New Year 2014/2015

1) What did you do last year that you'd never done before?
Got a book contract and film lecturing interview

2) Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for this year?
No and no

3) Did you (or anyone close to you) give birth?
No

4) Did anyone close to you die?
No

5) Did you (or anyone close to you) experience a major life-changing event?
My best friend's boyfriend got a job in Saudi Arabia

6) What would you like to have this year that you lacked last year?
Film studies lecturing post

7) What date from last year will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
02/02/2014 the day I got my book contract

8) What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting an interview for film studies lecturer

9) What was your biggest failure?
Not getting a hold on my weight

10) Did you suffer illness or injury?
A pretty bad depressive episode

11) What was the best thing you bought?
My kitchen cabinet

12) Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Can't think of anyone

13) Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Jon Shaw. Gross.

14) Where did most of your money go?
Clothes and booze probably. Maybe furniture

15) What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Getting a book contract and interview

16) What song will always remind you of last year?
None

17) Compared to this time last year, are you happier or sadder?
Happier. Matt has a job and I have an interview

18) ...thinner or fatter?
Fatter. Gross.

19) ...richer or poorer?
Richer

20) What do you wish you'd done more of?
Watching films.

21) What do you wish you'd done less of?
Binging on dominoes

22) What was your favourite book?
I've really enjoyed rereading the Harry Potter books

23) What was your favourite movie (or TV program)?
Gone girl was awesome, as was Interstellar

24) What was your greatest discovery?
I can live without anti-depressants

25) Did anyone come to visit you?
Julia and Boti

26) Did you travel anywhere?
Amsterdam, St Jean de Cole, Nijmegen

27) Did you do anything really special and memorable?
Spent my 30th in Amsterdam. Possibly don't remember as much of it as I should have.

28) Do you love (really like) anyone or anything now that you didn't love this time last year?
Daniel Radcliffe. Comes across very well in interviews. The Marvel films are pretty cool too.

29) Do you hate (strongly dislike) anyone or anything now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Can't really think of anything or anyone. My hates are constant it seems.

30) What did you want and get?
An interview for a film studies lecturing job

31) What did you want and not get?
A film studies lecturing job (not had the interview yet!)

32) What did you do on your birthday?
I flew to Amsterdam and saw a museum of cats

33) What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Losing weight, film studies lecturing post

34) How would you describe your personal fashion concept for last year?
Leggings and jumpers

35) What kept you sane?
Quiet evenings in cooking and eating with Matt

36) Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Laurence Fox

37) What political issue stirred you the most?
Nothing

38) Who (or what) did you miss?
Rosie

39) Who was the best new person you met?
No-one. I don't really like new people