Future

I've been thinking about college for a long time now, and my decisions keep changing. The decision mainly concerns which field of work I wish to pursue, which keeps changing as well. I doubt that I will ever come to the right decision, at least not anytime soon. I have thought about what I would really enjoy, what I would be good at, and what pays well. Sadly, nothing seems to fit all three categories. I had considered architecture for a while, but I just don't think I would enjoy it as must as I had thought. It can pay well, but only if you know what you're doing. 
I have recently been considering something in television. I enjoy acting, but it's a tough business to be in and involves lots of rejection and disappointment. I've considered screenwriting, which I think I would enjoy but might take a while to actually have a script read. I think that if I played it right, I could make it very far as a producer or executive in the television business.
 Either way, I'm going to keep looking at good colleges and apply to every scholarship I can.

If I Had A Time Machine... Part 2

With a time machine, there are so many possibilities, and therefore it's very difficult to pick just one thing that I would want to do. Now in this scenario, I fit the requirements for each event. For example, when asked what they would do, lots of people answer that they would go back and "punch Hitler". As if someone in the forties could just go up to Adolf Hitler and clock him square in the face. Anyway, here are some of the historical events that I wish I could have witnessed:

1. I’d definitely want to be in South Africa in 1994, on the day Nelson Mandela won the first democratic elections in the history of the country and was voted in as the first black president of South Africa. I’d like to see the lines of elderly black people who suffered under apartheid for fifty years waiting to vote. I’d want to get carried away, joining the women ululating and dancing the toyi-toyi in jubilation. 

2. I've always wanted to be there for the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, the day President Lincoln declared that American slaves had been set free.


3. The first landing on the moon, from the first planning session to the last post session.


4. Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” speech


Those are my top 5 for now. I will continue to think about this, though.

If I had a Time Machine...Part 1

This is a difficult decision to make. But here goes. I couldn't decide whether I would go backwards or forwards. I finally came to the conclusion that if I had the power to do so, I would travel back in time to witness the best moments of history... theatre wise, that is. This is not a top ten list, it's just all of the ones that come to mind.

1. Pink Floyd & The Who (New Year’s Eve, 1966, Manchester)  

This would be so much fun! I wish I had been alive to see this, mainly because admission was on one pound!

2. The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show (1964)

This would be amazing! This moment changed the world of music FOREVER, in my opinion.

Laurette Taylor as Amanda Wingfield in Glass Menagerie – in Chicago. BEFORE it came to New York. 

Marlon Brando in the premiere of Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway. 

The premiere of the first production of Oklahoma on Broadway. A revolution in the American musical. People were aware of it as it was happening, which is what is so amazing. The bar had been raised. 

My List

I started my list when I was about nine years old.  The list contains everything that I want to do before I die.  I add to it very often, and cross some things off once I've completed them.  Anyway, here it is:

1. 1.     Skydive
   2.     Swim with a dolphin
   3.     Be on the Today Show
   4.     Send a Message in a bottle
   5.     Meet Kate Micucci
   6.     Write a novel
   7.     Sit on a jury
   8.     Learn to enjoy ice coffee
   9.     Ask for a raise
   10.  See a shooting star
   11.   Sleep under the stars
   12. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country
   13.   Visit the Grand Canyon
   14.   Cook Filet men yon   
   15.Go up in a hot air balloon
   16.   Go camping
   17.   Go Paragliding
   18.      Go Scuba diving
   19.       Go Rock Climbing
   20.  Ride a Mechanical Bull
   21.     Fly a blimp
   22.    Go bungee jumping
   23.   Travel Outside of the country
   24.Travel to the Amazon Rain forest
   25.      Go to Times Square on New Year's
   26.       Go to Chicago, Illinois
   27.        Win money in Vegas
   28.       Go to Disney World
   29.     Go on a Cruise
   30.   Get into Wellesley
   31.     Set foot inside the White House
   32.       Meet George Clooney
   33.     Meet Steven Colbert
   34.      Have a street named after me
   35.         Donate Blood
   36.                        Volunteer at a homeless shelter
   37.                        Go on a blind date
   38.                        Invent Something
   39.                        Get Married
   40.                        Have a child
   41.                        Milk a cow
   42.                        Be a spectator at the Olympics   
   43.                        Take up yoga
   44.                        Read the Bible
   45.                        Participate in a food fight
   46.                        Become a collector of something
   47.                        Go to Scotland
   48.                        Send my parents on their dream vacation
   49.                        Save a life
   50.                        Crowd Surf
   51.                        Go Dancing in the Pouring Rain
   52.                        Visit a pyramid
   53.                        Visit the Great Wall of China
   54.                        Surf
   55.                        Climb to the top of a volcano
   56.                        
   57.                        Have a tree house
   58.                        Go Kayaking
   59.                        Bake a Cake (Successfully)
   60.                        Fly First Class
   61.                        Go Hang-gliding
   62.                        Wear a straight jacket
   63.                        Own a beach house
   64.                        See the Eiffel Tower
   65.                        Walk over hot coals
   66.                        Watch a Space Shuttle Launch
   67.                        Touch the Hollywood Sign
   68.                        Complete a full golf course
   69.
   70.                        Go on a canoe trip
   71.                        Visit the Statue of Liberty
   72.                        Visit the Empire State Building
   73.                        Blow all the seeds off a dandelion in one try
   74.                        Live in 3 different centuries
   75.                        Vote
   76.                        Be someone’s boss
   77.                        Shower in a waterfall
   78.                        Learn to play the ukulele well
   79.                        Experience weightlessness
   80.                        Learn to juggle three balls
   81.                        
   82.                  
   83.                        Ride in a go-cart
   84.                        Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring
   85.                        Play Texas Hold’em
   86.                        Buy a house
   87.                        Create a website
   88.                        Take dance lessons
   89.                        Take acting lessons
   90.                        Make $100,000 in a day
   91.                        Babysit
   92.                        Visit Colorado
   93.                        Ride an elephant
   94.                        Protest in front of the White House
   95.                        Climb a volcano
   96.                        Hold a tarantula
   97.                        Stay up all night and watch the sunrise
   98.                        Touch an anchor
   99.                        Touch an ice berg
   100.                   Watch a meteor shower
   101.                   Scream as loud as I possibly can (above water)
   102.                   Visit The Leaning Tower of Pisa
   103.                   Play a game of football: Girls against boys- and win
   104.                   Play a game of darts
   105.                   Sleep in a college dorm room
   106.                   
   107.                   Play Water Polo
   108.                   Ride in a gondola
   109.                   Sing loudly in a car without stopping even if I’m being watched
   110.                   Faint
   111.                   
   112.                   Touch a sting ray
   113.                   Be stung by a jelly fish
   114.                   
   115.                   Be a student at the Episcopal Academy
   116.                   Break dance
   117.                   Become fluent in something
   118.                   Watch a Broadway play
   119.                   Try fencing
   120.                   Become a Quaker
   121.                   Be in a band
   122.                   Act in a school play
   123.                   Hold someone’s hand when they’re giving birth
   124.                   Take a cooking class
   125.                   Meet Ellen DeGeneres
   126.                   Visit an active volcano
   127.                   Visit a country whose language I don’t know
   128.                   Write a book and give it to someone to read
   129.                   Run a 5k
   130.                   See the Northern Lights
   131.                   Have my picture in a magazine
   132.                   Watch an episode of Days of Our Lives
   133.                   Go to Carnival at Rio de Janeiro
   134.                   Go to the Super Bowl
   135.                   Write a song
   136.                   Touch a fossil
   137.                   Watch every James Bond film
   138.                   Have a portrait painted of myself
   139.                   Jump into a pool with all my clothes on
   140.                   Carve my name into a tree
   141.                   Draw my name in the cement on the sidewalk
   142.                   Learn a different language
   143.                   Go to a mattress store in my pajamas
   144.                   Build a giant sandcastle
   145.                   Protest
   146.                   Help out at a soup kitchen
   147.                   Learn to Play Golf
   148.                   Learn Archery
   149.                   Learn to ski
   150.                   Learn to play tennis
   151.                   Learn to say hello in 50 languages
   152.                   Join the school choir
   153.                   Witness a solar eclipse
   154.                   Drive a car
   155.                   Get my driver’s license
   156.                   Catch something and eat it
   157.                   Jump off a waterfall
   158.                   Plant a tree
   159.                   Kick a field goal
   160.                   Cut the ribbon at a major opening
   161.                   Dance onstage at a concert
   162.                   See a dead body
   163.                   Spend a week in silence
   164.                   Easily get through a conversation in ASL
   165.                   Smash a guitar
   166.                   Eat with someone famous
   167.                   Friend a famous person on Facebook
   168.                   Watch the sun rise and set without sleeping in between
   169.                   Give an important speech
   170.                   Learn to sail
   171.                   Be a contestant on a game show
   172.                   Help deliver a baby
   173.                   Party with a rock star
   174.                   Party with a celebrity
   175.                   Get a job
   176.                   Buy somebody a meal
   177.                   Go to a school dance
   178.                   Participate in a boxing match
   179.                   Be punched in the face
   180.                   Make a toast at a wedding
   181.                   Make a toast at a strangers’ wedding
   182.                   Have surgery
   183.                   Have a conversation with the President
   184.                   Climb a large mountain
   185.                   Start a business
   186.                   Go to Vegas
   187.                   Get my ears pierced
   188.                   Attend the Superbowl
   189.                   Have my portrait painted
   190.                   Throw a huge party and invite every one of my friends
   191.                   Watch the launch of a space shuttle
   192.                   Have my name in the credits for a movie
   193.                   Audition for a play I don’t know the plot of
   194.                   Be in the school play
   195.                   Tell someone the story  of my life
   196.                   Learn to speak another language and actually use it
   197.                    Learn to rollerblade
   198.                   Own a room with a view
   199.                   Buy an around-the-world air ticket
   200.                   Be a member of the audience on a TV show
   201.                   Put my name down to be a passenger on a space shuttle to the moon
   202.                   Ride a camel
   203.                   Ride a camel into the desert
   204.                   Write a fan letter to my favorite celebrity
   205.                   Learn to ballroom dance properly
   206.                  
   207.                   Ask for a raise
   208.                   Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill
   209.                   Teach somebody to read
   210.                   Teach somebody to ride a bike
   211.                   Sing a song in front of a big audience
   212.                   Write my will
   213.                   Teach someone to count to ten
   214.                   Spend a night in a haunted house
   215.                   Sleep under the stars
   216.                   Learn to juggle with more than 3 balls
   217.                   Give a public speech
   218.                   Scuba dive in Australia's Great Barrier Reef
   219.                   Go up in a hot air balloon
   220.                   Attend a huge concert
   221.                   Give to charity—anonymously
   222.                   Kiss the Blarney stone
   223.                   Learn to mix a drink
   224.                   Make a hole in one
   225.                   Create my family tree
   226.                   Go fishing and eat whatever I catch
   227.                   Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty
   228.                   Catch a ball in the stands of a Major League Baseball stadium            
   229.                   Go skiing
   230.                   Go heli-skiing
   231.                   Go to Sweden
   232.                   Dive with a whale shark
   233.                   Cross a glacier by foot
   234.                   Spend 24 hours alone in the jungle
   235.                   Participate in Burning Man
   236.                   Photograph an endangered species
   237.                   Teach English in a foreign country
   238.                   Attend a music festival in another country
   239.                   Attend a film festival in another country
   240.                   Go to China
   241.                   Eat meatloaf
   242.                  
   243.                   Hi-Dive
   244.                   Learn how to enjoy iced coffee
   245.                   
   246.              
   247.                   Drink Iced coffee
   248.                   Go to a dance party
   249.                   Be in a play
   250.                   Learn to dive off blocks
   251.                   Learn to dive of the side of a pool
   252.                   Get something autographed by a famous athlete