The (other) Me Decade

I've been reading a few articles about the closing of the decade. It hadn't occurred to me until the Washington Post and Brian Williams alerted me to it. From what I'm gathering, the consensus is that the '00s sucked. Maybe that's true: what with wars and recessions, social networking sites, and the fact that I know who Jon and Kate are.

For me personally, though, they have been ok. A time of radical change, but then again, it also spanned pretty much the entirety of my 20s, so that's not unusual. I remember New Years Eve 1999: I went to two parties. One at my friend Andy's, and then I left that one to go to my best friend's house. Her parents had discouraged her from going out for what we were adamant at the time were unjust political reasons. Everything was unjust back then. Now, she's married and starting a family, and I...well the idea of two parties in one night gives me a slight twinge of dread.

At the start of the '00s, I wasn't sure I'd go to college, or if I even wanted to. The decision to go to Radford in 2001 was by far the best decision I made of the decade, as I owe 98% of my friends to it---followed closely by choosing to apply for the job at ALPA. The experiences I've had here in the last five years sometimes still blow my mind.

I've had a handful of meaningful relationships with great guys, and a couple meaningless ones with bastards-in-retrospect. Both kinds invaluable, and I'm still so glad I didn't quit completely every time I said I was going to.

Anyway, that's it. End my nostalgic music-twinged rambling. Things seem to be getting better. And for real, not just when held in comparison to times that were not-so-great.