1. Novelist - First I have to, y'know, write a novel. 2. Book/Music/Film/Restaurant Critic - That would have rounded out my top five, but I think you'd probably already call me a cheater for splitting up "writer". ;-) 3. Musician - Second guitarist or drummer in a rock band would be pretty fun as long as the fame didn't corrupt me. 4. Personal Chef - Hate cooking for strangers in huge quantities. Love cooking meals for people I know. 5. Pundit - You know, get a ph.d. in something and have sufficient laurels to rest on that all I ever have to do is appear on documentaries and roundtable current-events programs discussing my opinions on various things. Sounds pretty great to me. ;-)
1. Bored Heiress. Like your Trophy Wife, I'm sure that I'd be excellent at taking all of my friends on whirlwind adventures around the globe.
2. Psychological Researcher. I want magical multi-million dollar grants given to me so that I can devise and execute psychological studies. In my dream job, I wouldn't be limited to one area of research and I wouldn't have a pesky human subjects committee to work with. I swear I won't actually damage anyone, ok?
3. minervacat's Editor. For when she's a professional writer, natch. Clearly she'll be famous and well paid, so I'll be sitting pretty, too. Then I can sit at home and make snarky comments in the margins and IM and read porn at work.
4. Apprentice Glass Blower. I've been feeling a real itch to create recently, so why not glass blowing?
5. Think Tank Member. I don't even care what kind of punditry. I just want to be paid to be an expert and think and blow hot air talk.
As soon as I'm a writer, you can be my editor. I will pay you and Lani mad money to sit around and rip my writing apart and entertainment while you're doing it.
Think Tank Member.
I like to think of the Chicago Carleton Contigent as a Think Tank devoted to determining How To Get As Drunk As Possible As Fast As Possible Without Being Ill. It's very important research.
1. R&B Superstar - It would be fabulous. All the fame of being a pop star with slightly less pressure about my weight, plastic surgery, and simple dance steps.
2. Food critic - Preferably with my own show on Food Network where I travel the world telling people where to eat.
3. Fox Sports baseball/basketball commentator - I would be embarassing on any other network, but on Fox? I'd be a star.
4. Expert - I want a PhD and to be acknowledged as an expert in my field who makes regular appearances on news shows and panels. I want the chance to cuss out Bill O'Reilly on live television.
5. Syndicated opinion columnist - I have opinions and I can write them down.
I deleted it off the TiVo just last weekend, or I'd send it to you. You want me to see if I can find it again and tape it for you? It was really excellent. All about how to make your own grits so you don't have to, you know, buy instant crap.
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1.) Travel writer. Hopping planes to interesting places and being paid to reflect on what I see. Also, being able to use "I'm a writer for Blahblah magazine" as a ticket into places most general tourists wouldn't get to see.
2.) Back-page magazine columnist. Those people who have free reign over page 165 every month to talk about the undiscovered rules of supermarket lines, or the simple joys of organic gardening, or memories of board games they used to play with their families. Fun, airy, first-person writing.
3.) Host of vegetarian cooking show on Food Network. Because I love to cook, I love attention, and I'd have a whole camera crew at my side to help me eat all the rich, yummy food I'd make.
4.) Psychologist Particularly one for young women. I still might do this someday, but right now the prospect of spending seven more years in school makes my stomach hurt.
5.) Professor of Southern literature Oh, to be able to teach The Sound and the Fury and The Moviegoer every semester!
Re: Awesome topic.minervacatDecember 2 2004, 07:43:18 UTC
Oh, to be able to teach The Sound and the Fury and The Moviegoer every semester!
Yes, yes, yes! But only if you include Ballad of the Sad Cafe and anything by Reynolds Price (Kate Vaiden, maybe) in your syllabus, too. And thumbs up on The Moviegoer. Percy's a way underrated Southern novelist. No one teaches him, though my Faulker/Hemingway/Fitzgerald prof my senior year told me to read him, albeit it not for class.
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Poor Wake Forest got whooped last night. My boss is pissssssed off. He lost a lot of money on the game.
It's going to be a very fun ACC season. *grin*
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Especially when we win it all.
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2. Book/Music/Film/Restaurant Critic - That would have rounded out my top five, but I think you'd probably already call me a cheater for splitting up "writer". ;-)
3. Musician - Second guitarist or drummer in a rock band would be pretty fun as long as the fame didn't corrupt me.
4. Personal Chef - Hate cooking for strangers in huge quantities. Love cooking meals for people I know.
5. Pundit - You know, get a ph.d. in something and have sufficient laurels to rest on that all I ever have to do is appear on documentaries and roundtable current-events programs discussing my opinions on various things. Sounds pretty great to me. ;-)
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I hear you completely on that one, but I would only want to be a personal chef if I didn't have to do the dishes afterwards. *grin*
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2. Psychological Researcher. I want magical multi-million dollar grants given to me so that I can devise and execute psychological studies. In my dream job, I wouldn't be limited to one area of research and I wouldn't have a pesky human subjects committee to work with. I swear I won't actually damage anyone, ok?
3. minervacat's Editor. For when she's a professional writer, natch. Clearly she'll be famous and well paid, so I'll be sitting pretty, too. Then I can sit at home and make snarky comments in the margins and IM and read porn at work.
4. Apprentice Glass Blower. I've been feeling a real itch to create recently, so why not glass blowing?
5. Think Tank Member. I don't even care what kind of punditry. I just want to be paid to be an expert and think and blow hot air talk.
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Think Tank Member.
I like to think of the Chicago Carleton Contigent as a Think Tank devoted to determining How To Get As Drunk As Possible As Fast As Possible Without Being Ill. It's very important research.
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2. Food critic - Preferably with my own show on Food Network where I travel the world telling people where to eat.
3. Fox Sports baseball/basketball commentator - I would be embarassing on any other network, but on Fox? I'd be a star.
4. Expert - I want a PhD and to be acknowledged as an expert in my field who makes regular appearances on news shows and panels. I want the chance to cuss out Bill O'Reilly on live television.
5. Syndicated opinion columnist - I have opinions and I can write them down.
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Damn, damn, damn.
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2.) Back-page magazine columnist. Those people who have free reign over page 165 every month to talk about the undiscovered rules of supermarket lines, or the simple joys of organic gardening, or memories of board games they used to play with their families. Fun, airy, first-person writing.
3.) Host of vegetarian cooking show on Food Network. Because I love to cook, I love attention, and I'd have a whole camera crew at my side to help me eat all the rich, yummy food I'd make.
4.) Psychologist Particularly one for young women. I still might do this someday, but right now the prospect of spending seven more years in school makes my stomach hurt.
5.) Professor of Southern literature Oh, to be able to teach The Sound and the Fury and The Moviegoer every semester!
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Yes, yes, yes! But only if you include Ballad of the Sad Cafe and anything by Reynolds Price (Kate Vaiden, maybe) in your syllabus, too. And thumbs up on The Moviegoer. Percy's a way underrated Southern novelist. No one teaches him, though my Faulker/Hemingway/Fitzgerald prof my senior year told me to read him, albeit it not for class.
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