2009, GTFO. Hi, 2010. // January 1, 2010

The reason why it’s such a huge file is so that I won’t forget. Hello, 2010. Very glad you could finally grace us with your presence, seeing as 2009 absolutely sucked.

Now that I think about it, though, I have no idea why I thought that 2009 was a suckfest. Nothing really drastic happened to me (except for our dog dying) and to be quite honest, 2009 had a lot of milestones for me, in terms of personal goals and markers. I guess the stress just kept on piling up, and there was collective unrest perpetually present in everyone I’ve spoken to. In the last few months of 2009, people were practically begging the days to go by faster so that they could start over. Like the coming of the new year meant that the sucky cards they were dealt with would automatically change to absolutely fantastic ones.

All in all, I think I actually kind of liked 2009 because that was when I came to terms with who I was. I became less pretentious and more comfortable with myself, which is a little funny because someone called me out for being pretentious. But I digress.

I’m not going to do those year-end posts, where people list their favorite records or favorite films, because I have a knack of getting into things late, and also of forgetting things. I guess I am lucky that Last.fm keeps track of my listening habits. Here are the people I most listened to in 2009:

  1. Pavement
  2. Animal Collective
  3. The National
  4. Vampire Weekend
  5. Elliott Smith
  6. Voxtrot
  7. Mark Mothersbaugh
  8. Brand New
  9. Bob Dylan
  10. Okkervil River

The films that stuck out were Adventureland, Up, (500) Days of Summer, Inglourious Basterds, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Watchmen and Paper Heart. My favorite books were John Green’s “Looking for Alaska” and “An Abundance of Katherines,” Dave Eggers’ “The Wild Things,” Margaret Atwood’s “The Penelopiad,” David Levithan’s “The Realm of Possibility” and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s “Galápagos,” “Slaughterhouse-Five,” and “Cat’s Cradle.”

I know that doesn’t say much about what my year has been like, but it’s nice to go back and try to remember. 2009 sucked, on the whole, but I think I don’t feel its suckage as much (as I did at the time these things happened), because there was a fair amount of growing up involved on my part.

And all I can really do in 2010 is to try to be better, and that is, I think, the most I can really hope for.

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  1. Ah, this reminds me that I was planning to write down my resolutions tonight! Almost everyone’s doing Project 365. I’m jealous since I won’t even try because I know I’m gonna be swamped with schoolwork until March.

    I hope you get to do everything on your list, Carina! Especially the last ones (in blue). :)

    Comment by Ley — January 1, 2010 #

  2. I want to read 52 books also. Gah, wish me luck. Thatd be hard with all the schoolwork.

    Comment by Isa — January 3, 2010 #

  3. Cool! Up, (500) Days of Summer, and Watchmen are on my list too. I’ve never heard of your favorite artists on last.fm though.

    Happy 2010!

    Comment by rob — January 9, 2010 #

  4. Carinuuuuh. I miss you. I don’t bump into you in Starbucks naaaa.

    Comment by Chris — January 10, 2010 #

  5. I couldn’t find you on Plurk so I Googled you just because I remembered you. Have you heard of the band Discovery? It’s Rostam Batmanglij (keyboards, guitar, backing vocals) of Vampire Weekend and Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot… Hence I remembered you!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF1qmCdXeAk&feature=related

    If you don’t like it you’ll find it at least very interesting! Don’t worry not all their songs have the vocals obnoxiously auto-tuned :P On second thought you’ve probably already heard of them…

    By the way, check the link on my name, I’m doing the whole electronic duo thing as well LOLSPAM

    Comment by Migi — January 11, 2010 #

  6. Ley: See? Other people like you are sensible. Why can’t I be? /also swamped with school ’til March Feb.

    Isa: I figure I can catch up with all the unemployment I will be taking part in after graduation. You can pick a smaller number :)

    Rob: Try them out. I recommend all of them!

    Chris: I stopped going because I ran out of money. Lol forever. I miss you too. <3

    Migi: May silbi pala ang Google! Hehe. I’ve only heard of them, but not really their stuff. Thanks, I shall check Discovery out. I really love Rostam’s recording of “Campus,” though so I’ve got high hopes! HAHA sige, I will check out your LOLSPAM.

    Comment by Carina — January 12, 2010 #

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