2007 done 2008 already begun

T'is the season for reflections on the past and plans for the future, here are some of both.

In 2007 I started this blog and posted in it 47 times. Its been the most positive new thing in my worklife this year by far and, in 2008, I intend to increase that number slightly but mainly I hope to improve the quality of the posts by reading more often before I write.

From a quick sample, it looks like about 25 email messages a day made it in through my spam filter and that I sent out around 10 - meaning I read more than 9,000 and sent more than 3000 in the year. In 2008 I'm hoping to slowly wean my way off the email habit by taking better advantage of iChat for short, personal communications and better advantage of my time in general by simply ignoring it for longer periods of time.

Academically speaking, it was a bit of a funny year. I had two overwhelmingly positive meetings with my thesis committee, in stark contrast to previous encounters with them, yet I had the least successful publishing year in quite a while. Which is worse, having your committee disapprove of your work or your reviewers?? Hopefully I will solve this personal conundrum this year by graduating..

I've never been a particularly quantitative person, so thats it for the numbers for the year.

all the best for 2008!