The very first day...or so

I was so excited to find out that I had been selected for project Future Sight, so excited in fact that I was very nearly arrested for "Driving Under the Influence." I would also have started this journal that day had I been in any sort of mind other than Excited By Far. Unless I were Dead. Or Horribly Depressed, but that was impossible. I would have started it yesterday, but I had the worst hangover in the history of hangovers.

Anyway, I had received a phone call around ten in the morning on Monday from NASA that I was to come down to the station for a 'very important meeting' at eleven o clock. They refused to give me any details.

So I ate and showered since Mondays are my lazy days and left. Traffic had been horrible, but somehow I had managed to make it in time with messy wet hair and doughnut dust on my suit jacket. The Floridian heat was horrible, and I was glad that my hair was still wet enough to keep my head cool.

The meeting ended up being pretty short. Once I found out from Doctor Patil that I was selected for the project, I very nearly left the room right there screaming for joy. I got to explore the galaxy.

The galaxy.

In 2542, the United Nations' World United Space Commission (WUSC, the people I worked for) had finally pulled through and invented the very first hyperdrive engine. In 2560 a suitable spaceship had been made for it, but it wasn't until 2586 and billions of dollars world-wide that WUSC had finally completed the galactic exploration ship The Cthulu. After another few months of debating, WUSC decided that the best thing to do was to send a team of astronauts from all of the countries out into the galaxy to discover 'things,' because nobody felt like actually making a legitimate list. I had been especially surprised by the fact that I had been chosen since Samuel had looked like he had been doing better than me in all of the tests. Well, too bad for him, dance of joy for me.

In a few days I get to meet my crew members, so I'm looking forward to that. Plus I'll get to see The Cthulu in person. We should be launching within the week. I have nothing more to say, so this is Jack Babylon, signing off.