the moldy peaches - anyone else but you

Is the "Year's" in "New Year's" supposed to have an apostrophe? New Year's? New Years? The apostrophe doesn't mark a contraction, nor does it seem possessive (happy New Year's? Year's what?), but most Google results use the apostrophe. Omitting the apostrophe seems incorrect as well, since there's nothing plural here - there's only one new year. Is the "s" even necessary in either case? Maybe this is one of those adages of the English language that people kind of collectively use incorrectly ("I could/couldn't care less"). Anyway I've thought about this way too much and I remember this bugging me last year as well, but I guess I didn't care enough to follow up on it. Answers please.

I read back on some of the older entries in this blog (2005-2006) and the reaction was a whole lot of cringing and brow-furrowing. I've deleted most of it. I find it a bit alarming how most of my blog entries seem to have such a short shelf life - will I be reading back on this entry 2 years from now and be deciding to delete this as well? That doesn't speak very highly for the integrity of my posts, but then again, our biggest critics are usually ourselves and I might be overreacting.

In high school I used to love having a really thick wallet, bursting at the seams with all sorts of cards, papers, receipts, and other worthless oddities. I (foolishly) thought that the sheer amount of junk in my wallet was a representation of how sophisticated and diverse I was. Nowadays, I prefer compactness and simplicity, and store only what I know I'm going to use. Money clips work even better for this, but the problem with money clips is that you can't take out any cash without showing all of the bills that you're carrying. This obviously becomes a problem when you're carrying more than you'd like others to know. There is a workaround for this, which would be folding and stacking each bill individually on top of each other, but that's just neurotic. I've tried it.

I don't want to sleep because I want to keep listening to this song.

Comments

[Jessie]

You think too much hahah.. have you seen Juno yet?!