If I had one superpower, it probably would be teleportation.
(For the better part of a year I haven’t the need to know what day it is. So, when people ask me what day it is, I, usually without flinching, say, “I don’t know.” To tell you the truth, I really don’t care what day it is. I admit, this listless attitude toward the calendar has put me in a bind a couple times. Most recently I took a trip to Japan and on both the way out and on the way back I thought my plane flight was one day later than it actually was. I think this kind of mistake is forgivable because I was traveling across the International Dateline. [The whole concept of the International Dateline is quite interesting, and I could probably pontificate on the peculiarities of this most mysterious meridian many times over.] It gets really confusing traveling across the ID from the U.S. to Japan, because you “lose a day,” but of course, you get that day back when you travel back to the U.S.–I kind of like that because it brings an element of certainty back into my life. For roughly the past 9 months of my life I didn’t know what day it was, but now, because I just traveled across the International Dateline, I can say with 100% confidence, “Today is the same day as yesterday.” Thank you, International Dateline, you have made my day more interesting already.)
I just teleported; I’m a superhero.
