Alex TP 12

   I just came back from a tutoring session with Mubarak at Grand Marc. On Tuesday I had asked him to watch this you tube video, pertaining to this whole Mayan doomsday hysteria, sometime before our next meeting, which was planned for sometime today. He had watched it and the first thing we did today was speak about it.
   We both separately agreed that no one should put any significant amount of thought or emotional investment into the issue, that it was just the crazed sensation of the moment. However, I asked him to write 200 words about what he would do with the rest of his day if he knew he was going to perish into oblivion at midnight (this was around 2 o clock). It took him about ten minutes to scribble a plan. He had written, among other things, that he wanted to steal a car, drive to Las Vegas, buy all the best food and gamble away all his money. When I told him he’d probably die before arriving in Vegas, he said “wherever, as long as I can gamble a lot”, which was revealing.
   Regardless, his writing was strong, like last times plan for a zombie apocalypse, he used a lot of the right tenses and verb choices. He even did a lot better with punctuation. After I read it, I reviewed it with him and we shared ideas for how to spend your time before doomsday.