Tag, You're It

I’ve been tagged.

Susan Carter Liebel tagged Carolyn Elefant of My Shingle, who tricked me into revealing my goals. This business all started with Alex Shalman, a 22-year old who wants to own fifteen dental offices.

The sad thing was that I realized that most of my goals merely involve getting to 3 p.m. And then I had to differentiate between goals and a wish list. Is there really a difference? Should there be?

All right, I’ll drink the Kool-Aid:

1. I want to be on the cover of Vanity Fair, and not for being a serial killer or something notorious. I should be more worried about keeping my face off the cover of ¡Alarma!
On the other hand, I’d probably have to take off my clothes to make it to the cover of Vanity Fair, and that might really tank sales. Or at the very least demand a plain brown wrapper. Upon second thought, let’s scratch the idea.

2. Oh yes, there’s the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Times bestseller list, but frankly I’d just as soon publish something that everyone buys when they’re waiting around in a bus station. Well, make that an airport. People in airports tend to have more money. And they’ll read just about anything. Moreover, the odds are better than they can read. If I used my time wisely, then maybe I’d have time to write something worthwhile.

3. Clean up my office. If it hadn’t been built in the mid-nineties, Jimmy Hoffa could be buried underneath everything. Unpacking after ten years’ residency in the same place would probably be a good idea.

4. Spend more time in South America. A week or so in Bariloche and a week in Ushuaia. And then hit every country between Panama and the South Pole. Well, except for the Guyanas. That’s probably a realistic goal.

5. Possess more eskandar and expand my shoe collection. I’d like to have more Chanel on my face than having to settle for Lancome, which I can only buy when there’s a free gift with purchase. Seriously, that’s pretty lame, given that I’m wearing free rubber zori from LexisNexus while I’m writing this.

6. Manage my time better. It’s more important than ever when you’re facing age. The supply is dwindling, and it’s a resource that should be conserved and protected.

7. Resist falling under the spell of others who urge disposal of perfectly good stuff like plastic hotel keycards, old clothes which haven’t been worn for years, and magazines which bear reading again in another ten or twenty years.

8. Speak better Spanish.

9. Make some decent money for a change.

10. Forbear answering surveys like this one.

And now for the fun part, tagging others. The It Folks are Duke Drouillard, Jim Calloway, Nerino Petro, Rick Georges, Erik J. Heels, and Ernie the Attorney.

 

Comments

[Sheryl Sisk]

There you go! See? Didn't hurt a bit, did it? (Well, if you're like me, contemplating cleaning up your office ALWAYS hurts...)