I did some math today...

Well not really math. More like organizing my life for the next few years.

It's depressing. I'm going to take 5 years to graduate. At the rate I'm going (4 courses a semester), I'm going to have to take summer school (always so terribly fun...) or accept the fact that I'll graduate in 2013.

In the year 2013, I'll be 22. I'll want to live on my own, go to California, or Australia, or Germany, or England.

I'll need a job and a place of my own. And at 26, I'll want to get married, which gives me roughly 4 years to fool around (less than that, since I'd have to get engaged at 25 or even 24)

I would like 1 year to volunteer and travel the world before I really settle down. And I'd like to live in the above-mentioned cities/countries for at least 6 months to really get to know the places.

Also, I would like to study art in New York (maybe for a year or two or three or a full degree).

And somehow have a career in music, film, event planning, book writing, journalism, art... ...maybe in theatre too.

In between all that, I need to put aside a couple of years to be a good housewife too.

Looking back on all my ambitions though, I think I'll need another life to accomplish all this. Instead of telling everyone to "dream big", maybe there should be sayings that say to over-ambitious people like me that go "don't dream too big, you're only one person" ...something like that because I think I'm going to have a huge break-down somewhere before my second career, but the thing is I can't stop myself from dreaming because that's just the way I am. It's all or nothing. Do it all or die trying.