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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.