The End of 2007 - Part II
Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 03:09AM 14. What do you wish you'd done more of?
After careful consideration of this question, the answer is... nothing. I qualify that because it's not the easy answer - there isn't anything I wanted to do more of that would have been possible - physically, financially or emotionally - so.. wishing I'd done more of something that I wouldn't have been able to... see where I'm going with this?
15. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Continuing to work MORE than I had to for the people who were hurting me.
16. Did you fall in love in 2007?
No.
17. What was your favorite TV program?
Friday Night Lights.
Saving Grace.
House.
Supernatural.
18. What was the best book you read?
Good lord. I read a minimum of five a week. According to my account, 245 of them were from the library this year. Let's say...
best 'new' series - The Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward.
best 'new' writer - Jeff Long
travel writer - Tim Cahill
The Devil of Nanking, Mo Hayder.
Greg Hurwitz
Kim Harrison
I'd like to add a few "deep" books here but although I read a few, nothing is standing out as particularly relevant to me this year. Plus, I didn't really have the concentration level.
19. What one thing would have made your year measurably more satisfying?
Again, familiar litany...
20. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
Army un-chic.
Trackpants with wifebeater.
Hospital work-clothes.
That's all I wore.
21. What kept you sane?
Cabot.
Books.
primetime TV.
The friends previously mentioned.
22. Who did you miss?
Philly.
Kyle.
The Matt I knew.
23. Who was the best new person you met?
Dr. Michael Murray.
Simon.
24. Tell us a valuable lesson you learned in 2007.
That even in the most horrible of personal circumstances, I still have time to be good and gentle to those that I love and still have pieces of me to give.
I learned (er... was forced to learn) that I can survive quite comfortably on far less money than I'd thought.
That, in most circumstances these days, the morally right and universally good things to do are still the hardest and the most punished - but that I will continue to choose them.
25. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
There's two. Both are K.T. Tunstall.
Hold on to what you've been given lately.
Hold on to what you know you've got.
Hold on to what you've been given lately.
Hold on 'cause the world will turn if you're ready or not.
Miniature disasters and minor catastrophes,
Bring me to my knees.
Well I must be my own master,
Or a miniature disaster will be,
Will be the death of me.
I don't have to raise my voice,
Don't have to be underhand,
Just gotta understand.
That it's gonna be up and down,
Gonna be lost and found.
And then I can't take to the sky before I like it on the ground...
And I need to patient, And I need to be brave,
I need to discover how I need to behave,
And I'll find out the answers when I know what to ask,
But I'm speaking the wrong language, and everybody's talking too fast..
Reader Comments (2)
I've said it before, but it remains true: you are among the most admired people in my world, for reasons far too numerous to list.
Here's a wish from me for you to a 2008 full of good things.