I'm afraid that the major event of this year was I started dating
Work was much as last year, I procrastinated and fretted lots in between occasional bouts of enthusiasm. As a result 2009 is going to be a year of panic about job-hunting, and quite likely changing career direction. It's a shame, because I have many reasons to like my job, but it just hasn't quite worked out.
Other than that, 2008 was a year of even more engagement in the Jewish community here. I've got to the point where I feel really settled here socially, mainly through said Jewish community. I have got to know several people I regard as friends, and there are lots of others I get on with and who are reliably pleased to see me.
Significant Events
Books
Also two absolutely superlative, mind-blowing short stories: Ted Chiang's Story of your life, and Lois McMaster Bujold's Mountains of mourning. The collections they're drawn from (Stories of your life and Borders of infinity) are very good too.
I read 62 books this year, many lent to me by
Music
This has been a really good year for music. I got the point where I'd bought everything from eMusic that I already knew I wanted, so I've started exploring there and on other music-related social networks, and discovered a lot of cool new stuff. In spite of the soppy theme of the year, we don't really have an "our song";
LJ posts
My posts
Wonderful friends
People I love and wish I'd seen more of
Non LJ friends
People I'm really glad I got to know (this list ends up with a lot of
New to my friendlist (also lots of these poached from

People who made it to Sweden