Whether you are planning on painting the town brown or you intend to pass a quiet evening at home, Happy New Year, to you and yours.<\/p>\n\n
Any predictions for 2010? Thoughtful resolutions<\/a> which you care to share with anonymous commenters, loyal lurkers and terrible trolls? Me? I resolve to be more mutinous than I was in 2009. Make of that what you will \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n One of Twitter’s trending topics<\/a> right now is “#10yearsago<\/a>“. People are using that hashtag<\/a> to categorize tweets which discuss what they were doing during what I like to call “Prince’s NYE” (“tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999<\/a>” etc). Ten years ago, I nervously prepared for a big night out in San Francisco, wondering how Y2K<\/a> might affect everything as I donned one of those spangly handkerchief tops from Forever 21 (with opalescent sequins! wheee! Hey– don’t judge…I was in my early 20s). I was going to attend my first Desi NYE bash; Bhangra parties were still somewhat novel to me, back then. Tickets were $100, cabs looked like they would cost about that much, and many of us wondered if ATMs would work past midnight. So, I withdrew a few hundred dollars worth of cash, just to be on “the safe side” and promptly got mugged. Goodbye, beloved, indestructible black evening bag; I think I was most sad about losing you. Though now that I think about it, coming in at a close second in terms of regret-over-what-was-stolen…I just remembered that I had had my faux-Palm Pilot<\/a> in that bag, too. Wow, PDAs…Y2K-drama….that really was<\/em> ten years ago, wasn’t it? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n Where were you on NYE, 1999? And if you can’t remember, what will you be doing tonight? I wish you all a safe, fun, merry time. See you next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whether you are planning on painting the town brown or you intend to pass a quiet evening at home, Happy New Year, to you and yours. Any predictions for 2010? Thoughtful resolutions which you care to share with anonymous commenters, … Continue reading