Some (mostly cool) things I did in 2009

• Grew out of my straightened hair. That was cool. Got a super chic haircut that turned heads upon getting curly hair. :)
  
• Started eating beef again? I'm anemic and I have to start eating red meat in order to get more iron because my ferrous sulfate tablets threaten to make me hurl and I think pork is too chewy.
• Ate at Five Guys with a homeless guy who tried to give us a necklace in turn for a burger and then Jason felt bad for him and said he'd give him some fries to which he responded "Please, I've had so many fries!"
  
• Gone on a camping trip with my friends complete with swimming in a lake, not showering, kissing boys, making breakfast in the morning and singing in the car both ways.
• Visited Washington DC with my best friend and stayed at my fabulous teacher's house. Rode the subway every day and lived the good life for about a week.
  
• Had a summer of dreams: working at a great internship, hanging out with friends every day, watching television and actually getting life things accomplished (as well as the aforementioned two trips)
• Got a 5 on my Calc AP test and passed the UW Calc 221 placement test-- I'm not so great at tests, who would've thought?
• Survived my stupid dance class, getting into college and also the whole forgetting to send in my housing deposit thing.
  
• Opened up a checking account and credit card with a bank as an 18-year-old.
• Got good grades at college because of what I actually knew and learned and tried to do and not because I crammed for my finals or because I did lots of extra credit, but because I tried my best and wanted to learn what I was learning.
  
• Made (some) new friends. Kept the old! :) Built lasting friendships through experiences and had some of the best times of my life!
  
• Organized all this stuff only to have it fall apart again, of course.
  
• Realized that I might just really want to be fluent in French.
  
• Allowed myself to fall back in love with music and get really excited about it.
• Oh yeah, did I mention that I'm in a band full of sweet ass musicians? We are not named yet.
  
• Got a faux-new years kiss the hour before the new year from a very delicious hunk of man.
  
• Rang in the new year before everyone else while doing college applications in India
• Actually succeeded in making some great gifts for people and some awesome mix CDs too.
• Got an ass like Bascom. Well, kind of.
  
• Was industrious, was not shy and schmoozed up people.
  
• Was not afraid to ask for help, to speak my mind, and to flaunt my talent and was frequently rewarded for it.
  
• Received one of the "best" scores on a midterm and got part of it copied for the class to read.
  
• Got to do a duet with one of my best friends.
• Sang an arrangement of "Fidelity" in a Benefit Concert for glioblastoma, arranged by Jason Shao.
  
• Got into a really weird collegiate sleeping pattern, hung out late, party-hopped, and friend-juggled
• Was single for some of the time, but taken the rest of the time. Was single during prom, but still had the most perfect romantic evening.
• Went to state for forensics. Won lots of tournaments. Almost qualified for nationals in oratory.
  
• Won 2nd place in a sweet poetry contest and received an actual ESSAY that an ACTUAL poet wrote analyzing MY poems. Talk about the most flattering thing ever :)!
  
• I got my job at the Free Press which taught me a lot about how to write journalistically.
  
• Realized that only I can fill the hole in my life.
  
• Made friends with people I thought were too cool to hang out with me.
• Got Respect. I'm not really happy unless I'm gettin' respect. I felt like I showcased the good things about me a lot, and I think that means I've grown a lot as a person.
• Re-read some of the books I loved as a kid.
  
• Made a total fool of myself, but I think it made me a better person most of the time :)

DISCLAIMER: sorry if this is boring, and sorry if it seems conceited. but really, 2009 was a pretty great year for me in retrospect.