• Over 500,000 visitors to OverthinkingIt.com
• Over 25,000 job placements by NYC’s Workforce1 Career Centers
• Over 20,000 visits to last year’s “Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock” Overthinking It article, many of which came after it appeared on Gawker, Boing Boing, and the front page of Digg.
• 47 posts on Overthinking It, including an article on “Slumdog Millionaire” that’s now the number 1 Google search result for “20 million rupees”
• 5 weddings
• 2 days reporting from New York Comic-Con
• 1 promotion
• 1 song for George Soros
• 1 move to a new apartment
• 1 new member of the family – my niece, Maren Myung-Ja Wall, born on  the last day of the year!

This year was not without hardships and difficulties, but I can say that overall, it was a pretty good year. In 2009, I’ve learned, unlearned, loved, lost, laughed, cried, celebrated, mourned, and done everything else in between. I anticipate all of that–and then some–in 2010.

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What a year. Below are some things I’ve accomplished, help make possible, or experienced in 2008, by the numbers.

66,882,230 Votes for Barack Obama for President
254,000+ Visitors to OverthinkingIt.com
17,000+ Job placements by NYC’s Workforce1 Career Centers
30 Articles written for OverthinkingIt.com, including 1 which was featured on the Freakanomics Blog
16 Days spent in South Korea, during which I got 1 monkey off of my back
4 Weddings
2 Student internships at Asian American nonprofits
1 Funeral
1 Promotion
1 Move to a new apartment
1 Lee-Soffin Acoustic Rock Duo Concert
Too many things I’m looking forward to–and worried about–in 2009 to count.

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