I need more time to think deeply about the wider year in review.

What I can do is give a whistle stop tour of the year from my blog. And to honour praguetory (yeah, me neither) there won't do be a post about Mrs Alden in the list.

January- I started the year caffeine free and I'm ending it the same way. Things got a bit lost in the middle but I've returned to my stupid idea. And this year's dead pool list was announced.

February- I reviewed a classic and no one cared. I saw two films that blew me away (Juno and There will be blood). I turned 29 and the earth moved.

March- I reviewed a couple of books and appeared in the audience for deal or no deal.

April- I managed to miss the fierce festival completely even though I blogged about the performers a bit. And I left my job.

May- I went to see Liza.

June- Didn't appear to happen at all. No blogs. I think I was busy finding a job.

July- I got broadband at home. Thanks! I got a place in the bunker for being nice to my senior manager, Sylvia is lovely though. I discovered the joys of working in a high powered bureaucracy and considered the perils of time travel.

August- Olympics and Greenbelt.

September- I explained where the old name of my blog came from. I saw the rice show and launched a thousand ships. I also got stressed over the word homophobia.

October- I vowed to free my feet and began to prove that Birmingham is overrun with Zombies. I talked about elbows a lot, saw forced entertainment and went to Israel but came back from Palestine.

November- I got cryptic about bonfire night. Found a resonance from the past and was shaken by Obama, Dr Atomic and a little girl dancing in a shop.

And now we're in December, where we risk looking back at looking back and getting trapped between two reflective surfaces. I wrote a lunchtime haiku and became the literature coordinator at greenbelt.

2008 has been a very interesting year personally. There were some posts I wanted to talk about but I'll come to those in my more global reflection.

(Thanks to Praguetory for his proofing skills. It was posted quite late last night so maybe I should have waited)