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So this is the last day of 2004. Incidentally, tomorrow I get to see if the code I wrote for showing how many days ago posts occur works across years … considering the amount of time I spent on that, I sure hope so. But honestly, the flip to 2005 is more exciting than that. It’s another run at the four seasons, school, and life. While any day can be a fresh start, it is always nice to think of a fresh year. At the very least, one slows down to think more deeply about the passage of time … what really has happened this past year, how fast did it really go, were we the people we see ourselves as, the people we want to be? I think about tonight and the high winds outside, how cozy I feel in my own room, safe from the gales and crosswinds of the unpredictable world. But it’s when I hear those winds, know how turbulent it is outside my haven, that I really value the four walls around me. I want to avoid taking anything, anybody for granted.
I could have lost so many things in that flooded room, and as it is I lost a fair amount - but it put the ‘value’ of those things back in the right place on a hierarchy: low. It is lessons like that that I want to take into the New Year.
As you may have noticed, I am behind on my 140 post goal for the year, this means 2004 slips behind 2003 as a less prolific year of posts. Either way, the 130’s works out to a post every 2.7 days … not bad.
While I am it, I might as well do a little of the “year in review” that everyone tries so hard to avoid on their personal journals. Traffic here is up, significantly up. We are currently averaging 100-130 hits per day, with a continuing trend north of 3000 hits per month. I do hope, that with the announcement of this redesign I have been talking about (who knows when it will get done), I can spike up again as with last redesign, and hold more people, breaking 200 hits a day. Other things that happened this year include me deciding on my major (Biochem), and my life plan for the next, oh, 7 years or so. Not the limiting experience you would think, but quite liberating. I met a girl this year, her name is Mykala. A Google search for her name turns up this site on page four: I have no idea what this indicates. I learned the layout of the U of M, and what taking a summer class is like. I took up rollerblading again thanks to John. I got my first mostly real job. I broke and fixed my computer in two major separate incidences … neither required losing all my data, but simultaneously increased my knowledge of and disapointment in Windows XP. I found out about a lot of music arists: Keane, 4 Strings, Marc Broussard, Ari Hest, Keri Noble, Telecast, Death Cab for Cutie, Jem, The Postal Service, Alter Bridge, Snow Patrol, and Fugazi … I’m leaving out so many.
I will probably end up posting later today with more things I remember from this past year. If not, take care and have a happy New Year.