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Planning for the Future

Published on March 19, 2009 in life. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

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Yesterday I posed the question “Is there a name for the concept of spending a lot of time planning for something that is not likely to happen?” and received a lot of responses.  Here they are:

Via twitter:

30THREADS: @kitch Yeah, it’s called working in a newsroom.
nugo: @kitch It’s called Mental Masturbation
kurtschlatzer: @kitch – they call it a career
RoninVision: @kitch: I think they call that “college”.

Via Facebook:
Don: Working for the State?
Chris: Oh! College!

It looks like the winner is college.  Not that exciting overall but I definitely got a kick out of it.  It’s by far the most response I’ve ever seen out of a tweet.  For the record the scenario that prompted this tweet from me definitely falls into the Mental Masturbation category.

3 Responses to “Planning for the Future”

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  • Abby
    March 19, 2009 at 9:41 am

    I love that you’re blogging more. My answer was “armchair travel,” and I’ve done a lot of it in my time. And I see it as totally worthwhile and fun, even if the trip never actually happens.

    I’m also a fan of virtual shopping: going to a catalog or online store, making lots of decisions about what I want, adding them to my shopping cart or dogearing the pages, then closing the browser, or throwing the catalog away.

    In grad school, I decided that just because I didn’t have any money, it didn’t mean I had to forego the fun of shopping and making decisions about what I wanted!

  • nugo
    March 24, 2009 at 11:02 am

    then it sounds like i was the real winner. w00t! what’s my prize?

  • Brian
    April 16, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    Retirement accounts?

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