Make a prediction

If you have no time left to tie up lose ends, or feel you're all in knots, try something else: make a prediction for the new year.

• Take a piece of paper and write down one prediction. It can be personal or professional--or a prognostication, whatever. But you should care about it, it will mean something to you if it came true. You can write a sentence or a paragraph, but it can't be written in past tense--this is about something that will happen in 2009.
• Put your prediction in an envelope, seal it up and put it away. 
• Open it up and read your prediction on December 31, 2009. 

I was going to post something about wrapping up the old year, maybe referencing NPR about how bad 2008 was, but I want people to articulate their hopes about the new year.