Hopes and dreams:
inspired by Sarah, here are the things I dream about:
- I want a successful, fulfilling career in policy, doing something that actually helps better women’s lives.
- I don’t want to live in the suburbs. It may be DC or New York, or a smaller city eventually, but I’d like to live in a nice neighborhood in a city.
- I’d like a nice apartment in this city, decorated just the way I like — with a tin ceiling in the kitchen and velvet curtains in at least one room.
- I want to be able to balance a career and children, eventually
- and I want to have these children (2-4) with a man I really love. I want us to have an extraordinary love filled with large and small delights. I want us to make each other happy and to keep each other excited to live each day.
- I want to have the means and chances to travel sometimes, and I want to go places that teach me new things about the world.
- I want at least one dog and one cat
- I want a library (and to find time to read all the time) and someplace to sit outside and feel the sun on my face
- I want to live close enough to my family to see them with some regularity, and I want my best friend to live as close as possible.
- and i know this is such a luxury, but I want a beach house, right on an ocean beach, to get away to — every weekend in the summer.
- finally, I want to learn how to better balance being brilliant and kickass when appropriate with being able to relax and appreciate and soak it all in sometimes
