Summation of 2008 on LJ and generally
Statistix: 3,731 Journal Entries. 27,566 comments received, 17,726 comments posted (cumulative totals: for 2008 that's 734 posts, 6165 comments received, 2618 posted)
First lines of months (omitting birthday greetings and locked posts)
Jan: Big Ben has just chimed, the fireworks are going off.
Feb: As I remember it, I arrived in Peshawar from Kabul, spent one night there, and then ?flew to Rawalpindi
Mar: This grows out of several things during the week, including conversation with Tart Card Collector about the latest trends being offered on these
Apr: My pick for the Guardian's April Foolery this year.
May: Go sister go sister go sister go sister!
Jun: The Representation of the People Act, 6 Feb 1918
Jul: Turning a bug into a feature: describing medicines as 'non-drowsy'
Aug: A rather nasty migraine last night, cause uncertain
Sep: But classic era Motown is margaritas for the soul.
Oct: And because with the lurghi still in place don't seem to be bursting with ideas for posts
Nov: It is a sad, sad thing to observe, in the pages of the Times Literary Supplement, no less
Dec: Some thoughts about social interactions following various encounters on Friday.
Most Commented Posts (ditto):
Mi honest doubt, let me show u my faith in it: 79
Invizbel soshul contrakt: 78
Something that arose in LJ conversation just now: 64
Hello? People? It's Just One Day out of your whole life:59
When I see people in the media who look and talk like me - well, it usually is me, actually: 58
Felicific calculus: 56
Oh, for....: 55
Mad male artists: 54
Up to a point, Mr Pollan: 52
Some linx about gurrllzz: 47, tied with Alice Beatitude says, hey man, gonna bake a boggle cake
Good things: Wiscon (in spite of the plague), 4th St Fantasy and encounters at both, exciting acquisition at work and cataloguing same, revival of interest in a very unexpected quarter of my activities, several books, watching Farscape, Grayshott, holidays, partner.
Bad things: two bouts of lingering virus and subsequent post-viral blahs was ALTOGETHER TOO MUCH!! especially with the knock-on effect on exercise. Failure to get things moving on the biography ms revision. General sense of lack of productiveness.
On the whole, a year I am glad to see the end of, even if perhaps in this apparently drear and fallow season stuff may have been burgeoning below the surface.