2011 in bullet points

[bironic]

Personal

• Mom was sick, Mom got better
• Experienced an earthquake
• Grew closer to some local friends and coworkers
• Awesome private thing that is awesome but private
• Nursed a crush for 5 months; am resolved to ask him out more directly as soon in the new year as there is an appropriate moment

Professional

• Picked up a steady freelance job and bowed out after 6 months
• On account of transitioning from being a contractor to being a government employee… tomorrow

Fannish

• New TV: Doctor Who eleventh doctor seasons, Game of Thrones, Community, Sherlock
• More seasons of familiar TV: Vampire Diaries season two + start of three, True Blood, Project Runway nine, House
• Favorite movies seen this year: Beginners, Nostalgia de la Luz, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Celluloid Closet, Le Havre, Sunshine (the 2007/Cillian Murphy one), Red Cliff, The Reckoning; and for the record, saw and enjoyed the last Harry Potter movie
• Favorite plays seen: Uncle Vanya, The Normal Heart, Venus in Fur
• Met mer_duff, hurrah
• Celebrity-met Robert Sean Leonard and Gary Oldman
• Participated in Festivids for the first time, had both vids shown at cons
• Told the world (or at least 1,500 community followers) why I love noncon stories
• Read more books and watched more movies than last year. Could do better on the former.

Fannish/Entertainment Ideas for 2012

• Hollywood films to look forward to: Batman/The Dark Knight Rises, Dark Shadows, Star Trek?. Oh, looks like there will be a remake of Total Recall. Curious about The Hunger Games. Probably will end up seeing Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and The Hobbit. Maybe Avengers? Still haven't seen Thor, Captain America or Iron Man 2, though. Also maybe Hotel Transylvania, depending on how stupid the trailer is. Maybe Life of Pi?
• Ugh, go see the new Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and find out if it's as irritating as the reviews make me feel because the Swedish-Danish version was great
• Be at a con where a vid of mine is screened
• Clear out WsIP, even as amnesties (SGA dance, SGA tentacle toy…)
• Make a Sebastian vid

And now, off for a New Year's Eve day with the Laundrys. ♥ to you all.

Comments

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Another person who loves Sunshine!

My boyfriend has seen both the Swedish and US versions of TGWTDT, and said the US version was worth seeing and not a displacement of the Swedish one (and he tends to be very critical). I loved the US version -- did you see my review? -- but have not seen the Swedish yet.

I am glad I've had you on my flist this year. :)

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

the Celluloid Closet is an awesome movie! The book it's based on is pretty great too, ever read it?

[recrudescence.livejournal.com]

The Celluloid Closet is amazing (as is the book) and I think it would be really cool to see a continuation of it based on more recent films. Also, I don't think I knew about your job shift, but congratulations!

Happy 2012. :)

[l-eremita.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year, and thanks for the lovely card! May this year be as entertaining for you and inspire lots of fannish fun! And may good things keep happening to keep the bad things (hopefully much lesser in number) at bay.

Just saw Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It was... okay. I liked the premise a lot. I may even read the book. But the film just wasn't scintillating. (Although Christopher Plummer was excellent, and I like looking at Daniel Craig).

I am super snoopy and want to know what the nice secret thing is!!!!!!!!!!! But I suspect you will not be swayed by multiple exclamation marks. I shall just be happy for you. :-D