If time travel had been invented, and you could take any number of
trips you wanted, but you could only go into the past or the future,
not both, what would you pick? Of the people I have asked so far,
they have all picked the past. I think most are going with the idea
of being able to go back and fix things or try things over. I
thought up the question but I'm still undecided. I'm a big fan of
history so I would like to go back and see famous historical events
as they're happening, especially things that are so far back that the
written record is based on word-of-mouth stories. But I'm also
incredibly curious about the future and how things will turn out.
I'm leaning more toward the past because it would kind of be a bummer
to see all the things in the future that I was going to miss (because
I would only be visiting those things, not actually living through
them, if that makes sense). Although I could go way into the future
and get a history book, read up on all the big events, and then go
back (but still in the future) and visit them like they were
historical events. There is also the chance that the world ends
tomorrow, so if I pick the future I'd be getting gipped. I'd think
the time machine was broken but in reality there would be nowhere to
go. Or just a devastated planet or the remains of a planet, which
would be interesting but not quite as interesting as all the history
in the past. Or maybe I could just cheat and pick the past while
having a friend pick the future, then we can tell each other what we
want to see and then record those things for each other. Teamwork.
Today I kind of did stuff. I only managed to read one chapter over
the course of the day. It seemed to drag on forever even though it
was only thirty pages. It didn't help that I started reading it this
morning and didn't finish it until after midnight. I have several
more chapters to read this week. I'm going to try and accomplish
that tomorrow. Yeah. I also read through and organized some other
school stuff. So that was semi productive. I've been thinking about
my grant writing project for my management class. I have to have a
general idea for that by Sunday. The professor mentioned that he was
setting up a common read program for his university and I know the
college where I got my undergrad degrees has one of those now, where
all the incoming freshmen read the same novel and then it is
incorporated somehow during their first years. I've been trying to
think of a way to adapt that to an elementary school setting. I
think there is a potential idea there but I haven't come up with it
yet.
Today somehow became a very musical day. I somehow ended up watching
several videos of all the best blind auditions from The Voice
in all of its various iterations around the world. And then
searching for individual performances for the singers that stood out
for me. That eventually led to several Hey Monday videos because
Cassadee Pope was in that band long before she one on The Voice.
I didn't watch when she was on but I remember being slightly annoyed
that she was on there and won. Kind of like when Meg whatshername
was on when years before she was part of Meg & Dia. I had the
Hey Monday CD (although didn't really like it because her voice
sounded like it was the same, yelling pitch in every single song so
it got old really quick). I also had all of the Meg & Dia CDS,
which I really liked. But it's kind of annoying that established
artists (even if it was previously established) are allowed into the
competition. I know that other professional singers are also on the
show but it seems like if you've had CDs in the past and been on the
radio and MTV it's a little unfair. You should already have the
types of connections in the music industry that other contestants
don't. Anyway, now I'm watching more music videos.
I also spent a lot of time looking at pictures of Colorado. Then I
looked up the top 100 cities in Colorado and looked at all the
demographic information and how many libraries they had. A lot of
the top cities got failing cost of living scores because they are
suburbs of large cities and the housing prices are ridiculous. I
still like the idea of living within eyesight of the mountains,
though. I am aware that Colorado isn't the only state in the country
with mountains but I like Colorado and is a lot closer to home than
other places so I might actually make trips back if I lived there.
I've still got awhile before I need to start looking for a job in any
serious way and who knows where that will lead to.
Tomorrow I'm going to read textbooks and do school things.
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