five years ago
- best repeated line in a movie: "i shouldn't have said that"
- best thing to tell your grandkids: when i was your age, pluto was a planet
- best thing to do in class: doodling in the margins
- best coffee: coffee bean and tea leaf even back then i was too good for starbucks
- best unexpected act / best way to feel good about yourself: random acts of kindness
- best way to remind you of the past: listening to that song you haven't heard in ages
- best goal ever!: to live instead of exist
- best thing to give meaning to your life: finding your true passion
- best leisure time: lying on grass
- best thing to do when everything is going wrong: writing letters that will never be sent
- best office romance: jim and pam
- best love interest for pam beesly: jim halpert
- best brit: jim sturgess
- best lord of the rings elf: orlando bloom
- best scot: james mcavoy
- best feeling anyone can have: love yourself
- best quote: "i am so clever that sometimes i don't understand a single word of what i am saying"
- best most beautiful actress: catherine zeta-jones
- best food i wish i could afford to eat every day: sushi
- best accent: british accents english accents, that is
- best thing to find: childhood diary
- best female singer-songwriter: a fine frenzy
- best confidence booster: finding out that someone you like likes you back
- best definition of love: "you know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams"
- best ravenclaw: luna lovegood
- best hair for guys: guys with semi long hair christ this dated me. this was like, teddy geiger days. early jobros days
- best cute cartoon character: boo
six years ago
- best luxury: sleep
- best feeling: laughing until it hurts
- best harry potter group: the golden trio
- best canon couple: ron/hermione
- best tv comedy: the office
- best feeling: happiness
- best doughnuts: krispy kreme doughnuts
- best conversations ever: talking to yourself
- best handheld: nintendo ds lite
- best way to waste time: facebook
- best charismatic actor: matthew macfayden
- best way to change your appearance: losing weight
- best attention grabber: fainting
- best reason to look in the mirror: new clothes
- best eyebrows: ingrid bergman
- best cutest girl: alexis bledel
- best retort: your mom
- best british actress: kate winslet
- best goodwill ambassador / best most beautiful hollywood starlet / best old hollywood star: audrey hepburn
- best school of witchcraft and wizardry / best school / best fictional school: hogwarts
- best thing: friendship
- best dialogue: gilmore-isms
- best super smash bros character: princess zelda
- best instrument: piano
- best jane austen novel: pride and prejudice
- best classic film: breakfast at tiffany's
- best bushisms: "our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. they never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
- best fun: tree hugging
- best rory and jess moment: "i can't get started"
- best hobby: photography
seven years ago
- best ways to communicate: holding hands
- best coming-of-age film: ferris bueller's day off
- best internet slang: <3
- best feeling: peeing when you really really need to go
- best harry potter fanfic: the shoebox project
- best haagen-dazs flavor: white chocolate raspberry truffle
- best way to get fat: ben and jerry's
- best food to eat watching tv: popcorn
- best way to eat potatoes: french fries
- best snack: potato chips
- best fairly oddparents character: cosmo
- best child star: rupert grint
- best music recommendation engine / best music 2.0 site / best music website: last.fm
- best comic character: calvin and hobbes
- best pizza topping: pepperoni
- best broadway musical: wicked
- best winnie the pooh character: eeyore
- best duo / best FBI partners: mulder and scully literally have not seen an x-files episode except for the one from ap enviro
- best feeling / best physical sensation / best thing to give a woman: love fuck that for the third category. GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUND$
- best gateway anime: digimon
- best way to waste time / best way to get this site out there / best way to write: blogging
- best way to be wet: splashing in puddles
- best form of expression: art
- best activity: singing
- best classic comedy film: monty python's the holy grail
- best television character: lorelai gilmore
- best thing to do on saturdays / best thing to do in the morning: sleep late
- best games console / best games company / best video game company in the world: nintendo
- best frappuccinos: starbucks
- best chocolate: ferrero rocher
- best chocolate: dark chocolate
- best trading card game / best of its kind: pokemon
- best internet / best organizing: tags
- best harry potter ship: harry/hermione
- best mp3 player / best way to listen to music / best ipod: ipod
- best green grass: green grass
- best mischief makers: weasley twins
- best harry potter character: ron
- best television couple: rory and jess
- best software: photoshop
- best state / best u.s. state: california
- best tv show: gilmore girls
- best classic rock band / best consistent demonstration of genius / best psychedelic rock band: the beatles
- best things in life / best invention: internet
- best thing in life / best art form: music
- best fictional pirate / best captain: captain jack sparrow
- best broadway musical: phantom of the opera
- best rock musical: rent
- best book series: harry potter
- best city: new york city
- best music player / best mac software / best windows software: itunes
- best blogs / best online communities: livejournal
christ this whole list really just dated me. i feel old as balls. also!! how things have changed (... sort of, mostly not really) and how obvious it is how hard i tried to be cool then (not that i've stopped doing that now, i just hope i'm doing it in more real ways). italics are comments made today, bold are things i was recently reaffirmed w/, but for the most part, a lot of these things haven't necessarily... changed. IDK IF THAT IS REALLY SAD OR WHAT