2010 Blog

For this post we're going to go on a journey to 1995, when I was in first grade. 

I don't remember much from the time but it is the first time in my life that I started realizing and caring what year it is. Before you get to a certain age (Men of a Certain Age), what year it is doesn't even matter, you get fed and bathed and you don't have to worry about anything. In school we had a special assignment to color in the books that the town had made for the 150th year of the town that was also happening that year. I remember that everything said 1995 on it but I was starting to realize that the end of the year was coming and that the dates on everything were going to be a year off. This kind of upset me in a weird way but I think I felt like that because it was the first time I thought about how time passes and before you know it, it's some distant year... like 2010. 

Another thing about new years is when one passes I always mess up and write the last year in the date. It's frustrating that as an adult you sometimes still make the same mistakes you've been making since 1995. But, it's also pretty cool because you get the chance to make much more complex and fun mistakes as time goes on.

Bringing things to the present, it is 1/1/2010, I am sitting here on my computer digesting the orange juice and feeling a little hungover from the celebrations last night. Now I can't say that the parties at Sheila's aren't great parties, but the mix of people is usually very even and fun oriented. Last night was no exception. It got off to a slow start and I almost blogged about it. Thankfully I didn't. It wouldn't have been very good. I had only $5 for the entire night but somehow the 12 pack that me and Ryan bought for ourselves did us very well, considering it was straight Budweiser. I had a lot of jello shots, a shot of Maker's Mark (which was a mistake) and ate a lot of appetizers as I had no dinner last night. Midnight was celebrated with 72 poppers distributed to 15 to 20 young folks as well as plastic glasses of champagne. We counted down from some strange number and didn't even turn on the TV, which I thought was just not right but I didn't dwell... 

2009 was an incredible year, I spent a third of it in Korea and when I got back, had one of the most fulfilling semesters ever. Met a girl, enjoyed the camaraderie of my apartment, and made content. I couldn't have asked more of 2009. It delivered, oh boy did it deliver. 

I will leave you with a quote that I'm going to find right now by searching famous quotes on google, hold on. . . . . . . "100% of the shots you don't take don't go in." - Wayne Gretzky

From all of us at The Train of Thought Machine, Happy New Year and many many more to come,

Matt Spiro