New Year’s Eve/Day is a funny thing. While I’ll gladly take any excuse to take a day off and party, it strikes me as slightly amusing that we’re essentially celebrating an arbitrary marker of the fact that we’ve managed to make it one more year without destroying human civilization. Hmm…I wonder how many people are celebrating the events of the past year, and how many people are celebrating the hope of having a fresh start.
At any rate, now that it’s 9 days after 2009, (um…just…like…I…planned?) here’s a quick look back on 2009 and a quick look forward to 2010.
9 things I will remember about 2009
- Death
- Grace
- Obama
- Weddings
- Economic collapse
- Iran
- Healthcare
- Political dysfunction
- Michael Jackson
0 things that I will look forward to in 2010
And that’s a wrap!
Some more professional looks at the past year
- Time‘s photographs of the year
- The decade for the world (NYT)
- 2009 in one wordle (NPR)
- And, NYT’s awesome decade recap.
why are you not looking forward to anything in 2010? c’mon….