this time last year i.........

My once empty apartment is now full of STUFF
I've switched offices twice since then
I have 2 bands now instead of one, both with drummers
I am reading more

I am not answering this question on the grounds that nothing I can think of has changed in any positive fashion.

(insert Poptones reference here)

1) this afternoon i had tea and muffins (with strawberry jam and butter)...and watched ready, steady cook. i must stop my rock'n'roll lifestyle.

2) I'm getting blasted into space and bought back to life by alien technology! yay!

So the answer is not much.

Look the new answers for a year ago:

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/archive.php?board=1&date=22%2F1%2F02

-I had just gotten out of a relationship that really should never have happened.

-I had just cut ties with an organization where there was a lot of animosity and shit-slinging going on among the core staff (and leaving felt like a HUGE burden off my shoulders).

-I had a very negative, reactionary outlook on music in late 2001 (a temporary setback -- I'm normally not like that at all), and January 2002 was when I started opening my ears up to music again, esp. pop music. It was a gradual change, but that's when it began.

i was apologizing for being slow on doing people tapes i owed them

Horrible memories, but I am still here, and the little signs recently are not much in comparison to last year. Maybe I can start noting that, and feeling more positive.

mainly I just miss the cafeterias (they were buffet type deals so I ate PLENTY). Especially since I still work by them.

A year ago I was living in Oxford, I was updating Freaky Trigger lots in a burst of editorial energy, I was worrying about my job and whether I'd get a bonus, I was excited about going on holiday with my friends, and I was cautiously optimistic about my girlfriend's health.

Now I'm living in London, I'm wishing I had the time/concentration to sort out FT, I'm not worried about my job but I'm having to work harder, I'm excited about going on holiday with my friends, and my girlfriend is much much better and this time next year will be my wife :)

So basically, an improvement!

Having said that I've no time to update FT I should note that I Hate Music and NYLPM have been pretty busy lately.

the only diff is that I have met ILXORS, and that is a good thing.

i'm very curious as to where i'll be at this time next year.

I wasn't half as into dance music as I am now though the beginnings of it had definitely started, I was going out clubbing regularly. But in terms of my writing the year has done great things, I had hardly written anything for public consumption this time last year. Now I feel quite confident.

I felt worryingly disintegrated within ilx: this hasn't changed much: my attitude towards my privacy and my ambivalence about being forward and open in so public and readily accessible a forum curbs my prediliction towards community. I wrote on ilx in a condensed cmpctd type and preceded every sentence with "haha" - I now use capitals.

I was smarting from being betrayed (see first paragraph) but was willing to nurture my hate. I used exclamation marks a lot more! I hadn't written anything despite too-forward notions of being a writer - I've realised now to be a writer, you have to, like, y'know, write. I've now become a little less insecure about my writing but am still miffed/upset about the lack of response to my (personal, ha!) website - this I guess is a symptom of the same reason why I don't keep a journal - I need to be read: to know how I am doing.

I was feeling generally a bit more excited about music: and judged my prospective friends on what music they liked - now I only judge them on what colour their hair is. ILM has had a significant role to play in the maturing of my outlook on taste/aesthetics/etc - and has taught me lots of interesting saws/tropes/facts/people's names/ways of looking/ways of listening. Now I feel a little more lukewarm about music - although the tATu album is phenomenal and a review should go up as soon as I finish my essay next week - and have a less definable taste but a more coherent aesthetic than before ("everything's useable").

I lived in Montreal. I did phone surveys and gave guitar lessons. I was much more depressed but there were a lot of interesting things to do. I had no problems with time or money.

er, everything is pretty much the same for me which is a bit annoying, although i am technically more 'famous' than i was a year ago, but it doesnt seem like a big deal, and indeed it isn't

I had just gotten back from New York where there was a meetup and then JM and I saw the Mission of Burma reunion show.

I had just written the R&B Roundup article for freakytrigger.

I was just starting my current job, after getting laid off from my last one. I had made a recent visit to Ann Arbor.

I was into Walter Benjamin bigtime.

i was going nuts in penn.

i was very close to quitting my hellish job.

my grandfather was dying, and my family was going through epic levels of stress dealing with his protracted passing.

i was unsure about whither next.

This year, Nick and I are not fighting on ILX so far. And my boyfriend is still cracking his knuckles.

Hmm, other than that delusion I was the creative director for a small apparel company and looking for a new career, was in LURVE ::sigh::, driving the same car I had been for the past 7 years and living approximately 2 blocks from where I am now.

This year I'm teaching middle school English and looking for a new career, happily single, driving a different car that's 2 years older than my other one and wanting to escape from the close proximity of ex but I CAN'T leave the orbit of my bar!!!