1.What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Collected unemployment.
2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions and will you make more for next year?
I don't do resolutions - too depressing when I abandon them.
3. How did you spend New Year’s Eve?
At home watching a marathon of Thin Man movies on Turner Classic Movies.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What countries did you visit?
None.
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
Self-sufficiency.
7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
My birthday because it sucked and I was lonely.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
None.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Losing my job.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Sort of.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My flat screen TV, after my old tube TV finally died.
12. Where did most of your money go?
Rent, food, necessities.
13. What song will always remind you of 2009?
Use Somebody by Kings of Leon
14. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Spent time with friends.
15. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Watching my flat screen TV.
16. What was your favourite TV program?
The Mentalist
17. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No.
18. What was the best book you read?
The full Sherlock Holmes collection, The Historian, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
19. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Re-discovering vintage Michael Jackson.
20. What was your favorite film of this year?
Huh - I actually didn't see any in the theater.
21. What did you do on your birthday?
Hung out at home.
22. What kept you sane?
Paul
23. Who did you miss?
Everyone.
24. Who was the best new person you met?
I don't think I met anyone new.
25. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.
Life is a journey, but that doesn't mean you're the driver.
