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22 July 2008
What are three things you want to have accomplished by the time you are 65 years old?
- total media domination
- gotten a phone call from Stockard Channing at 3am, weeping and begging me to get back with her
- have my dolphinarium be the centerpiece of my living room
-- be published.
-- have a fantastic place that is my home.
-- be able to take week long vacations involving alcoholic beverages and eating food outdoors while reading trashy novels whenever I choose.
1. Be a primary author/editor of a textbook in my field
2. Inspire lots of students to hopefully go on and do greater things than me
3. Not fuck up our kid too much (just a bit, because you know, that's what kids are for)
-- Have enough in my 401K to live on.
-- Beach house would be nice (provided they build a high-speed train from here to the Jersey Shore).
-- Grandkids maybe but I'm holding my breath on that one.
Those sound so bland and unambitious. I find myself with a real lack of ambition lately. I've reached every goal that I had for myself -- school/career/marriage/house/raising our kid -- and I haven't really found anything new to strive for. I'm not complaining, far from it, but I'm not sure how to deal with being happy.
1. I just want to finish my nap without a lotta rugrats banging around down there.
2. Could you put a muzzle on those kids, I'm trying to get something accomplished here!
3. Aw, facryinoutloud, I'm coming! Can't anyone do anything for themselves around here?
1. I don't honestly expect to be alive at 65.
2. If I am alive, I'll be working; I don't expect to get much out of Social Security or my nonexistent IRA.
3. I'm not much for accomplishments or milestones: nothing I do is ever finished, and I don't believe in patting myself on the back.
-Retired from teaching, living someplace fun with Jon (celebrating our 25th anniversary)
-Write lots of books (is a Nobel out of order? : )
-Finally fit in those damn jeans again
(Bonus: travel, adopt some kids, own an apartment/house, still have my teeth...)
1. Surviving the death of my parents because if they are still alive then they will be so ungodly annoying dad yelling really loud, mom telling me to stop looking so old--
2. Organized that fucking amorphous stack of cds that has been sitting in the same place for possibly a year or three.
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