Wasted Days

Today I received a questionnaire asking for total number of contributions in the following categories over the past academic year:

1. Refereed Papers
2. Non-refereed Papers
3. Books
4. Book Chapters
5. Presentation at learned societies/symposia
6. Invention disclosures
7. Copyrighted Software
8. Patents Filed
9. Other Scholarly Works

to each of which I responded with a big, fat zero. It is early for resolutions, but I aim for '09 to be full of accomplishments that can be measured instead of my usual results (e.g. "Oh! Duh! That's what that equation means. I should'a known that already...").