10: Did you suffer illness or injury?
nothing serious, thankfully. another year NOT started in the ER, i am on a fucking roll.

11: What was the best thing you bought?
a plane ticket. 

12: Whose behaviour merited celebration?
my parents, as always. 

13: Whose behaviour made you appalled?
politicians, mostly. 

14: Where did most of your money go?
shoes, clothes, & whole foods. 

15: What did you get really, really, really excited about?
getting my article published, going to australia, liam coming here. 

16: What song will always remind you of 2012?
there are actually 197 of them, and you can listen to them all here: Songs of 2012

17: Compared to this time last year, are you: (a) happier or sadder? (b) thinner or fatter? (c) richer or poorer?
(a) 1000x happier; (b) thinner; (c) probably about the same. 

18: How did you spend Christmas?
same as every year, with my family in CT.