Happy new year!

[slowsculpture]

In place of any resolutions, let me confess something: I've had 10 years to get used to living in the 21st century, and it still hasn't taken. These years (2000? 2007? 2010?!) are still supposed to be the far future. When I think of the year 2010, I imagine sitting in a classroom in fourth grade or so, reading one of those Scholastic Weekly Reader things they used to pass out. 2010 is the sort of year they would 'estimate' for completely science-fiction possibilities, like an international space station, or cars that run on batteries, or phone conversations with video, or tiny computers that go in your pocket. It was a year scientists talked about. I don't know if I'll ever get used to writing it on checks.

Well, it's 2010, and I'm dating a really hot scientist! I guess Scholastic Reader didn't see that one coming, huh? :) Seriously, tho, I'm excited that the new year is here already. '09 was a big year for me, and I have a whole lot planned for '10. Time moving forward is an exciting thing for me, right now. Here's to a great new year all around.

Comments

[hendrikboom]

In 1955, I had a book that showed me a city of the future (1975). I still haven't seen it. It;s a bit like soe of the things I see in anime versions of Tokyo. But I suspect those are still in the future, too.

[slowsculpture]

Heh - awesome. I love old 'visions of the future' like that. I keep thinking of an old John Prine song I liked. "We are living in the future, I'll tell you how I know: I read it in the paper, fifteen years ago."