Yes, today is my birthday. I'm now 27, and over the hill. But, it's a good time to start looking over at the year in retrospective. Most normal people do this around New Years for their respective calenders, but considering I'm still on an academic schedule, I get to go in the summer.1 It's a little easier this year thanks to this blog. I've never kept a diary or a journal, but now I can actually look back at what I wrote and sometimes see a different person. Also, it's been roughly a year since I started blogging. The very