?
Ann
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Didn’t see any movies this year.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I worked and loved it. 38.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Ann.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
My dry cleaner is wealthy.
34. What kept you sane?
Dave, the friend who busted in my place on St. Patrick’s Day and fed me beer. Xanax. Lest I not forget Ann, the most beautiful thing to ever appear in my life.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Fancy? You’re begging me to say Paris Hilton. Sorry. I ain’t gay but it was Johnny Damon.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Maimed soldiers. Please help them when they get home.
37. Who did you miss?
All at Nelson Communications.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Ann.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
Lie to hospital workers.
5 comments:
#2,8,16,35 & 36-I totally agree. #17?...We need to talk, lol.
I really enjoyed the Bill Bryson book....have read a few of his books....but the one you mention was especially interesting :-)
Dude, listening to OTR's "Bothered" at the end of the year while allowing one's heart to revel rhapsodically in the Sunshine State is a recipie for... *art*. That's OK... I've got more music to go along with that.
PK does a meme...wow. This year IS going to be different.
Please don't contact me again, ever.
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