May 30 2008
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Meme
Ten years ago I was:
About to graduate from High School, ready to head off to UGA, and excited about seeing Pearl Jam and Beastie Boys back-to-back in concert.
Five things on today’s to do list:
- Change from work clothes to something more comfortable.
- Avoid failing asleep at my desk, or death by boredom.
- Buy a new printer.
- Find out what exactly the plans are for tonight.
- Remember to bring my camera with me when I go out this time.
Things I’d do if I were a billionaire:
- Audit a ridiculous # of college course, at several colleges in the US and abroad (I’m looking at you Oxford, but you too University of Sydney.)
- Buy the old DialAmerica building and the huge parking lot next to it, donate the whole complex to Nuci’s Space with additional money to convert part of it to a massive rehersal/recording studio space, and parking deck so they can charge folks on gameday and keep raising money.
- Donate whatever it takes to get a top-flight MFA-Creative Writing program to UGA.
- Own a house or condo in: Athens, GA, Atlanta, Sydney, NYC, LA, and some tropical island and some great ski resort town.
- Assuming this is like a “you won the biggest lotto ever” deal, rent a massive yacht and pay for practically everyone I know (that I don’t dislike) to enjoy a nice tropical drinking week.
Three bad habits:
1. Financial management (if it weren’t for online banking, I’d never know my balance).
2. Biting my nails.
3. Letting Atlanta traffic constantly get to me.
Places I have lived:
Most-recent first:
Atlanta, GA
Athens, GA
Largely characterless suburb of Atlanta #3 (aka Alpharetta, GA)
Six jobs I’ve had in my life:
- Opinion Columnist
- Copyeditor
- Grader, GA 5th- and 8th-Grade Writing Test
- Telemarketer (shoot me)
- Database Management/Research Assistant (no, really, shoot me)
