Delaying New Year

It’s official: we’re delaying New Year for a little while.

Yup, the powers that be have decided that everyone needs some extra time to enjoy what’s left of 2008, so spend that extra leap second wisely; you’ll never know when you need it.

To help you through that long stretch of unknownness, here’s a list of 10 things you could do to occupy the extra time you suddenly have:

1. Meditate a little.
2. Breathe just a little bit deeper. Exhale slower. Savor the taste of the air leaving your lungs.
3. Mentally prepare yourself to count 57, 58, 59, 60, 00 later tonight.
4. Pause a little whilst walking and see if you can get both feet off the floor at the same time.
5. Attempt Dirk Gently’s method of flying: fall and try to miss the floor.
6. Read a completely random web site.
7. Conjugate the verb “to be”. In Latin.
8. Practice looking cross-eyed. Use a mirror.
9. Consider rearranging the pictures on your refrigerator.
10. Pontificate. Learn a new word.
11. Use the extra second to write an 11th thing to do.

Have a great New Year everyone.