An easy if embarrassing blast from the past. This post is a part of 20SB’s Looking Back Blog Carnival, and Ben & Jerry’s is awarding free ice cream to lucky bloggers and readers!” You can read the explanation at the 20 something blog because I’m too lazy to post it.

I had to choose a post from my first 2 months in blog-land. A post that showed my mentality and outlook in the early stages of my blog. Admittedly the first couple months were rather slim, if not downright bad. Of course there was the post where I predicted correctly it will take another ten years to sort out the semantics and do something about Darfur. Considering my age not a bad prediction. But in the and the best plaid plans wins, so it is re posted here as required for the carnival.

The Best Laid Plans, originally published in December of 2004. My pseudonym name was Alice then. Christmas break was late that year. I was in Bobst, the great beast known for destroying students spirits and hurling them to their death. I was doing the thing that not many undergrads were doing at that time, blogging.

It can be daunting in this city at times. The library is my haven of. It makes the city seem less vicious, despite the fact it is in itself a huge cavernous abyss of sorts. Knowing that people tend to jump from the top of this building, and live in it when they can’t afford campus housing, doesn’t bother me, though it enters my mind now and again when I’m here for hours. I wonder where the library (Bobst Boy) boy is now?

I am laying the plans for my future. If there is something else I should be doing in here, on the eve of my first mid term, someone please let me know.

Much thought has gone into this plan. It starts with getting degrees in photography from Tisch and anthropology from CAS, both, something I can only do because I was accepted at Tisch first. I couldn’t do this it seems if I had been originally an anthropology major. Weird isn’t it. This must be competed in a timely fashion. Timely meaning four years. This ends in the summer of 2007 and at that time I would head or for a PhD in Anthropology. This should happen in a rapid sequence, with no time off for good behavior.

Next: On to the next life as a writer, researcher and professor of Anthropology, taking photos for fun and profit and for my own Anthropological publication. The children will have to come next. I have decided to have two or three and I would like them prior to the age of thirty and if it can be arranged. I would like to start at age 23 to 26. This seems like a rather tight time line, even considering my brilliance, but waiting to get my doctorate will not be possible due to the fact (rumor), that having children causes a significant loss of brain cells. I don’t want to risk it. Selfish you say?

I’m not asking.
It’s my plan.

The trend of waiting to have children until one has a career in full bloom is reversing you see, mainly due to the fact that people live longer and now have plenty of time to enjoy even a couple of careers after the age of forty. I mean face it by the time I am seventy most seventy year olds will still be working. That’s a fact.

So, where was I?

Ok, the degrees, the kids. Of course because I am not going to be fabulously famous by that time I will have to be married to have the children. That is just the way it is. Unless you are The Donald, the Oprah, or Goldie Hawn you just can’t get away with it even if you hold credence to some of the rubbish in the Seat of the Soul. Good book for what it was, but the average person is not there yet, and the kids would suffer for it. Kids always go through enough of their own pain and misery whether real or imagined, no need to supplement it. The marriage thing might be an issue, as I don’t have a whole lot of interest in marriage, or even monogamy at this time. As for what the father of the children might be like, that will come and is not even addressable at this time.

That is as far as I get at this time. I wander back to what’s real for me now.

Work in progress.

The Best Laid Plans.

Alice

addendum:
I am going through this blog in May of 2006 to categorize after switching to my own host from blogger. I only have to say…………….. Did I write that?

peace