Comments on: A Decade in Review

By: MaryK

MaryK — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:01:55 +0000

“I attended my first RWA conference (care of a birthday present registration by Sailor Boy)”

Way to go Sailor Boy! I’m always ridiculously pleased to hear about writers with supportive SOs.

By: Tiff

Tiff — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:46:38 +0000

Pretty amazing decade for you, Diana. I think my decade in review would be a little silly, since I managed to graduate from high school, college, and two post-grad degrees (as well as hold my first real job, and several internships) thanks to the magic of 2000 being the beginning of the decade.

That said, it’s been a pretty significant decade for me, too. Maybe the theme of this decade for me is “education”. Let’s hope the next decade is actually focused on a proper “career” (aka making money to pay back massive debt). =P

By: Alexa

Alexa — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:26:34 +0000

I’m with National Geographic it does sound better

I graduated in 2001, got engaged in 2006 and married in 2007 too. Sadly no books published though, maybe this decade.

Congratulations on all you achieved and looking forward to hearing about the new project.

By: Rhiannon

Rhiannon — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:43:52 +0000

Well, 1995-2005 is, technically, a decade, right? So to say that this is the end of a decade that started in 2000 is technically correct.

And really, the years are rather arbitrary, aren’t they? The start of the first year AD isn’t exactly when Christ was born. It is rather arbitrary, I believe (though you have probably done more research on this than me. I just focus on the whole Jesus-wasn’t-born-in-December aspect, usually). So if I remember correctly, the ACTUAL millenium was a few years off in numbering anyways, therefore it is all simply symantics.

By: Tom Degan

Tom Degan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:48:11 +0000

I can remember exactly where I was when this awful decade came into being. Believe it or not, when I rang in the new year on January 1, 2000, I was not only stone-cold sober – I was at church! My then-girlfriend and I attended a special midnight mass at the local Catholic church to welcome in, not only a new decade, but a new century and a new millennium. I remember feeling filled with optimism. By entering this new era, I felt, we could wipe the slate clean. Maybe this would be a new age of peace, love, brother and sisterhood. EVERYBODY SING!

This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius!
Age of Aquarius!
Aquariusuuuuus!

How utterly naive on my part, huh? By year’s end, all of that hope was out the window and into the toilet. In December of 2000, an ideologically perverted Supreme Court would assist in a stolen election by stopping the vote count in the state of Florida, installing a corrupt little frat boy with the I.Q. of a half-eaten box of Milk Duds as president of the United States. It was all downhill from that moment on. From the birth of “Reality Television” to the worst attack on American soil since the Civil War, it was quite a strange ten years to say the least. Thankfully this awful decade is a mere three days away from being forever consigned to history’s scrap heap. Hallelujah.

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Tom Degan