This thread can be updated at any time. It doesn't just mean what you want or need at just one time. I'm sure things will constantly come up, so feel free to post often. Aside from the "unrealistic" concepts of world peace, no hunger, and no poverty, my greedy desire is to be able to get to New Zealand in August without going into humongous debt. My family is going, one way or the other, but I think I need some Lotto winners ASAP. What about all of you?

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Well, at the moment mine is to get my AS by next December. I hope that one actually happens.

Right now, I am concentrating on getting into a certain high school. That is a desire.

My true heart's desire is to be able to go on a cruise around Europe for the summer. Or to go to Greece, Bali, Australia or Japan. Those obviously are very unrealistic but that doesnt mean I cant desire them.

Lately, I've had the urge to build an extensive collection of video games.

Right now I am desiring that it is two weeks from now. It is the weekend and I am on my way to mexico to an all inclusive resort for the holidays. The going to mexico part is realistic because I really am but I am unsuccesful in finding a time machine. argh.

I just want finals to be over. I am exhausted. Staying up until the wee hours of the night and waking up early is going to kill me.

Well, I am being laid off on my birthday-Feb.1st, and I would really like to find a decent job that is close enough to my home to continue cycling to work every day, that pays me a decent wage and isn't going to downsize or claim bankruptcy like my last few jobs. Other than that, I am going to take my severance money and spend some time in Mexico, and visit Chichen Itza for the first vacation of my working life! A week on a beach sounds about perfect to me right now.

I'm sorry about you situation S, have a nice vacation, and after that good luck on your job hunting.

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I just want finals to be over. I am exhausted. Staying up until the wee hours of the night and waking up early is going to kill me.

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I really really want my finals to be over too. I know im only in high school but whatever. Next week I have 3 or 4 unit tests and then the week after I have 3 long days filled with 5 big, ugly final exams. I just need to make it through and then im goin to Mexico!

Oooh, you want to trade??? I'll tell you what I have been up to this week. I had a debate in my public speaking course as well as a take home final exam. My algebra class has already had one test this week, one assignment, and next week I have a final in it at 8(eight) o' clock in the morning. My english course we have 2 (two) one thousand word papers due. My business course I had to make a presentation, had a test earlier in the week, and a final next week. I would gladly trade with you. At least you get to go to Mexico, there is no "Light at the end of the tunnel" for me, save being out of school for three weeks. Don't ever go to college, "Its the devil!"

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All right, all right. Many of us have been there, and many others will be there soon enough. Just do the best you can and move on. Smenkharon, that's pretty amazing! You were born on my birthday, but mine was 1956. Yours is what, 1976?

I'm sorry Mark, I just love using every opportunity I get to complain about school. That is funny how you have the same birth date. Even though having the same birthdate with someone else is not really that much of a coincidence, it is still interesting finding out. I personally have never met another with my birthday.

I cant complain about my schoolwork. Its terribly easy. At least for me. Though its boring, I only spend around 20 minutes on my hw at night. The principal says we should be spending 2 hours, yeah right. Some kids are so intellectually challenged, they slow me down. But I cant complain, at least I never have to study or work hard at anything relavent to school.

Mark-1977. You are only the second person I have come across who shares my birthdate. As far as famous people go we share the date with Rick James, Brandon Lee, Dwayne Goettel(my fellow Vancouverite), Boris Yeltsin, Clark Gable, Terry Jones, John Ford, Alphonse de Rothschild, Dr.Hook, Big Boi, Lisa Marie Presley, Don Everly and sadly, Pauly Shore! There are also tons of pro athletes who are born on that date. I once met this old guy who was an NHL goalie before the face mask era and during the transition, who was very into astrology. He had developed a bizarre astrological chart which compared against famous athletes. He felt that Aquarians made many of the most elite athletes and creative leaders. I think Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan are all Aquarians as well. He was quite the character, a dead ringer for Santa Claus who played him every year with no need for any fake hair or makeup! Anyways, don't know why I suddenly remembered that experience and went off on the astrology tip. Whatever.

Nearly five years ago I ran my one and only half-marathon. I was undertrained and race conditions were unseasonably hot. Both contributed to what was one of the worst and most demoralizing experiences of my life.

For the next three years, my running lacked consistency and focus, but over the past year-and-a-half, I've been coming back and with the exception of a non-running related hernia earlier this year, I've been injury free and running the best I have in my life.

So...

I'm prepared to say that my heart's desire is to tackle the half-marathon again. I have my eye on a race in Austin, Texas in February. My mileage is getting to where it needs to be, which means I should run the race faster than I have before (that won't be hard), but I have to confess I would really like to get under two hours on the race. That's going to be a challenge for me.

I guess it wouldn't be a heart's desire if it were easy, right?

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I cant complain about my schoolwork. Its terribly easy. At least for me. Though its boring, I only spend around 20 minutes on my hw at night. The principal says we should be spending 2 hours, yeah right. Some kids are so intellectually challenged, they slow me down. But I cant complain, at least I never have to study or work hard at anything relavent to school.

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It's been a long time, and I imagine the standards have changed, but I don't recall ever having more than a half-hour's worth of homework a night in high school. And I went to a pretty good public school system in the suburbs of the Twin Cities.

I really didn't have much "homework" in college, in terms of work that needed to be turned in for a grade, but I did have a lot more reading each class.

Grad school was a WHOLE different story. The reading load was unreal, at first. Four classes in the first year, averaging about 800 pages of reading per week. Reading all of that, closely, and taking good reading notes was draining. I'm glad my coursework is over. I still read a few hundred pages or more each week, but the deadlines on looser on a dissertation than a course.

right at this moment, I desire an A this semester.

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I cant complain about my schoolwork. Its terribly easy. At least for me. Though its boring, I only spend around 20 minutes on my hw at night. The principal says we should be spending 2 hours, yeah right. Some kids are so intellectually challenged, they slow me down. But I cant complain, at least I never have to study or work hard at anything relavent to school.

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It's been a long time, and I imagine the standards have changed, but I don't recall ever having more than a half-hour's worth of homework a night in high school. And I went to a pretty good public school system in the suburbs of the Twin Cities.

I really didn't have much "homework" in college, in terms of work that needed to be turned in for a grade, but I did have a lot more reading each class.

Grad school was a WHOLE different story. The reading load was unreal, at first. Four classes in the first year, averaging about 800 pages of reading per week. Reading all of that, closely, and taking good reading notes was draining. I'm glad my coursework is over. I still read a few hundred pages or more each week, but the deadlines on looser on a dissertation than a course.

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I guess I have something to look forward to

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I really didn't have much "homework" in college, in terms of work that needed to be turned in for a grade, but I did have a lot more reading each class.

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I don't mean to imply that you are old PE, however, much has changed recently in college. Especially the need to associate how many words written during a semester and standardized tests to determine if one has recieve a full college education. Therefore, I have great difficulty.

Or maybe it is just that you are much more intelligent than I. Which I think is most certainly a possibility.

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My latest heart's desire is a Rose Bowl birth for Cal. Yes, I'm an SC fan, and I'm taking it for granted that we're going to the Orange Bowl, but if Cal gets screwed out of the Rose, and I'm going to be angry. That's a damned good club.