A Look Back at 2010... in HAIKU

Let me prelude this with a conversation I had with a friend during the making of these haiku:

Me: sup?
Adam: nada at work you?
Me: Answering one of those "looking back at 2010" surveys... except all my answers are haiku
Adam: Haha, interesting
Me: It's fun, but also frustrating, because I'll get something with the right syllables, but then I read it out loud and it just sounds like a bad William Shatner impression.
"a date is not so..... important, but events are..... to be remembered.      ..... KHAAAAAAAAAAAN!!"
Adam: hahaha

1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?

A year full of change
New experience abound
In the theatre

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

Opportunities
Do not watch calendars, so
Why wait for New Years’?

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

Life is a blessing
But the only life I see
Is all around me

4. Did anyone close to you die?

In a world so full
Of people so young and free
How can there be death?

5. What countries did you visit?

I like to travel
But alas, I lack the funds.
I am stuck at home.

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?

Change means new faces
What is new now, I hope, will
Become familiar

7. What date(s) from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

Dates have less meaning
Than the actual events;
I don’t remember

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Sometimes great triumphs
Come in the form of small feats
Like making you smile

9. What was your biggest failure?

I would like to say
That none of my failures were
Too great to be solved

10. Did you suffer any illness or injury?

After Aida
I found myself getting sick
With the common cold

11. What was the best thing you bought?

I can’t remember
Everything I bought this year
But who really cares

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

My cat Coco-Bean
Used to be kind of a bitch
But now she is great

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

I don’t understand
People who think it is fine
To make others cry

14. Where did most of your money go?

Most of my money
Went towards my stupid rent
Rent is too damn high

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

Life is way more fun
When you see everything as
Something exciting

16. What song will always remind you of 2010?

Songs don’t remind me
Of dates or even of years
Only of events

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder?

The greatest feeling
I have ever felt is that
Of true happiness

ii. thinner or fatter? 

I lost four whole pounds
When I worked on Aida
But I don’t care much

iii. richer or poorer?

See question fourteen
Broke college kids will complain:
Rent is too damn high

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

One thing that I hope
Never to have is a life
Without adventure

19. What do you wish you'd done less of? 

Thoughts become worries
When your imagination
Is a pessimist

20. How will you be spending Christmas? 

Christmas will be spent
With my family in New York
Eating lots of food

22. Did you fall in love in 2010?

I fell in love, but
Not with a human being;
Instead, with the stage

23. How many one night stands?

One night stands really
Are not something I would do
I would rather date

24. What was your favorite TV program? This year?

Twilight really sucks
Instead everyone should watch
True Blood, season three.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?

Hate is a strong word.
Sometimes I will disagree,
But I will not hate

26. What was the best book you read? 

Good books are like friends;
It is hard to choose the best.
They are all lovely

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

Kate Miller-Heidke
Is a beautiful woman
Who can really sing

28. What did you want and get? 

My little red dress
Was really quite expensive
And yet I bought it

29. What did you want and not get?

There are many things
That I want but cannot have
I say, c’est la vie

30. What was your favorite film of this year? 

The Last Airbender
Made me want to choke a bitch
Harry Potter rocked

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010? 

The clothes that I wear
Do not define me. But hey,
I like to dress up

32. What kept you sane?

Busy is better
Than constantly being bored
Thank you, social life

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

Natalie Portman
Has always been fabulous
What a lovely gal

34. What political issue stirred you the most?

I would have to say
That don’t ask don’t tell really
Needs to be repealed

35. Who did you miss?

Friends come and friends go
And though the distance is great
They are in my thoughts

36. Who was the best new person you met?

I am in a sea
Of new and awesome people
How can I decide?

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.

Confidence is key
If you are not confident
Then at least pretend

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:

I see you drivin’
‘round town with the girl I love
And I’m like, haiku