Other stuff that’s important but a little further away:

1. Pay off the student loans. I would really like to get this done as soon as possible. It would totally rock to be completely out of debt, even if just for a little while.

I’m still scheming on how quick I can actually get this done, but my ideal is to have it done by the time I finish the training program I’m currently in. So by July 2008. If I want to do that, I will have to put a lot of money into it starting next month, and I’m not sure I’m going to be able to do that yet.

2. I’ve been tossing around the thought lately of buying a house after I get my loans paid off. There’s so many “if”s in front of that one that it’s almost ridiculous to think about — like maybe I won’t want to still be living here then, or maybe I’ll be in a relationship which could impact living arrangements, or maybe I’ll decide to go back to school, or maybe I’ll want to move closer to work, or to get a job closer to where I live. So many “if”s. But it’s something I’ve been pondering.

Right now I really like this neighborhood, and I think it would be possible for me to eventually buy a house around here. (Heck, I’m paying enough in rent, I might as well be getting something out of it.)

Or maybe it’s just that, with my little sister getting married, I feel compelled to do something equally adult and stable. If only to prove to myself that I can.

3. I would really really like to do the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University in the UK. (This would be a “while working fulltime” type thing, I think.)

4. Eventually I would really really really like to do the PhD in Digital Media at Georgia Tech. Not because I particularly want to move to Atlanta, but because it sounds like such a friggin’ awesome program otherwise. (This would be a “quit my job and go back to school” type thing.)

So there. I think that’s everything I’ve been thinking about lately. Who knows if any of it will ever come true? But I’m pretty confident in my ability to pursue things that I decide I want, so I guess we’ll just have to see what I decide I want…