Well, I was a bit of a bum in 2007, really. I wrote half as many blog posts, read half as many books, was half as satisfied with my job, probably drank twice as much. My second year in Charlotte was definitely akin to something sophomoric, a weird phase in which things (city, job, friends, myself) had a new familiarity, which is a strange familiarity, because the trick i think is to not be content with it but to dig deeper so that things aren't merely familiar but are known. It was a reconciling of things within, feeding off of the things without.
It was just time. A sun's revolution's worth of time. But if, through my interactions with them, more people (net, me included) are better off now than they were on the 31st of 2006, well, then it was time well spent.
I read these 2 decent recaps of 2007 in my hometown’s local newspaper (ap articles, of course) - 1 for sports and 1 for entertainment. I can't find them anywhere online, though, which simultaneously irks me and also reminds me of the intangible value of printed press.
Anyway, I had a lot of free time during my break last week (year, har har…), so I thought I would attempt to write my own recap of 2007. And I did. But, looking at it now, I don’t know if I want to post it or not. Could just do a picture recap. Because if a picture is worth a thousand words, and the picture is used to describe 365 days, i would've just written 365,000 words, right? The way newspapers are dumbed down these days, I'm a little worried that by this time next year, they'll all be written in hieroglyphics. I'm going to start writing work memos in pictures. ohhh, or smileys.
Dear >:-O :
If you waive the penalty, I will be :-D
If you do not, I will be :-(
You choose.
Kind regards,
:- /
Hey, it could happen. 2008 has already proven to be unpredictable. So it goes.
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