A blast from the past...30 dreams

I was searching through my word documents for something else entirely when I came across a list that had been typed up for my Success Book in eighth grade health (please tell me some of you remember those?). This was a list of thirty dreams I had for the future. Comparing the ones from then (around the end of eighth grade) and now, some things have changed...but others haven't.

THEN:
1. Publish a science fiction or fantasy novel
2. Learn to speak Latin
3. Meet J.K. Rowling
4. Play on my high school varsity soccer team
5. Have my writing complimented by Anne McCaffrey
6. Be high school valedictorian
7. Invent water-repellant paper
8. Invent electromagnetic hover cars
9. Visit the moon
10. Become a middle school teacher
11. Learn how to skateboard
12. Improve my surfing skills
13. Go snowboarding
14. Go scuba diving with my best friend in Hawaii
15. Attend UC Berkley
16. Win a Nobel Prize in poetry
17. Live in a house near the beach
18. See the pyramids of Giza in Egypt
19. Float in the Dead Sea
20. Understand hyperbolic geometry
21. Never break a bone
22. Co-author a book with my best friend
23. Visit Greece
24. Create a theorem in Euclidean geometry stating that in a proof, whatever comes after “Prove” is true
25. Have my own neighborhood library
26. See the Olympic Games
27. Start a book club with my friend
28. Invent a molecular acceleration transport device (teleporter)
29. Own a jet ski
30. Be positively remembered after I die for making a significant change in the world

NOW:
1. Publish a novel
2. Publish my short story "The Free Way"
3. Publish my short story "Fire and Ice" in some form
4. Publish a novel of Azuria
5. Win a Nobel Prize
6. Meet Julie E. Czerneda
7. Attend Stanford University
8. Work for NASA
9. Be involved with the creation and production of a musical
10. Go to Russia
11. Go to Venice for Carnival
12. Go to the moon
13. Study astronomy & astrophysics
14. Study string theory
15. Study abroad in London
16. Speak at my high school graduation
17. Have at least 13 gavels by the time I graduate
18. Go backpacking somewhere I've never been before
19. Be approached by J. K. Rowling asking me to sign a book for her daughter
20. Win NaNoWriMo a record number of times in a row
21. Work with the United Nations to campaign for peace
22. Never lose touch with all of my good friends
23. Never forget how to smile
24. Become a household name
25. Save the rainforests
26. Save the oceans
27. Save the atmosphere
28. Save our souls
29. Save the world
30. Be positively remembered after I die for changing the world

I pose a question to all of you out there in cyberspace: what does your list look like?

It's all Luke's fault...

So I have found t-shirts that I want, and I have found them in a very odd manner. You see, I have this friend who reads this webcomic and today he linked me to it in a comment, and after reading the comic I decided to browse around the site. Which led me to merchandise, which led me to the shirts.

I want them.



This one reminds me of a book I read (and loved) wherein a wizard really does turn people into whales (or more accurately, wizards turn themselves into whales with the help of other wizards who actually are wales). Deep Wizardry owns you all.



This one I want for more sentimental reasons. It's because it's so true for me. I wanted to be an astronaut (part of me still wants to), but I also want to be a writer, and that passion is stronger. Still...that doesn't mean that it's easy to give up on something you'd truly like to do...this shirt says a lot to me.

Only downside is that they cost real money (oops) and I'm a spendthrift. But I really want them!!!

Because I'm bored, there are a few other shirts I also want which I shall now post images of.



You can't see the text real clearly, but it's the Wizard's Oath from Diane Duane's Young Wizards books. I think it's a credo to live by, in many ways, and it would be awesome to have it on a shirt!



Also from Diane Duane's site. Shannen, I think we should get these.

And I'm going to stop being random now...though I must say, it's fun!

And Luke: I want a pants shirt when you make them.