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**1. What did you do in 2003 that you’d never done before?
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Got a manicure.
**2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
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I don’t think I had any resolutions in 2003; this year I think I have a couple. One of which might be to quit smoking, but I make no promises!
**3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
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My friends Jason and Kristi had a beautiful baby girl, Emma Renee, on Dec 13!
**4. Did anyone close to you die?
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Thankfully, not this year.
**5. What countries did you visit?
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No international travel for me this year. Unless Vegas counts. Which it doesn’t.
**6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003?
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Completed versions of Dancing With Gaia, Inventing: Stephen, and Inventing: Music.
**7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
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Feb 1. The date of the Columbia disaster.
**8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
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Finally getting around to getting my MCSA. This was not a banner year, I suppose.
**9. What was your biggest failure?
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Bad financial decisions.
**10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
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Just the Sonic Death Flu for a week in December. But nothing big.
**11. What was the best thing you bought?
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My Powerbook, “Carson”.
**12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
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Partytom. He was there for me a LOT this year, just being a good friend. Rock on.
**13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
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Someone who will remain nameless. Sorry guys.
**14. Where did most of your money go?
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Bills, unfortunately. When you’re out of work for ten months, the debt racks up.
**15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
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The popularity of Straight Eye
**16. What song will always remind you of 2003?
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Euro Trash Girl
**17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
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_i. happier or sadder?
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Happier. This time last year I was out of work and depressed.
_ii. thinner or fatter?
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About the same, actually.
_iii. richer or poorer?
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Richer. See the “out of work” thing above.
**18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
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Planning.
**19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
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Reckless spending.
**20. How will you be spending Christmas?
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Movies and Chinese food. Jew in the HOUSE!
**21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
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Probably Tracy. Or Backstreet.
**22. Did you fall in love in 2003?
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Nope.
**23. How many one-night stands?
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Four.
**24. What was your favorite TV program?
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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
**25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
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There’s one person who really disappointed me, but s/he will remain nameless.
**26. What was the best book you read?
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
**27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
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Not really a “discovery”, but I’ve listened to a lot more Johnny Cash this year.
**28. What did you want and get?
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To shoot a film using that cool new Panasonic camera.
**29. Did you move in 2003?
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Several times :)
**30. What was your favorite film of this year?
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Lost in Translation
**31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
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Had a Vegas-themed party. I turned 29.
**32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
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Seeing naked.
**33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003?
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Metrosexual.
**34. What kept you sane?
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Tivo.
**35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
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Liz Phair. As usual.
**36. What political issue stirred you the most?
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Clearly, our invasion of Iraq. Especially the reactions. I think that was the most political conversations I’ve had in a while.
**37. Who did you miss?
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Tracy…at least for the beginning of the yeary.
**38. Who was the best new person you met?
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**39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003
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No matter what, it’ll come back to haunt you.
**40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
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“Spent all my money…in a Mexican whorehouse, across the street from a Catholic church…”