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01) What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before? I went on vacation without my family, I did my own shopping and cooking every day, I went to a bar in the US, I called someone a didn't know a bigot to her face, and I wrote a research paper in a foreign language.
02) Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I don't ever make them: I'd rather be a surprised pessimist than a disappointed optimist.
03) Did anyone close to you give birth? nope
04) Did anyone close to you die? nope
05) What countries did you visit? Ireland, Holland, and France (and I was living in Germany)
06) What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006? a job
07) What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? 1 and 14 August -- day I left Goettingen and day I left Germany
08) What was your biggest achievement of the year? I maintained an A- average while taking classes in German.
09) What was your biggest failure? I failed to plan my finances brilliantly in the spring.
10) Did you suffer illness or injury? nothing noteworthy
11) What was the best thing you bought? plane ticket to Ireland, no question
12) Whose behavior merited celebration? KV
13) Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Ha! Where do I begin?
14) Where did most of your money go? hostels in Ireland
15) What did you get excited about? going to Ireland (are we noticing a pattern here?)
16) What songs will always remind you of 2006? Muse: Exo-Politics, Starlight; Johnny Cash: It Ain't Me Babe; REM: The Outsiders, Why Not Smile?
17) Compared to this time last year, are you:
A) happier or sadder? both -- not neither, definitely both
B) thinner or fatter? probably heavier, but not by fat
C) richer or poorer? poorer ... ohhh am I poorer
18) What do you wish you'd done more of? written more of my thesis, written more for pleasure, read more
19) What do you wish you'd done less of? wasted time and energy on people who don't merit it
20) How did you spend Christmas? with the fam at home, and the extendeds came over that night; on Christmas Eve I worked
21) Did you fall in love in 2006? yes!
23) How many one-night stands? none
24) What was your favorite TV program? SVU and The Daily Show
25) Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? probably, although it's difficult for me to say when I first hated them
26) What was the best book you read? Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere ... no question about that
27) What was your greatest musical discovery? REM: Up; Johnny Cash: Unearthed
28) What did you want and get? the tricks and toys to make me an amateur computer tinkerer
29) What did you want and not get? an easy solution
30) What was your favorite film of this year? Walk the Line
31) What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? turned 21, went to the bar with a few friends, M got kicked out :(
32) What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? continental drift
33) How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006? serendipitous
34) What kept you sane? music
35) Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? I thought I was the only person who still used "fancy" as a verb
36) What political issue stirred you the most? none -- I'm too young to be this tired
37) Who did you miss? for the second half of the year I missed the people with whom I spent the first half
38) Who were the best new people you met? Coolidge girls
39) Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006. You're only as angry as you want to be.
40) Quote a song lyric/poem that sums up your year:
"I feel like a cartoon brick wall to hear you speak of it. You've been so sad, it makes me worry. Why not smile? You've been sad for a while: why not smile?" - REM, "Why Not Smile?"
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| Did the Lord say machines ought to take the place of livin'? |
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9/11/ 1:35 pm
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So I went to the post office today and noticed that the flag was flying at half mast. And I thought to myself, "Who died this time? The post office isn't honestly flying half mast for Steve Irwin?"
Not that I didn't know that today is the 11th of September. I went to class today and growled my way through a Latin quiz with "9/11/06" scrawled at the top, and entitled my page of notes in Logic "9/11: Connectives".
I don't think about what happened on September 11, 2001 very often. Honestly, I don't. Not because I don't care. Not because I'm trying to move on, forget. To tell truth, I don't think about it often because it makes me angry. There's a lot to be angry about, and quite frankly I like being not angry better than I like being angry.
One thing that makes me angry is that, every time I think about that day, I hear someone in my head (or out loud, if there's a discussion going on) saying "On September 11th, I ..." or "Since 9/11 ..." That makes me angry.
The World Trade Center has become the Alamo of Modern America. It is the great war cry that unites people that would never otherwise acknowledge each other. "9/11: We Will Never Forget" has brought together conservatives and liberals like "Remember the Alamo!" banded whites and Hispanics together in 1836.
In other words: you're not fooling anybody.
I'm not interested in talking about how that day changed the world. I'm not interested in arguing over whether we're safer, smarter, more aware, less innocent, more racist, less free. I reallly don't care to hear about anybody's "culture of life/death/hate/fear/control" or any other sentence that has the words "culture" and "of" next to each other.
I believe that I could probably count on one hand the times that, in the last five years, I've heard the phrase "nine-eleven" without a personal agenda attached to it. And to the people whose agendas are attached to the blindly-uttered numbers, I have but one thing to say:
I hope you rot in hell.
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| Awesome Alert: |
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6/20/ 4:26 pm
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The new MUSE is awesome. Download it.
Do it.
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| It's hammer time! |
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3/8/ 11:15 pm
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My sister's getting here on Friday. Awesome.
I'm bringing my computer in for repairs, then going on vacation. So don't expect to hear much from me soon.
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