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Good ideas I've had that have changed the course of my life:
Accepting Luini's offer to intern at this online music magazine
called "Addicted to Noise".
Deciding to go to UC Santa Cruz over Cornell and UNC Chapel Hill.
Admitting to myself that as much as I love sharks I'd never make a
good marine biologist, and switching my major from science to
literature.
Taking Latin as my foreign language in high school.
Picking up a copy of A.S. Byatt's Possession because it had
a pre-Raphaelite painting on the cover.
Visiting the Tate Gallery in St. Ives.
Applying to the Education Abroad Program to study in England for a
year.
Returning to the church after some time away, with the stipulation
that it be a liberal, socially conscious church.
Getting the hell out of Santa Cruz as quickly after graduation as
possible.
Asking Laura and Mikko if I could move into the one-bedroom
apartment in their house.
Driving up to Petaluma to go look at kittens.
Wandering over to the computer lab across from my apartment at
Kresge.
It could be argued that these are less ideas than they are choices or
decision points, but I think it's all tied up together. I started to
make a list of bad ideas I've had, but mercifully it wasn't quite as
long. No, I'm not going to share that one.
And now, an Ides of March limerick, just for you! This is how I put
my degree to good use.
A tyrant named Julius Caesar
Lost his gift at being a crowd-pleaser.
One fateful March day
Brutus staged some foul play,
Saving Caesar from becoming an old geezer.
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Heidi J. De Vries
