I think these things are well shit but I am so bored today that I think I will do one. The list of questions is taken from quite a few other people's blogs.

1.What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Got a fulltime job.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Did not make any. No.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No

5. What countries did you visit?
None

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
A good haircut.

7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory?
7/7. Graduation day. Other events left me with mixed feelings about the day. At least Americans can remember this day without ruining it with their dating system. Unlike the 9th of November.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Graduating. Although steering Plinth to rock idols round 2 was no mean feat.

9. What was your biggest failure?
There were some pretty ropey blog entries.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
New guitar. Peavey Wolfgang. Ace.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
The bassist in Your Awesome Intergalactic Heroes summed up one drunken evening with the following: "I don't remember the next three hours but I wasn't clothed for any of it". Hahaha. Class.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
See answer to 12.

14. Where did most of your money go?
To other people, shops and the taxman.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Glastonbury.

16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
Do You Want To? by Franz Ferdinand.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? happier
ii. thinner or fatter? thinner
iii. richer or poorer? richer

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Drugs. Exercise.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Sleep. Using the internet.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
With family.

22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
No.

23. How many one-night stands?
None.

24. What was your favourite TV program?
Extras. Spooks.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No.

26. What was the best book you read?
Music of the Primes. Its about prime numbers. I am a geek and I like these things.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Girls Aloud.

28. What did you want and get?
Longer hair. A degree.

29. What did you want and not get?
Kylie at Glasto. The implemenation of my new system that would make democracy work and make the world a better place in general. New wiper blades for my car. A robot.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Met up with friends. 21.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Entering Metro Joe in the Eurovision Song Contest (and either winning or scoring less than 1 point). Or getting paid to write my blog.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Comfortable and lazy.

34. What kept you sane?
I have not shown any signs of deteriorating mental health. My lifestyle does not need an element dedicated to keeping me sane.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Kylie.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
I was surprised to learn that David Cameron likes the Smiths.

37. Who did you miss?
Kylie at Glasto.

38. Who was the best new person you met?
All of them. Apart from the pricks.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005.
Sales is for pricks.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
"Heavy words are so lightly thrown" - What Difference Does it Make? by The Smiths. Not really summing up my year. I can't really think of a lyric that can live up to that task. But that one's a good lyric and I like it.