So I just spent the last hour reading through all of my old posts. I'm really impressed with how much things have changed and stayed the same with both my writing style and my development as a person. Great strides on both sides, if one had an hour to spend reading a bunch of nothing I'd imagine they would notice it too. This started as a blog for my freshman English class in Fall 2006 and now it's a collection of the times I've been willing and able to reflect on things going on. It is good that I've gone from "w00t!!s" to "yay!!s", even better that I capitalize the beginnings of my sentences, that I always have some slip of mind where a word is missing and possibly altering what I'm trying to say. Hopefully this lasts another two years, maybe even longer, definitely so now that my readership may be at its all-time high. Good for me, I say, good for you too.

On that note, I caught my January 3rd, 2008 post, which had a pretty solid layout of things to look forward to in 2008. I did every single thing on there except for two (the notebook of thoughts from myself and others and going to new area outside the Northeast).
Here are things for 2009:
- stick to the workout plan I started at the end of the semester, add more to it as well
- do the alternative Spring Break thing with Habitat for Humanity (I alluded to this earlier)
- get another internship (seriously this time with Letterman)
- go to several Yankees games) making up for last year
- figure out a way to go outside the country between now and the summer 2010
- get my driver's license
- arrange hangout time with people I actually want to see, especially if I don't hangout with them very often.

This definitely isn't as great as last year's list, but it'll be something to stick to...even if I pretty much forget that I'm doing them.

-Mikhail

edit: Nevermind the new area portion, I did go to Long Island twice in two months. A bit of a stretch, but I've never been there before that.