#1: New Horizons

Posted on 29 Oct 2014 @ 12:07am by Clarence Pearl

444 words; about a 2 minute read

Hey, computer! Yes, you, you thing. That...beeping, blinking thing of technology. Yep, you. Where would we be without you? Still on Earth, right, still around and waiting and waiting and waiting. For the Vulcans, for something. Something to make noise, you know? Anyway. Hi computer, it's me, Clarence. Clarence Pearl. I know you're not real, you're really just a storage thing for my mind. The details of this day, so vivid now will not be that amazing later. I mean, like anything, it will start to fade out.

Sorry, I know I talk fast. It's just sometimes my mind goes a thousand miles a minute and all that. Downside of being me. Downside of it all, really, except that if I wasn't like this then I wouldn't be me. This babbling, sometimes unintentionally offensive creature, that's...well, me. The whole me. Not a section of me, not a compartmentalised part of me. Me. Whole me. Good, bad, sane, insane...all of it. Me. Just me. Which is good, I like being me. Me gets to make drinks. And I love making them, they just...sing to me. In a slightly formulaic way, but hey, singing is singing!

Besides, I like being busy with things like this. Not very important, not life changing or anything. But I give people a good night. I give people a good time of relaxing. I help people. I actually help people. Sure, some would call it the perfect amnesia pill. Alcohol, not synthol. Alcohol relaxes people. It makes boring people more interesting. Sure, it also make stupid people even more stupid but that is not my problem!

No, I'm glad that I get to work. After all, I don't want to get bored. I got a new job. Well, will eventually have one. Soon! Very soon. It's sort of embarrassing but it's going to be my first ship. Ships are different than bases. More unpredictable. So because of that, I suspect I will see a counsellor. I like counsellors, so that's no biggie. But my new ship's called the Galileo. Which is such a cool name, because it could have been something serious or boring. No, Galileo. A science ship too, which...sort of worries me a bit. Not in a bad way, I can handle it. Just...I hope I do not get all obsessive. I'm going to stay out of those things. The...science-y things. The things that will make me an insomniac with delusions of grandeur and we don't want that! Again....

Okay, computer. Got to hit my shift. Save this somewhere...private. Just because it's a bit all over the place, you know? Thanks!

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