Happy New Year
Thursday, January 1st, 2009Good morning, gentle readers, and welcome to 2009!
I don’t know about you, but I think I am pretty much over 2008 at this point, even though I will undoubtedly date my February rent check with “2008,” just out of habit. 2008 was a pretty exciting year, what with the groundbreaking election, economic collapse, and all. Hopefully this year will be equally exciting, perhaps with a little bit less of the “getting collectively screwed” going on.
I suppose I could throw out a few predictions for the coming year, so I that I can go back and laugh at my foolishness in December. I’m definitely betting on a further decline of the real estate market, along with a dramatic Obama backpedal on several issues (odds on for LGBQT and women’s rights), and possibly some juicy food security scandals. I also suspect that the City of Fort Bragg will do at least one thing which is so mindblowingly stupid that I will feel obliged to rant about it.
I’m looking forward to sharing more adventures (and incoherent rants) with y’all in the coming months. I haven’t selected a blog project for 2009, although I did think about writing about all of the visualĀ media I see, or possibly organizing an epic candy exchange, and I suppose there are a few days yet to choose something, but after the exhaustion of the Book Project, I think I might leave this year up the fates. Unless everyone clamors for a blog project. What’s that, you say? *crickets*
I am glad that more of you seem to be coming out of your shells in the comments. Hopefully this year will be more lively in the comments section. As always, though, people who feel shy but really want to talk to me can email me: meloukhia at gmail dot com.
Best wishes to all of you in the coming year.
