I don’t know if it’s my school psychology training or the ZOMG DATA craze that has gripped all facets of public education in the last few years, but I’m becoming increasingly interested in looking at the role numbers play in my life, specifically in terms of goals and accomplishments. Dan Meyer and his readers have been doing their annual reviews visually for the last few years, but I’m not quite there. I’m just going to throw out a few numbers that played a role in my life in 2012 in boring old text:
- 208: Miles run since hip surgery and physical therapy
- 1: Tough Mudder completed
- 13: Pounds lost via Intermittent Fasting (in a 10-week period)
- 950: Pictures taken (and kept) in my family digital photo album
- 3: Edcamps attended and co-organized
- 1: Cruise taken with my wife, kids, and parents
- 1: Nationally syndicated game show recorded featuring a relative as a contestant (to air in Feb 2013 – more info soon!)
- 6: Doctoral courses completed
- 8: Doctoral courses completed in total
- 8: Doctoral courses to go
- 0.6: Doctoral thesis left to write
- 4,060: Approximate mileage traveled from work (Lawrenceville, NJ) to grad school (New Castle, DE) to home (Perkasie, PA) (not even gonna tally the tolls paid; too depressing)
- 5: Years I’ve been blogging (as of 1 Aug 2012)
- 199: Total blog posts published as of 31 Dec 2012 (I published #200 on 1/1/13; this is #201)
- 25: Blog posts published in 2012
- 0: Months in 2012 in which I didn’t post at least one blog entry
- 1: Months in the last five years in which I didn’t post at least one blog entry (damn you, November 2008!)
In 2013, I’d like to keep track of these:
- Number of new beers tried
- Number of books read
as well as whatever else happens to catch my fancy. What numbers were important to you in 2012?
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