I am doing this
Dec. 3rd, 2009 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lapsedmodernistAnd I am behind, so I have to do the first three days today...
This is The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge.
How to participate:
1. Write on one or all thirty-one of the prompts below for the month of December
2. A post can be a sentence, photo or 3,000 word essay
3. Tag your posts and photos #best09. Follow others sharing their stories from the year. There's a widget at the bottom of the post aggregating mentions of the tag on Twitter.
Share your best moments of 2009 over the course of December. Don't get hung up on details or length - if there's an aspect of the question that doesn't resonate, change it to meet your needs.
December 1 Trip. What was your best trip in 2009?
December 2 Restaurant moment. Share the best restaurant experience you had this year. Who was there? What made it amazing? What taste stands out in your mind?
December 3 Article. What's an article that you read that blew you away? That you shared with all your friends. That you Delicious'd and reference throughout the year.
December 4 Book. What book - fiction or non - touched you? Where were you when you read it? Have you bought and given away multiple copies?
December 5 Night out. Did you have a night out with friends or a loved one that rocked your world? Who was there? What was the highlight of the night?
December 6 Workshop or conference. Was there a conference or workshop you attended that was especially beneficial? Where was it? What did you learn?
December 7 Blog find of the year. That gem of a blog you can't believe you didn't know about until this year.
December 8 Moment of peace. An hour or a day or a week of solitude. What was the quality of your breath? The state of your mind? How did you get there?
December 9 Challenge. Something that really made you grow this year. That made you go to your edge and then some. What made it the best challenge of the year for you?
December 10 Album of the year. What's rocking your world?
December 11 The best place. A coffee shop? A pub? A retreat center? A cubicle? A nook?
December 12 New food. You're now in love with Lebanese food and you didn't even know what it was in January of this year.
December 13 What's the best change you made to the place you live?
December 14 Rush. When did you get your best rush of the year?
December 15 Best packaging. Did your headphones come in a sweet case? See a bottle of tea in another country that stood off the shelves?
December 16 Tea of the year. I can taste my favorite tea right now. What's yours?
December 17 Word or phrase. A word that encapsulates your year. "2009 was _____."
December 18 Shop. Online or offline, where did you spend most of your mad money this year?
December 19 Car ride. What did you see? How did it smell? Did you eat anything as you drove there? Who were you with?
December 20 New person. She came into your life and turned it upside down. He went out of his way to provide incredible customer service. Who is your unsung hero of 2009?
December 21 Project. What did you start this year that you're proud of?
December 22 Startup. What's a business that you found this year that you love? Who thought it up? What makes it special?
December 23 Web tool. It came into your work flow this year and now you couldn't live without it. It has simplified or improved your online experience.
December 24 Learning experience. What was a lesson you learned this year that changed you?
December 25 Gift. What's a gift you gave yourself this year that has kept on giving?
December 26 Insight or aha! moment. What was your epiphany of the year?
December 27 Social web moment. Did you meet someone you used to only know from her blog? Did you discover Twitter?
December 28 Stationery. When you touch the paper, your heart melts. The ink flows from the pen. What was your stationery find of the year?
December 29 Laugh. What was your biggest belly laugh of the year?
December 30 Ad. What advertisement made you think this year?
December 31 Resolution you wish you'd stuck with. (You know, there's always next year...)
Dec. 1: Trip--I think my best trip this year was the Berlin/Norway trip in the summer. I had a wonderful, eclectic time in Berlin, balancing between a really interesting conference and random plans with a lively variety of people, occupying totally different and largely non-overlapping corners of the Berlin universe. i saw an amazing blues show, ate copious amounts of dirt cheap and delicious sushi, babysat a bunch of kids, visited a four-story thirftstore, and every day was filled with meaningful conversations, politically and personally. Plus Berlin in the summer is so magical and green and slow and relaxed and perfect for night walks along the canal, with trees assuming anthropolomorphic shapes and circus wagons huddled up in the darkness. Then onto Norway where I visited![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shum_listvi's wooden witchy house, and we embarked on a picaresque/psychodelic adventure, a road trip through the fjords, the birch woods, the abandoned houses surrounded by bushes and bushes of ripe raspberries and moss and trees growing on the roofs. It was one of the most magical places I have ever been.
Dec. 2:Restaurant moment--oh there are so many! The nostalgic satisfaction of the Middle Eastern platter amidst the kitch-sparkle of Yaffa, fish tagines in Morocco, feeding the staff of an ice-cream parlor blood oranges in Paris withrezendi, but again I am going to have to go with the Berlin sushi in Neukölln, because it was so delicious, plentiful and cheap--an impossible trifecta anywhere else. Spicy tuna rolls and spider rolls and rainbow rolls and eel and avocado rolls...I am salivating just thinking about it. I got it as take-out and ate it with a bunch of bohemians and a three-year old with what is clearly a sophisticated pallette, followed by red wine, tea, whiskey, more red wine, more tea.
Dec. 3: Article--well, like everyone I got the LOLS from that op-ed where a right-wing douchebag proclaimed that Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance under the UK healthcare system. But I think the most important article of last year is Bait and switch: How the “public option” was sold, both because it is an excellent analysis, and because it offers empirical proof to counter the discursive Orwellian re-memorying of "the public option was never on the table" and "American legislators cannot produce a strong public option" etc. etc.
This is The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge.
How to participate:
1. Write on one or all thirty-one of the prompts below for the month of December
2. A post can be a sentence, photo or 3,000 word essay
3. Tag your posts and photos #best09. Follow others sharing their stories from the year. There's a widget at the bottom of the post aggregating mentions of the tag on Twitter.
Share your best moments of 2009 over the course of December. Don't get hung up on details or length - if there's an aspect of the question that doesn't resonate, change it to meet your needs.
December 1 Trip. What was your best trip in 2009?
December 2 Restaurant moment. Share the best restaurant experience you had this year. Who was there? What made it amazing? What taste stands out in your mind?
December 3 Article. What's an article that you read that blew you away? That you shared with all your friends. That you Delicious'd and reference throughout the year.
December 4 Book. What book - fiction or non - touched you? Where were you when you read it? Have you bought and given away multiple copies?
December 5 Night out. Did you have a night out with friends or a loved one that rocked your world? Who was there? What was the highlight of the night?
December 6 Workshop or conference. Was there a conference or workshop you attended that was especially beneficial? Where was it? What did you learn?
December 7 Blog find of the year. That gem of a blog you can't believe you didn't know about until this year.
December 8 Moment of peace. An hour or a day or a week of solitude. What was the quality of your breath? The state of your mind? How did you get there?
December 9 Challenge. Something that really made you grow this year. That made you go to your edge and then some. What made it the best challenge of the year for you?
December 10 Album of the year. What's rocking your world?
December 11 The best place. A coffee shop? A pub? A retreat center? A cubicle? A nook?
December 12 New food. You're now in love with Lebanese food and you didn't even know what it was in January of this year.
December 13 What's the best change you made to the place you live?
December 14 Rush. When did you get your best rush of the year?
December 15 Best packaging. Did your headphones come in a sweet case? See a bottle of tea in another country that stood off the shelves?
December 16 Tea of the year. I can taste my favorite tea right now. What's yours?
December 17 Word or phrase. A word that encapsulates your year. "2009 was _____."
December 18 Shop. Online or offline, where did you spend most of your mad money this year?
December 19 Car ride. What did you see? How did it smell? Did you eat anything as you drove there? Who were you with?
December 20 New person. She came into your life and turned it upside down. He went out of his way to provide incredible customer service. Who is your unsung hero of 2009?
December 21 Project. What did you start this year that you're proud of?
December 22 Startup. What's a business that you found this year that you love? Who thought it up? What makes it special?
December 23 Web tool. It came into your work flow this year and now you couldn't live without it. It has simplified or improved your online experience.
December 24 Learning experience. What was a lesson you learned this year that changed you?
December 25 Gift. What's a gift you gave yourself this year that has kept on giving?
December 26 Insight or aha! moment. What was your epiphany of the year?
December 27 Social web moment. Did you meet someone you used to only know from her blog? Did you discover Twitter?
December 28 Stationery. When you touch the paper, your heart melts. The ink flows from the pen. What was your stationery find of the year?
December 29 Laugh. What was your biggest belly laugh of the year?
December 30 Ad. What advertisement made you think this year?
December 31 Resolution you wish you'd stuck with. (You know, there's always next year...)
Dec. 1: Trip--I think my best trip this year was the Berlin/Norway trip in the summer. I had a wonderful, eclectic time in Berlin, balancing between a really interesting conference and random plans with a lively variety of people, occupying totally different and largely non-overlapping corners of the Berlin universe. i saw an amazing blues show, ate copious amounts of dirt cheap and delicious sushi, babysat a bunch of kids, visited a four-story thirftstore, and every day was filled with meaningful conversations, politically and personally. Plus Berlin in the summer is so magical and green and slow and relaxed and perfect for night walks along the canal, with trees assuming anthropolomorphic shapes and circus wagons huddled up in the darkness. Then onto Norway where I visited
shum_listvi's wooden witchy house, and we embarked on a picaresque/psychodelic adventure, a road trip through the fjords, the birch woods, the abandoned houses surrounded by bushes and bushes of ripe raspberries and moss and trees growing on the roofs. It was one of the most magical places I have ever been.Dec. 2:Restaurant moment--oh there are so many! The nostalgic satisfaction of the Middle Eastern platter amidst the kitch-sparkle of Yaffa, fish tagines in Morocco, feeding the staff of an ice-cream parlor blood oranges in Paris with
rezendi, but again I am going to have to go with the Berlin sushi in Neukölln, because it was so delicious, plentiful and cheap--an impossible trifecta anywhere else. Spicy tuna rolls and spider rolls and rainbow rolls and eel and avocado rolls...I am salivating just thinking about it. I got it as take-out and ate it with a bunch of bohemians and a three-year old with what is clearly a sophisticated pallette, followed by red wine, tea, whiskey, more red wine, more tea.Dec. 3: Article--well, like everyone I got the LOLS from that op-ed where a right-wing douchebag proclaimed that Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance under the UK healthcare system. But I think the most important article of last year is Bait and switch: How the “public option” was sold, both because it is an excellent analysis, and because it offers empirical proof to counter the discursive Orwellian re-memorying of "the public option was never on the table" and "American legislators cannot produce a strong public option" etc. etc.
