Before I Begin This Journey

Before I begin this journey I need to get some things in order. For example I need help just getting this thing put together properly. I know fuck all about computers, HTML and the like. So just getting this to look like I want it to may be a challenge. Then I need to get my recording equipment together for documentation. I may have to do many of the interviews by phone. So I need to figure out what to use to record conversations over the phone. I would prefer to do as many of them as possible face to face. But that may be impractical since a lot of my desired subjects live out of state. And travel can be expensive.

And I need to figure out who to begin with. I think to start out I'm going to interview people I know. I've had this idea that goes way back about interviewing people from my past. Especially teachers. Since I started school in 1977, I can assume some of my teachers may no longer be with us. Some of them were a bit old. I know my kindergarten teacher died in the early 80's. Which is a shame because I would have loved to interview her. One of my elementary school principals is dead as well.
She would have been really fun to interview. I am curious how an adult could ask a 10 year old what god thinks of their grades. It's unfortunate I didn't have adult advocates in my life. They might have been able to explain to her that I was not only extremely pious and troubled by the idea god was displeased with me. But also that I have dyscalculia which is a learning disability. Not a conscious desire to displease our creator.

It would also be nice to get a scanner with which to upload some of my early interviews from way back in the day. So you the reader could see them in their primitive photocopied glory. It might even be fun to try to get some of the interviews that got away. People that interested me in the 80's that I really wanted to talk to but never got to.

And I am really curious about journalists. People who interview people interest me. There are a number of journalists I would love to talk to. Big time.

For some naive reason I think I'm going to get to interview a lot of people you won't expect me to be able to get. And I won't have the advantage of youth that I had back in the day. I'm not the strapping young lad that I was. I sort of look like an overweight, middle aged, out of work preschool teacher. Which is exactly what I am.

We're going to have fun with this. Trust me.

Marc