Today is another day.

Today is, in fact, another day, and, because of this, I am confused. I was expecting something different, I was hoping for something more fulfilling, somehow. I was hoping for that day of days in which my future was laid clear before me. Really.

But here I sit and type, and here it is. Something's mot right. I'm anxious. Something's just not right.

Star Trek, surely, has the answer.

Tonight, on Voyager (please, for this intonation, remember the Band Camp Girl from American Pie) Tonight, on Star Trek: Voyager, there was a continuation of a wonderful Star Trek (the original series) precedent... in the history of _Mirror, mirror_, it was.

The Voyager episode had something to do with the crew realizing they weren't the real crew, but a duplicate. (Those of you not familiar with the genre, WATCH TV.) What do you do when you realize that you're not real? The main theme in English thought, I've been told, is centered on the problems of reality... and non-reality. Deception. Lies.

So what do you do when you start thinking that you, yourself, your memories. your dreams, your fears, your experience... what do you do when you start questioning...

But I digress... The main point of this was _Mirror, mirror_, the episode that defined a meme; set a meme in action some 30 years ago, a meme that still hasn't caught on. The meme in question: We aren't what we appear to be to ourselves. We are alternates. Someone else out there is doing a much better, more real, job of leading YOUR LIFE.

I digress again. (And, in a parallel universe, an alternate smartass is doing a much better job of typing this thought, with regards to grammar, thought, rhetoric, etc. But, again, I digress.)

What I most want to tell you now, dear reader, the grand thoughts I've had, the wondrous experiences I should transcribe, these are irrelevant. What will survive into posterity is this simple proclamation: The Star Trek episode, entitled _Mirror, mirror_, this one was the first mass media proposition of the powerful idea that-- ok, I'll try again...

This was the first 20th century mass media event to recast the problem of authenticity of existence, exemplified by Shakespeare's works, in 20th century media and thought. Parallel universes! (erg. for my failures in communication, there must be a thousand successful typewriting monkeys in alternate universes...)