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In 2011


1. What did you do in 2011 that you'd never done before?
Move to the South Bay (San Jose), live with 3 boys, lease a car, drive fearlessly all around the Bay Area, work in clinical research, lose my job, not know what I want to do with my life, learn to knit, learn to play the guitar, take yoga classes, fill shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Unfortunately, I did not keep my resolutions, because I was lazy and apathetic. My resolutions for next year are to eat right and exercise. I am the heaviest I’ve ever been, and it’s unacceptable.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No

5. What countries did you visit?
I did not :(

6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?
A stable job and relationship

7. What date(s) from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
I don’t have specific dates, but I will always remember 2011 as the year I was unsuccessful work-wise, but relationship-wise, I felt most loved and supported by friends and family

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Having unwavering faith despite the lack of direction in my life

9. What was your biggest failure?
Being rash and impatient with my difficult boss at Stanford, which resulted in my losing the job

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing to report aside from the usual cold and flu

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My car (for three years)

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Manly! Pulling a 4.0 at Columbia University—what an awesome accomplishment!

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
My old boss, and some people at NYU

14. Where did most of your money go?
Rent

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Ruth and Philip’s wedding in June

16. What song(s) will always remind you of 2011?
Grenade, Edge of Glory, How To Love, Moves Like Jagger, Stereo Heart

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
Wiser? Yes
Healthier? No
Richer? Absolutely not

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

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Stress out in trying to mend relationships that aren’t worth mending

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
With loved ones (I think this answer is the same every year)

21. Did you fall in love in 2011?
No

22. How many one-night stands?
Zero

23. What was your favorite TV program?
Star Trek: The Original Series (Spock!!)

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Like I said, apathy is better than hate when it comes to loathsome people

25. What was the best book you read?
The Hunger Games

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Spotify!

27. What did you want and get?
 A trip back to New York

28. What did you want and not get?
Many jobs that I applied for

29. What was your favorite film(s) of this year?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 26 and went to The Cheesecake Factory with my roommates and a couple of awesome girl friends from college.

31. What's one thing that would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
I could have done without the whole unemployment stint

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2011?
Slob (because I couldn’t afford to go shopping)

33. What kept you sane?
Having the best support system that is my friends and family

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Tim Lincecum

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
The stupid Occupy-city nonsense

36. Who did you miss?
My parents

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

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.
To quote Baz Luhrmann’s Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen),
“Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.”

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
You raise me up so I can stand on mountains
You raise me up to walk on stormy
I am strong when I am on your shoulders
You raise me up to more than I can be

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