2010!: 1 Day Anniversary

So, rumor has it that it's now the year 2010. The first order of business is to determine exactly how we're going to say that. Is it, "Twenty-Ten?" or maybe "Two-thousand ten?" Of course, we'll have a similar problem years from now when referring to the year 2012. Saying "oh-twelve" is simply wrong, but just saying "twelve" just doesn't seem right. Hopefully our top scientists will be working on a solution to this, foregoing additional important project such as the pill that gives mice erections for up to 6 hours, and pills that will block up to 15% of the fat you ingest. Thank goodness they're not wasting their time on a cure for cancer or a good looking, easy to apply car wax (top priority!)

I never quite felt the hype presented for New Year's. I don't recall every having a New Year's that I thought was "great." It has always been a regular get-together, except maybe with hats and things that made loud sounds, in addition to shows on the TV that I don't really care about watching. Nothing is quite like the underwhelming feeling that follow, "3!....2!....1!.... Happy New Year!!!....... Let's go home." It is always slightly humorous to see Time's Square practically empty 10 minutes after the ball drops, with they exception of the army of street cleaners that pick up the tons of trash left over from the event. Nothing like celebrating the New Year being extremely cold, crowded, and unable to leave if you want to! Maybe some day I'll understand why people go there for the new year celebration...

The new year brings nothing new. Classes begin in less than a week, but that is about it. While the beginning of the new year is merely a human observation of when we restart out monthly Gregorian calendar, it is just another day later in time. The same thing applies to turning a year older, I suppose. If you're turning 30 or 40, it's just another day later. January 1st signals the onset of teleporters and flying cards just was much as turning 40 signals an instant switch in one's body and appearance.

(I'm still hopeful each year for the flying cars.)

I do find fascination with resolutions, however. If nothing else, it's fun to mock those that create their resolutions, and immediately falter on them. :) That's a sadistic part of me, I suppose. I guess I feel that way because I try not to set goals or resolutions for myself unless I intend to follow through with them, or to at least give it a pretty strong shot over a long period of time. I do understand the idea of using the new year as a time to say to oneself, "Well, I have been meaning to (lose weight/exercise more/eat better/learn French/spend more time with my family/go back to school/stop masturbating at the aquarium/be nicer person/quit smoking)." The change to a new year gives a fresh start of sorts (even if it's just on a paper calendar), and reason to act on those changes you've been meaning to make.

For me, the closet things to a resolution would be those that I find are easier to begin or accomplish with the extra time that (sometimes) comes with the holidays. Currently, I have been running every day! (since starting 3 days ago) Not a bad start, but I hope to continue until school starts, so I can be caught up enough, fitness-wise, to begin running regularly my 'usual' distances 3+ times a week. With possible extra time available this semester, I may try to take advantage of the services available since I do pay all of those student fees. Namely, the free instructors and equipment at FSU's gym. I'm not looking forward to the crowds, or the wearing of sunglasses inside so I can stare at the co-eds in their spandex, but if the time is there the exercise would do me good.

The next month or so should produce a lot of changes, but whether they will be for good or not is, as always, to be determined.