In Five Years' Time

I've been thinking recently about where I'm headed in the longer term. It's taken me a little while to make the mental switch from viewing life in terms of the academic year to building towards a general sense of my future, investing in things that may be years down the line.

Here's some of the more visible froth at the surface of my still bubbling cauldron of hopes and plans for where and who I'd like to be.

Specific things that I'd like to do in the not-too-distant-future:

Learn to drive

Visit another continent

Make a wedding cake, or another equally fun celebration cake

Host Christmas dinner

To have paid off at least 1/3 of my student debt (more would always be nice but there's a possibility that I might retrain and add to it over the next few years, and who knows what financial hurdles may be ahead)

I dare you not to whistle for the rest of the afternoon