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	<title>Somewhat Manly Nerd &#187; happy new year</title>
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		<title>A Personal Note to the 00s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CajoleJuice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should I put an apostrophe in 00&#8242;s? And did we decide what we&#8217;re going to call them? &#8220;The Aughts&#8221; blows. &#8220;The Zeros&#8221; really works better, since this is basically a lost decade. Not for me, but for the world &#8212; well, other than China and India and maybe some other developing countries (Brazil?). But I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Should I put an apostrophe in 00&#8242;s? And did we decide what we&#8217;re going to call them? &#8220;The Aughts&#8221; blows. &#8220;The Zeros&#8221; really works better, since this is basically a lost decade. Not for me, but for the world &#8212; well, other than China and India and maybe some other developing countries (Brazil?). But I guess aught means zero, but I think zero is dumbed down as to be indicative of America as a whole. Anyhow, this is supposed to be personal, not me analyzing the popular naming conventions of decades.</p>
<p><em>Edit: Oh wait, I just put an apostrophe in my last post title! Guess I&#8217;m not consistent.</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I will never have a decade as eventful as this one. I started 2000 in middle school, a Dreamcast fanboy who loved video games and was afraid of women &#8212; well, I guess that last one hasn&#8217;t changed too much. But I&#8217;ve gone through high school and college the past ten years. I attended two high schools and four colleges. And then of course there are all the other milestones any person goes through that don&#8217;t need to be listed. The years of 13 to 23 cover all of those for most people, I imagine. How is any other decade going to beat that? Maybe if I move between cities and/or countries I can top it? Maybe marriage + kids? Too far off to think about and I feel like one doesn&#8217;t truly understand starting and raising a family until one experiences it. A person always thinks the present is going to be the most important time of one&#8217;s life.</p>
<p>But still, that&#8217;s a fairly stuffed ten years, is it not? <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">I attended&#8230;</span> I started to write a huge bunch of personal anecdotes, but I&#8217;d probably regret it at some point. I&#8217;ve become a bit more secure with myself and my past disappointments and failings, but I&#8217;m not totally comfortable writing them all out for the entire internet to see. Sure, no one reads this, but people technically *could*. So what was the point of this post? I guess I felt the need to wrap up the 00&#8242;s somehow.</p>
<p>In terms of looking forward, I find it so difficult to bring myself to do it. I see way too many possible paths laid out in front of me, all with their positives, but I can&#8217;t help but focus on the downsides to all of them. I assume the worst almost always, and while it brings immenseÂ  joy when things do work out, it&#8217;s not good when it stops me from actually doing things. So it&#8217;s going to be 2010. Here&#8217;s to actually doing things. I hope.</p>
<p>But I still won&#8217;t do the only thing I want to do.</p>
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		<title>Oh, It&#8217;s 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CajoleJuice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year and all that shit. Let&#8217;s hope the Dow doesn&#8217;t go down 33% again. Or was it 40%? I&#8217;m just going by some graphic I saw for approximately 3 seconds.
I&#8217;d post some New Year resolutions, but my real ones are probably more depressing than funny. I could make up some amusing ones, but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy New Year and all that shit. Let&#8217;s hope the Dow doesn&#8217;t go down 33% again. Or was it 40%? I&#8217;m just going by some graphic I saw for approximately 3 seconds.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d post some New Year resolutions, but my real ones are probably more depressing than funny. I could make up some amusing ones, but I&#8217;m too busy watching the MLB network. Greatest channel ever. Baseball tonight is officially done. It&#8217;s broadcasting Don Larsen&#8217;s perfect game along with all the commercials. Gillette commercials from 1956 are hilarious.</p>
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