I know this isn't particularly unique or anything, but I would really like to live a lovely, regret-free life. That being said, after a particularly satisfying day here in the Los Angeles, I had the revelation that not staying here and giving L.A. a full year to show me what it's got (and vice versa, naturally) might end up being a sizable mistake.
I have decided that this is the month that will provide me with the solution to the What Should I Do When I Graduate conundrum that's been weighing me down ever since the beginning of January. From today until April 10th I will keep track of how many days in L.A. make me happy versus how many make me violent. If the happy outweighs the violent, I will, for starters, be absolutely flabbergasted, but I'll also know that I shouldn't let a few bad days ruin whatever L.A. experience I'm supposed to have. If the violent outweighs the happy, then it'll be proof that the West Coast and I just aren't meant to be.
This is the best way. The scientific way. This way my decision will be based on hardened truth and statistics, which are exactly what I always look for when making any kind of major decision. Why should this be any different?
Peut etre I've just gone off the deep end and am officially out of my gourd.
C'est la vie.
2 comments:
You know, to make this really scientific, you'd have to compare your 30 days in LA against a similar sample in Massachusetts or wherever else you would be.
Also, you'd have to conduct a study that proved 30 days was a meaningful sample (which it isn't).
But I like this plan. Really, it's a coin flip test. You flip a coin, telling yourself that fate will make your decision. Heads and you're happy, tails and you want to flip again. It tells you what you should have already known - what you really want.
As much as I didn't like it the first time around, I have a strange impulse to go back... I kind of, dare I say, miss LA?
So if you stay after the semester, I'll be there shortly and we can stalk EVEN MORE celebrities...they'll have a hell of a lot harder time hiding.
- katie
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