Coherent Predictathon!

So I was thinking about Nikki's comment on the last post. Figured I'd try to guess what the next ten years held for me and my friends. Here's what I've got:

If I survive this year, I'll be an engineer in ten. I'll likely be stuck here in this city I've grown so used to. I mean, I love travel, but I don't see myself living anywhere else. I'll be making most of what my parents make now combined, and without two kids to support I can buy a decent home and live there with myself or friends or something. I don't want to think about not surviving this year. I can say one thing, though: I'll be happy wherever I end up. If I'm an engineer in a house with my friends or a college dropout with a small flat and a crappy job, I'll be happy. If I can do anything it's make the best of whatever I've gotten myself into.

Brandon will most likely be on the east cost or in Europe, having long since abandoned this hell hole of a metropolitan area for kinder pastures. I'm guessing five years before we lose contact with him completely. If he's nailed one pillar of Buddhism, it's the ability to ditch attachment and leave things behind.

Meagan... She's got two ways to go, I think. If she lives to 28, she's likely gonna be a local artist, chilling around Cincy like me and living where she can. Kinda bleak, but that's the bohemian life of an artist-spaz. [shrug] If her half-joke goal works out, we've got her for another seven. I really hate to make a "successful or dead" prediction, but I really think that's the situation we're looking at. :-\

Nikki's own plan is the standard get married, have kids, settle down thing. By her own admission she's not putting any effort into that, but it could happen. I don't see her leaving the area, either.

Alicia has the same plan. She's rather more likely to have done it by 2018. She'll be in bufu Ohio, living the faltering American dream of decades past.

For some reason I see Kaitlin as a French teacher somewhere. Dunno why. The setting is irrelevant. All I can predict is that it's suburban.

Julie's headed to California. Dunno how she'll fare there, but that's where she ends up. Girl's gonna run west and never look back.

Jimmy seems to have settled already.

Joseph's either a touring jazz performer or a band director someplace. If he hits it big in jazz, though, he's gonna end up with the sort of wealthy traveling lifestyle his father's got now.

No idea where the fuck Joey's going. Really. Not a clue.

That, my friends, is my guess at the future. Feel free to leave your own ideas, revise mine, or follow me in taking a stab at what's next for us.