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If I won the lottery...

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I'm just gonna bullet point this one
  • pay off my student loans
  • pay off my sister's and my closest friends' loans
  • buy my parents' house and buy a house for them wherever they'd like to retire, and set them upw with enough so they could
  • set Manda up w/ a place to live wherever she ends up with a job
  • set up a scholarship at both Cornell and Dubuque for students who can't afford to go there otherwise
  • set up a endowed librarian position at both places because they really need another person
  • invest some to live off later
  • buy myself a house (with a garage!)
  • entice all my friends to move closer to me anyway necessary
  • travel with said friends
  • knock a few things off the bucket list that were previously cost prohibitive (Olympics, London, Grand Slam event, etc.)
  • build myself a room in my house to put all my books, including the bunch I buy immediately after winning
  • donate the rest to Cornell and UD with no crazy strings attached (there will be no buildings named after me!)

I think that's about it :) Though like some of you have said...that's the perfect world. If teletransportation or TARDIS are available by then, I'll have one of those too!
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  1. njgruberApril 6, 2011 at 6:54 AM

    your list looks pretty similar to mine...not that I wrote a list.

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  2. AndreaApril 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM

    We all seem to want to buy off our student loans. Those blasted things. I didn't even think about having a library room. I should add that on.

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  3. AutumnApril 6, 2011 at 3:35 PM

    Come on, no Becky Canovan Astronomy Building sign for you that's bigger than the building?

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  4. UnknownApril 6, 2011 at 5:04 PM

    Autumn totally beat me to the joke!

    I hope you win the lottery so as I can visit your room of books. You're paying, right?

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  5. Becky JeanApril 6, 2011 at 5:47 PM

    Totally. You know the house would totally become a Becky "Bed and Breakfast." I love my job too much to quit it, but hosting all of you I can't convince to move near me would be the best side-job ever.

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  6. AnonymousApril 6, 2011 at 7:22 PM

    Bullet point no. 2 covers me, right?

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  7. Becky JeanApril 6, 2011 at 8:23 PM

    Yes, bullet point no. 2 covers you. In what world do you not count as one of my closest friends? Do you think I start haiku email convos with just anyone? ;)

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