Current mood:	sick.
Current music:	sick.

2007.
this is a classic, and always depressing, way to while away time when I should be sleeping post NYE.

what did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before? my first real fashion show, my first real fashion shoot, my first real fashion life, work work work work, graduated, got a very expensive haircut that made me cry, was photographed naked – actually, being photographed by someone else and actually liking the pictures is a first.
how did you see in the new year? shitfaced with sweaty gays in dior homme. god, déja vu much?
did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I definitely had more sex, and the hair has been savagely sliced. although I cried for three hours afterwards (the hair, not the sex). my resolution this year is to write something which reaches the zenith of literary perfection that is ‘no lifeguard on duty: the accidental life of the world’s first supermodel’ by janice dickinson.

did someone close to you give birth? possibly. maybe. I don’t really deal with children except for reborns
did anyone close to you die? isabella blow. god, isabella. I’m still not really over it. I started crying thinking about her on the bus the other day please don’t ask me why.
what countries did you visit? greece. does the frozen tundra of my northern homeland count as a separate country? it should.
what would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007? liquidised lamb foetuses injected into my face FOREVER YOUNG
what date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? so so many, good and bad. this was a memorable year.
what was your biggest achievement(s) of the year? graduating, getting published and working for marios and SHOW would be pretty incredible achievements to the me of this time last year.
what was/were your biggest failure(s)? don’t confront me with them.
did you suffer illness or injury? I’m always fucking ill.
what was the best thing you bought? yves saint laurent embroidered velvet evening slippers.
whose behaviour merited celebration? lulu kennedy, penny martin, sophie, ute, maria – in fact, maison marios and all who sail in her (special thanks to mr schwab). essentially, everyone who took a chance on a dickhead with a stupid haircut straight out of s’marts. and special thanks to my svengali professor rebecca arnold.
whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed? I’m over being appalled or depressed by anything other people do. I managed to disappoint myself though, as always.
where did most of your money go? you tell me.
what did you get really, really, really excited about? cakes, biscuits, moustaches, dresses.
compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? hard to tell.
ii. thinner or fatter? I can finally, inexorably, unequivocally say I am SCIENTIFICALLY thinner than last year. with a BMI teetering at a precarious 18.9. fuck. yeah.
iii. richer or poorer? richer. and yet poorer.
what do you wish you'd done more of? savouring the moment.
what do you wish you'd done less of? regretting things I couldn’t change. resenting things. ignoring problems (but that’s a lifetime habit, honestly). worrying endlessly. does the list ever end?
how will you be spending Christmas? yet again I spent it waterbound and freezing to death. I wish my parents were landlubbers.
did you fall in love in 2007? yes.
how many one-night stands? just enough. just about.
what was your favourite TV program? totally hollyoaks.
do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? amy fucking eleanor still.
what was the best book you read? it’s a toss-up between the beautiful fall and janice dickinson.
what was your greatest musical discovery? rediscovering dolly parton recently was wonderful. otherwise, maybe jamaican dancehall?
what did you want and get? so much.
what did you want and not get? too much.
what music will you remember from this year? dutty wiiine an da hot wuk bwoy.
what did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I am somewhere in my twenties nothing happened we do not discuss it it never occurred capisce?
what one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? better hair and jer’my scott 3-D spex.
how would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007? reckless, child-sized and far beyond my means.
what kept you sane? maison marios schwab, and numerous over-the-counter drugs in dangerous combinations.
which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

totally tori spelling.
what political issue stirred you the most? they still have politics these days?
who do you miss? issy. if only as a front-row fixture from afar.
who was the best new person you met? leo.
tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007: every silver lining has a cloud.
quote a song lyric that sums up your year: non, je ne regrette rien.


real resolutions:
eat less, but better.
drink less, but better.
spend more, but better.
say ‘no’ more.
try to be more confrontational.
try to be more mature.
think.

love,
Alex.

p.s. if you faygelahs are that was inclined you can go to SHOWstudio and hear my horrible faggy self interviewing the lovely damien jalet about choreographing Bernhard Willhelm's Men in Tights.
here
and there

p.p.s. god I am so sick my face is a pizza of pain.