2011: A Short Look Back

This year was a great year. Here’s just some of the great stuff that happened in no particular order:

  1. I left my old, crummy job for a great job at CollegeHumor
  2. Stone Cold Fox became the first weekend sketch team at the UCB
  3. I got interviewed for a writing job at SNL.
  4. I was approved to teach Sketch classes at the UCB
  5. My niece was born
  6. Laura got a new job at Harper Collins
  7. We got a sweet new TV
  8. I actually finished my Spank show.
  9. Received word that in the new year I’ll be moving over to the editorial department at CollegeHumor.
  10. EDIT: Achilles reminded me that I got a great mouse from him. I have combined it with the wireless keyboard I got for Christmas and the sweet new TV (see #7) to do my computing via couch and TV. It’s an awesome set up, and it means that my hulu-watching can now be done on a large screen.

Cool stuff all around. Didn’t read as much this year as last. Last year I read 52 books (a book per week). This year I was doing more writing than reading, and I also got caught up the Song of Ice and Fire series, whose 1000-page-long books sort of monopolized my time. Here’s what I went through:

  1. From Hell by Alan Moore
  2. Scott Pilgrim vol. 1 - 6 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
  3. Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
  4. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  5. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
  6. Kraken by China Mieville
  7. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
  8. At Home by Bill Bryson
  9. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  10. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
  11. Bossypants by Tina Fey
  12. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  13. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
  14. The Magician King by Lev Grossman
  15. The Funny Man by John Warner
  16. A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
  17. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
  18. The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
  19. A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
  20. Snuff by Terry Pratchett
  21. The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
  22. The Professor and the Madman by Esther Lombardi
  23. Embassytown by China Mieville
  24. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Notes

  1. alexispereira said: Shortly after I first touched Mike Trapp, he exploded. Coincidence?
  2. iamachilles said: Also you got that mouse from me. Top 10.
  3. miketrapp posted this