The Post-Apocalyptic Techno Poem

1. What did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?
I sat for a scholarship interview, which was nerve-wracking but illuminating.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Yes, I did. Yes, I will. (This year I resolve to unlock my creative potential.)

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes.

5. What countries did you visit?
Canada and Japan.

6. What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
A year without loss.

7. What date from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
November 23. Because one of my best friends was deeply hurt that day, and there was nothing I could do to make it better.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I kept going.

9. What was your biggest failure?
I bitched about it a lot of the way.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Tickets to see Neil Gaiman and Kevin Smith. (Not together, of course. Although I'd pay good money to see that, actually.)

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Liberal activists.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Rape apologists, racists, gun enthusiasts.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Where else? (Hint: my mortgage.)

15. What did you get really excited about?
The possibility of going back to Japan for an extended period; thinking outside of the box.

16. What song will always remind you of 2012?
"Heart's a Mess," Gotye.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
- i. happier or sadder? About the same.
- ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner, I think.

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

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Fighting myself.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
Making new traditions: Die Hard on Christmas Eve and the Doctor Who Stole Christmas Marathon on Christmas Day.

21. Did you fall in love in 2012?
No.

22. Did you fall out of love in 2012?
No.

23. What were your favorite TV programs?
Doctor Who; QI.

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I try not to waste my time hating anyone; I am fairly disappointed with people from time to time, though.

25. What was the best book you read?
Triple Zeck by Rex Stout.

26. What were your greatest musical discoveries?
Yeasayer, Gotye, Kishi Bashi, Janelle Monáe, Stripmall Architecture.

27. What did you want and get?
Confirmation of my potential.

28. What did you want and not get?
A better sense of how to balance all the things I want and need in my life.

29. What were your favorite films of this year?
The Woman in Black, John Carter of Mars, Avengers, Looper, Skyfall, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

30. What did you do on your birthday?
Happy-houred it up with my girlfriends.

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012?
Forties chic meets 2010s nerdcore.

32. What kept you sane?
Alma's.

33. Which celebrity/public figures did you fancy the most?
Fancy? No one, really. Respect? President Obama. Some of the time.

34. What political issue stirred you the most?
The election.

35. Who did you miss?
Class A.

36. Who was the best new person you met?
Sano-sensei.

37. What was a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012.
You may never know what you want to be, but you can at least figure out how you want to be.

38. New Year's plans?
Harry Potter Drinking Game Until the Break of Dawn.

39. Quote or song lyric that sums up your year?
"The wicked are eternally children."