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| Clever Girl... >> Ambition >> Current Ambitions I feel a little bit silly, publishing this on the internet, but I'm an ambitious girl, apparently. At least, that's what somebody told me fairly recently, I can't quite remember who. In any case, here are some of the things I want to do in my life. It's just on a larger scale than Team CRAP. Before we begin... As I told Andrew last week, when he accused me of lifting my imagined future directly from the scenes of Bridget Jones's Diary, women today are fortunate that in this day and age we have narratives available for us to subscribe to that happen to deviate from the traditional "marriage and kids" narrative, and even from the "superwoman" narrative. We also have the following narrative. I have of late (say, since October 2001 or so) become quite stuck on the idea of me being 40 and you-know-what (and if you don't, you're not supposed to, so... ;)) and no one knowing, and it all being quite amusing... I'll also wear a lot of black, drink vodka straight from the bottle whilst wailing along to Jamie O'Neil, and take up chain smoking. I'll live in a nice inner city apartment (I've been looking for one everyday on my way to work |
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| ;)) and Ariadne will live across the street. She will come over often to swill vodka with me. I will also be quite rich, quite famous, and a certified member of the cultural establishment. This will be my life. Yay! I wanna leave in 2003... - Nina Gordon supported by my 'good feminist boy' husband, who will be glad to see me make such an important contribution to the world of postfeminism. :p The Company Some people may have heard about 'The Company' before - probably because I offered them a job working for it, on the proviser that I could retract that invitation at any time I so chose. ;) 'The Company' is all part of the whole 'Andrew and Rachel as Coleridge and Wordsworth' thingy, and probably won't actually be set up for another fifteen years or so. Not until people actually want to give me money. 'The Company' will be involved in music production, magazine/book publishing, film, and theatre, and will be an extremely excellent contributer to the arts - like Working Dog, but better! We will also be, as Chantelle suggested, 'good capitalists', although Andrew does not like this idea. The Initiative Many people know how troubled I am about the homeless people on Market Street. I realise this sounds like a joke, but I really am, I talk about it all the time. Liv can vouch for it - she often asks me if I gave any money to the homeless people today. Anyhow, while homelessness is a problem resulting from widespread poverty (so relatives, friends, etc... can't take them in) and stupid economic restructuring (we learnt this in year 12 geography!), Liv and I decided I should start an initiative to help them. It actually has an extremely funny name (we laughed about it for 10 minutes ;)) but unfortunately it might reveal the name of my crush, so it must not be said here. Rest assured, however, that it is a very funny name and you too would probably laugh about it for 10 minutes. I just wanted to say that Andrew sucks. I promised him I would put that here. Very Hmmm... well, I hardly want to be Britney Spears, but it would be nice to be a biggish Australian band. To aim for anything more would be a little overly ambitious, me thinks... although I do have a thing for mass adoration. ;) I would also like to add that I keep being told that guys like female musicians - but I can assure you that this is not true. Am I not still single? HotBoys Ahhhh... my boyband. I figure that by the time I hit thirty I will have enough experience in the music industry to create my own boyband. "Are you between the ages of 16 and 22, extremely goodlooking, malleable, and willing to sleep with people to further your career?" I can see it taking off, can't you? ;) Disillusioned with the ugliness of the average boyband, I have a plan to go around to all the top modelling agencies, find the best looking guys I see, train them to dance and lipsynch, and... voila! The most popular band in the history of the world. Westlife, eat the HotBoys' dust. places to settle down, nothing beats Bronte Beach. My dream is my Bronte Beach house, and nice brunches every weekend. Unfortunately, said Bronte beach houses are tres expensive, so I may have to give up my morals as media professor/journalist and become an evil PR lady or a television presenter, although that would require weight loss, so... Alternatively, I could just marry an evil PR dude, but that might get in the way of... Soulmate Hmm... well, where is he? Cute, smart, artistic and extroverted boys can apply for position using this link. If your name is Wonderboy #3 or BoxyBoy, you are particularly welcome. :) I think that's just about all for now. ;) back |
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| Well, really 2004... or even 2010 knowing my financial situation. I want to go to London for two years or god knows how long and get a phD at the University of London in Media and/or Cultural Studies, because that's where all the coolest media professors in the world reside (other than Catharine, of course ;)). I will write my thesis and book "Britney Spears: Avatar of Everything" and torture students both in the US and Australia by forcing them to read it or else risk failing my rigorous (albeit exam-free) course. While studying, of course, I will be |
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| Grease I want to play Sandy in Grease. Preferably when I'm 21 in the 25th anniversary show (shit, only a year and a half to go!), but an amateur production would be just fine, thanks. Book Despite what Victoria Annandale of Mr Perfect, Mr Popular, Mt Celebrity and Other Tragic Love Stories tells her readers, I, her author, do want to be the Bridget Jones of my generation, or so to speak. Nice house London, New York, Paris... even Hyde Park... are all good in theory, and I'd certainly like to live in all of them at some stage (well, not in Hyde Park - but in an apartment near it), when it comes to nice |