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Ah, the time for the New Year's resolutions.  It has been quite some time since I've indulged in this particular practice as I do not have a very good track record in keeping them and find it better to avoid the disappointment of breaking them by simply not making them in the first place.  However after some reflection I think, perhaps, I was mistaken.  That it is better to have set goals and risk not achieving them, than to wander through the year listlessly without some standard to measure yourself against.  That it is not in the succeeding, it is in the striving, and that failure does not mean you should stop, pack it up, and go home, because you can always try again until you get it right.  With that in mind, here is mine.  

To be more daring.  By that I mean to seek out new experiences, be more pro-active in how I live my life, accept invitations I would have normally declined, and generally be less afraid to try something for fear of making a fool of myself.  

I hope that in a year I will be able to look back on this journal and at least say I tried my damnedest.
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It occurred to me that with the coming year, it will finally feel as though we're living in the future not unlike some science fiction movie.  So what is the signifier of this sudden transition to the future times?  It's all in the way we say it.  Up until now the 2000's have have been two thousand and...

2009 = two thousand and nine

However come the new year it will be twenty ten.  You can already hear them saying it on the news.  It is only a matter of time before we find ourselves tangled in the plot of some dystopian sci-fi novel.  

Of course I recognize it's really a return to the way we've always done things, that the early 2000's are the true aberration, but somehow it feels different, two thousand and...so antiquated.
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Billy Mays died today.  

It's hard to imagine TV without his booming voice and goofy catchphrases.  Ridiculous, loud, and uniquely American I think I'll miss him more than the usual celebrity passing.
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I do not normally feature people in my journal because:

A)  I'm lazy.

2. Not enough people read it to make it worth it.  

But I recommend you all check korintic.deviantart.com/ out.

Cthulhu
Cthulhu by korintic
to Pikachu
Anung Un Pika by korintic

Really dig his weird aesthetic.
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