It's About Time

You know, I never thought about how the names of years were pronounced. Like... 1995, for example. We say, "Nineteen Ninety Five," as opposed to what it actually is, and that's "One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Five." Which is a lot to say, and I understand perfectly not wanting to put forth any more effort than is absolutely necessary to do something.


Here's a Mandala I made back in 2007.
Painted with acrylics.


Anyway, This never occurred to me until last year, 2010, when people started calling it "Twenty Ten," and after ten years of saying "Two Thousand Something," the sudden conversion from "Two Thousand" to "Twenty" was alarming and uncomfortable, right up until I actually sat down and thought about it. After a realizing I'd been calling the 20th century "Nineteen Whatevers" my whole life, I was like, "Oooh. Well that makes sense then."

So, Twenty Ten it is! (Er... Twenty Eleven, by now, actually, but whatever.)