Speaking of Desk Calendars... - I might not be someone who should have one of these. I feel incredibly guilty about throwing away every piece of paper I peel off. Especially when they're so fun!
My mother flips the pages instead of ripping them off. Small Child delighted in going through the 2008 "Bat Cat" calendar when we were there for Christmas; all the pages were still attached!
I, on the other hand, simply forget to change the pages because I have stuff piled on the calendar. I've got last year's New Yorker calendar all over my desk, because periodically I'd pull all the outdated ones and set them aside to go through later. "Later" never came--ever, in 2008.

I know what you mean about anger. I read a lot of posts last night that made me think, but then...I couldn't sleep because I was thinking.