1. 9 - 10 am
2. Yes. Yes. I don't think of it as good or bad because what happened happened and you can't change that. I'm one of those "everything happens for a reason" girls..

-The ever-so-enlightening one

1. What's your ideal time to wake up in the morning (if
you got to choose)?

I am not necessarily an early riser, so I would say the perfect time would be 10:00am in the winter, earlier in the summer. That would all change, however, if I had a stable in my yard and horses to wake up and ride. But unfortaunately, that's only in my daydreams.

2. Do you ever think about the different paths your live could have taken? Do you try to imagine what things would be like if you had taken a different path? Is it a good feeling or a bad feeling, or something in between?

As soon as I graduated high school I moved to the USA and took up an international student visa. I'm currently studying at an art school in Chicago. I can think of a lot of ways that my path could have been different. If I stayed in Canada I would be in Manitoba - boring. At least, for me. I want to get out and live the world. There have been choices I've made, things I have sacrificed, but all in all I don't regret much. I am happy with this path that I am on - I have learned alot about myself, and life in general.

Life is a lesson, and you learn it as you go.

1. time doesnt matter. as long as i get 8 or 9 hours of sleep, i will be completely happy. less than that and waking up is a little hard, and more than that i wake up with a headache. lately i find myself almost exclusively waking up after about 5 or 6 hours though and it's very very lame.

2. i think about how different my life could be if i had done different things or if different things have happened, but i really only regret stupid superficial things. if something was actually significant, whether it was good or bad, it had a hand in shaping the way my life is now, and i like my life at this point.

p.s. your denial of the superiority of robots will come back to haunt you when they TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

I have invented the perfect word for your benefit: pisgetoip. Ive combined the most powerful of the fun to say words into one convenient package. Use it wisely.

1. 11:00Am

2. Sense I'm and old man there were many paths that could have gone another way. On many of the paths I would not be writing this now if they had gone another way. On others I wonder. I believe strongly that nothing happens without reason. There are things we need to learn from our experiences and given time things do work out even if they don't feel like it at the time.

1) 9 or 10am
2) sometimes think about paths. rarely try to imagine what would be different. no particular feelings one way or the other. one thing i would like to have done was take music theory the first term of my 2nd year of college instead of finishing my philosophy sequence. theory was only offered days and could only be started in the fall, so it was never an option as a night class after i got a regular job the following year. philosophy was fun, but i wish i had further developed my interest in music.

1. Probably around 9 AM would be comfortable.
2. Excellent question. One that has occupied much time of mine over the years. I have traveled down a couple of paths over the years and am now starting over again by choice. I have some regrets but I don't dwell on them. I think the biggest advice I could give someone (since I'm such an elder now) is that just because you've been going down one road for a long time, it doesn't mean you have to keep going down that road. Just because that's what everone else does or it's comfortable or that's what is "expected". #1 rule is be happy. Don't be afraid to change. I'm very happy and excited about the changes. It's all part of life.

10:42 is good. 11:20 at the most. But if I'm showered and dressed at 12 I feel like I have a whole day ahead of me.

I wonder often. I'm intesnsely happy with my life right now and the prospect that i might not have reached this point is scary. But not worth pondering.

1. About two in the afternoon. I like to watch the sun rise before I go to sleep.

2. I think about this often, and it makes me feel incredibly lucky. I'm happy with where I am and where I seem to be headed, and every time I look back at somewhere my life could have turned down a different path, I'm glad I went the way I did... even the ones where when at the time, I thought I was fucking up, or the choices led to a lot of pain in the short term.

1) I prefer to get up as early as possible, because I hate waking up and having dinner a few hours after I've re-aquainted myself with the world. I feel I get so much done when i get up ata reasonable hour.
2) I really don't know how to answer that one. I am happy but things coul dbe different.

in response to the journal entry:
I decided at a young age to fuck most of what my parents told me. Now don't lump me into the whole teenage rebellion bullshit. I decided that I have my own brain and that I am capable of figuring out things for myself. My dad can't tell me what drugs, sex, or anything else for that matter will do to me persoanlly he can only give me advice and hope that that will steer me in the right direction. I have to make my own decisions. I made that decision two years ago. I decided that I was going to leave High School early and go straight to college. I graduated as a Junior with all my credits and made a big change in my life. I left it to my parents that they could either join me an dsupport me or leave me alone. This is where many kids, I say "kids" in a nice way, go wrong. They need to know that they do not have to take their parents bullshit. They have to respect them, but then again they are only entitled to as much respect as they put forth themselves. Think for your self! Be yourself! That is the only way to be happy with who you are and what you've become!

1. I like to be up and outside when the sun appears over the horizon, before the world gets really noisy, and all the cats are sneaking around.

2. When I was about 12 or 13, I was singing as I entered the kitchen. Mom complimented me on my voice. She had some talented pipes herself , soprano, which she exercised in the church choir. Then she asked if I wanted to take voice lessons. I protested. Just like a parent, take something I do for fun, and make a chore out it. No, thanks.

These days I sing in public frequently, usually busking at Waterfront Park, Saturday Market, Pioneer Square, Eastside Esplanade, or Hawthorne Boulevard. Fridays, I sometimes stop in at Elephant and Castle to sit in with my friends who have a regular Friday night gig there. I perform professionally a few times a year. So from time to time, I wonder about Mom's offer to spring for some lessons. I resisted at the time because I wanted to find my own path, not follow one somebody else set for me. Given my current disposition, I can now see that Mom wasn't carving out a path of her design - she was illuminating the one I was on.

1. when the sun rises over the... umm... oh. sorry. that's when i'm just getting into bed!

2. sometimes. but not for very long. and they're usually something absurd... like me!!!