Hyphenated Calendar Years

"2009" or '09 -'10"?

I've blogged previously about how real estate can blur one's sense of time -- and specifically, days of the week.

When you work weekends and evenings, Sunday equals Monday, and Wednesday (at least for some Realtors) equals Sunday.

Got that?

Having a couple school-age kids also does a number on your sense of the calendar.

So, I find myself increasingly thinking not in terms of calendar years ('09, '10, etc.), but hypenates: '08 -'09, '09 -'10, etc.

As every parent knows, '09 -'10 is now blessedly underway.