2007 Year in Review (personal not pop culture)

I moved across the country. I have no friends where I live now. Kind of lame.

As for ’08, I may or may not want to see myself in Baghdad or Kabul. I’m not sure.

P.S. My girlfriend who lurks ILM/E thinks you’re here friend Bo Jackson from St. Louis. Not only does she have a friend whose real name is Bo Jackson but she was unaware of Bo ‘Knows’ Jackson.

My conscience is clean.

^^^^^

Mine would be if I didn't know that I have an ulterior motive for everything I do.

Professionally it was a good year: wrote a book, proofed final edits before the end of December, finished album, several successful tours, etc.

Personally this year can go to Hell and I am going to burn it in effigy on Tuesday. Family health problems, loss of my mother-in-law who was far too young to go, lots of other stuff. When I remember this year later the main thing I will remember is how much it took from me. Glad to see it go.

sorry to hear about that dude.

so, what was the book?

this here

well that doesn't seem to have worked. This? : http://www.continuumbooks.com/Books/detail.aspx?ReturnURL=/Series/default.aspx&CountryID=2&ImprintID=2&BookID=131531

i'm sry to hear that too john! maybe this year will be extra great to you.

i had an OK year -- my conscience is finally kicking in, and i'm struggling with issues of morality/values. my bf moved in and we're happy, and i have the best cat i could ever want. job is good if static, and my music has developed very well. bad: i'm about to embark on a lot of dental work and i still haven't managed my health like i should.

biggest lesson learned: value time above all else, cuz it will run out. this might be a typically 24th-year-of-life realization, but it felt very revolutionary to me.

(oh and i got an iPod finally which is big)

broke up with my girlfriend, got back together with her, gained about 15 pounds, went to italy (twice), two 4.0 semesters, started cooking again, met a bunch of ilxors, saw daft punk (twice). still felt like a shitty year, mostly because of relationship bullshit. lessons learned: be honest about your feelings, take care of yourself when youre stressed out, enjoy physical pleasure (not just sex!) because its just about the only thing you ever have going for you

it's the small things

oh john, i'm so sorry.

for me:
- came out of deep deep depression in March after a visit to Miami (hangin out with elan) for the WMC, visited San Francisco and pretty much determined that I shall move there soon, got a gig writing for a magazine, started a relatively successful techno/house blog, worked with kids for the summer, went back to college and finally graduated!!, came out to my parents, got a nice little relationship with a wonderful boy started, stopped drinking so much, started cutting my pills in half....

yeah, pretty ace year.

2006 was awful, glad that this year was better.

on the other hand, both my parents started to show signs of age with many illnesses for both. kinda weird to realize that they're not going to be around forever.

regeneration.

came out of deep deep depression in March after a visit to Miami (hangin out with elan)

You must visit again!

worst year of life so far lol

Had a cool internship at a fancy cultural institution.
Got engaged.
Graduated from college (7 years behind the rest of my high school class, but hey...).
Took a great trip to Sequoia National Park - peak experience of year.
Got disengaged.
Moved back in with parents in total ignominy.
Went to a lifelong friend's wedding.
Got a job that doesn't pay much, but that I really like.
Drank an ocean of coffee.
Started tucking in my shirts.
Drinking beer from a glass.
Went to the library a lot.
Eat more vegetables than I used to.

2007, it's been emotional.

Oh Alfred, I certainly will visit again. Maybe if elan will have me, for the WMC in March? i hope it's during his spring break. (I NO LONGER HAVE SPRING BREAK HOLY FUCK)

I'm trying to think of any meaningful way that my life is different than it was a year ago. Nothing's ringing any bells. I guess the biggest change in my life is that I started eating fish occasionally for the first time since 1998.

I turned 30. I feel much wiser now!

visited mongrels
got a job
played soccer football for the first time in decades
first full year of marriage
was counseled to little effect
first full year in nyc
didn't read enough
didn't play hockey
didn't even touch a basketball, weird
spent too much time on interweb
first slurping of raw oysters (yummy)
got magazine work published
endured visit from mom and ex-step-aunt
noticed grey hairs
lost the ability to remember things
had a totally effective surprise birthday party
met hott ilx0rs

ehh, it was a year i guess

On average a pretty good year. Decent health for myself and most of my loved ones. No catastrophes or noteworthy setbacks. A fairish amount of vacation and enough income to get by. Good food and a roof over my head.

I only wish I had been able to spend a bit more time hiking and camping than I did, but in truth I spent a lot of time hiking and camping this year, so I can't really complain.

discovered the internetz
met an amazing guy, fell in love properly for the first time
lost my depression fat
stop lurking on ilx and started posting
didn't freak out when i ran into the crazy ex who ruined my life for 3yrs
backslid somewhat by returning to my old job for $$$
failed more classes than i passed
rediscovered my love of art
made TONS of amazing awesome cool new friends
started to plan moving my life to other side of earth

best year of my life so far, in all honesty. lots of changes, mostly internal, but stuff that needed to happen. i think next year will be even better.

met several far-flung ILXors on their too-brief visits to Seattle
moved from suburban-feeling remote south Seattle to downtown Seattle
downsized by 400 sq ft and 1 storage container
learned to sleep through "Heavy Metal Madness" Mondays and "Punks n Pints" Tuesdays
saw multiple aging British punk rockers in live shows
spent 1/3 of life away from home working too close to a landfill
read quite a lot, and utilized library instead of buying books
cooked/baked far too little
in surprise move, quit job

not a bad year, but not the best.

most intense year of my life, probably
did MLA job interviews
taught at san francisco art institute
did campus visits for academic jobs
graduated from grad school
took job offer from johns hopk1ns
toured europe and america
moved from san francisco to baltimore
started new job as professor daniel
taught first class at hopk1ns
more shows and conferences in europe
wrote a book on Throbbing Gristle
finished a new Matmos album
tried to not go crazy doing all of the above
possibly I am crazy anyway

finally got over a two year bout of depression
got some self esteem
stopped being so cranky
started an amazing new job

we're having a baby girl!
angst grew about well paying job i am coming to hate which is all of a sudden indispensable (see #1).
i learned how to dress a little better.

fucking just lost a booklet full of notes, poems and messages from friends

Ah shit L0uis, I was going to ask how that went, too bad :(

2007 has felt kind of tepid but with perspective I'll know that's only up against the consistent awesomeness of 2006.

2007 sort of felt it was chugging along going nowhere in particular (work especially) but the last month has been kind of WAU! Trip to New York, new housemates and new friends, hopefully developing situation with cute new girl etc etc. I'm actually kind of looking forward to 08 in that I have no idea whatsoever where it's going.

But actually, my happiest moment of 07 still involves dancing in the woods in Devon, and possibly the whole weekend around that moment. Idyllic in the way nothing else in 07 has managed.

sounds wicked! how did the pub crawl end up btw?

louis what happened??

there was a booklet which contained a load of messages from people i went to summer camp with, it was my last course and the messages meant quite a bit. in the spare pages i'd taken notes on books i'd been reading in the british library, relevant to my degree, and i'd also written quite a few poems, three of which i hadn't typed out. i've spent the past few hours trying to remember them. only one has returned in its entirety, and the best one has had to be reworked into something really short. :(

lost as in 'misplaced it and have no idea where' or 'irretrievably gone and no hope of return'? dude that really sucks :( :( :(

well i'm gonna phone the three pubs i went to tomorrow, and if it ain't there then there's the tiniest of chances it will have fallen into the hands of our rail network's lost property bureau. i'd say 10-1 on that it's been disposed of by a cleaner of some description.

or, worse, reappropriated by some charlatan intent on stealing my words.

did you have any contact details written in it?

Pros:
Got a truckload of paid music production finished.
Reconnected with a childhood friend who has grown up to be an amazingly
awesome woman.
Completely buried the hatchet with someone who broke my heart a few years back.
New contacts & musical endeavours set to roll in '08.
Rediscovered house music.
Became an exponentially better drummer than I ever was in my twenties.
Hip Hop Karaoke!!!

Cons:
My little brother dying way too fucking young.
My Mom's increasingly poor physical & emotional health, which have only
been made worse by the loss of her son, culminating in an episode in which I almost threw my own mother out of my home.
The end of what I thought was a healthy business partnership with someone
I used to really trust.
The bizarre, on-again-off-again relationship with my daytime job continues.

fuckin charlatans

lj what's yr football team? i'm sure this is obvious on other threads, but i've no patience for wading. with any luck it isn't everton after today's result...

no but my name is clearly louis. might change my fbook profile as a last resort. xxpost.

mookieproof my football team is Charlton Athletic and today we scraped a 1-1 draw away at Leicester City. 2007 has seen them heartbreakingly relegated from the Premiership, before mounting a semi-convincing promotion campaign this season. We'll see how it pans out in 2008, doubtless. you an evertonian?

tried to drift along but pissed away all my money and credit on booze in the process, grew increasingly withdrawn and scared of people, realized i won't be able to have a successful relationship with anyone anytime in the near future, tried to figure out why i'm in graduate school and failed (again), figured out how to turn my furnace on, did not show any ambition or initiative because of general paralysis, etc.

no, but i am somewhat anti-arsenal after a nightmarish episode ten years ago that involved scalping tickets only to discover that the match had been postponed (to the day i was flying home), then being told by the remaining scalpers to place my tickets between two pieces of bread to make a sandwich. and as the fan of an american baseball team that should long since have been relegated, i can sympathise.

i did see eduardo's two and then everton's fuckup that led to arsenal's third goal today.

anyway, good luck with your journal. i do have faith, however, that you'll find more words.

Well, as I returned home prematurely from the ILX/FT pub-crawl it did occur to me that creativity was to be found in the act of destruction (what have Einsturzende Neubauten taught us?). What's come back to me is probably just as good as what I lost, but the notes and the messages won't ever return. More food for poetry, mind!

That is bloody nightmarish! Have you gotten to see many live league games in Britain while you've been here? To be honest Arsenal 10 years ago weren't quite as glamorous or exciting as the current model, even if they did win the double.

Which baseball team is it? The Mets?

Eduardo's two were both great finishes, although he did handle one clearly. Everton were their own undoers to be honest. There's been some truly disgraceful defending in the Premiership in the past couple of weeks. You'd have thought they'd get the basics right!

take it to email dickwad

tantrum, jess and others: hope you guys pull through.

Still trying to rid myself of m insecuritities/panic attacks.

Got pregnant. Delivered. Sleep deprived and happy as a result.

hey strgn: eat my fuc

it is the pittsburgh pirates, who have had fifteen straight losing seasons and are headed, optimistically, for at least a few more

I don't really know how to rate 2007.

I am still fucked with health but in the second half of the year I have begun to go back to a normal life and my normal social life and stuff just by force of will which has felt good. I now feel, tentatively, that even if I stay sick I can live with it. At least, I've got better at dealing with it and it can't get any worse, or doesn't seem to be doing so.

As for career, 2007 has been a pretty great year I guess. I've done a lot of music writing and that's been good, started a column and stuff and done all of the music writing I want to do really, perhaps more than I want to do.

Then in the last month I got a job I applied for with the BBC in London, which has basically bowled me over and made this year a brilliant one.

As for personal life, broke up with gf of 2 and a half years about 2 months ago and that has been hard, I don't really know how to be single anymore or what sort of person I am when it comes to wanting to meet new people for relationships but I guess I'll find out in time.

I sort of feel like I am coming through the end of the worst ordeal of my life, this sickness, without the cause actually ending. As such I don't really know who I am much anymore, which is both good and bad.

I'd have to say a good year all in all though, everything being relative and such.

cheers ronan

Indeed. Great news about the job offer!

Pretty good year all in all, looming feelings of geopolitical dread notwithstanding. Cooked a lot more, saw my family a lot, got published via the Marooned anthology, saw a hell of a lot of bands, listened to god knows how much music, started writing for the OC Weekly at last, maintained old friendships, made new ones, enjoyed life, etc. Sure I'm forgetting a lot but hey, can't complain.

wtf are you doing awake?

im watching svu personally

wtf are you doing awake?

I wake up ungodly early most days

i thought i saw you posting a couple hours ago, figured you'd been up all night.

2007 has been a heck of a year for me, very intense in a lot of ways. so much has changed. this time last year the only thing in my immediate life that didn't need changing was my home life, which has stayed the same and is still pretty much perfect. an incredible work opportunity and challenge fell from the sky in march (ok i guess i put myself in the right place to catch it) which i grabbed and ran as far and as fast as i could with, and it seems i have kept hold of it, for the time being at least. fell headfirst helplessly in love and for the first time it seems it's reciprocated, although the situation is complicated and it brings me as much turmoil as it does happiness. i'm more responsible, more motivated and have a touch more self-confidence than a year ago. i turned 29 in august, maybe this is my saturn return happening. bring on 2008.

career reinvention continues at slow/steady pace
one writing project deep-sixed after couple frustrating yers
new ^^ started w/guarded enthusiasm
family trip to wyoming w/inlaws a success
reconnected w/my mom's family @ fun june wedding
xmas gathering w/siblings surprisingly argument-free
marital relations on even keel for a change
parenting grows more challenging & complex -- "tweens are the new teens" no kidding
overall I'm starting 2nd half century in good spiritz

2007 was the worst.

broke up with girlfriend -- necessary but very sad
convinced company to hire me as consultant -- very exciting
went to quit day job, promised me whatever i want to get me to stay
quite fun but very stressful period of job negotiatons
fun turned into nightmare as i slowly lost grip on reality, ended up in psych ward diagnosed with manic episode + bipolar disorder
consulting job offer collapsed as suddenly needed health insurance to pay bills
summer came huge scary depression, basically unable to function
quit day job, couldn't handle it
returned home to parents for 3 months to recover

things looking up at the moment -- went back to nyc in november + reconnected with friends + life...

hoping 2008 will bring better things!

strgn= jess?

Yeah, maybe not, in retrospect. I took my cue from this comment that follwed strgn's: "tantrum, jess and others: hope you guys pull through." (emphasis mine). No other comments from a "jess" (or "strongo"), so I figured strgn=jess.

- change the locks on the useless leech "housemate".
- miss opportunity at really obvious romantic liaison.
- grow increasingly weary of broken promises and inept management at job; slack off, come in late etc.
- buy a lot of records.
- get prompted to apply for new, exciting but part-time job. umm and aah over it; decide that i can't really cover the bills by only working 3 days a week.
- get prompted again - "if you're that good, the old job will still want you 2 days/week, easy". apply. get job! quit old job, get pay rise to stay there part-time.
- credit card gets identity thefted, $2k of charges rung up in 48 hrs.
- new job is great, but two jobs at once strenuous.
- mentalist housemate stops speaking to me; decision to move out confirmed when rent gets jacked up 20%.
- meet lots of interesting ppl through new job.
- more records.
- eventually axe the old job when new employer offers more hours.
- credit card nonsense slowly working its way through the system.
- get nice bag for christmas.
- rental market is hard; may have to move in temporarily with parents.

i dunno, fair to middling? so much better than '06 though, which was just a total disaster.

Struggled with illness which resulted in me losing my job.
Bought a new house which is approx 10000000x better than the old one.
Got to post on the "this is the thread where we curse cancer" thread.
Had a couple of excellent holidays and a couple of great trips to London.
Lost touch with some old friends.
Made some excellent new friends.
Couldn't be arsed doing much over most of the latter part of the year.
When I did do things, like going to my first camping festival for years or going ice-skating in the park, they were terrific fun.

It was mostly shit, with some pretty good bits thrown in to alleviate the shitness. Next year I hope that the good things outweigh the bad for the first time in a long time.

A good year, especially in comparison to the deep lows (albeit countered with huge highs ) of 2006.

Steady, but good.

Got kinda headhunted and given a £3.5k payrise out of nowhere, saving me from a job I was really hating and putting me into one I kind of like.

Finally saw Boredoms live.

Formulated potential relocation type plans with the missus (dependent on her getting on her chosen MA course).

Out to a gig a week.

On the downside I put maybe another stone on, and am feeling older than my age generally in a physical sense (only).

lost job
turned 27
rock bottom
free wii

Not sure whether it was a good year or a bad year but certainly a significant one:

1. Fell in love with learning
2. Figured out what I really want to do with my life
3. Graduated
4. Got a proper grown-up job that I don't hate and that enables me to peruse ILX all day long at my absolute leisure
5. Left Brighton :(
6. Began heading towards some semblance of financial solvency
7. Fell in love (again) with someone I shouldn't have
8. She left the country
9. Shagged hot lead singer of awesome californian band which made me feel marginally better about 7 and 8

Started year as happy as I've ever been.
Took new job working night shifts.
Crashed car.
Kind of fixed car, but my car looked like an ugly beater from them on out.
Turned 21.
Took much-needed vacation to SF.
Didn't tell the girl of my dreams who quite obviously had a thing for me how I felt about her. She left for Texas.
Had falling out with roommate.
Moved back in with parents.
Dropped classes because job was leaving me exhausted.
Bought new car.
Got laid off.
Spent a couple weeks fixing up the house after it got flooded in the great storm.
Got an ipod for Christmas.
Ended year broke, bored, lonely, and frustrated.

The last two-three months were kind of a bummer.

very intense year
got first ever book project, dream come true, except for '80,000 words in 3 months' deadline
break up with girlfriend in very traumatic circumstances a week before book is due.
finish book (150,000 words, 4 months) but essentially wish i was dead, culminating in interminably bleak 48 hour work trip in las vegas with Fall Out Boy (they were lovely, LV was not) where I realise things cannot be as were, so deal.
freelance writing tough to get back into, money very tight, morale sinking.
book publication delayed till 2008, along with last third of advance fee. money gets tighter.
begin teaching again, and find i am finally confident enough to begin enjoying it. morale skyrockets.
work begins to come in again. phew.
get sent early copy of book, reread it in a day. do not hate it. begin to feel jan-may not quite such a pointless and depressing grind after all.
meet most awesomest girl in November and amazing things happen.

mixed bag, full of hard work with little immediate reward and grim emotional stuff that, in retrospect, had to happen, but was no fun at the time. last month or so has seemed insanely great, though - the happiest and most stable since family bereavement in 2002. though i don't believe in luck/fate, feels as if a curse/cloud of some kind has lifted, and that 2008 has potential to be as great as the last eight weeks or so.

Hope all who had a tough one this year are on the mend, or on the road to on the mend, or just know that that road is out there.

Good year - best in a while for me:
Started going to gym, lost much weight
have steady job I enjoy
released a couple of 12's and a CD which were succesful
went to Detroit for DEMF and saw/met a few musical heroes - all
excellent people

Can't expect the same for '08 but my fingers
are crossed

2007 = broke even

not a single day in rehab or shelter or under the bridge
2007 way better than 2006
making some friends locally now
terrible year by anyone else's standards but better than I ever thought it could be

^^^^ pretty much

im pretty stoked and positive right now, and im having trouble identifying with all the times i felt shitty this year. i think this is a new cognitive development and i love it. also im on ecsatsssssyyy

all your brief accountings are good to read even if they involve brutal things
.life.

music making & performing
radio doing
community & friendship building
yoga discoveries
alignment with non-fiction writing process
self-worth plummets, valleys and small hills
too much indoor summer time work & procrastination re: work
body a hypersensitive war zone
awesome cat died
better at emotions
became a master of teh arts
saw familllyy again yaay
new glasses = seeing clearly
became less poor
body in peace keeping zone, mind getting there
horizon clearing
possibilities opening

saw a LOT of texas, my home state, for the first time
reunited with my cat, so wonderful
somehow through total debasement came to accept myself

2007 = big time 4-5-1. disappointingly un-noteworthy, achieved very little, let myself go too much, lost touch with certain people for various reasons, career at dead end stop and for the first time i've not really known what i want to do anymore, got v jaded and depressed and stressed/anxious to get a damned rash. totally bored with my life and require transitions but there were still some good times socially (inc. great beach holiday and camping weekend) and some great music and TV kept me entertained. but am more grateful than i sound for it not being much worse and considering the things that have happened to some other people i know. bleh.

Bought house. Fathered child. Started own business. I trust '08 will be marginally less stressful.

- Had the most satisfying set of close friends since, well, ever basically
- Broke up with longterm GF which was both good and bad. We are still living together for the next few weeks which is pleasingly OK
- One of my friends got hit by a car and died which sucked a lot
- My uncle who I'd not seen for a good five years died which sucked but was inevitable
- Put on some good shows without losing shitloads of money, which was a novelty
- Went absolutely nowhere, forward or back, in terms of career, finance, general lifestyle
- One of my cats went missing for 10 weeks and then came back which was shockah (overall kinda good cos he was really nervous but seemed to gain a bunch of confidence doing whatever the fuck he was doing in that time)

Overall it was Ok I guess

- maintained 4.0 gpa in pre-nursing classes, passed state CNA exam, made a bunch of awesome new friends at school
- stood by helplessly while long-time social group began to slowly disintegrate; came to the conclusion in December that most of the friendships will continue even if the group itself breaks apart over stupid, tangentally related bullshit
- got kids launched in 4th grade and kindergarten (respectively) in the fall; over the summer I realized that me being home with them 24-7 is unhealthy for everyone
- husband got promotion and raise at his job... and a ton more stress
- celebrated 12 year wedding anniversary the same day husband ran Twin Cities Marathon (husband did not die despite horrible heat and humidity)
- didn't read nearly enough books, but did see a lot more movies than I would have due to 3x/week treadmill-and-tv watching plan

Overall: pretty decent year despite a lot of hassles and saying "will you two stop fighting!?" way too often to my kids

erm ok looking at the whole year
didn't make enormous strides academically but REALLY sharpened up my ideas about life, friends, aims and self-worth
music taste went through several radical revolutions, mind continued to open (how much stuff IS there?)
started going to gigs regularly (lol sheltered life)
joined the uni radio station committee = POWER & INFLUENCE
edited a magazine for the first time
POPPAGE
first kiss as well
circumstances of first kiss get plastered all over hands the internets, everyone IRL finds out too, general mirth/derision/handwringing
get into some seriously wack poetry, own writing changes accordingly
write play, direct it in college bar
work as a temp at a sports website = A+ work experience
attempted to form band XD
found some consistency in my leg-spin bowling which was nice
goalkeeping sturdier than ever
started wearing contact lenses, also now have good clothes and a stubble trimmer, look at photos of me aged 10 and some crazy ugly duckling shit has come about
had a girlfriend for a few weeks, not really who i wanted but hey you gotta start somewhere
all the ones i wanted passed on by ;_; but i am still young
basically 2007 wasn't awesome but it will almost certainly enable future years to be TOTALLY awesome
therefore it was pretty awesome

- no real harsh negatives, except for um maybe a bit frustrated by whole years totally melting into each other as unremarkable perhaps? lol middle age?
+ w/wife visited NYC for the first time and it was AWES
+ met bunch of (now mostly rarely) ilxors in London

Didn't see close friends as much as I'd liked.
Started off pretty badly (our cat died of cancer & my wife got fired the same week in January) but apart from that it's been pretty good. Much better than last year anyway.
We're finally getting out of our pit of debt, I got a pay rise & my wife is getting taken on permanent at her new job next month, so woo!
Didn't get arrested either, which is always a bonus.

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first kiss as well
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Finally made some progress with writing after seven years
Lack of pain/pleasure in personal life worrying
Realized where I grew up was harsh but made me strong, other soil makes me weak
Tried to take refuge in the three jewels, sort of worked - thanks Buddha

broke up w/ long-term bf at very beginning of year
maintained friendship w/ him anyway, despite rough going for awhile at first
went to west coast for first time ever
graduated college
drank way too much
began applying to grad schools
still working awesome library job
also working internship that i have mixed feelings about
several romantic liaisons that went basically nowhere
uncle passed away
vague sense of disconnect w/ family steadily growing
went to see a lot of movies and art shows
went to germany again
started buying records semi-regularly again
re-connected with some people i haven't seen in awhile
lost touch w/ others completely, tho i'm sure not for good
and met a couple of ILXors so hey, there's that

not bad overall.

Great trip to Amsterdam, meeting up with friends. Otherwise, a holding pattern. Big nuthin'. 10 lbs. heavier, a year closer to the grave. Whoopie.

crashed car
finished grad school
got two job offers
took one
went to aunt's funeral
sold car
moved to astoria
lived happily ever after?

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:(

Ach, it's nothing that sleeping properly and thinking about other people for a change won't turn around. Maybe. There were small victories along the way too.

i'm rereading A Thread for Posting Brutally Pessimistic Quotes by Anguished Philosophers
always worth a plug

I think that thread was where I found out about Cioran to be honest.

me too. that thread has provided me some consolation tonight, thx brocephus.

in order:

made a record
fuck a valentines day
went on tour
started djing
started book club
moved
lost BFF
got a thunderbird bass
met a nice dude

Broke up with much loved bf of 4 years due to other romantic entanglement I should have had more wisdom not to tangle myself in, dealing with awesome highs and lows from both all at once
Had somewhat of an emotional breakdown as a result, skipped ton of work, drank lots, lost plot
Gave up caring about said (terrible) job
Got "fired" (they made me resign)
Nan had stroke
Dad lost job
Realised that very good friend of 5 years who was about to become my flatmate was someone I actually loved a fuck of a lot
Ended up in relationship with said friend

2007 was a deeply fucked up year for me, but it has ended reasonably well (job shit notwithstanding) so bring on 2008, it can't come fast enough.

Waited for laparotomy
Submitted 33 1/3 outline
Had operation
Recovered
Was rejected by 33 1/3
Visited London for Easter holiday
Programmed a set for Poptimism and was complimented on it, which was very nice
Put on provera for unusual reasons (ie not for birth control)
Began tutoring French
Prepared for wedding
Got married to MC
Mom broke hip
Am moving to London to live with husband next year, so YAY 2008

Took me half way through that post before I realised who you were so hello anyway. Also yay 2008.

to me, 2007 is like a college friend who you got to know real well and definitely changed you in plenty of ways and you probably also had a few really good times with... but basically was a drag and you wish you didn't have to see so often and when graduation day comes you're going to say "see you later" but you're so stoked that you never have to see that asshole ever again.

i'm ready for 2008.

gr8080 8080

yep

too much tv too many w33d binges inane conversations etc

2007 was a crushingly pivotal year for almost everyone wasn't it? The amount of long term breakups and deaths has been staggering.

life, etc.

tedious, absurdly stressful year but i achieved a shitload of good things so oh well