What will we all be doing in ten years' time?

by the way gel you sound a bit tasty an all. I'm gonna write to Steve Right Sundays Lovesong even tho e's a ponce an ask to play Think Twice by ver lovely Celine Dion just for you Suzie gel. My pleasure. Gel.

Ten years? Hopefully a few books published here and there. Owning more music than the universe can comfortably hold. Love, natch, but I'm a patient guy, I will see what happens. Still friends with you all and hopefully have made many more friends along the way. Living comfortably enough to not have to worry about things, which is the case now, but a touch more discretionary income never hurts. That would do me fine.

However I am pretty certain I want to be a mother and there are ways to make this happen without a partner. Not preferable but possible.

And the difference between the present and the future is what again?

other than that, probably fat (the gut's been expanding lately)

I have very little idea. I'll still be writing, probably not about pop music and probably not getting published or making much effort to. I would be quite upset if I weighed any more than I do now because it means that my willpower won't have improved in the slightest over a decade. I'd like to be working for myself.

I'll be 38, God willing and that's all I know. i hope to still have all my hair and be married.

I knew someone would jump on this. The short answer is - yes, viewed purely financially. Chances are they will want to go and chances are I'll have to pay.

If you mean "will they be forced to go to Univ?" Of course not if it would make them unhappy, but IMHO what better way to spend 3 or 4 yrs between 18-22-ish - have fun, get some qualifications, maybe even learn something. If they want to go later that'll be fine, as long I don't have to fund a bloody 'gap year'.

Sorry.

Dr. C : "Right children there's something important I'd like to talk to you about"

Tom : "Anna's farted"

Anna : "It was Dad"

I drink wine far too quickly, the reason I always go back to pints is that unlike other alcohol they naturally go at sensible drinking speed.

yes but beer and lager make you feel bloated and sometimes nauseous. they're good hangover drinks though, like alcoholic liquid comfort food

ya

i have a better computer than in 2002 :) and worse manners :(

you guys could also try eating dinner

eating's cheating (said with tongue very much in cheek)

No longer remotely interested in going out and getting twatted off my nut at the weekends

Me neither. The weekly boozy darts night is enough for me.

loool upt0. why do i keep wanting to call you nick? hmm?

cos that's my name? go for it, it makes me feel more at home.

whew :D i thought i was making it up

you been drinking?

i came very close to buying an alcoholic beverage with lunch yesterday but thought better of it. although wouldn't rule it out for some point in the future.

not today nick, it's not even noon. tonight maybe? maybe we can share a virtual shot

fun how a thread about 10-yr-plans turns into the local pub

you guys could also try eating dinner

i pretty much refuse to go drinking after work without eating something decent before/during now

you should go to the airport Surm. no matter what time it is it's ALWAYS okay to have a drink in an airport.

My way of getting twatted off my nut has changed hugely since Jan 2002, back then it was regular student (or post student) binge drinking. Now its nice mellow nights down the pub interspersed with the occasional/semi regular epic adventure. I like it more now.

(xpost - what Blueski said)

mellow pub nights are gold, no more making a prat out of myself or late night texts to gurls.

ok i know the thread is all about drinking now, but in ten years i hope to:
get my master's
get my CFA designation (chartered financial analyst)
get my other CFA designation (cat fancier's association)
move back to maine or somewhere similar
have a dog
own a house (preferably farmhouse)
pay off all my student loans

In the past six years...

got married then ended the marriage
moved in with new girlfriend in Brooklyn
got a dog
wrote a book
wrote 11 academic articles
gave talks in 12 countries
taught for 4 years at NYU
ran several marathons
overcame anxiety attacks

Quite a lot achieved, although I had planned to do more, and I notice that I'm probably not any happier now than I was then. What do I want next? A family, I guess.

i guess it's kind of sad but having kids is not really in my life plan

that is not sad at all. it's the only thing which makes me eagerly anticipate my 40s, all my straight peers will be spending all their money on bringing up children, clothes, food, school fees, that sort of thing, and i'll just have endless disposable income

a chilling vision of things to come

within the next 10 years i hope to have my own secret borad

impossible is nothing

yeah i am looking forward to going on really extravagant vacations in my 40s and retiring early.

"school fees"?

also, dying alone! wooo!

I completely loathe these threads

"school fees"?

You mean you haven't already enrolled your kid for Eton? Get to it.

oh i forgot about that, yeah. it's all in my microsoft project database. it's a milestone i'm ramping up to. moving forward i want to roll out a violin concerto or two, you know, even if no one hears it i just want to do it... for ME.

also, dying alone! wooo!

And my 10 and 13 year old nieces wonder why they keep getting guest listed for arena shows? Hey, someone's got to take me on day trips from Shady Pines (and hell, someone's got to inherit, quid pro quo and all that). It's never too early to start getting into their good books!

no not necessarily eton! just, like, a normal school. i dunno, it's never going to be my problem

and yeah i totes want to be godparent to all my friends' kids

'moving forward'

Hand, you should touch base about this

like, when they get pissed off with their parents they can run away to me, and i can tell them all about their parents' shameless drug escapades in their 20s

you can always leave your money to a worthy charity. or your pets!

and they can show you how to program the robot to paint your walls (xp)

I completely loathe these threads

-- El Tomboto, Thursday, 3 July 2008 17:37 (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^this

Since 2002:

Oh heck, how do I answer this without seeming hopelessly lost and stuck in a rut?

Can I discount the latter half of 2005, a bit of 2006, and all of 2007? They were crappy do's. Much better now though.

In the next ten minutes, I am going to be listening to Dragonforce, trying to convince my dog to eat his dinner and messing about online.

10 years out:

-Debt free, except maybe payments on a condo
-Working on novel #3
-Teaching
-Ordained

HOOS, it is your des-tee-nee. Er, well, maybe not. But go ahead and bust a nut trying. Sounds like a good enough future for all intents and purposes.

Just remember that des-tee-nee has a way of throwing curve balls that you can't hit unless you're Sadaharu Oh.

Too true!

lex in his forties:

http://www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/images/120606-Stringfellow.jpg

I don't know what I'll be doing, but I hope it doesn't involve the neighbor pissing on the wall right below my window while I try to sleep. Fuck you neighbor!

I'm gonna move in next to Z S and piss on his wall.

And I'm gonna move away from ya both! In 2012.

I mean, what with all the pissing and stuff - you leave no choice, yo...

Other than that,I've no fukkeroo of a clue.

the neighbor pissing on the wall right below my window while I try to sleep.

To add insult to injury, the guy was inside at the time...