So I told you ten secrets, nine loves and eight fears already. What I am about to tell you know is seven wants. So again, this post is quite difficult since I have a lot of wants, very little needs and even fewer dreams. I like to keep things at a minimum so that I don’t get inundated with so much that I get overwhelmed. So I will tell you a mix of things that I want right now and some of the things that I want from my big list in life. Ready? Set? Go!
1. Graduate. The picture above is of the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg, FL where my school, USF-St. Petersburg, holds their commencement ceremonies in the Spring and Fall (for Summer session all the colleges have to go to the main USF campus in Temple Terrace and graduate in the very old and yucky looking USF Sundome). Hopefully, I will be in the commencement ceremony this spring and walk down to get my degree and shake Dr. Sullivan’s hand, the Chancellor, and smile really big for whatever photographer that is taking pictures and then get a picture taken with my parents who will be ever so proud of me at the end of it all. Oh, and a picture with Naomi because she is going to walk with me despite that she already walked once. Finally after on and off attendance at both SPC and USF I will have a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science! About damn time. I would be the first person in my family to ever graduate college (not counting my step-brothers who one has a Ph.D. and the other a Master’s), with my brother coming in second sometime in the next few years as well. Its quite exciting and quite frightening, but I just want that damn diploma hanging on my wall already!
2. Welsh Corgi. For a while now my friends who follow me on Twitter and Facebook have known about my fascination with Corgis for quite a long time. I think they are the coolest dogs ever, and if I can’t have a Corgi then I would rescue one from the ASPCA or another local pet adoption agency in whatever area that I am living in at the time, and more than likely it would be a mutt or a rescue Rottweiler, Boxer or Pittbull (they really get bad rep, I know plenty of “fighting” breed dogs that are the sweetest things on Earth). Corgis have the right balance of cute and dumbness that people love in dogs, plus they look great in costumes. Yes, I would be one of those really sad people that dresses their dog for Halloween. Don’t judge me…too harshly.
3. Awesome home library. I really like books. I’ve mentioned before how I buy books just for the sake of buying books and when I have my own place there will be many books all over the place.
4. Be a family man. Except not a completely Aryan looking family. Yup, I want a wife and the 2.5 kids. Its what I work for and the ultimate reward for me after everything that I do. I can could the most successful man ever, with loads of money and people admiring me, saying how amazing I was with loads of power and people at my beck and call at all times, but if I wasn’t married and/or didn’t have kids it would mean very little to tell you the truth. I want to share my life with a woman who amazes me every single day until I die and who I do the same to her. Kids! I want kids. I know I tell people that I am pretty sure I am going to have a daughter as my first child. Its just a feeling that I have. Two-three kids tops. Happy little family. That’s all that I really want (when I’m ready for it).
5. Have a building names after me. The building that I work at on campus is called the Campus Activities Center, but for short we call it the CAC. I already pretend that the initials stand for Carlos A. Castro, and it just makes me long for the days that I get a building named after me. I always imagine that I somehow end up winning the lottery and with my new found fortune I end up doing a lot of good for a lot of people, and somewhere someone decides that they’re shiny new building needs to be named after me for all the work that I have done for a community.
6. Dark Room. I was telling a friend earlier that I wish I had more time to actually go out and take pictures. With my busy and hectic schedule I rarely have the energy to actually go out most days. When I have my own place I want to have a small corner where I get to play around with photographic chemicals and develop pictures of trips I have taken with the wife and kids, or just friends, or just pictures of every day people that I find interesting. I want to be able to tell people that all the photographs in my home have been taken by me and developed by me. By the way, in case you did not know, the man in the above photograph is my favorite photographer of all time: Ansel Adams.
7. Be a professor. I want to be able to mold minds and guide young men and women to make a better world. I want to bring out the very best in them and inspire them.
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You know what? I’ve been volunteering at my local humane society for a while now and we’ve had several Corgis come in. Not weird Corgi mutts, but actual Corgis. Don’t think that the HS/ASPCA won’t have them, because often enough, they do. Use petfinder.com to scout the shelters in your area and see which one has the breed you want. :D
And while you know I know nothing about photography, I know enough to know that Ansel Adams is AWESOME! I took a class once where some of the focus was on photography (a very small portion of the syllabus but still) and we focused on Ansel Adams.
You should get me a Corgi. Preferably male who does not mind wearing a smoking jacket or a monocle.