Conference turris::womannotes-v1

    
    	Well, if not sex, then I guess it had to be money!
    
    	Joe Jas
    

    But what would you do with the money?  Would you use it to benefit
    all mankind or would you use it to do all the things you ever dreamed
    of doing?
    
    Sue
    

    
    
    
    		Both!

    Money fantasy:  What if I won lots of money in a lottery or something?
    
    Pay off my parent's mortgage or finance improvements or whatever.  Buy
    myself a nice little house - and furnish it.  Buy another house in my
    college town and rent it out.  Hire a maid to do all the ordinary
    things I should be able to do, but don't really want to.
    
    One of the things about having money is that I could work at what
    I wanted, without having to worry about what it paid.  Unfortunately,
    I like my current job and it doesn't adapt well to part-time.
    
    Job fantasy:  Write a book and then produce the movie based on the
    (obviously) best-seller.  How's that for creative narcissism?

    Can I get a bit wilder? (This has NOTHING to do with money!)
    
    I've always fantasized about being able to fly. You know, like
    Superman, but without the cape. And saving people and stuff. Not
    to mention flying away from Mom when I was supposed to be punished...
    
    The money fantasies I have always seemed altruistic, before I moved
    to Massachussetts. Now, I doubt winning the lottery would be enough
    to sustain normal living, much less paying off my parents' mortgage,
    or that summer cottage in the Bahamas... and the Italian sports
    car.                           :-)
    
    LKF

    1.  I would like to own my own antique jewelry store in Provincetown,
    MA.
    
    2.  I'd also like to have a house on the ocean in either Provincetown
    or Wellfleet.
    
    3.  I'd like to go antique shopping in London.
    
    4.  I'd like to take a trip around the world.
    
    5.  I'd like to establish a home (a large estate somewhere in the
    country) for homeless cats, where several hundred cats could live
    out happy lives who would otherwise have been strays or put to sleep.

    6.  I'd like to meet my 3 favorite (for different reasons) famous
    people:  Woody Allen, Alice Walker and Bruce Springsteen.
    
    Lorna
    

    I'd like a house somewhere in the 'burbs with the following:
    	2 fireplaces (one in the living room, one in the bedroom)
    	a sun deck
    	a Steinway grand piano
    	a jacuzzi
    	a room with lots of windows, seascape paintings on the wall,
    		and an INCREDIBLE stereo
    	a room to tinker with electronics, and enough parts to do it.
    	a MAC II, with all the fixin's
	a fitness ctr (Universal-type machine, rower, lifecycle...)
	a Scirocco in the driveway
        a pinball machine of my choice in the gameroom
        
    And of course, I don't want to have to worry about the mortgage
    payments too much.  
    
    I'd like a vacation house on the coast of Maine, somewhere not too
    near civilization.
    
    Attractive, antique jewelry - classic cuts on classic stones set
    in classic metals. (maybe I'll buy from you, eh?)
    
    To be able to draw/paint whatever I want (the talent is what I need,
    not the time or money).
    
    To get published (poetry and/or prose) - and widely READ.

    -Jody    

    

    I'd buy a nice house (but not a mansion) somewhere in the middle of the
    mountains, on a totally wooded lot with rhodendron and dogwoods growing
    wild all over.  A place where my senses would be totally stimulated
    just by looking out the window.  I lived in such a place once, and
    every trip to the window or out the door was worth a ton of
    tranquilizers.  I miss it. 
    
    Then I'd spend my days cooking wonderful food (after all, what else
    IS there in life?), entertaining friends, reading, and making green
    things grow (THAT'S what else there is in life!).
    
    As far as bettering mankind, I'd fund research to come up with a remedy
    for calories:  perhaps a way to inhibit digestion, so people like me
    who absolutely live for food could eat what we want without being as
    big as the side of a barn.  Having to watch what I eat is by far the
    most frustrating thing about my life, and lifting that restriction
    would be worth any amount of money to me. 
    
    Yes, I'm serious. 
    
    							Pat

    1.  Build a replica of a Viking Dragon Ship in California and sail
        south around the America's and Prove that Could have been done
        By Erik Thorvaldson in his Heyday!
    
    2.  Build something wild like a Gravity/Magnet propulsion system
        for space travel.  (Gravity repulsion to get off planet and
        convert to Magnetic attraction/repulsion while in space)
        Or maybe travel backwards in time to the Days of the dinasaurs?
        (spelling) and Invent a Device where you could rearrange the
        atoms and molecules of matter such as stone or sand to create
        a natural house.  
    
    Others, none so exciting!
    
    Dave

    My favorite one is to be part of an interstellar voyage that
    is going to colonize a new world.
    
    BJ

    Another of my fantasies revolves around careers.  If I didn't feel
    like doing my present job, I could be a concert pianist one day
    and perhaps a gourmet cook the next and a captain on a large
    sailing vessel the next, etc.  Wouldn't it be fun just to wake up
    and do exactly what you feel like doing that day (career-wise).
    Think of the posssibilities!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Sue
    

    
    I'd like to grow gills and live in the ocean, and I'd like all my
    friends to be able to do that, too, so we could have a smashing
    party in a coral reef.  Imagine dancing amidst the seaweed and the
    fishes, everything lit in the eerie blue light of a reef.  And a
    raw bar close at hand ;-) (or is that fin?)
    
    Technology being what it is, scuba lessons will probably get me
    as close as I'm going to come to this one, but wouldn't it be nice?
    
    Rita
    

    
    
    	I'd buy .7's #1 fantasy!!  (especially if there are
    	lots of rhinestones/diamonds!!)
    
    	I'd love to send my parents to Hawaii. It's Mom's dream.
    
    	I'd love to go shopping in Paris.
    
    	Be stranded on an island in the Caribbean with my SO
    	where I don't have to worry about car payments, insurance
    	payments, rent.........
    
    
    	JJ