Scenario one: Just before midnight, I grant myself a $50,000 bonus, which is deductible to the company.
I say I am silently protesting the military's exclusionary policies, and that I may grant myself the rights I'd have in a perfect world.
I've tuned into the beauty and the absurdity and granted myself license to be honest.
Now I'm an adult, so I can grant myself whatever wishes I want, including the ones I made when I was eight.
"I hope you will excuse this singular exception, which I have granted myself because the people I write for, my audience, are being slaughtered with remarkably little effort because of the easy access that people have to very powerful weapons".
No agenda, no task list, no technologically further advanced than roughly 1979 -- just me and a book and a pen and some paper and the presence of mind to grant myself the present of time and explore what happens in the moment.
If things become unbearable for me for some reason, but I'm still not dying, then I'd like to be able to grant myself my own death.
I wrote the bulk of the two long-shot grants myself, with my would-be boss doing the polishing and approval bit.
Granted, I myself have been seen with my own share of non-Asian men, and there is heavy judgment from some sticky-rice Asians, as if I'm betraying my own race by opening my Great Wall to outsiders, particularly if the guy is white.
