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If you had a time machine, which year would you travel to and why?
Submitted by Michelle.

Finally, after a drought of at least a week, there is a Question of the Day worth answering (and I happen to have free time with which to answer...which wasn't always the case last week...nor I was always in the mood for blogging...). But first, some business.

A curious friend of mine recently asked me three questions, to which I could only give responses from my narrowed perspective. Therefore, in the interest of helping my friend, I decided to post these three questions here, so as to reach my audience of two or three with these burning quandaries. If you are so inclined, please advise on the following:

Sex during the period: yes or no?
Do you like nipple play?
For those that have been together over a year, how many times a week do you actually have sex?

In the interest of full disclosure (and to create an atmosphere of comfort...come on, we're all friends here...except you), my answers to the above are: yes (it supposedly feels better for the woman during that time of month), not really (at least, with mine), and not applicable. So give a hoot...answer the questions.

My other piece of business is a quick follow up to several posts I made last week with regards to that girl I like. Although I thought it was all over on Friday (due to a cryptic and brief response I received from her), after further thought and a follow up follow up e-mail I received over the weekend, I now have to conclude that it's all inconclusive. While I had initially thought that the only satisfying response from her would have been leaping into my arms as we soared away over the clouds into the golden sunset, I've come to realize that such a response would have ultimately been a bad thing, as there would have been no thought involved and no care taken with building anything substantial.

In the end, I will have to retain my patience and hope for a while longer, but I've at least been given the tiniest grain of a positive response...tiny, yes, but it's better than nothing. Besides, given that I maintained my hope for months on end while she had a boyfriend and it actually seemed impossible, I have to believe that I can do so now, too...though in some ways, it's more difficult now...so close, yet so far and all of that.... I don't want this online journal to turn into Jeremy's Unicorn Diary, wherein I talk about girls I like and my heart's feelings and my soul crying and all of that, but as I did dedicate a large portion of a prior post to discuss this topic, I thought I would at least come back to it briefly.

So on to the question at hand. This topic used to be one of my absolute favorites, as I could wax nostalgic and pinpoint moments I'd like to revisit, both for hours on end. However, while those feelings haven't changed, the world has...and it's affected my outlook on this topic forever.

There is now what I would call "the September 11th factor" that has to be addressed when discussing this topic: every time since that day that I have imagined going back in time to hang out with friends or re-experience a moment or give my past self some advice, I've felt guilty about not doing anything to stop the events of September 11th from happening. Of course, those events are merely the large-scale, domestic example that led me to this realization; I understand that there have been many, many things that could be prevented (or altered in a positive manner) if I were gifted with the ability to travel through time, domestically and internationally. So while, for instance, I would love to go back to December 31st, 1999 and have our awesome League New Year's Party again, I would probably spend the majority of the time wondering who I could contact with this vital future information.

But barring this neurotic reaction to such an amazing gift, and to answer the question, I suppose I would choose 1998 or 1999 to visit. Overall, my junior year of high school was pretty damn great, from the friends I had to the events that took place to the general sense of fun. So I suppose I would choose to visit October 1998 to October 1999. But as I would have a time machine, that would only be my first stop....