Where's my flying Car?!

So it's 2010. Elvis is dead, the Roman Empire fell long ago, and this is the year that I'm supposed to get a flying car.

Because it's 2010, you know.

So far, for me, this year's notable activities have mainly consisted of both recovering from and cleaning up after holiday celebrations from 2009. Also, due to living in an "underserviced" area of the world in terms of actual physical proximity to real live doctors, this year's notable activities have also consisted of a series of long and short car drives, followed by another series of long and short waiting times, to renew perscriptions for medicines that keeps me alive and healthy.

It's LOADS of fun waiting for five hours in a hospital emergency room in order to ask the doctor to take five seconds to write out a perscription that I've previously taken and now need renewed. Why can't I just renew that mofo myself? On the other hand, I also have the option of booking an appointment in a clinic two hours away. So... short drive, long wait; or long drive, short wait. Either way it takes up a lot of time and does not fall within the realm of "fun leisure activities" for me.

ANYWAY. Please don't take this as an indication that I'm ungrateful to live in a country with such affordable health care. Yes, I have to wait five hours for a perscription, but if my head was falling off? FRONT OF THE LINE, BABY! I'd be waiting less than fifteen seconds if that was my ailment!

Oh, right, where's my flying car, anyway?? Maybe if I had one of those, I could fly to a doctor.

So happy new year. Here's to 2010.