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I traveled to:

1. Taiwan
2. Vermont
3. Lake George, NY
4. San Francisco
5. Atlantic City
6. Scotland

I attended:

1. A late gift exchange in January and an early one in December, pot lucks at both
2. An International Food and Restaurant Show in New York City
3. Couchadelphia
4. A surprise birthday party
5. An amazing thesis presentation about the psychology behind research laboratory design, and how scientists really don’t like socializing (even when their buildings force them to)
6. Ag Field Day and the NJ Folk Festival
7. A panel for Girl Scouts about Women in the Sciences and Engineering, as a Bachelor of the Sciences Finance major working in Information Technology
8. A tie dyeing party
9. A family picnic with homemade Jamaican food
10. Two going away parties
11. One welcome home party
12. Two 5Ks, one I directed runners and one I ran in 35 minutes
13. Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool!
14. A 4 hour lunch at a local Afghani restaurant
15. A 25 mile bike ride
16. Reunions for a college dance troupe, a college art/lit mag, study abroad, and overseas volunteer friends
17. Trivia at a hole in the wall bar in Princeton
18. A birthday party at a cowboy bar
19. A brunch at a Pakistani buffet with 4 different beef dishes in a row, rose water ice cream that tasted like perfume, and pink tea that was very pink and not very tasty
20. A lovely New Year’s Eve at friends of a friend’s apartment in the Lower East Side, to cap of a year with many, many trips to NYC

I saw:

1. Black Swan
2. Riverdance
3. An exhibit on war photographers, modern Chinese photography, 9/11, Harper’s Bazaar photography, and Depression era photography at the International Center for Photography
4. A Doctor Who premiere
5. My college Chinese Dance Troupe perform, with the Filipino cultural dance group and their accompanying buffet dinner
6. Marina & the Diamonds
7. Harry Potter 7, Pt 2 at midnight
8. Savage Beauty: Alexander McQueen at the Met
9. A nighttime community production of Hairspray at an outdoor theatre
10. Sufjan Stevens, in Brooklyn, perform his newer electronic dance album complete with crazy props
11. IKEA twice in one weekend (lingonberry sauce and meatballs are delicious all the time though)
12. Rocky Horror, live, and lost my Rocky Horror virginity
13. And tasted art at the Princeton Art Museum
14. Frank Turner at Theatre of the Living Arts, which has a fancy name
15. The Muppets Movie, at midnight
16. Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows

Overall I’d say it was a good year, and I look forward to doing even more in 2012. Hope you had a great one too!