Happy New Year's Eve!

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?

Well, yes, probably. But I don't think so! In fact, I think it's time, for the sake of this psyche of mine, to review the last year, and see what really happened.

Let's call it 2008: We Hardly Knew Ye.

"But Wait!," I said. "Years in retrospect have to have Best Of lists!"

"You're right," I replied. But what was I qualified to describe the best of? Unlike 2007, I don't know anything about music anymore. I only saw 2 movies.

And then I got it. Each month will have one BEST BLOG POST. And they'll all be by ME!!!

Let's get started.

January

Okay so then, this year began. I was in Virginia, and I was watching The Twilight Zone marathon. Pretty soon, I would get on a plane and go to Oregon, where I'd never been.

Highlights: Traveling across the country; seeing Oregon for the first time; meeting: Thomas, Sarah, Gabe, Lee Ann, Emily, etc.

Lowlights: Being lonely; living with the Ecclesiarchy; Roseburg.

Best Post: Random Thoughts, from January 11th.

February

Then February came, and I was pretty lonely.

Highlights: Going to Bandon and Portland for the first time

Lowlights: Valentine's Day

Best Post: Portland!, from February 27th.

March

Finally, it was time for a breakdown. This month featured the quote, "Now I am going to lock myself in my room and cry."

Highlights: Visiting Emily in Coos Bay.

Lowlights: Antidepressants; "I cried for a solid hour."

Best Post: blog through breakdown, from March 25th.

April

April turned lighter, a bit. I think based on the following decision: "Now I will drink and be merry and let the past fade away."

Highlights: Discovering the Scoreboard.

Lowlights: Discovering the Scoreboard.

Best Post: Startling Revelations, from April 18th; A Letter to the People of Roseburg, from April 16th.

May

Wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world! Not that Spring comes really to this Land Beyond the Sun, but, hints and feelers and better than nothing.

Highlights: Camping!

Lowlights: How is it this fucking cold in May??

Best Post: Obviously, This Post Is About Lobsters In Space, from May 28th.

June

May turned to June, and June, to warmth, but only for a little while.

Highlights: Loon Lake; inauguration of The Pleasures Of.

Lowlights: How is it this fucking cold in June??

Best Post: The Pleasures Of, Episode 2, from June 11th.

July

July, July. It really was strange. Changings and becomings and everything hot and new. Halfshells, cats and marines, delight in the humidity.

Highlights: Sunlight; Halfshell; New Folk arrive; poetry readings; how much happiness?

Lowlights: It all comes with a cost, doesn't it?

Best Post: And the Days, from July 2nd.


August

August, dear August. Endings, beginnings, changings. I became 25. I became other things, and only some of them good.

Highlights: Birthdays; Crater Lake; Zine launch; camping; barbecue breakfast.

Lowlights: The shadowy flowers of Orcus.

Best Post: ¿Donde está tu niña amarga?, from August 7th.


September

September is that forever mix. So much good, and yet, it's at this point that other things begin to spiral downward.

Highlights: Somehow, I don't remember September very well.

Lowlights: Fortunately, that means that I don't remember anything bad happening either.

Best Post: Prediction, from September 10th.


October

What a month, October! The season of mists finally gets underway, and the dead come a'wandering to usher it along.

Highlights: Halloween!

Lowlights: Economic crisis.

Best Post: A View from the RNC, from October 9th.


November

Remember, remember! I love you, November. This month Kat and I took off on our famous Road Trip. That was awesome!

Highlights: Redwoods; San Francisco; Santa Barbara; LAX; Pittsburgh; Motel 6; Ashland.

Lowlights: Getting In Trouble.

Best Post: Road Trip, part 2, from November 26th.


December

Oh Dear December, and winter rolling in. Alaska makes love to the Oregon coast--and what are the consequences for the rest of us! On this last day I declare, I love December 2008.

Highlights: Did I tell you how I spent Christmas? We were in a cabin--nay, a chalet--near Mount Baker in Northern Washington.

Lowlights: The anxiety of "Very soon I will not have a job."

Best Post: Happy New Year's Eve!, from December 31st.