Thirteen Things I’d Get if I Had A Million Dollars
Just because I’m in a bit of a strange mood today and wish I could pay off my student loans a lot faster than I actually can, I thought I’d do something a little different with today’s Thursday Thirteen.
1. One of those pens they use in space.
2. More pens. A lot of fun, cool, weird pens. A lot of them.
3. Post it notes. I love post it notes and so should you.
4. Gel pens. Yes, no matter what you think of me, I’ll admit that I would buy gel pens. A few dozen of them. In different colours. Yeah.
5. A new laptop. Of course. Top of the line and all that stuff, even though someone would have to tell me what is the best computer out there these days.
6. Maroon 5 CDs. I’m not sure how many are out there these days, but I write to Maroon 5 music a lot. It’s not my muse, but it’s close.
7. Thirsty Merc CDs. For the same reason as above.
8. A ticket to New Zealand and a visa to stay there for three months. New Zealand is such a beautiful, inspiring place. I wish I could have had more time to spend there.
9. Notebooks. I like notebooks.
10. Books on writing. If you really need to know which ones, go hunt down my Amazon.com (evil bastards) wish list.
11. A paino. Weirdly enough, I play the piano a bit and have always found it inspirational.
12. A room, apartment, loft, whatever, somewhere. With no internet connection.
13. Did I mention pens? And stickers? And highlighters?
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May 1st, 2008 at 1:57 am
LOL! If I had even a few thousand bucks to play with, at least half of it would go on pens.
As far as the laptop, though, I’ve been discovering that you really don’t need top of the line to write. Most of what I need to write I can fit on a 1 GB flash drive, so I’d go for one of those neat little Asus machines you can take anywhere, that use flash memory instead of a hard drive, so you’re less likely to lose data.
A nice little retreat, without any connection to the outside world, that would be nice, too. Maybe a tiny cabin, on a wooded island. Hey, if I’m going to splurge, might as well go the whole way and buy a lake, right?
It seems writers think very much alike in most ways. Although I’ve never heard of the music you mention. I like to listen to music in a language I don’t know, so the words won’t influence my own word choices. Odd, I know, but it seems to work for me.
May 1st, 2008 at 6:05 am
Haha. I think you and I have a lot in common. Though I hadn’t thought of listening to music in other languages so as not to influence myself with the words. Thank you for the idea.
And yes, you might as well go ahead and buy a lake.