goddamn new year

As I sit here on the cusp (appropriate term given this is indeed the pointed or barbed end of the year) of New Year's Weekend I am struck by the utter waste that has been 2005. I finally tucked in to an unpleasant lab job I've been avoiding (recreating a database lost when my lab hard drive crashed a couple of months ago) and to do it, I had to go through my lab notebook for the year. Seeing all that work, most of it unsuccessful, has been depressing as hell. There's little for me to celebrate this weekend -- as my family's been saying, it'll be good to see off 2005, and hope next year'll be better. But don't I feel this way every New Year's?