{"id":1610,"date":"2006-12-27T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2006\/12\/27\/yearly-meme-2\/"},"modified":"2006-12-27T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T13:56:00","slug":"yearly-meme-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/yearly-meme-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yearly meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHAT?! It’s a meme! Last year’s answers here.<\/a>
\n1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?<\/b>
\nKissed a dude.
\n2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?<\/b>
\nYeah my resolution was to get an office job on my own and I did! I think next year’s is to get into grad school!
\n3. Did anyone close to you give birth?<\/b>
\nI sort of forget.
\n4. Did anyone close to you die?<\/b>
\nNope
\n5. What countries did you visit?<\/b>
\nNew York
\n6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?<\/b>
\nA place of my own.
\n7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?<\/b>
\nSaying goodbye to Shiranne. Limoes away!
\n8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?<\/b>
\nWorking at Autodesk.
\n9. What was your biggest failure?<\/b>
\nHmm… having to pay Sun for my overpayment, I guess.
\n10. Did you suffer illness or injury?<\/b>
\nI still<\/i> have some skin problems, and this weird bruise on my lower back. I should go to a dermatologist soon.
\n11. What was the best thing you bought?<\/b>
\nA DS lite.
\n12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?<\/b>
\nBill and Melinda Gates’, Warren Buffett, my cousins’ (graduation)!
\n13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?<\/b>
\nBush and co. as usual, and my aunt’s over the summer…
\n14. Where did most of your money go?<\/b>
\nSun. Otherwise, gaming.
\n15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?<\/b>
\nTraveling on my own. Now I’m not sure if I’m going to do it that much, but I was quite passionate about wanting to “find myself” abroad.
\n16. What song will always remind you of 2006?<\/b>
\nKelly – Shoes
\n17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
\ni. happier or sadder?<\/b> More emotional. (I think this is the fourth year in the row that I’ve said this!)
\nii. thinner or fatter?<\/b> Same.
\niii. richer or poorer?<\/b> Same.
\n18. What do you wish you’d done more of?<\/b>
\nBeing productive, attentive, meditative.
\n19. What do you wish you’d done less of?<\/b>
\nLetting myself get pushed around near the start of the year.
\n20. How will you be spending Christmas?<\/b>
\nSpent it in New York, celebrating it over dinner with Hannah’s family. Also left my family back home some presents.
\n21. Did you fall in love in 2006?<\/b>
\nYes!
\n22. How many one-night stands?<\/b>
\nOne.
\n23. What was your favourite TV program?<\/b>
\nDunno. Don’t like Lost as much, and that’s about all I watched still.
\n24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?<\/b>
\nN\/A
\n25. What was the best book you read?<\/b>
\nMaking Comics<\/u> by Scott McCloud
\n26. What was your greatest musical discovery?<\/b>
\nOiNK and its resulting things. I got a lot of albums from artists for whom I havd singles.
\n27. What did you want and get?<\/b>
\nA job, a DS lite. I didn’t really want a new car but I got one of those too!
\n28. What did you want and not get?<\/b>
\nA new iPod because I am holding out for 6th gen.
\n29. What was your favourite film of this year?<\/b>
\nAn Inconvenient Truth
\n30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?<\/b>
\nTurned 21. Met my cousin for pizza and beer. Then met with Hannah and family for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then ate a whole bunch of sushi for $10, went to a big ol’ book store. Then went back to the hotel room and watched A Hard Day’s Night.
\n31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?<\/b>
\nKeeping old friends, not watching them slip away.
\n32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?<\/b>
\nSame ol’. Some new shirts, that’s about it – but now I have new non-sneaker shoes, so that’s probably my new fashion statement for 2007, or something.
\n33. What kept you sane?<\/b>
\nAnimating, then eventually video games.
\n34. Which celebrity\/public figure did you fancy the most?<\/b>
\nDunno
\n35. What political issue stirred you the most?<\/b>
\nGlobal warming, midterm elections.
\n36. Who did you miss?<\/b>
\nShiranne, and my grandpa.
\n37. Who was the best new person you met?<\/b>
\nShiranne, and all my new hallmates.
\n38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:<\/b>
\nListening is sometimes better than responding.
\n39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:<\/b>
\nI don’t think I quoted any song lyrics this year and I’m not good at interpreting them. This stays blank!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHAT?! It’s a meme! Last year’s answers here. 1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before? Kissed a dude. 2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Yeah my resolution was to get an office job on my own and I did! I… Continue reading Yearly meme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}