mind jumps, those little forays into the future, the snippets of imagined lives lived in 5 minute increments, periods, sections. like flipping through channels on the tv, except instead of different channels, it's possible futures, with guesses, hypotheses, theories on how a given conversation will go, on what is said or not said, reactions, events, choices made and premade, and then back to reality, snap, rubber banded, mind jumps. seers, fortune tellers, tea leaf reader, bone thrower, scientist, drawing conclusions from established facts, observations, drawing out, deducing, extrapolating, establishing patterns to fit the unknown future into the past or present boxes of living, and then remembering, realizing, that the mind has jumped, and settling back in, relaxing, kicking the feet up with fewer worries and lesser cares, and living