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06 December 2007
What do you want to be when you grow up?→[More:]Me, I really want to be a professional dancer. Ballet or modern would be OK, but I'd really like to be a hip-hop dancer. Popping and locking, woo!
When i was in second grade i saw a film strip with "a freelance illustrator," some person drawing a cartoon ufo. i thought, "Huh." and so i always said that whenever anyone asked. Seemed good.
It was always that or write.
Sometimes spy or ninja.
Boringly enough, I wanted to be what I am, a computer programmer, from a young age. And I'm old, this was almost ten years before the IBM PC came out. The only interesting part is that it actually took until I was in my mid-thirties before I started my software career, after spending my twenties working in construction.
Astronaut (Oh, I've been to outer space, but my feet never left the ground) Rock Star (I actually already am but nobody knows but me and a select few, that would be you guys) Music Producer (Actually this is my goal for 2008, once I get some stuff sorted out. This might actually happen)
Marine biologist. Or a writer. Or a game developer, only at some mythical awesome place that limits you to 50 or 60 hours per week, except during crunch times.
Professional plant person: I'd love to work in a garden center or at a florist. Pretty flowers and plants all day! Sure, there are busy holidays, but you can vent all you want because everyone knows that plants loved to be talked to.
The most famous, most incredibly awesome, award-winning and filthy rich novelist of the 21st century. To be read in twenty years by classrooms of high school seniors. To be recognized in public. To have enough money to buy a house, and a new car, and to adopt and take care of a cat.
Also, a svelte yoga instructor.
And a tall white woman with pale pale skin, dark red hair, and freckles.
When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothing ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog that's
always changing things
Makes wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever want to be that way
I don't wanna grow up
Seems that folks turn into things
that they never want
The only thing to live for is today...
I'm gonna put a hole in my T.V. set
I don't wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
I don't wanna grow up
I don't wanna have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up
Well when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow up
They all go out and drinkin all night
I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old tomb on grand street
When I see the 5 oclock news
I don't wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float on a broom
Fall in love, get married then boom
How the hell did it get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up
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