10 years from now...

Ten years from now I'll probably still be in school at the rate I'm going. I'm applying to vet school in the fall and if I get in I will be there for 4-6 years depending on my specialty. If I don't get in, I'll probably go to grad school and apply again the following fall so either way I'm looking at a few more years of college. Somewhere in there I'd like to spend a couple of years volunteering in a third world country whether it's administering vaccines, working with children etc. I'd like to be doing some kind of research with animals, hopefully something that can better the human race and will get my name in some science books...Dr. Lindsey Wingert. I'd like to have done a good bit of travelling by then, for pleasure and for my work. I want to have already gone on a boat tour off the coast of South Africa to watch great white sharks jump out of the water, and I'll probably be planning a return trip. My first book will be in motion by then if not finished. It's either going to be a true story about the women in my family (sort of a Joy Luck Club kind of thing) or an imaginative fantasy world that would rival harry potter or the lord of the rings. By the way, I'll be writing it in my library-which will be the largest room in my house and devoted to all the books I've read and want to read and no matter how busy I am with my work I won't forget to spend a certain amount of time there each week. When I make my millions, I'm going to use the money to bring all of the terribly underfunded animal shelters around here up to par. The one in my hometown is pitiful and I'm not too sure it's better for the animals to be there than living on the streets so I'll start with that one. I suppose that's all I can squeeze in to ten years...wish me luck.