Non days
Ah, the non days between Christmas and New Year, so full of… ‘meh‘ (really, that’s the best word for it). Everyone is waiting for the year to end and the promise of the new year. It’s as if they expect Tuesday to dawn , the camera to pan back over some pristine utopia version of wherever it is you live with this as the sound track.
Lovely idea isn’t it? It’s also a complete crock. I get the need for people to mark the passage of time but we do pick some odd occasions: “Woohoo, it’s midnight, the planet has traveled from one totally arbitrary point to another one 99.930% of the way round the sun“. Leap years are slightly different, now we’re celebrating the exact moment that the earth has gone round the sun once from some arbitrary point and then gone another .204% of the way round (gotta love being a geek 
).
Celebrating the end of the calender doesn’t really work for me either. Why don’t we mark the end of each month with some lesser festivities? (When I’m dating people I do actually mark lunniversaries as well as anniversaries, but then I could just be sad 
). Why not celebrate the moment when the days start getting longer again? (6:08am last Saturday morning in case you weren’t looking). Regardless, we get all expectant, count down the seconds when the time comes close, proclaim ‘Happy New Year!’ and… then what?
Nothing changes people!
Much as I’d love to wake up to my movie start to the year (and I do quite often listen to that particular song on my way to the station as it’s good for putting you in a good mood and getting you geared up for the day) I suspect my first morning in 2008 will be summed up by this. Why? Because that’s what sums everything up now and I really don’t expect anything to change in however many days it is until the 1st.
Still, since we’re time bucketing things the way we are lets hope that everyone’s 2008 sucks less than my 2007 (or indeed my brothers 2007, bathgirls 2007, and too many other people to mentions 2007). Enjoy your non days until then, I know I’ll be making full use of the fact that it’s 3 days of very little work and a lot of play resplendent with a lazy weekend
you can tell you’re having a non day. 4 blog entries before 9am. Most with flash so can’t be read on iPhone and your blog is still blocked by my employer.
Not much joy really.
You not managed to make a business case for letting them unblock the site?
The flash entries are just the badger song, the llama song and the spong monkies rendition of I like the moon. All googleable
I must admit I cant get at the youtube stuff - but you’ve not yet managed to get my current place of work to block you yet…I’m waiting for it though
You’re an even more happy camper than usual, and this despite having a non day with which to make good your official non day yesterday.
To what cometh the world?
An end.