15,000 posts and discussion!

[MST3Kakalina]

1. i have 15,000 posts. this is quite the feat, as back when i signed up, i thought 100 posts was unlikely, and 1000 posts impossible.

2. right now i am listening to an 8 minute orchestral version of "I've Got Rhythm," which made me think of this:


when i was about 10 years old or so, my class went on a trip to see Crazy For You, a Gerswhin brothers revue. it was one of the most incredible things i had seen in my life up to that point, and i was immediately taken with it.

listening to this song brings back that sense of wonder and thrill with it all, how i looked at the stage and thought "THAT'S what i want to do. i want to be an actress in a musical." of course, looking on that now, i can see how horrendous a career choice that would have been. i can't sing (as any of the 'con folk can attest to), i doubt i can act, and i'm not really pleasant-looking enough to put on stage in any decent role.

discuss: did you ever want to be something as a kid, only later to realize that would have never worked? alternative: random inspiring moments from your childhood.

[Davey Rootbeer]

I still want to be a major-league baseball player, despite the fact that i haven't had practice in oh...8 years? and the fact that i sucked at hitting. the only thing i could do good was get hit by a pitch, then steal second, third, and home. (i..actually DID steal second, third and home, pretty much ANYTIME i was on base. I was the best damn base-stealer in the state.)

When i was 15, i wanted to become a prefessional bowler. sad to say, this might have actually been a possibility, if i had the money to practice often. I graduated high school, as 3-time captain of the varsity squad, made all-county for 2 years and all-state once. averaged a 175 my senior year. but then, i haven't bowled regularly since then, since bowling costs about 4 bucks a game here, the alleys are at least 5 miles away, and i don't have enough money to afford it.

I still average around a 180-185 now, despite 4 years of not practicing. If i had been able to practice regularly the last 4 years, it would probably be at about 220 by now, and i'd have a shot at the PBA. heck, i'm still young, and might still have a chance...but there's no bowling alley in college, and i'm also piss-poor.

so my dream, although not gone, continues to fade away more with each passing day.....and that's just sad.

[Invader Flak]

I wanted to be a Federation Starship Captain.

Bum choice. Now I'm stuck with poli-sci.

[Corn 2.0]

I wanted to be a superhero.

Needless to say, I realized it wouldn't work out all that well.

[töm]

I wanted to be a baseball player, too. And I was damn good. I have an arm. Two arms actually, and ears too! I could break the tiny and precious bones in any young boy's not adequately-protected hand in just a short game of catch. I could bat with the best of them. My downfall? I'm short. That didn't keep me from being wonderful, but it did keep me from having any semblance of self-esteem.

So now I am studying finance at the local community college, hoping one day to be an investment banker.

[Linzoy]

I still want to be an astronaut. For as long as I can remember my mind's been preoccupied with getting away from it all. I would spend a lot of time alone for no good reason. Space is very alone. Also I want to discover new things and be proud of myself. I gave all of this up a long time ago. People keep telling me I should be an artist because I doodle a lot so I'll stick to that.

I don't really have any dreams. Part of me still wants to be an astronaut. I'd like to move somewhere that has palm trees... that's it really!

[Meat Load]

I wanted to be one of those guys who excavates dinosaur skeletons.

This changed some time around when I discovered that dirt contains germs.

[Forever Finite]

did you know that your intestinal tract is like a puppy mil, except with germs? i bet you didn't. i bet you thought you were <I>clean</i>.

[Meat Load]

<i>I'll never feel happiness again.</i>

[Forever Finite]

but you'll feel other things. there's still pain, anguish, and babies left.

[Meat Load]

True.

But there's only so many times you can stub your toe before it gets old.


Also: "Babies"?

[Forever Finite]

wait...babies is not an emotion?

[Meat Load]

Not unless you feel "babies" on a regular basis, in which case I suggest you seek a psychologist.

[Forever Finite]

you're not even my real dad!

[Meat Load]

Hell, I don't even know you!

[Forever Finite]

get off of my roof before i call the cops.

[Meat Load]

It's a free country! I know my rights!

[cyberen]

I wanted to be an astronaut, but then i decided against it considering the risk as well as the contractual obligations i would have to agree on, namely signing away my life to the military.

Then i wanted to rule the world, but i realized i'd have to kill innocent people to do it, so i decided not to.

But i've always wanted to be an artist, and so that's what i'll do.

[Linzoy]

I like drawing a lot and I can see myself trying to make a living off of it but it just isn't what I really want to do. If I had a choice between being an artist and being something more intresting I wouldn't choose art.

[implode]

i wanted to be an astronaut too, and it's not so much that i realize that it would have never worked, it's more like "man, sucks that i'm a burnout and not an astronaut." i'd still love to work for the space program. i just... don't. hmph.

happy 15,000th!

[Rory Storm]

I wanted to be an inventor, only I didn't have any good ideas. It wasn't until recently that I realized I wanted to go to school for computer graphics and art and stuff. Aparently I found out I was pretty good at it. So I went about telling people that I was looking at Johnson and Wales, I went on a tour of the campus, and now they are deciding if I should be accepted or not. But it looks promising. Fingers-crossed. Although with my luck, I will not be accepted and it will be too late to apply anywhere else, and I will just end up a loser like I have been the rest of my life. :). But I know that won't happen, or rather shouldn't happen, because...well I don't know.

[Vile]

I wanted my own zoo. :(

[Kelvan]

I wanted to be a deputee in the ukrainian parliament.
~
But then I've changed my mind and now I go the path of the light.

Happy 15 000, whore!

[deep]

*sigh* I wanted to major in music preformance and well...preform music...HAHAHAH
As if I could be that lucky. You have to have TALENT. Not the you've been a band geek for 7 years in an ok music program at a public school kind of talent, but the Jesus Christ you've been playing since your were six and got private lessons kind of talent.

God life sucks, now I might have to get some shitty ass job swabbing inmates spit to profile thier D.N.A. so when they get out and commit another crime we have evidence to stick them back in the slammer...

[Kitty of Doom]

I used to want to be an artist or a scientist. Not much can out of the art thing but I draw sometimes for fun. Right now I'm on the scientist track but I don't know how far I'll get with that, my mom thinks I should try law school :robot:

Another one of my goals as a kid was to fly. Not like flying in a plane or anything but I wanted to be able to leap into the air and fly around like a bird. In fact, I spent many hours leaping from the couch and flapping my arms thinking that one day I'd get somewhere. Not much came of that unfortuanatly except for my mom yelling at me to stop jumping around :(

[t3]

At one point I wanted to be a comedian. I mean... I still make fun of people and stuff, I just don't aim to make a carreer out of it. Later, I aspired to sell propane and propane accessories. And, I guess there was a point at which I wanted to live by wrritin' thangs. I still intend to, albeit with slightly different idears in mind. (Time was a considered writing novels and the like, but now I think I'd be happier doing scripts for Tv or movies ('specially animation) or comics or summat.)

I had considered getting into programming or something involving computers at one point, but then it became apparent that computers and I are MORTAL ENEMIES. Mmmyep.

[Kelvan]

Its like water and fire coming together.

[ImWearingUrSkin]

you people talk too much.

[MST3Kakalina]

*sigh* I wanted to major in music preformance and well...preform music...HAHAHAH
As if I could be that lucky. You have to have TALENT. Not the you've been a band geek for 7 years in an ok music program at a public school kind of talent, but the Jesus Christ you've been playing since your were six and got private lessons kind of talent.

God life sucks, now I might have to get some shitty ass job swabbing inmates spit to profile thier D.N.A. so when they get out and commit another crime we have evidence to stick them back in the slammer...
hahah. yeah. i got it into my head early on that "you have talent, you should go to school for music!" it takes a lot of work, in addition to talent, and so i gave up on it. i sort of regret doing that now. if i had worked harder in my middle and high school years i could have done something with it, but oh well. i'd probably have even fewer career options after college than i will with a creative writing degree.

[Linzoy]

I quit band because it was boring but now I regret it. Actually the real reason is because the other kids where annoying, they kept talking and we always sounded terrible because no one payed attention or seemed to care. I never practiced but I always got the songs right because everyone was terrible. I wish I was exaggerating, but I'm not, everyone was just really bad. I've been trying to get back into piano though.