I want nine lives. Nine other lives.
I want more lives. With them, I would:
1. Be an Alaskan crab fisherman and smoke and swear all day and talk about getting back to my family and how dangerous my job it. But I won’t care because after 6 weeks of work, I’ll take home 15 grand and that will be enough to make me happy.
2. Be a chef. These people get to scream and yell at work and are still considered professionals. What’s not to like? Plus, I like to eat.
3. Be an undercover agent. CIA, NSA, FBI…whatever. With lots of gadgets.
4. Live on an island. Not entirely Survivor style, but someplace with a lot of abandoned beaches.
5. Be a murder detective. But without all the psychological crap that messes up your head. Oh, and without all the Constitutional restrictions, too.
6. Be a professor. I’m not sure what I’d teach. Maybe Philosophy of Law.
7. Be a cruise ship captain.
8. Be a marine biologist and study great white sharks and explore the ocean.
9. Manage a rock star.
C’mon. I’m not the only one, right? What other lives do you want?
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Just a random attorney writing about daily life with Little Filthy, my rotten dog.
April 13th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Writer in Paris, ballet dancer, principal clarinetist, opera star, stay at home novelist, filthy rich philanthropist giving my money away through a foundation…hmmmm. But this life is pretty good, if I do say so myself
April 14th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Archeologist… a hot chick version of Indiana Jones please, sans the whip.
CSI, forensic science geek – labcoat, cool toys – and an affinity for bodily fluids, how is that not cool?
Jockey – if I were somehow to shrink by like 10 inches. I’m sure 5′ 10″ is a tad tall for the sport!
Owner of a posh B&B in a quaint little town…perhaps an old victorian home.
European antique store owner, vintage pretties and odds and ends from days gone by all mixed together in a sunlit shop on canal street.
Journalist… foreign affairs. Traveling all over creation to report the good, the bad, and ugly with sensitivity and insight. Pulitzer please.
Photographer – no paparazzi shots. Something moving and beautiful.
Interior Designer – an excuse to shop and spend rich people’s money designing plush, fairytale interiors. Sounds pretty fab to me.
Architect – I would love to design and build something beautiful that would last for generations and make people stop and think, and to feel something – love, awe, hate, respect… something….
Not that the glamorous job of raising four little girls full time isn’t just FAB…lol… but if given a few extra lives I would sure love to do something exciting, or meaningful…or just plain lavish and glam.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:08 am
A Queen
Maybe a Princess.
Other than that, I’m good.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Tiffany, raising four beautiful little girls IS meaningful
It matters!
April 14th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I’m still trying to work out what’s going to happen in THIS lifetime… hahaha.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
A stay-at-home mom; Bartender on warm, sunny beach; Judge on Iron Chef — better yet, I would like to be the host of Bizarre Foods; Owner/Operator of a pet sanctuary; Cowgirl, Swimming Coach, Karate Instructor . . . to name a few.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I thought we were already doing number #9.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I like #1Brenda’s first two answers – and I’ll add;
3. Writer, equipment/gear tester, and location scout for “Backpacker” magazine
April 14th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Brenda – Great answers – they say a lot about you, no?
Tiffany – I think your first answer is Lara Croft. And I agree with Brenda – raising kids is damn exciting in its own right.
QTMama – oh OF COURSE you’d want to be a princess. I don’t know why I didn’t just comment on your behalf with that answer.
SnarkyRunner – How come no one says, “Be a lawyer! Be addicted to e-mail and conference calls.” ??
nld – Could you seriously eat some of that stuff Andrew Zimmern does?
Mamaphunk – I know YOU are. I’m just a fan.
Begijn – good answers! Creative and out of the box. Now I want to test stuff for Wired Magazine.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am
I would try anything once! Especially, if I was paid to travel the world and eat crazy food. My idea of fun.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
I’ll have to think about that one. Too many lives to live, in my opinion! I know for sure I’d like to be a translator for the UN. Definitely a spy – like Mrs. Smith… heh heh. Maybe just one day as a quaker, to see how the other world lives. An illegal immigrant (just for a few days). A rogue cable car driver in San Francisco. Hmmm. I am sure there is more. I’ll keep you posted.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Ms. Cheevious – translator is a good one. Ahhh, Mrs. Smith – the ultimate in sexy spy goodness. I became an Angelina Jolie fan after that movie. And by fan, I mean I began to lust after her.
And illegal immigrant?? Well, you don’t hear *that* often.
April 16th, 2008 at 11:51 am
1- voice of a cartoon
2-deep sea diver
3-stunt pilot
4- Graphic Designer
5-food critic with a lifetime gym membership
April 16th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I guess it depends on which country I was to be the illegal alien of…
Some hot tropical port full of pool boys and sandy beaches might not be too terribly much to suffer through