Number of stars gazed, with the naked eye: 1,118, with the mind’s eye: 10^10. Number of books read, by Card: 23, Pratchett: 20, Palahniuk: 11, Gaiman: 8, Rowling: 7, Bryson: 5, Salinger: 1. Number of books written: 0. Number of Theatre Ink sweatshirts: 8, t-shirts:, 3. Number of years of Hebrew School attended: 7. Number of times kicked out: 1. Number of Bar Mitzvahs, attended: 15, had: 0. Number of birds watched, bald eagles: 18, red-tailed hawks: 148, sharp-shinned hawks: 32, peregrine falcons: 10, broad-winged hawks: 1,354. Number of weeks spent in Australia: 6, Caribbean: 2, Continental United States: 891.396. Number of days lost to the International Date Line: 2. Number of ambitions, realized: 8, squashed: 4,257. Pounds of chocolate, eaten: 10, fully appreciated: 6. Number of cell phones owned: 5. Number of cell phones it was truly practical to own at that point in my life: 2. Number of lilacs appreciated, up close: 84, from afar: 3,760. Kilometers of tissues used: 3. Number of emails, in inbox: 854, sent: 2,876, archived: 8,333. Number of coincidences that were too coincidental: 911. Number of socks lost: 153. Number of times perplexed as to where my socks went: 153. Number of haircuts: 68. Number of hairs cut: 6,500,500. Number of pizzas ordered: 40, denied because I was not of age: 1. Number of college essays written about this experience: 1. Number of Star Trek references in that essay, subtle: 2, explicit: 1, shameless: 3. Number of times Star Trek 2009 watched: 8, appreciated: 8, quoted: 693. Number of close encounters, with death: 13, with love: 1, with raw terror: 6, of the Third Kind: 9. Number of plays, seen: 46, enjoyed: 38, directed: 3. Number of times Kant read: 2, reread: 4, understood: 0, quoted: 24. Number of laughs, forced: 4,582, genuine: 10^10.