Well, the "thing" about me and my relationship to keeping a journal seems to be this- my moods keep shifting, my goals for my life and this journal keep shifting. Yesterday I was envisioning a world where everything is basically fine (can you imagine????).  This "ok" world lies in the science fantasy realm and is equpped with convenient "leaky" dimensions. In other words, all the drama in the "OK" world comes via hapless charactors who stumble into it through a portal on (you guessed it)good old, screwed-up Earth.

In the alternate world, all the Earth charactors get a whole new operating system with which to re-examine their most cherished beliefs. Turns out that, on my new world, there's no racism, no such thing as war, no need to lie- egads, the mind boggles. How would all of us act if there was no poverty and all of us had homes?

I can hear the writing teachers groaning now. "You've got to put in The Challenge!!" they cry. Ok, I will, I will...gimme a break. Maybe the Great Challenge in AlterWorld will be astonishingly bad tv commercials. Dunno...gotta think about that. Or maybe it will feature the first "Annoyment Park" in the universe.

Hmmmmmmm.