Since this question was asked in 2009 I am, of course, tempted to answer it by listing events that already happened in 2010. Then I will hit 'Post' while giggling to myself, drape my white, faux-fur cape around my broad and bare shoulders, and lay in front of my fireplace while sipping green tea out of a cup I made during my 'ceramic crafts period'. Maybe watch something on Instant Netflix. They put up pretty much every Cassavettes movie a couple of weeks ago. Maybe just curl up with a book or prick my muscular chest with a pin and drip some of my blood into a cup and then offer it to Dionysus in exchange for blessing the leather goods that I own.

That seems to obvious to me right now though. Instead I'll offer my predictions for the next four months, followed by the next three years:

2010: Things have been getting real. Things will probably continue to get real.

2011: Things start to get a little unreal. Due partially to the marketing push of 3-D movies and TV people start to get 3-D sickness or 'The Red and Blues', and start to notice the overall flatness of 'real' life. Anti-Depressants are prescribed, but that doesn't stop a significant portion of the population from taking mirrors off of their walls to look behind them, attempting to climb into their flat screen TVs, spending hours using make-up to draw pores on themselves to give the appearance that they are in HD or accosting short people for not 'being in IMAX'.

2012: Even though the New York Times and CNN.com post a bunch articles about Mayan prophecies, and those articles are widely linked by all your friends on TLK.NG (a sort of advanced version of twitter), the world doesn't end which makes everything seem pretty 'real.'

2013: A large page is turned. The unreal/real binary collapses as you and your dog do vocal harmonizations on a white sailboat. A tear falls from god's eye.