around 6:00 p.m. . . . and now I'm wide awake at 1:00 a.m. So I shall do this meme:
1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
Visited Hawaii, Vermont and New Hampshire
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more
for next year?
I don't remember what they were; if losing weight, no. Next year? Yes!
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Not that I know of.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
My friends Karen and Dan lost their dogs Spike and Hank, whom I have known and loved for years, within days of each other a few weeks ago.
5. What countries did you visit?
Very briefly, Canada.
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
Peace with myself, healthy eating and exercise.
7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
1.24.07--making shareholder at my firm.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
That, plus being named G.C. at my favorite civil rights organization.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not doing a better job of navigating the ups and downs of various personal relationships.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing out of the ordinary.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
The ring with the light blue stone, in Hawaii, and the photograph of Fred Tuttle in Vermont.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My two dogs seemed to have negotiated a peace treaty, which makes me very happy.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Mine and my brother's. Also, that of a few colleagues.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Political and charitable contributions, travel.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The Chicago Cubs' playoff chances and my trips.
16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
"Waiting on the World to Change" by John Mayer.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? same
b) thinner or fatter? same
c) richer or poorer? richer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Exercise.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Worrying and second-guessing.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I'm hoping to volunteer for the Barack Obama campaign in New Hampshire.
21. Did you fall in love in 2007?
No.
22. How many one-night stands?
Um, well, how do you define that?
23. What was your favorite TV program?
None--I don't watch TV.
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No.
25. What was the best book you read?
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Luciano Pavrotti's Nessun Dorma (so I was late to that party), Anna Netrebko.
27. What did you want and get?
A treadmill and a convertible that doesn't malfunction multiple times per year.
28. What did you want and not get?
A paying position with the ACLU.
29. What was your favorite film of this year?
Paris Je T'Aime.
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 38, drove from southern New Hampshire to eastern Vermont, checked into a lovely inn and ate dinner by the fire while chatting with interesting innkeepers.
31.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
If I had done a better job of controlling my temper.
32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
Wearing colors every now and then, instead of only black, gray or brown.
33. What kept you sane?
My hunger for civil rights work and knowledge that the Shrub will leave the White House in 2009.
34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Jon Stewart.
35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Adherence (or not) to the Geneva Conventions, the right of habeas corpus.
36. Who did you miss?
My Dad and my grandmother.
37. Who was the best new person you met?
A fellow member of the board of my favorite civil rights organization.
38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007
Pay your traffic tickets on time.
39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Dream a little dream of me . . .
10 December 2007
I made the mistake of succumbing to sleep
Posted by Lisa at 1:09 AM
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6 comments:
From one person suffering from insomnia to the other: I missed the details of your (brief) trip to Canada. Where did you go? What did you do?
Brett: when I was in Vermont and New Hampshire in early September, I popped across the Canadian border, drove in for 5 minutes, and drove back out (stopping at checkpoints in each direction for a passport showing, of course), without seeing so much as even one Canadian city. I did this on a whim, and didn't have time to substantively visit, as I had to get to my inn which was a few hours south before dinnertime. I want to go back for a real visit sometime soon.
That's a cool meme. I don't think I could remember enough to answer all those questions.
"Pay your traffic tickets on time," Words to live by!
Excellent answers to this meme. Hope you found some sleep afterward.
Funny how many of us were suffering from insomnia last night. I wonder what was happening in the cosmos?
And yes, paying your traffic tickets on time is a very good idea.
Lisa, did you see the article about the biologist suing the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute? He was fired in 2004 and claims his civil rights were violated, as he was fired for refusing to believe that evolution was a scientific fact.
The reason I'm asking is because there were several details in the AP article that sparked my interest (such as if he was a legitimate scientist he would know that evolution was a theory and that he is now employed by Liberty Univeristy), but I'm not sure if that was because the suit had no merit or because of the article was not very well written.
Funny. I have insomnia too. Must be the warm weather. I've spent the last two hours cruising through a blogroll on a blog I found when I was trying to figure out how to get to the fire tower in Hillsborough.
I was wondering where all the local bloggers are.
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