If you know me at all, you know why I felt like this class was something I needed to participate in. Hell, I toyed with the idea of asking if I could be unpaid TA if I didn't get in the class. The whole concept fascinates me. It is both epic and personal, and usually slapped with a great big moral message. What also fascinates me is our (has a human race) fascination in it. We just love (and apparently always) be unable to not think about the end of it all. How will we, has a race, meet our final demise? With a bang or a whimper? Usually it is our on hubris, especially since the start of the 20th century. And that alone is a testament to our own hubris: We are very convinced that our own ability to play god will be our own destruction.
Also it is just damn fun to do. Seriously. It is like an excuse to initiate all the crap that usually occurs to me. Crazy scenarios, themes that hit you like a 2x4, the type of broad characters that I am nervous to break out in any other impov form. I am like a kid in a candy shop.
Anywhozits, that is why I am using it to write short stories. Apologies to Douglas Adams and the original conception of what eventually became Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I will probably run out of steam at some point (heck, I am behind now). If you have any suggestion, challenges, ideas, whatevers... feel free (read: I beg you) to post them in the comments. I will do my best.
