When are we now?

I've been working on part 2 of my Jeopardy memoirs which seems to be a bit of a slog compared with the initial burst of enthusiasm which swept me through part 1. Patience, dear readers! I'll get through it eventually.

I'm trying not to skip a day, so here I am.

We're almost through the first decade of the 21st century (let's not get started again about whether the 20th century ended after December 31, 1999 or December 31, 2000) but as far as I can tell we haven't settled on a name for this decade. From 1950 to 1959 we called it the fifties; 1960 to 1969 was the sixties (we're still talking about that decade!), etc. But how do we refer to the ten year period from 2000 to 2009? The O's? The aughts? And the next decade... is that going to be the teens even when referring to 2010, 2011 and 2012? Do we have to wait for the nostalgic TV shows twenty years from now?

And do we stop saying "two-thousand..." and start saying "twenty..." when referring to the current year? I worry about these burning questions.

Anyone have any answers?