{"id":69,"date":"2010-01-01T14:53:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T21:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldcocoon.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2010-01-01T14:53:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T21:53:15","slug":"2009-ugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.worldcocoon.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"2009 &#8211; ugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it had to come sooner or later, another end of year wrapy uppy survey thing. i do them every year, too bad for you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. What did you do in 2009 that you&#8217;d never done before?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Watched chinatown, worked in a bookstore, cut someone open, didnt go to icon for the first time in 15 years, met niki, watched lost, shoveled and didn&#8217;t fall over. Its was a quiet year.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n2. Did you keep your new years&#8217; resolutions, and will you make more for next year?<\/strong><br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t make any this past year, i&#8217;m really just gonna do them as i think of em.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Did anyone close to you give birth?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not that i can remember. if i missed your baby im sorry!<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Did anyone close to you die?<\/strong><br \/>\ni lost someone really close to me, and some close to those i know, and that feels just as horrible.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n5. What countries did you visit?<\/strong><br \/>\nonly new ones in video games; the mushroom kingdom, that country in call of duty, and of course the kick ass metal fantasy land of brutal legend.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?<\/strong><br \/>\na better job, a new comic, i would still like a new place lol<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?<\/strong><br \/>\nthe day i lost my bolivian brother, and the day i met niki, both for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?<\/strong><br \/>\ni cant think of any real achievements from this year, nothing that stands out as an accomplishment. I did unlock all the achievements in 1 vrs 100 on xbox live. thats not bad i guess. i unlocked some mental achievements too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. What was your biggest failure?<\/strong><br \/>\ni dont feel like i failed, unless its not getting enough work done. then ive failed amazingly. motivate me, failure! didnt get super powers either.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n10. Did you suffer illness or injury?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy body runs on illness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. What was the best thing you bought?<\/strong><br \/>\nhmmm. i dont even know. cat toy sushi for claude. the ghostbusters game was pretty awesome. and i had some delicious burgers.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>i really cant think of one for this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?<\/strong><br \/>\nprob the management where i work, and all the cretins in the world that somehow think theyre more important than anyone else and people should be left to be sick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14. Where did most of your money go?<\/strong><br \/>\nthe year went with me not having so much money, so mostly bills and pills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?<\/strong><br \/>\nkinda the same as last year &#8211; watching claude grow, hanging with the lady, seeing fishbone some more, great art, seeing my 202 buddays and all my friends getting married!<\/p>\n<p><strong>16. What songs will always remind you of 2009?<\/strong><br \/>\nwell, here are my top ten listened to songs of 09 as determened by my last.fm scrobbler.<\/p>\n<p>radiohead &#8211; bangers and mash<br \/>\nryan adams &#8211; beautiful sorta<br \/>\npearl jam &#8211; the fixer<br \/>\npearl jam &#8211; johnny guitar<br \/>\nryan adams &#8211; anybody wanna take me home<br \/>\nmorrissey &#8211; something is squeezing my skull<br \/>\nradiohead &#8211; reckoner<br \/>\npearl jam &#8211; gonna see my friend<br \/>\nthe dismemberment plan &#8211; come home<br \/>\npearl jam &#8211; got some<\/p>\n<p><strong>17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?<\/strong><br \/>\ni think im somewhere in the middle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18. What do you wish you&#8217;d done more of?<\/strong><br \/>\nworked more and wrote\/drew more. wish i had gotten out more as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19. What do you wish you&#8217;d done less of?<\/strong><br \/>\nunfufilling sleepiness again. this year i will conquer it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20. How will you be spending Christmas?<\/strong><br \/>\nalready spent it. was i supposed to do this earlier or something?<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. <\/strong>the amount of times i turned off wwe in disgust.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. Did you fall in love in 2009?<\/strong><br \/>\n2009 was full of love and heartbreak, but it ended on an upnote i think.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. How many one night stands?<\/strong><br \/>\nnone! none!! many multi night fallasleep snorefests tho.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24. What were your favourite TV programmes?<\/strong><br \/>\ndexter, lost, breaking bad<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn&#8217;t hate this time last year?<\/strong><br \/>\nonly cause i started working so late in the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. What was the best book you read?<\/strong><br \/>\nhmmmm, ive read alot this year. high fidelity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. What was your greatest musical discovery?<\/strong><br \/>\noff the top of my head, while theyre are a lot of great albums out by groups i already knew of, i think this year is when i first stumbled upon jaydiohead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. What did you want and get?<\/strong><br \/>\nmore coffee. fishbone for my birthday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. What did you want and not get?<\/strong><br \/>\nso much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. What was your favourite film of this year?<\/strong><br \/>\ndistrict 9, the cove&#8230;see my list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?<\/strong><br \/>\nwent to see fishbone, the greatest band in the world, with some of my best buds. it was a great time. i hit split 8, and i shall stay there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?<\/strong><br \/>\nlife<\/p>\n<p><strong>33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?<\/strong><br \/>\nthe same as usual but this year there were more pants and more coats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. What kept you sane?<\/strong><br \/>\nnot much. music, ron and fez, and seeing fishbone always helps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. Which celebrity\/public figure did you fancy the most?<\/strong><br \/>\nfor some reason this year i gained a crush on erin burnett, and claire from lost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. What political issue stirred you the most?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ill add one to the amazing bubbling of selfish people, somehow supporting a corporation bailout but scoff at individual bailout; the ignorant cretins that oppose health care for everyone. so selfish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. Who did you miss?<\/strong><br \/>\nbunches of people i dont see enough, bolivia the mostest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. Who was the best new person you met?<\/strong><br \/>\nniki<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.<\/strong><br \/>\nhug.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.<\/strong><br \/>\nI kinda like the way you dot your J&#8217;s<br \/>\nWith giant circles of na\u00c3\u00afvet\u00c3\u00a9<br \/>\nThe kind of circles include everything<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t mean to damn you with the faintest praise<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just a symptom of the blithe age<br \/>\nWalter Lippman, he would be amazed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it had to come sooner or later, another end of year wrapy uppy survey thing. i do them every year, too bad for you. 1. What did you do in 2009 that you&#8217;d never done before? 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