Name: blue star IP: 206.76.20.133 Subject: Re: in ten years.... i hope not to be a bum Email: bluestarliz@hotmail.com Website: http:// i forgot to write down my own answers...first off, where i want to be...i would like to be living in either austin or albaquerque (they are actually quite similar, except austin is a little bigger and albaquerque is a little prettier), and i want to have both my associates in commercial art and my BFA in communication design from UT. i would like to be married, or at least have a serious live-in boyfriend, and maybe a kid, but if so, a very young one...i don't want to be doing scouting and taking it to school when i'm 29...if it's old enough to be in school/scouts, then it's like 6 years old, which means i would have to have had it at 23...that's a little early for me, i don't feel any need to be married, much less reproducing, at that age. but an infant at 29 would be okay. hmm...my mouse just fell apart...stupid spc computers. career wise...if i don't have any kids, i would like to be about mid-level in a graphic design firm (why a firm rather than free-lance? the competive nature of me as far as art is concerned, especially against men...i know this is odd, but i really like being better at art than men, and art is about the only thing i really feel this push to do...i should never marry another graphic artist, that's for sure). i don't really care about what my mate does...just like natalia, he could be a janitor and as long as it's the real thing, i wouldn't care (though when we had kids, i'd make him stay home with them, since graphic art pays quite a bit better than a janitor). oh, and i want to have a decent sized apartment or a small house, and making payments on a new honda civic. and have a pet cat. yah. as for where i think i'm gonna be...still probably austin, since i'm pretty damn determined to end up there, and i will stil have my associates, but i'm rather doubtful on the BFA...i can see myself getting badly sidetracked once i start working in my field and never getting around to finishing up school. i don't think i'll be married (i'm not saying i won't ever be married, but i don't see my ability to stay in a long term relationship improving, so realistically, i won't be married), and definately no kids. i will probably be living in an okay-sized apartment, with a couple of cats and driving something kinda old but paid off...hell, i could still be driving my oldsmobile...i hope not, since it would be getting kinda long in the tooth, but it could happen. i think that i will be more focused on my career and less focused on my friends and family than i would like to think i will, essentially.