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In 2008

1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Move to New York City for grad school

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't make new years resolutions

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
I don't think so, or at least I can't remember

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No

5. What countries did you visit?
None :(

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
A more humble and thankful heart

7. What date(s) from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Meeting Marshawn Lynch on my birthday/Superbowl weekend, my acceptance letter from NYU in the spring, falling in love with The Office and The Boondocks over the summer, moving into Brooklyn in the fall, my first winter snow in the city

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting into grad school

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not being strong enough

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Two words: BED BUGS

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My Uggs!

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Barack Obama

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
I don't want to say it here.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Tuition and transportation

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Moving to NYC

16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Heard 'Em Say - Kanye West

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
Wiser? Yes
Healthier? A little better
Richer? Student loans.. so, yes and no

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Exercise

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Worrying about my future

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Hopefully with someone iI love

21. Did you fall in love in 2008?
I wouldn't call it love yet

22. How many one-night stands?
Zero

23. What was your favorite TV program?
The Office

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope

25. What was the best book you read?
The Time Traveler's Wife

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
That I could like Lil Wayne

27. What did you want and get?
Peace of mind

28. What did you want and not get?
Doctoral program

29. What was your favorite film of this year?
The Dark Knight

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 23 in Scottsdale. It snowed on my birthday for a brief moment! Tien and I went to Fashion Square and tried on dresses, one of which I bought, and we ate dinner with Ming. Simple, fun, and a lot of relaxation from the night before, because it was Superbowl weekend.

31. What's one thing that would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
NOT being extremely lonely for 8 months in Tucson

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
Jeans and chuck

33. What kept you sane?
Knowing that there are people whose love I cannot lose

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Suri Cruis

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
My president is black.

36. Who did you miss?
Darrell

37. Who was the best new person you met?
Alex

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
Relax- these things tend to work themselves out

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Iam a flower quickly fading, here to day and gone tomorrow, a wave tossed in the ocean, a vapor in the wind. Still, You hear me when I'm calling. Lord, You catch me when I'm falling, and You tell me who I am- I am Yours.

Comments

Sandy said…
Happy New Year Tiffany! ^__^

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