michiexile | 2004 Review

First sentence from the first post every month in 2004, memes excluded:

Just looked out my window - and in the adjacent building, a man peeks out from his window - on eighth or ninth floor - and drops his christmas tree out of it. Sat on the subway on my way home, reading Mary Gentle's brilliant book 1610. Just realized that I'll be living several months without a non-cellular phone. I cannot really quite NOT share this link, once I've found it. The naming of boxes's a difficult matter it isn't just one of your afternoon games; you may think at first I'm as mad as a manager when I tell you a box must have three different names. Banquet planning initiated. Our plans for a pan-european junior mathematical society are coming together nicely. I got tagged along to this floater on the Pride Parade today. Held my thesis defense today. Please welcome the new Janus - my computer refurnished, refurbished and a lot of other things starting with re. But I'm so tired.

Embarrassingly, I only had two december posts. Both memes. It's been a rough end-of-the-year.