CONSULT JANUS

In mythology Janus sat above a doorway or portal and would look to the the future, that is, those who walked through. But she had another side to her that could look to the past as well.

Since I can't even see the past clearly, well at least according to some of my liberal friends, then there's no way I could discern the future, according to anyone.

I'm afraid I've always been that way. "Saturday's coming up tomorrow?" probably best describes my world view. Or, "I didn't know it was lunch time," when I arrived at 1:30 or two o'clock to eat my warmed up food, pre-microwave days when I was a child of 9 or so.

When I'd missed out on asking the girl(s) I wanted to take to Homecoming Dances because I was unaware of the date of the dance, I was left with appeals from friends of girls who hadn't been asked by anyone, or to take my second or third tier of girl choices based on how quickly I could recover and find out when the well-in-advanced-so-advertised dance would occur. (I just looked at the syntax of that weirdly worded sentence. Diagram that baby, Gertrude.)

After one registration for classes at college and looking at the classes I wanted covered with Closed orange designation cards, I became more aware of time. I registered early and often from then on.

Now, I'm extremely time oriented. If I'm picking the guys up for golf, they know I'll be at least ten minutes early. I'm almost never late to anything.

But that doesn't mean I can see ahead much more than the lunch time or dance days. So if you're looking to see what I see for the year 2010, you've come to the wrong blog.