QUIZ (!)

Here you go. Straight through the Communist subpipes of this part of the information superhighway.

Happy New Year folks. I'll be back in Pittsburgh on the 8th.

1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
Bought a Nintendo Gamecube
Bought a Sony Playstation 2
Killed a man

2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't really remember any that I made. But I doubt it.
One for this year: keep in touch with good friends.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Mike Yin

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Harry Potter

5. What places did you visit?
Shanghai, China; Niagra Falls/Calabogie, Canada; Beaverton, OR; Seattle, WA; Cleveland, OH; Fort Lee, NJ; New York, NY; Neverland

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
A fiance/a job/both

7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Clearly, August 13th

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Can't tell you yet. Sorry. Some of you know what it is!
So, for the rest of you, let's say Rumors.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Cleanliness

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Just some heartache and longing

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Pierogies

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Katie, for still loving me

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Osama Bin Laden, for being a terrorist threat

14. Where did most of your money go?
Away (rent, food, and games mainly)

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Katie - just in general

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
Richie Valens: "La Bamba"

17. Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
Sadder, because I was with my honeybun last year this day

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Making out with Katie

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Making out with that polar bear

20. How did you spend Christmas?
On an airplane

21. How did you be spend New Year's?
At the Cotton Club, listening to jazz and winning a pillow

22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
Define "fall"

23. How many one-night stands?
I stood the entire opening night of Rumors

24. What was your favorite TV program?
The Amazing Race

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Tons!

26. What was the best book you read?
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (reread)
Dress Your Family in Courderoy and Denim by David Sedaris (first time)

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Amplitude

28. What did you want and get?
Summer/Thanksgiving with Katie

29. What did you want and not get?
Christmas with Katie (and a job...yet)

29b. What did you not want and get?
Flies everywhere

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Garden State? If that doesn't count (I watched it in 2005), then The Incredibles

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 21 and I rehearsed

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Superpowers

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
Semi-Casual Lazy

34. What kept you sane?
Katie

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Keira Knightley

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

37. Who did you miss?
Katie

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Jed Harris

38b. Side question...who would you like to get to know better?
I think Katie will always be the answer, but CourtK and Mike Yin too

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
Happiness doesn't require work

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
How about 2?
"Courtney Kochuba ate a cat, that is why she's so damn fat!"
"Home where my music's playing, home with my thought's escaping, home where my love lies waiting silently for me."

And that, as they say, is that.