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Happy New Year, world. All I ask is that 2005 is not as crappy as 2004 was.

Some good things about 2004...

- Good year in film (Ebert's top 10 won't doesn't show that however)
- Got a scholarship for two free semesters of school
- Was selected to be an honors student
- Made a collegiate baseball team and stayed on for an entire school year
- Did some very nice volunteer work
- Finally met real people at Oakton
- The Cubs posted their best record in my history as a Cubs fan (as well as signed Greg Maddux)
- The Bulls had their first extended win streak since the dynasty years
- Got a job at Old Navy... (the good part is the people, not the 2:30 a.m. closings)
- Saw Macha and was introduced to their music
- Saw Mouse on Mars
- Saw The Walkmen
- Saw Modest Mouse
- Played Billy Robbins in "An American Daughter"
- & reunited myself with an old friend through the comedic stylings of the Grim Reaper (Death as Death in "The Death Show")

Don't let it fool you. Its been a terrible year. The list of things that went bad this year is basically the rest of this blog. So feel free to take a gander at the debacle that was Mike's 2004.

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