Into the second decade of the millennium we go. I've been imagining the future since I was little. I usually conceive of things far in the future, but, naturally, I wonder what my life will be like in the coming years. At the beginning of this decade I was working on my very first science fiction story. It was about dinosaurs on Mars (sounds like a B-movie, I know). That New Years Eve my family went to a friend's house to watch the ball drop. The kids (which included me at the time) all decorated paper bags to pop at midnight. On mine, I drew an astronaut surrounded by stars and planets. After the countdown the kids all went out to their back porch and banged pots and pans.
At ten years old, I didn't give a whole lot of though to where I would be today. I assumed I would be in college. The idea of writing was just entering my head and I wasn't involved in theatre yet. At that point I probably still planned on being a paleontologist or an astronaut, or both (especially if they found those dinosaurs on Mars.)
So in a shameless attempt to generate some feedback- What did you do at the turn of the millenium, ten years ago? Where did you think you'd be today?
