For some reason I've spent an inordinate amount of time over the past few days thinking about and making plans for what I would do if I woke up to find that the world was being taken over by zombies. I'm not sure why I've been thinking about this. Maybe working night shifts is starting to get to me. Maybe it's because I saw like 5 minutes of some zombie-esque movie on TV the other night.
Most of the plans I've come up with involve going to the Vail bus barn (since I know the code to get in the door) and stealing various large vehicles. Which vehicles I steal would depend on several factors like what kind of zombies they are, how many other survivors I have with me, what time of year it is, and probably just what kind of mood I find myself in at the time. At the top of the list would probably be one of the snowplows they have parked in there because I figure the big plow would come in handy for plowing through crowds of zombies. It would also be useful for getting through the snow in the winter. The driver's cab in the snowplow is also relatively high off the ground and it would be hard for the zombies to attack me there. One problem with the snowplow, however, is that there isn't much room for cargo and stuff. I mean, there is the dump bed in back, but if there are zombies all over the place, I don't know how I would make it from the cab to the dump bed to get stuff...
That is where a bus would come in handy. Although a bus wouldn't be as well-suited for plowing through crowds of hungry zombies as the snowplow, I think that it could probably still get the job done if need be. The bus also has the added advantage of lots of room for things like other survivors I might come across, extra cans of fuel, perhaps a bed... Also, since I am a bus driver I have a bias towards taking a bus. The driver is relatively more exposed to attack, however, in the bus. But depending on what kind of zombies they are, this might not be a problem. If they are mean, scary, zombies that run really fast like those portrayed in movies like Resident Evil or Dawn of the Dead (I think...), then the large exposed windows of the bus might not provide enough protection. If, however, they are the more lethargic zombies portrayed in the farce movie Shaun of the Dead, then I think we will be fine in the bus.
The question then becomes, however, which bus to take because there are 6 different kinds of buses in the fleet. There are the old big ones with three doors, but they tend to break down the most so I would probably not take those. There are older and newer versions of the the slightly smaller and generally reliable ones. There are the really old, very reliable, but also very slow ones. There are the newest and sportiest ones (if you can use the word "sporty" to describe a bus). And then there is the big, fancy, new hybrid electric one. If there are enough other survivors, then we can each take a different kind of bus and it won't be an issue, but if it is just me then I would have to decide. The hybrid would be a good choice because it gets about 30% better fuel economy than the other ones, which would be important because getting out to fuel might be a risky proposition with hungry zombies running around. It has a big open floor plan so you could bring along a lot of stuff. It has a nice big back door that would be relatively easy to conduct drive-by zombie attacks through. And it's my favorite bus to drive. One problem with it, however, is that it is the biggest bus in the fleet, so it would be harder to maneuver around whatever sorts of obstacles I might encounter.
I think the other one I might take is one of the new, "sporty" ones because they probably have the most power for driving through crowds of zombies. They also have good air conditioning, and their doors close quickly.
If there are a few other able-bodied people to drive then I would probably also have someone take the Toyota Highlander hybrid, someone in the ambulance, and maybe even one of the fire trucks. Ideally I would find enough other people that we would head out as a convoy with all of these vehicles in our arsenal.
One of the first things I would do once I had secured the vehicles is try to locate and rescue one of the town of Vail mechanics so they could come along and fix the trucks and buses and whatnot when they broke down. That would definitely be the first order of business. Then I would go to Ace Hardware and get all of the gas cans I could find there, and go fill them up and bring them along. I would then book it for the grocery store, probably driving at high speed through crowds of zombies the whole way there. After I had stocked up on supplies, I guess I would try to drive to some relatively unpopulated areas. I suppose some firearms might be in order too...
So yeah, that's the plan. I'm glad that I'll know what to do in the event of zombie take-over... what a relief. What will YOU do?!
Here's a trailer for the movie Shaun of the Dead:
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9.18.2007
4.05.2007
Singin' In The Rain
Maybe it is too cliché to say this, but I love the rain. I love the smell. I love how it makes everything look shiny and clean. I even love how it feels to hydroplane through it on the road. It is raining right now and I think the sound of the rain on the roof of the house is probably one of the best sounds to go to sleep to. Someday in another life when I am wealthy and can build my own house I think I will build some sort of rain machine that will shower water onto my roof whenever I want for an on-demand rainy sound. But then maybe I would become too desensitized to it if I could just turn it on and off whenever I wanted to. Or maybe instead of building an artificial rain device, I could just move to Seattle (since I want to anyway). Allegedly they get lots of rain there (It has always been beautiful and sunny when I've been there). I wonder how much is "a lot" and how long would it take for me to get tired and annoyed by it. Being from Colorado I bet that my idea of "a lot of rain" isn't even CLOSE to "a lot" of Seattle rain. In Colorado it doesn't usually rain for more than a few hours straight, and then it often clears up and the sun comes out and makes everything nice again and so rain is sort of refreshing and cleansing, but I bet that in Seattle it can get to feeling kind of stifling. I guess I wouldn't know unless I lived there...
Anyway, in other news, the bus driving gig is nearing its end (sort of) and I'll be going to Europe for a month in just a few weeks (is it that soon already?!). As for summer plans, the only two suggestions I got on the previous post could be combined into one road trip to the East Coast; bring my uncle Dwight his stuff from his college days, and help my Aunt and her hubby with remodeling their house. Lately I've also been thinking that maybe I would like to try to go to Rio de Janeiro to study Portuguese for a month or two, but that is probably the most expensive thing I could do this summer. I have also been told that I can get as much work as I want driving the bus, which pays pretty well. I should probably also try to take the GRE this summer. Then, I am going to try to get a job in Antarctica for next season. So maybe I'll drive the bus to rack up enough money for a trip to Rio, go to the East Coast for a couple weeks, go to Rio, and then hopefully go to Antarctica... Yeah, that kind of sounds like a plan.
Today's video is a kind of F-ed up Antarctica-related video by Of Montreal called "Wraith Pinned to the Mist."
Anyway, in other news, the bus driving gig is nearing its end (sort of) and I'll be going to Europe for a month in just a few weeks (is it that soon already?!). As for summer plans, the only two suggestions I got on the previous post could be combined into one road trip to the East Coast; bring my uncle Dwight his stuff from his college days, and help my Aunt and her hubby with remodeling their house. Lately I've also been thinking that maybe I would like to try to go to Rio de Janeiro to study Portuguese for a month or two, but that is probably the most expensive thing I could do this summer. I have also been told that I can get as much work as I want driving the bus, which pays pretty well. I should probably also try to take the GRE this summer. Then, I am going to try to get a job in Antarctica for next season. So maybe I'll drive the bus to rack up enough money for a trip to Rio, go to the East Coast for a couple weeks, go to Rio, and then hopefully go to Antarctica... Yeah, that kind of sounds like a plan.
Today's video is a kind of F-ed up Antarctica-related video by Of Montreal called "Wraith Pinned to the Mist."
2.02.2007
Centenarity
I saw this little blurb in the Denver Post a few weeks ago about how the first-born children of young mothers are much more likely to live past 100 years old. Being the first-born increased the probability of becoming a centenarian by 1.7 times, while being the child of a young mother (Less than 25) means you are twice as likely to live to 100. I fall into both of those categories, so I guess I should be planning a big birthday bash for 2084 (You are all invited).
Then, last week, I watched a show on the Discovery channel about what life is supposed to be like in 2057. They made it sound like medical advances will make it possible to live much longer by then. The host said something about living to be 200. What if I end up living way past 100? 120? 140? Maybe in 2084 being 100 will be more like being 80 today; certainly old, but there's still the possibility of a squeezing out few more years...
I'm not sure how I feel about this news. Old age doesn't really seem that appealing to me, so I don't know why I should be excited about having more of it. It just sounds like more years of bad knees, weak hips, expensive medicine, senility, and boring old-man cars.
But then I guess that just because I AM old doesn't mean I have to ACT old. Maybe I could still be doing fun and interesting things well into my 100s. I would want to be the kind of guy who still rides his bike on the weekends when he's 88 years old. I want to be the kind of guy who still travels around the world into his 90s. I want to be the 98 year old ripping up the bumps at Vail. I want to be the 100 year old guy who goes to race-driving school for his birthday.
I wonder how many languages I could learn by my 100th birthday. If my goal is to learn 10 by 50, then learning 20 or even 25 by my 100th shouldn't be too much of a reach. The hard part would be picking which languages to study because the first 10 are easy to pick because 10 covers almost all of the world's major languages, so beyond 10 would be smaller, less important languages and dialects like, Romanian, Dutch, Cantonese, Greek, etc.
Yeah, that's the kind of 100-year old I want to be; a biking, skiing, traveling, speeding, 100-year old that can say crazy/offensive things in 20 languages.
According to an article I saw in BBC awhile ago, to reach my full centenarian potential, I need to follow the advice of some of Cuba's many centenarians. The study found that many Cuban centenarians attribute their long life to plenty of coffee, cigars, and sex.
The little blurb also talks about how obesity contributes to global warming, but that's a topic for another day.
Speaking of cool old Cubans, today's video is Chan Chan by the Buena Vista Social Club.
Then, last week, I watched a show on the Discovery channel about what life is supposed to be like in 2057. They made it sound like medical advances will make it possible to live much longer by then. The host said something about living to be 200. What if I end up living way past 100? 120? 140? Maybe in 2084 being 100 will be more like being 80 today; certainly old, but there's still the possibility of a squeezing out few more years...
I'm not sure how I feel about this news. Old age doesn't really seem that appealing to me, so I don't know why I should be excited about having more of it. It just sounds like more years of bad knees, weak hips, expensive medicine, senility, and boring old-man cars.
But then I guess that just because I AM old doesn't mean I have to ACT old. Maybe I could still be doing fun and interesting things well into my 100s. I would want to be the kind of guy who still rides his bike on the weekends when he's 88 years old. I want to be the kind of guy who still travels around the world into his 90s. I want to be the 98 year old ripping up the bumps at Vail. I want to be the 100 year old guy who goes to race-driving school for his birthday.
I wonder how many languages I could learn by my 100th birthday. If my goal is to learn 10 by 50, then learning 20 or even 25 by my 100th shouldn't be too much of a reach. The hard part would be picking which languages to study because the first 10 are easy to pick because 10 covers almost all of the world's major languages, so beyond 10 would be smaller, less important languages and dialects like, Romanian, Dutch, Cantonese, Greek, etc.
Yeah, that's the kind of 100-year old I want to be; a biking, skiing, traveling, speeding, 100-year old that can say crazy/offensive things in 20 languages.
According to an article I saw in BBC awhile ago, to reach my full centenarian potential, I need to follow the advice of some of Cuba's many centenarians. The study found that many Cuban centenarians attribute their long life to plenty of coffee, cigars, and sex.
The little blurb also talks about how obesity contributes to global warming, but that's a topic for another day.
Speaking of cool old Cubans, today's video is Chan Chan by the Buena Vista Social Club.
11.14.2006
Yet More Insomnia
I'm at it again, not sleeping. Again the culprit is a myriad of thoughts racing through my head. There are so many things racing around up there that I can't even stay focused on being distracted from sleep. Here are just most of the things that are occupying my thoughts. Sorry if it reads like a long, boring to-do list. Feel free to skip it if you want, my feelings won't be hurt:
Today's video is a pretty song in Portuguese that I don't understand and a video about a stick-figure who really uses his disproportionately-large noggin.
- I am giving a presentation in my Spanish linguistics class tomorrow. I am feeling so confident and ready and excited for it for some reason. I am thinking about all the clever and insightful things I hope I remember to say during the presentation. I'm thinking about how it will be such a good presentation that it will just blow everybody's socks off (I hope their feet aren't too stinky).
- As soon as I'm done with that I have to go to Longmont to take the written test to get my CDL permit. Have I studied enough? Will the test be hard? Mostly though I'm just excited to be another step closer to realizing my dream of driving a bus. Why am I so freaking excited about driving a bus? Who knows... it's a mystery. Kind of related to the CDL test tomorrow is that while I am headed in that direction I should probably drive up to Dad's house and take my summer tires up there for winter storage. I definitely don't have time to go up there, but as long as I am halfway there already it would probably be most efficient to do both things in one trip.
- Speaking of taking steps towards driving a bus, before I can get the permit I had to get a physical exam today. I think I am pretty healthy, and mostly I am, but the doctor said I had a slightly abnormal urine sample. I had trace levels of blood and protein in it (sorry, TMI?). The doctor didn't seem REALLY concerned about it, but he said it could be indicative of anything from a benign urinary tract infection (although those are rare in men), to bladder cancer (scary). But he said I should just be aware of it and come back in a few months for another urine sample. Kind of scary though, what could it mean? Should I be worried? Should I not be worried? I guess I'll just forget about it for a few months and hope it turns out to be nothing.
- My bus-driving training starts bright and early on Saturday morning. I'm so excited!!! I wonder if they'll get me behind the wheel on the very first day... I hope so. I hope I love it as much as I think I will. But on the flip side, how the hell am I going to balance a steadily increasing course load as deadlines for final papers/projects/tests near, PLUS do 80 hours of bus-driving training before I can start work the day after school ends, PLUS keep up with the transcribing job with which I have already been failing to get all the hours I'm supposed to? It sounds impossible to me... I will be really amazed if I manage to pull it all off.
- Then there's the presentation for the International Affairs class from hell that is due only a few days after Thanksgiving "break." But I'm trying not to think about that very much.
- The application for the JET program teaching English in Japan is due at the beginning of December, I'm not sure if I'll be able to pull that together in time. Then what?
- Oh dang, my car insurance bill is almost due. I don't want to pay it. Maybe I should just sell that car and make my sister chauffeur me around instead.
- How on earth am I going to work enough hours at my transcribing job so that they won't fire me? I've never been fired from a job before and I would like to keep it that way for a little longer at least.
- I still have to find time to finish that one last online assignment for my online International Economics class...
- I really need to clean my room. It's so bad that even I am bothered by it. That's pretty bad.
- Oh, how could I have forgotten about the Portuguese presentation that I've also been thinking about. It isn't for a few weeks still, and I only have a vague idea of what I'm going to talk about (China - Brazil relations), but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna blow the socks off of that one too. I can picture me speaking pretty fluent sounding Portuguese, but when it comes time to actually do it, the words still don't come out that smoothly for me, but it'll just take some practice. Portuguese sounds pretty sweet, by the way.
- I have a couple of ideas that I think would make for really interesting thesis papers in linguistics. Too bad I don't have time to write a senior honors thesis paper. Maybe I'll try to remember them for grad school or something though...
- What will be the next dumb/annoying and time-consuming task that my grandmother will require of me?
- So, that's most of what has been racing through my head keeping me awake tonight. Of course there's also the normal background noise of VTEC Mini Coopers, fixed-gear bikes, random linguistic crap, needing a girlfriend, etc...
Today's video is a pretty song in Portuguese that I don't understand and a video about a stick-figure who really uses his disproportionately-large noggin.
10.17.2006
The Next Adventure?
It finally snowed today, and it's starting to accumulate and bend all the tree branches, but I'm not going to write about that because it's the same thing that happens every year as the earth tilts on it's axis.
I wrote a blog a few weeks ago about how I had no idea what I would be doing after I graduate, but after a few weeks of thinking, pondering, and considering, I have some slightly more solid plans. I still haven't actually lined anything up though, so it is all still just in the pondering stage. But here's what I've got so far:
Now until December 20, 2006 - Somehow manage to keep up with and do well in school and work without dying.
December 20, 2006 - Graduate from CU, move from Grandma's basement in Boulder to Ma's basement in Edwards. Live and work in the Edwards/Beaver Creek/Vail area, possibly driving the Beaver Creek shuttles, or maybe driving the Denver-Vail shuttle vans... It isn't exactly resume-enhancing work, but I love driving and I think I will like it. I might also keep doing part-time work for Infoture, but who knows about that.
April, 2007 - Ski season ends and so will my driving job. Raissa and Dad and I are talking about going on a trip to Europe together, maybe for a month or two.
June, 2007 - Get back from Europe, and probably/maybe go back to work at Chinese Summer Camp again from mid-june to mid/late-july.
July, 2007 - Just as summer camp ends, I might move to Japan for a year to teach English. This little option is totally out of left field, I realize that, so let me explain. Yesterday I was standing in the Humanities building waiting for my semantics class to start when I saw posted on the bulletin board a flyer for an informational meeting about JET (Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program). It is a program funded by the Japanese government to get English teachers to Japan (two different links: one from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, and another from the Consulate General of Japan at Denver). It involves a year-long contract and approximately US$30,000 for the whole year. It sounded interesting, so I went to the meeting. Unfortunately I misread the flyer and I got there an hour after it started, and thus I only caught the last 10 minutes or so. But it still looks pretty interesting. So today in my linguistics class I asked a guy I know who studies Japanese and a Japanese girl what they know about it, and they both seemed to have pretty good impressions of it. Anyway, the application is due December 4, and I think I'm going to go ahead and apply for it. I think I'm totally qualified and they would be dumb not to accept me. I'm thinking that this would be a good way for me to learn some Japanese (which is safely on my list of ten that I want to learn before I'm fifty). It would also be good teaching experience, if only I thought I wanted to be a language teacher... Also, Japan is pretty expensive to just travel to, so this would be a much better way to see the country. And I'm pretty sure that living in a country for an extended period is almost always better than simply visiting anyway. Overall the whole thing looks like a pretty exciting and legitimate opportunity, and I guess I don't really have any other significantly better ideas for what to do. The timing is perfect too because Chinese summer camp should end around July 17th (or thereabouts) and I would leave for this thing on July 29th, I believe. Anyway, I would love to hear any opinions that you might have about this, both good or bad. Why should I do it? Why should I NOT do it?
So if I can actually follow through with this stuff, 2007 could turn out to be another good year for me.
Today's video: I was looking through my computer the other day at some of my own videos that I have taken and I found this short one that I took on the maglev train to the airport in Shanghai. As you can see, it was really fast. I think the top speed was somewhere around 430 kmh, which is almost 270 mph. Yeah, that's pretty fast. It was a neat train ride; totally worth the 50 kuai (that's about $6, or maybe it was 100 kuai which is still only $12... I can't remember)
I wrote a blog a few weeks ago about how I had no idea what I would be doing after I graduate, but after a few weeks of thinking, pondering, and considering, I have some slightly more solid plans. I still haven't actually lined anything up though, so it is all still just in the pondering stage. But here's what I've got so far:
Now until December 20, 2006 - Somehow manage to keep up with and do well in school and work without dying.
December 20, 2006 - Graduate from CU, move from Grandma's basement in Boulder to Ma's basement in Edwards. Live and work in the Edwards/Beaver Creek/Vail area, possibly driving the Beaver Creek shuttles, or maybe driving the Denver-Vail shuttle vans... It isn't exactly resume-enhancing work, but I love driving and I think I will like it. I might also keep doing part-time work for Infoture, but who knows about that.
April, 2007 - Ski season ends and so will my driving job. Raissa and Dad and I are talking about going on a trip to Europe together, maybe for a month or two.
June, 2007 - Get back from Europe, and probably/maybe go back to work at Chinese Summer Camp again from mid-june to mid/late-july.
July, 2007 - Just as summer camp ends, I might move to Japan for a year to teach English. This little option is totally out of left field, I realize that, so let me explain. Yesterday I was standing in the Humanities building waiting for my semantics class to start when I saw posted on the bulletin board a flyer for an informational meeting about JET (Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program). It is a program funded by the Japanese government to get English teachers to Japan (two different links: one from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, and another from the Consulate General of Japan at Denver). It involves a year-long contract and approximately US$30,000 for the whole year. It sounded interesting, so I went to the meeting. Unfortunately I misread the flyer and I got there an hour after it started, and thus I only caught the last 10 minutes or so. But it still looks pretty interesting. So today in my linguistics class I asked a guy I know who studies Japanese and a Japanese girl what they know about it, and they both seemed to have pretty good impressions of it. Anyway, the application is due December 4, and I think I'm going to go ahead and apply for it. I think I'm totally qualified and they would be dumb not to accept me. I'm thinking that this would be a good way for me to learn some Japanese (which is safely on my list of ten that I want to learn before I'm fifty). It would also be good teaching experience, if only I thought I wanted to be a language teacher... Also, Japan is pretty expensive to just travel to, so this would be a much better way to see the country. And I'm pretty sure that living in a country for an extended period is almost always better than simply visiting anyway. Overall the whole thing looks like a pretty exciting and legitimate opportunity, and I guess I don't really have any other significantly better ideas for what to do. The timing is perfect too because Chinese summer camp should end around July 17th (or thereabouts) and I would leave for this thing on July 29th, I believe. Anyway, I would love to hear any opinions that you might have about this, both good or bad. Why should I do it? Why should I NOT do it?
So if I can actually follow through with this stuff, 2007 could turn out to be another good year for me.
Today's video: I was looking through my computer the other day at some of my own videos that I have taken and I found this short one that I took on the maglev train to the airport in Shanghai. As you can see, it was really fast. I think the top speed was somewhere around 430 kmh, which is almost 270 mph. Yeah, that's pretty fast. It was a neat train ride; totally worth the 50 kuai (that's about $6, or maybe it was 100 kuai which is still only $12... I can't remember)
9.27.2006
将来该做啥？ El futuro no está en mis manos.
I'm at the point in me life where everyone seems to expect me to have my life all figured out. If I had a dollar for every time some has asked me about my post-graduation plans then maybe I'd have enough money so that I wouldn't have to graduate, haha (well, I probably wouldn't have that much money. Maybe if I had a thousand dollars for every time someone asked me about it...).
I wouldn't mind the friendly interrogations so much if I had a better response, but I usually just end up mumbling something along the lines of, "oh... I have no idea; maybe this, maybe that... blah blah blah..." That answer is only partially accurate though because while I don't actually have any sort of plans nailed down yet, this answer makes it sound like I haven't even started thinking about it, but I have. In fact, I think about it a lot and I have a lot of ideas floating around in my head. So here are all of the current potential post-graduation candidates (in no particular order):
Some things that I'm trying to keep in mind as I contemplate my near future:
Maybe I should just turn into this guy in this video. The song is "Desaparecido" by Manu Chao. The song has some fun lyrics about how people call him "the disappeared" and "when they look for me I'm not there and when they find me I'm not the one in front of them because I already ran off the other way." Hmm, that would be an interesting sentence for some semantic logic analysis...
I wouldn't mind the friendly interrogations so much if I had a better response, but I usually just end up mumbling something along the lines of, "oh... I have no idea; maybe this, maybe that... blah blah blah..." That answer is only partially accurate though because while I don't actually have any sort of plans nailed down yet, this answer makes it sound like I haven't even started thinking about it, but I have. In fact, I think about it a lot and I have a lot of ideas floating around in my head. So here are all of the current potential post-graduation candidates (in no particular order):
- I could stay in Boulder and bum around for awhile, find a place to move so I don't have to stay in Grandma's basement, and probably keep the job that I have now at Infoture. I like Boulder and I wouldn't mind staying here, but I probably won't end up staying here because I have other options that won't require paying rent.
- I could try to find a "real job" somewhere, maybe move somewhere, anywhere... but I don't know how much of a rush I really want to be in to get one of those "real jobs." One potentially "real job" I'm thinking about though is to try to get a job with Google in China (Beijing, specifically). But I'm thinking that even if I decide to try to get a grown-up job, I probably won't even start applying for anything until next summer at the earliest, and maybe not even until the fall.
- Currently the most likely plan is to move back to Mom's house and get a winter job up there. I might also be able to keep my current job at Infoture (since I work remotely anyway), but I think I want to get a different job that I enjoy a little more even if it pays less and won't help my resume even a little bit. This includes jobs like being a ski instructor, or possibly a shuttle driver either around Beaver Creek or maybe between the Vail area and Denver, or something along those lines. I think it sounds like fun.
- There's a remote possibility that I will move into my Dad's house if he ends up getting a job that he applied for in Austraila.
- I suppose I could try to find a scholarship or something to go somewhere to study Chinese (or any other language for that matter)... but that doesn't sound very likely.
- If I am able to sock away enough money over the next few months, I might just take some time off to do nothing at all, maybe travel a bit. But I doubt I will really be able to save that much money, and I would just be bored after a few days with nothing to do.
Some things that I'm trying to keep in mind as I contemplate my near future:
- I'd like to try to take the GRE's in the spring.
- Dad and Raissa and I might try to plan a fairly long trip (like a month or two) to Europe around April or May, so I need to save up some money and keep that time slot open.
- I should probably start looking for a good way to either start learning a new language to stay on track with my ten-languages-by-fifty goal, or to improve my Chinese before it gets too rusty. Maybe I'll look for a job in Brazil; or maybe Chile; or maybe some other interesting place.
- I've got MINI Mania on the brain making me want to get a job, earn about $30k, and buy one of those dang minis. Other things I want to purchase include... well actually, now that I think about it, I don't really feel the need to purchase that much stuff besides the mini. Maybe some clothes. And some bicycles. And more cars. And probably a comfortable bed.
- Whatever I do, I want it to be something that I'll look back on with fondness in 5, 10, or 30 years.
- Is there anyway I could work a girlfriend into my life somehow? I sure would like a girlfriend...
- I don't want to get trapped in a boring rut. Avoid ruts...
- Maybe get an MBA? Or perhaps go to grad school for something else, like linguistics? Grad school of any kind is probably at least another year or two or three away for me though.
Maybe I should just turn into this guy in this video. The song is "Desaparecido" by Manu Chao. The song has some fun lyrics about how people call him "the disappeared" and "when they look for me I'm not there and when they find me I'm not the one in front of them because I already ran off the other way." Hmm, that would be an interesting sentence for some semantic logic analysis...
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