The Zany Zeroes

It's almost been a year since I got this Napoleon Dynamite calendar. It's been hanging around for eleven months now, month after month of pictures of nerds being flipped to reveal a new picture of nerds, with only one photo of nerds left to be revealed. At the end of it, a new decade begins.
The 2000s will be the first decade I will have lived all the way through, and the decade that I've first been really aware of this hectic world around us all. It's a bit of an odd thought for me. So much is coming in 2010, and this shift in life seems to go hand-in-hand with the dawning of this new decade.
I hadn't realized how close we are to the 10s until I saw the cover of the new TIME: The Decade From Hell (and why the next one will be better). Then it just hit me like a puff of steam or something of the sort. A new era is coming.
I feel like I can wear this decade like a badge now. Like a recruit in the military getting his first bar. I have a little more experience, and now I'm a little more prepared for the future. The 00s held the first big historical event I ever lived through and remember. The 00s held most of my time as a teenager. The 00s are ten years I won't forget. The 00s really have a weight for me. Now they're over, and we're moving farther into this new millennium. The 00s are almost history, and I was a part of it.
But maybe I'm just thinking too much about the insignificant when I should be sleeping for school tomorrow. I guess I have ten years to figure that out.

Moving on,
AJKazlouski

(Note: I wrote this November 29th, finished about 11:58 pm)
(I'll be posting about my favorite albums of each year just for fun soon!)

"I consider myself a citizen of the universe."

I am sitting in Mr. Roberson's room on a Thursday after school waiting for opening night of the school play (which I am a small participant in), and listening to some music recommended and lent to me by my AP Government teacher (Album by Girls, pretty good so far, thanks Mr. Ward). My new squeeze is also in the play, sitting right beside me. Tomorrow, I am taking a trip to an awesome college that I just sent an application to, then working on the school newspaper until the wee hours of the night. Saturday morning I will be working on it more, and then later be in the play for the final curtain call. Then on Sunday, I am going to do all of my homework that I wished I could have spread out throughout the weekend, before working intensely on the paper one more night on Monday.

I now feel like a Senior. I just realized how many interesting things are happening so far this year, and it's still only November.
I suppose that this is the epiphany I was waiting for.
Everything is happening, and I'm excited about it.

Forgot to write a sign-off, so I edited this one in,
AJKazlouski