if you had $100,000, what would you do with it?

no, i'm serious. what would you do? flights of fancy are of course utterly welcomed, but what i'm really curious about is what comes to mind after you've gone through ideas of world travel and/or living without working for five years or so. do you invest? in stocks or real estate or something else? do you go to school? if so, do you go for something you love, or something you consider another type of investment? do you open a business? what kind? how do you deal with all the business stuff you know nothing about, like benefits and bitchy employees?

what would you do with a hundred grand?

inquiring mollys want to know.

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on a totally different note, i chipped a crown twice in the last two days. the small miracle involved in this is that it's the crown, not a tooth - and the dentist already suggested that i might need to have the crown "dismantled" and the root canal redone, as something looks like it might not have healed perfectly.

shudder.

but at least it's the crown. all my mouth trauma can be located in one small square.

i mean, besides the whole my teeth are getting crookeder oh lord i'm going to be thirty and have to get braces worry.

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modest mouse = love, even though all the stagediving children during "the good times are killing me" carried an overwhelming stench of oblivious irony. sam jayne = damn you for being a sneakily added second opening band who i just saw open for iron & wine last month. cass mccombs = oh em gee i liked suede but you are taking all the fun and glam out of it and also you need to put down the cure albums and write your own songs please tell me the set is over now.

i can't remember the last time i clapped in glee at the end of a band's set.

also, hem. my two favorite songs last. i wanted to go home and pretend for an hour that i know how to play the piano, but i can only do that when no one else is home. i got two hours to myself last night, but i was reading a.j. jacobs' the know-it-all and too engrossed in his perusal of the encyclopaedia to remember the longing of the night before.

a night with first a good book and then a grand boy to keep me company in front of the fire is really truly one of the best nights to have. and exactly what i need when i've recently been feeling wobbly: just that one face wearing just that particular smile.

it makes me feel like i can weather anything.