Dreaming of...a holiday
I haven't been on a really good holiday in about three or four years now. The best holiday I ever took was to Portugal with my four best friends from high school. I really want to take a long holiday one of these days with one or more friends. Family holidays aren't a proper break any more for me - they involve more stress than being at home, and it's just not that fun. I want to go to America and do a trekking holiday where you travel with a group of people of a similar age on a tour you can choose. You can tour one small area, or you can tour the entire country. I'd love to do one that starts in the North-East, travels down the coast then goes across the South and then up the West coast. I reckon that would just be the most amazing holiday ever.

Dreaming of...a house
I want to live in America. I mean *really*. It's a massive part of my dreams. I want to live in one of the Southern states where it's sunny and warm, and where it's near beaches and the sea. I used to think I wanted to live on the West coast for the same reasons, but it just seems too...well, busy, and also the further north you go for quietness and trees, the less sunny it is. I love sunshine, so this is important. My dream house is on a plot of land of a few acres with lots of trees and grass, lots of green stuff. The house itself is two storey, but most importantly has a basement. There's so much I could do with a basement. I'd love to make a basement into a total geek centre, computers and technology all over the place, VCRs, DVD players, televisions and cameras. Basements obviously have very little light, so I'd have a small lighting rig with some theatrical lights to make the whole place bright or whatever I want. The rest of the house would be airy and bright, lots of windows and with black and white photography on the walls.

Dreaming of...a career
I would love to be a writer, an author. Like John Grisham, or James Patterson. I'd write crime/thriller novels, but each one with a different, unexpected twist at the end. Huge twists that you don't see coming. And I'd really like it if they were made into movies where I get to co-write the script and oversee production. Hey, it's a dream afterall. But if you're an author you don't have to go into an office or really do anything besides sit at home and write. Which suits me because I don't want to be restrained by the hours 9am and 5pm, or by having to wear work clothes. But I wouldn't just want to be a loner, sitting in my house by myself writing all sorts of paranoid fiction. So I'd like to operate lighting by night, working in a city theatre. Not neccessarily designing the lighting, just making it happen every night. Getting the adrenaline kick. Meeting people. I think that would be the way to spend a good part of my life.

"If you can dream - and not make dreams your master..." ~ Rudyard Kipling, If