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I read something somewhere on the 'net that explained why, as you become older, the days seem shorter.
When you are five or six years old, any given year is a relatively significant percentage (20%, 16%) of your life.
When you are forty or fifty, a single year is less than 3% of your life.
So, as you become older, each year seems to go faster, because each year is a smaller part of your entire life.
That being said, the roller coaster that was 2008 seemed to stretch out forever and ever.
I can only hope the next election campaign cycle does not start before 2011, and that the entire planet is not a smoking ruin before then.
