It's funny how hopes and dreams can change so much. I always said I would never get married before I was 30, I always wanted to live in Sydney, I wanted to be a lawyer (and wear a blue suit), I wanted to be a teacher, I never wanted to go to grad school (not sure how I was going to manage the law or education profession without a graduate degree...) and I hated chocolate for the majority of my life.
odd.
I got married just past my 25th birthday, I have never even been to Australia, I decided in the NH Supreme Courthouse when I was a junior in college that the law was not meant for me - plus I have two suits and neither one is blue. I couldn't deal with the low pay of teachers, though I have to admit I would probably still do it for the summers of and all their vacations. Clearly I am suffering through 4 long years of grad school, and now I'm a big advocate of chocolate. Though I still loathe and detest chocolate ice cream (hello people... it tastes NOTHING like chocolate! How can you eat that crap?) and I don't like my chocolate mixed with anything, and I refer vanilla cake to chocolate cake. But real milk chocolate in an unadulterated state is yummy.
Life's just funny like that. I also swore up and down that I wasn't going to go to college. Why anyone would want to do that much work was beyond me and I was fully convinced that I could never handle the workload. Of course the diploma hanging above me all nice and shiny says something else.
Clearly my life plans were not ever going to come to fuition. I don't regret not fulfilling some of them. I am sad about never getting to live, or at least visit, Sydney. I'd really love to have summers off. It's not going to happen though. Time for some new dreams. Like to get through these next two years and then never setting foot in an institute of higher learning for the rest of my natural life. Buying a house is another dream of mine - my dream is a big colonial on the water in Hingham, Cohasset, Scituate, Marshfield, etc. But I'll be happy with a 3 bedroom cape anywhere.
For now it seems my entire life is on hold until Andrew and I both finish our degrees. Which means 2 more years to dream big.
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Hey, just a response to your post about the debates. I agree completely about Blitzer being creepy. I do want to say that at some point you should watch a debate with Laney while he's under the influence, the observations he makes are... intense.
Frank McCourt's book _Teacher Man_ talks about ATTO, that is, "all that time off," that teachers get which is the envy of many a day laborer. He addresses it as a myth whereby holiday breaks are spent grading papers and summers are spent thinking about lesson planning. I don't believe it. 3 months off is 3 months off if you choose to enjoy it. Maybe someday...
Just think of the trips you can take to Aussieland when you're MBA nets you a nice blingin' salary :)
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