I noticed an article similar to this on the BBC News website earlier in the month, saying that there will be a “leap second” this year, to ensure our times correspond more directly with the motion of the Earth around the Sun. Therefore you may hear Big Ben chime one second later than you might have expected.
Remember this tonight, or else you may look a fool celebrating 2009 in 2008! Happy New Year everyone!
I’m melancholy and deep in thought at the best of times; but this time of year yields more opportunity for those idling thoughts lying deep in my brain to churn themselves over and over.
With the coming advent of 2009 looming my thoughts try to leap into the future. I’ve found over the past year that it has become increasingly hard to envisage what is to come; and even harder to imagine any good things to happen.
I take a strange and morbid delight in predicting the outcome and depressing fate of 2008 this time last year. Next year feels like it’s going to be pretty rubbish, but perhaps a little better than this year.
Even so I still ponder where I could be this time next Christmas. I could be anywhere in the world. I could be a millionaire! It could happen, but already I doubt my possible achievements.
I guess it’s just "that time of year again".
It feels like 2008 should be the most exciting year of my life thus far. It hasn’t really disappointed so far — not necessarily for the good in the main it must be said — but I anticipate a lot to happen in the coming months.
I should be graduating this year; perhaps moving out and getting a job. I don’t feel scared as such, but I don’t feel that excited either. Is that a bad thing? Am I underestimating the change in front of me? It really feels like doing my A Levels again… everything is hard, and there is the prospect of having to move away. Indeed, I’m approaching my final months in education with a narrow-minded approach, anticipating one outcome and not even contemplating an alternative. That could be a problem this time round: if I don’t have a backup plan, my 2008 will prove to be a bit of a stutter.
This week could make or break my year.
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