I have an idea that people would benefit greatly if given the opportunity to report their own state of emotion on a scale of emotions.
The scale would range from 1 to 99, and include at every ten digits a word that might give a great deal of aid in understanding the relationship between the scale and emotional responses. A response of 1 could be characterised as "dismal, or wretched," whereas a response of 99 could be understood as "utterly blissful," with a host of other emotional descriptors in between.
I intend to carry out a study over the 12 weeks of this coming summer using this scale, which I will publish shortly, at Antioch College.
This is meant as only a note to inform and open up the line of discussion between potential participants.
I will carry out this study with only one goal (to start):
To show, conclusively, whether humans can and do communicate on an emotional level without benefit of interaction verbally, or even physically. If this cannot be shown, I hope to conclude that, at least, it cannot be measured.
This goal is the reason for the study's name:
PSYCHIC WEATHER
Back from Florida.
That was an amazing trip. I met a bunch of really cool people, and those I didn't meet thought I was handsome and interesting, despite our not having conversed. I went to all of the places listed in a previous entry, and had a blasted blast of a time. There was not much drinking water in Florida. People there do not drink from the tap, for the water smells like rotting eggs, or dinosaur vomit, or something.
I am tanned, and I have taken very few showers in the past three weeks.
Spring break starts in two days, and I will be hiking a section of the Appalachian Trail. I will be enduring and surviving 6 days and nights in the mountains. I am also going to be fasting during that time. I hope to come close to death. If I do not come close to death, I hope that the postage to send death a letter will not be too expensive.
What would I write in a letter to death?
