Year In Review: 2007, Simplified

In Vegas party/paper-writing with my California friends. Please sound off on your favorite geek in the poll in my previous entry :) In the meantime, this is a cursory look at my year. Introspection tk!

Who I Spent 2007 With …
Guys I Went On Dates With: 9
Guys I Dated: 3
Guys I Fell in Love With: 0
Guys Who Pursued/Hooked Up With/Dated Me Despite Having Girlfriends: 9 and counting, as of Christmas night. Anyone else want to come clean?
Relationships Ended by Me as a Result of Above Shit Happening: 3

When Not in Cambridge …
Ivies Visited: 4 (Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn, Yale) out of 7, discounting Harvard
Trips to Philly: 4 (Intercession in January, President’s Day for like two hours, majority of spring break, Veteran’s Day)
Trips to New York: 5 (mid-exams in January, President’s Day weekend, spring break for a few days and an interview, early May, Columbus Day)
Weeks Spent Living in New York this summer: 12
Boroughs Visited in New York City: 4 (all of them except the Bronx)
Days Spent in California: 20
Days Spent Vacationing with California friends: 7 (Arizona last New Year’s, Mexico this summer, Vegas this New Year’s)

Stuff I Wrote and People Who Read It …
Number of SATI Page Views in 2007: 2 million+
Number of Unique Visitors: ~30,000/month
Most Surprising Fans: Tie between MIT students, Saudis (as in those who live in Riyadh), and True Love Revolution members
Non-Harvard Student Press: Boston University, Suffolk University, Penn x3 (the social Ivy apparently loves me)
Boston-Area Press: Fox 25 News, The Boston Globe, Bostonist
Pieces Published: 11 (with 5 others completed in ‘07, awaiting publication)
Total Freelancing Income: $1750
Total Site Revenue: $600
Total Income: $10,000 (counting piece I finished in ‘07 but won’t be paid for until ‘08)

Partying, and more …
New Signature Drink: Amaretto martinis
New Favorite Drink: Brachetto
Substances Abused: At least 4, but not all illegal.
Non-Drug Addictions Acquired: Berry Line, Twitter, Threadless
Overnight Stays at Stillman Infirmary: 0 (down from TWO in 2006, the year of mono and alcohol poisoning)
Formals Attended: 5 (Eliot Fête, Lowell Bacchanalia, Currier at the Sheraton, Adams Swashbuckler’s Ball, Tri-House at the Faculty Club)
Formals Paid For: 0 (a LOT of crashing)
First Time I Cried in 2007: Late January in Philadelphia after a spat with Summer Guy
Last Time I Cried in 2007: During a viewing of “Love, Actually” at Tiffanie and Tara’s
New Girlfriends: a Carnegie Mellon theater geekette; a singer; my Penn, Cornell, and New York counterparts; and many others via existing Harvard girlfriends
Feuds, both imagined and actual: 3 (with IvyGate, True Love Revolution, and The Crimson’s LMC)