i should probably just do this tomorrow, but it is new year's eve, and memphis won't be here until almost 10, so what else have i got to do?
[q]What was your best day/moment of 2007? Your best memory, the best time you had?[/q]
just a few off the top of my head:
-- getting promoted and being able to actually call myself a writer (though everyone keeps asking me if i'm on strike)
-- diving in Maui and encountering nearly a dozen sea turtles as we heard the whale songs in the background
-- bringing Memphis up to where i went to college in the mountains
-- watching my boss gasp at some of the footage we were able to get on my last shoot
-- waking up saturday mornings with memphis and putting the kettle on and prepping the french press for the fist coffee of the weekend
[q]What was your worst?[/q]
-- the dark, dark material that i deal with every day
-- the dark, dark shoot in Michigan
[q]What was your most embarrassing moment of 07?[/q]
possibly arriving at a shoot in Texas to find myself quoted, verbatim and out-of-context from an email, in a very large article on the front page of the local paper and realizing that, yes, this is why the local cops want nothing to do with us
[q]What are you most looking forward to personally in 08?[/q]
hopefully heading to either Buenos Aries or training it from Berlin to Moscow; more diving next christmas; getting out of depressing TV
[q]Least looking forward to?[/q]
helping my mother face reality
[q]What is your biggest hope/wish for your country in 2008?[/q]
that Mitt Romney and/or Rudy Giuliani aren't elected to the presidency. i can stomach Obama, Clinton, and even McCain. i also hope that the tide turns in Iraq, and that we realize that a long term commitment of blood and treasure to a Middle Eastern empire will sink us as surely as it did the Soviets. and i hope 2008 is the beginning of the return of the USA that i used to be (mostly) proud of.
[q]What is your biggest fear for your country in 2008?[/q]
a Romney/Giuliani presidency.
[q]What do you think was the worst/most horrible news event in 2007?[/q]
the continued deterioration of Afghanistan and Iraq.
[q]The best, most positive?[/q]
the "green" revolution -- it's hip, it's trendy, it's now, it sells, it can only do good.
the tactics of AQI are so horrifying that it's giving Iraqis and Americans something to rally around and that's made some difference in Iraq.
[q]The person who made the most positive impact?[/q]
i guess it kind of was the year of Gore and Bono.
[q]The most negative impact?[/q]
there are far worse people than George Bush, but no one has used such unimaginable power so ineptly in my lifetime.
except maybe for Putin, give that boy some time. Iran continues to be nutty. the AQI "martyrs."
[q]Are you pessimistic or optimistic about the general world situation in 08?[/q]
cautiously optimistic.
Name one thing you could do to make it more positive.
continue to find more ways to be Green; be out and proud and confident of my own equality; vote and get others to vote.