As the decade draws to a close, it's important to take a few minutes to reflect on your personal growth and achievement the last ten years—and, more importantly, to remember 2009 as the year of rampant celebrity deaths, balloons both real and imagined, and the sudden quarantine of all your friends.

To this end, the Crimson Arts Board proudly presents to you its annual Best of the Year Poll. For a glorious, fleeting moment, it will make you forget all the papers you're supposed to be writing. Then you can get back to watching this on repeat.

The poll closes Wednesday at 4pm, so do act promptly. Write-ins are heartily encouraged; our favorite answers will appear on the cover of Friday's Arts section.