How about a summary of 2009 using this set of arbitrary statistics, some of which may be estimates rather than actual counts?
countries: 3
music festivals: 1
places slept (including couches, tents, rondavels, hostels, floors): 24.
pony rides: 3
plane rides: 2
train rides: 9
bus rides: 1
awkward car rides: 3
apartments: 5
jobs: 4
so-called professional jobs: 1
fake marriages: 2.5
cavities: 3
skinny dipping: 6
film festivals won: 0
taxes done: x3
global economic downturns (GlobEcDown): 1
episodes of Gilmore Girls: 19
poems submitted For Your Consideration, Thanks: 24
poems published: 2
insurances: 3
new monthly bills since beginning of year: 5
snowballs: 13
hats: 7
drug tests: 1
moments of abject terror: 3
instances of utter despair: 5
hope, change: 30%
newspaper articles written: 130-145
self-ridicule, hilarity: 89 degrees.
notebooks: 2
squash soup: yes
stage names: reference to a Howard Hawks movie.
coffee spoons: 66666666666666.
Friday, December 25, 2009
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Wow good year. Nice work especially on the skinny dipping front. I'd have to tally but you might have me edged out.
You're just lucky I held back on making "skinny dipping in foreign countries following 12 hours of dancing without the influence of alcohol" count for multiples.
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