{"id":157,"date":"2011-12-17T02:17:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T02:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/vexvox\/2011\/12\/17\/2011\/"},"modified":"2016-09-11T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T06:59:00","slug":"post_157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/vexvox\/2011\/12\/17\/post_157\/","title":{"rendered":"2011\u5e74\u306e\u7d42\u308f\u308a"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m posting this entry from a hotel room in Seattle after spending the day hunting for an apartment.<\/p>\n

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    \n
  1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?<\/strong>
    Accepted a job in another state!<\/li>\n
  2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?<\/strong>\n

    I didn’t make a New Year’s resolution for 2011, although I did achieve the goal of finding a job that would take me out of Austin.<\/li>\n

  3. Did anyone close to you give birth?<\/strong>\n

    No.<\/li>\n

  4. Did anyone close to you die?<\/strong>\n

    No.<\/li>\n

  5. What countries did you visit?<\/strong>\n

    None.<\/li>\n

  6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?<\/strong>\n

    A sense of home based on where I am instead of where I’m not.<\/li>\n

  7. What dates from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?<\/strong>\n

    The week of Dec. 4 looms larger over the rest of the year. It’s when I flew to Seattle for a job interview and landed it.<\/li>\n

  8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?<\/strong>
    At this point, it should be pretty obvious.<\/li>\n
  9. What was your biggest failure?<\/strong>
    I didn’t reach my quota of billable hours in Q2, thus no bonus.<\/li>\n
  10. Did you suffer illness or injury?<\/strong>
    Caught the flu in October.<\/li>\n
  11. What was the best thing you bought?<\/strong>
    Guitar Rig 4.<\/li>\n
  12. Whose behavior merited celebration?<\/strong>
    No answer.<\/li>\n
  13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?<\/strong>
    The Republican Party.<\/li>\n
  14. Where did most of your money go?<\/strong>
    Still to my home studio, The Closet<\/li>\n
  15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?<\/strong>
    Knowing that I’m moving to Seattle, but also finishing enough remixes to consider proper album releases.<\/li>\n
  16. What song will always remind you of 2011?<\/strong>
    Probably something off of Kuriyama Chiaki’s CIRCUS<\/em> or SuiseiNoboAz’s THE (OVERUSED) END OF THE WORLD and I MISS YOU MUH-FUH<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  17. Compared to this time last year, are you:\n

    a. happier or sadder<\/p>\n

    b. thinner or fatter<\/p>\n

    c. richer or poorer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    a. Happier, although mostly in December b. Unchanged c. Positive net worth, but that should change fast<\/li>\n

  18. What do you wish you’d done more of?<\/strong>
    Songwriting<\/li>\n
  19. What do you wish you’d done less of?<\/strong>
    Living in Austin<\/li>\n
  20. How will you be spending\/did you spend Christmas?<\/strong>
    Packing and cleaning<\/li>\n
  21. Did you fall in love in 2011?<\/strong>
    Only with the photos of hot guys on Grindr.<\/li>\n
  22. How many one-night stands?<\/strong>
    Zero.<\/li>\n
  23. What was your favorite TV program?<\/strong>
    BLEACH<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?<\/strong>
    Yes.<\/li>\n
  25. What was the best book you read?<\/strong>
    I haven’t finished it, but it’s turning out to be 1Q84<\/em> by Haruki Murakami, although I liked Kafka on the Shore<\/em> far more than I expected to.<\/li>\n
  26. What was your greatest musical discovery?<\/strong>
    New Amsterdam Records<\/li>\n
  27. What did you want and get?<\/strong>
    A new job<\/li>\n
  28. What did you want and not get?<\/strong>
    My favorites on Grindr.<\/li>\n
  29. What was your favorite film of this year?<\/strong>
    I might go with The Descendants<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?<\/strong>
    I turned 39, and I told no one in my office.<\/li>\n
  31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?<\/strong>
    A one-night stand with one of my favorites on Grindr.<\/li>\n
  32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?<\/strong>
    You assume I have any sense of fashion.<\/li>\n
  33. What kept you sane?<\/strong>
    You assume I’m sane.<\/li>\n
  34. Which celebrity\/public figure did you fancy the most?<\/strong>
    Post coming-out Sean Maher.<\/li>\n
  35. What political issue stirred you the most?<\/strong>
    Equality.<\/li>\n
  36. Who did you miss?<\/strong>
    _____ ______<\/li>\n
  37. Who was the best new person you met?<\/strong>
    _____ ______<\/li>\n
  38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2011.<\/strong>
    Don’t know about life lessons, but I sure did get to flex my atrophied JAVA skills this year.<\/li>\n
  39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.<\/strong>
    Hold your head up, movin’ on\/Keep your head up, movin’ on<\/em> — Eurythmics, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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