"Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less." -Robert E. Lee

1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Went to college, wore a corset, voted, played DnD

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
FUCK RESOLUTIONS.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Lots of family members.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Too many for comfort.

5. What countries did you visit?
None-diddly-un.

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
Money.  I really need the stuff.  And a place to live that isn't Mom's house.

7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
November 11th,2005.  One year from that date I shall exact vengeance in food form upon one Christopher "Poz" Drackley.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Going to college and not totally flunking out.

9. What was your biggest failure?
English class.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Assorted sniffles and bouts of food poisoning.

11. What was the best thing you paid for?
Entry to RenFaire.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Sam's, for having remarkable self-control.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Anyone who is a member of the "Good Ole Boys" club of the US government.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Food and Walmart runs.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Seeing Sam again.

16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
If You're Emo And You Know It, Slit Your Wrists

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Much happier.
ii. thinner or fatter? I put on at least 25 pounds at college.  Yeuch.
iii. richer or poorer? I occasionally have money.  This is an improvement.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Organising my crap so I can move out officially.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Goofing off during classes.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Avoiding my family like the plague.

21. What was the most embarrassing thing that happened to you in 2005?
My piano recital.  I bombed liek WHOA.

22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Yes, with Sam.  And I have a feeling that once we get back together, we'll go very far.

23. How many one-night stands?
With Lefty and Righty and their buddy Mr. Dildo?  Every goddamn night.  Ugh.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
I stopped watching TV.  It's depressing.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Johnny Damon, the lying, cheating, no-good, two-timing putz.

26. What was the best book you read?
The Tin Drum.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Poz.  He has a voice of russet silk.

28. What did you want and get?
Dice.

29. What did you want and not get?
A fuctional brain cell.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
H2G2 was this year, right?

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I did nothing, and turned 18.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Writing more.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Step 1, roll out of bed.  Step 2, find clothes under bed.  Step 3, smell clothes.  If not too stinky, go to step 4.  If their reek rivals that of Limburger cheese, return to step 2. Step 4, wear clothes.

34. What kept you sane?
Poz, surprisingly enough.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Alan Rickman, Sean Connery, Karl Urban...

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
EVERYTHING.

37. Who did you miss?
Sam.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
All my rennies, but especially Poz.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
Don't livejournal while drunk.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"Ah don't care if it rains or freezes/long's ah got my rubber penis/riding on the dashboard of mah ca-AAR"