• write with a Mont Blanc pen
• wear a watch chain and fob
• have a rent-controlled two-bedroom apartment
• become the new Billy Wilder
• do a perfect figure 8 on the ice
• broaden my perspective beyond the shores of the United States
• print my Christmas cards from a woodcut of my own design
• ride a wide-gauge train
• have Michael Crawford sing "The Music of the Night" personally for me
• enroll in a great university
• be stopped at a toad crossing on a British road
• awake to steaming café au lait and flaky croissants in a Paris hotel
• play a command performance
• sail into the harbor of Rio de Janeiro