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amoamaHere is a meme about 2010. In Summary: January to October, I didn't know you. November-December, I became besotted. Next year I promise this meme will be all about YOU. This time round some of it is still about me.
It is stolen from all the people who have already done it
aldiara lilithilien amilee123 giorgiakerr Much love,
Yours Truly.
1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
Part 2 of 2010 is one long list of Never Done Before.
Namely: stepped through the wank into fandom deliciousness, lured by the promise of snark on the other side.
Learnt a new language – the language of SQUEE.
Oh wait, I should have started with Watched a German Soap (constantly for about three weeks), became obsessed to the point of distraction, hovered nervously near the igloo, then stuck my head above the parapet.
Then read fic. And enjoyed it.
Probably some stuff in RL but whatevs, who cares about that right?!
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions from 2009, and will you make more for next year?
No idea and probably not.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No but I did become a little bit addicted to babies (in a very non shady way). They are like therapy. Loads of women bring their babies to work and I really recommend it. Whatever's getting you riled, 20 minutes with a baby will fix, and when it cries, you hand it back.
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4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What countries did you visit?
Netherlands for work and the Czech Republic for the weekend.
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
Time off.
7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Terrible with dates, nothing like that sticks in my memory. The Hague in October was cool though, except that I pretty much traumatised myself by having to spend so much time in our sex trafficking exhibition.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Not quitting my job.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Is this like the question in interviews, what are your worst qualities? IDK, not doing more interesting stuff?
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Deafness-inducing ear-infection for the first three months of the year which I’d totally forgotten about till this moment so can’t have been that bad.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Mattress Topper. I know it’s sad but it really made my life so much better (and more comfortable). More time in bed is a good thing, y/y?
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
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All the people who come to the Helen Bamber Foundation, who are the most unbelievably resilient and awesome people on earth having survived unspeakable cruelty. f;gjvnfjzvvfjdj
All the eskimos who win at life and brought squee to mine! dfuihgrfdsijghffjiovf
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
UK Border Agency. EPIC FAIL. Also, every UK politician, consistently, for the whole year.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Rent and bills. (and all the seasons of OZ, idek)
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
DeRo. DeRoMarc. HoFest. Other people’s babies. Broken Social Scene playing at Heaven. Breakfast (I f-ing love meeting people for breakfast) FML. Seriously, what happened to this year, why did NOTHING HAPPEN.
Oh, oh, but, the Helen Bamber Foundation football team! Total win. Just a bunch of people forgetting about their worries (read, trauma) and playing football. And me, who is shit at football, being taught skills by former professionals from Iran, Turkey and Cameroon. And I swear to you I don’t even like football and it was the best thing I did all year.
16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
‘She Said’ by Plan B. (Come on, do the clicking with me).
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Both.
ii. thinner or fatter? Same.
iii. richer or poorer? Same.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Debauchery.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Complaining.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
With family, freaking them out with how much coffee I can drink and how much time I can spend on the internet. (Life Skillz)
22. Did you fall in love in 2010?
Probably with the most amount of people I’ve never met ever for one year #haieskimos.
23. How many one-night stands?
None. (Spent all year getting over 2009’s disasters).
24. What was your favourite TV program?
Sons of Anarchy. Misfits. AWZ (as distilled by EKP).
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No.
26. What was the best book you read?
Finally finished A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. Actually worth the three years on and off it took me.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Playlists from german soaps. I’ve never felt much shame about getting lyrics wrong anyway.
Except, Kate Nash! Hello Lyrics Of Win. ‘We get on’ especially.
28. What did you want and get?
The drain in my bathroom fixed. Yeah, again, FML.
29. What did you want and not get?
World Peace, obv. (I is Ms World)
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Love, Sex Aur Dhokha. Basically did this whole meme just to spam you guys about how great this film was! (Hopefully you’re still reading). I took my first tentative steps into Bollywood and was rewarded with this blinder of modern cinema. Dibakar Banerjee has to be one of the most thoughtful and thought-provoking filmmakers anywhere. There are spy cams and CCTV sex tapes and all kinds of love and mess and hurt.
31. What did you do on your birthday?
Watched ballet two nights in a row (hello Matthew Bourne) and then fled to the Lake District to hide and relax. (Another response to the horror!fest of 2009).
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
If I’d discovered DeRo and the Eskimos at the beginning of the year... 3.0, GOOL... *sadfacingforever*
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
Embraced androgyny? Abandoned heels.
34. What kept you sane?
Was not sane, at all, all year. (I work with lots of psychologists, so it’s pretty much diagnosed, but the good news is, I’m mostly saner than them.)
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Lauren Socha, aka Kelly on Misfits. Power slo-mo on loop forever. I wanna have fights with her and have her yell filth at me -because you know she actually speaks like that and the verbose little English student in me just flails and loves it. Also, boobies, just saying. Is shallow.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Hi Uganda, massive fail on LGBT issues, accompanied by the rest of the world in general, and at the UN.
In the UK, coalition conservative govt has my stomach in knots.
But mostly ASYLUM ASYLUM ASYLUM, things look set to get much much worse for asylum seekers (and I thought it was already rock bottom). Hi UKBA, these are people not statistics, please could we stop acting like fascist cunts, I pay taxes here and I DO NOT APPROVE. Could rant for a year but will hold it in so I don’t miss 2011.
37. Who did you miss?
Studying. #notapersonwtf
38. Who was the best new person you met?
All the Eskimos in the Igloo. And all the clients at work. This post should just repeat ESKIMOS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS over and over and that would sum up my year.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.
The world has more snarky sparkle than I ever imagined. And there is no end to my love for it!
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Might ick myself out of existence with this but here have some epic Regina:
This is how it works
It feels a little worse
Than when we drove our hearse
Right through that screaming crowd
While laughing up a storm
Until we were just bone
Until it got so warm
That none of us could sleep
And all the styrofoam
Began to melt away
We tried to find some worms
To aid in the decay
But none of them were home
Inside their catacomb
A million ancient bees
Began to sting our knees
While we were on our knees
Praying that disease
Would leave the ones we love
And never come again
On the radio
We heard November Rain
That solo's really long
But it's a pretty song
We listened to it twice
'Cause the DJ was asleep
This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath
No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again
