Since all my friends are doing it ...

[hrj]

Name 3 Things You Would Do If You Won the Lottery (a big one)

...no more, no less. They don't have to be the *only* things in your mind, just the first things you'd do, or the major ones, or the weirdest ones.

My first thought is "how big is 'big'?" If the answer is "arbitrarily large; sufficient for whatever list you come up with" then my three are:

1. Pay off my mortgage (yeah, I know, everyone's doing this boring one).
2. Invest a chunk suitable to provide me with a comfortable lifetime income.
3. Endow a chair of Welsh Studies at U.C. Berkeley.

After that, I would settle in to spending my days researching, writing, and publishing.

Comments

[patsmor.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'd do 2 & 3, and check with my tax advisor as to whether having a mortgage was a good move for my taxes. Then there's that plot of land in Mendocino that I have every intent of owning some day in the not too distant...

[hrj.livejournal.com]

For me, #2 includes a reliable investment advisor who takes care of all that for me. But the "pay off the mortgage" thing is my old-fashioned middle-class upbringing coming out.

[patsmor.livejournal.com]

I sure understand that! I just have been learning that you have to make sure that the tax issue is critical ;-)

But yours are great dreams. I like them!

[mamaalanna.livejournal.com]

Get an unlisted telephone number!

I support legitimate charities -- but the last thing I want is unknown freeloaders calling me and saying "Hey, you got $60 million, can you lend me (read "give me") $1000 to get my car fixed?"