Question Meme Time-Day 2

[karaokegal]

I got ten questions from filthgoblin. If you want questions, leave a comment.

Instead of a giant wall of text, I'll do the answers one day at time.

Question 2-Do you have any regrets in your life? If so, what are they? If not, why not?Sometimes I feel I am nothing but regrets. Stupid things I said or did that I can't forget are a big one, or just ways I

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[damigella_314]

I find it impressive how this post and the Miami Vice one together highlight the point in our lives where we went different ways.

Miami Vice was the first success series I didn't see at all, because 1984/85 (when it came to Italy) I had started college and didn't have a TV weekdays. Once chosen my major, I had no choice on which courses to take until the fourth and final year (this was different for humanities majors btw) and I was studying like possessed even the topics I didn't like (Statistical thermodynamics, I'm looking at you) since passing exams meant continuing my grant, which meant staying away from home, and a hope for a financially independent future.

Two things I achieved that year: I learned to play foosball, and to drink espresso. I also got a boyfriend and a few passes.

Bonus crazy point: I never had a poster with a person on my bedroom wall. I did buy a poster that year, since for the first time in my life I didn't fear my mother making fun of my taste: the Ugly Duckling.

[karaokegal]

Clearly you had some motivation that I was lacking. In a way, quitting school was the only way to jump-start my life by forcing me to get out of New Jersey. I could have gone on for years, getting financial aid and living at home, although I was on academic probation and at some point the jig would have been up. On the other hand, if I had put some effort into college, I might never have left New Jersey or at least not come to San Francisco when I did and therefore never have met Hubby. So who knows?

[damigella_314]

We both had the same motivation - moving to the West Coast. Only in my case the West Coast was fifty miles away ;).

[chocolate_frapp]

I know my family was very disappointed i didn't finish college. I was the only adult in my family who didn't except one cousin who had health issues.

[karaokegal]

Sometimes I even fleetingly wonder about going back and trying to get a degree of some kind at this late date, but I STILL don't think I'm motivated enough to deal with pre-reqs that I genuinely don't care about and it's not like my math skills have improved any during a good 30 years of atrophy.