The Half A Five Year Plan.

I've always thought people who made 5 year plans were those overly ambitious corporate high acheiving types, or Stalin. Same thing really. But here I am, thinking of making my own five year plan. I can't call my self overly ambitious. Oh, I do have ambitions. I'd like a life where I make my living from doing interesting, creative and generally fantastic things. And I'd like to live in a nice place in a nice house, with nice things and I'd like to be surrounded by genuinely cool people that I know and love all of the time. I like to think that I am too ecclectic, too easily distracted and too easily bored to live the corporate life where 5 year plans are generally a given, but I think I'm more lazy than any of those other things. Yet, I digress.
I am about to articulate my first 5 year plan, in a live (semi-live) internet broadcast.... get ready, it's gonna be boring.
July, 2008 - February 2010. Thesis. Retire from academic pursuit. Fuck me. 2010, that sound just far enough away to be forever, but really only 18 months. Breathe. Relax.
February 2010 - January 2011. Occupy my final Pilbara year with developing skills for my ambitions for a creative, fantastic life. Current ideas for that - writing of various types. Independent film if I can somehow access the equpiment here, othewise I'll spend the year drawing really bad story boards. I might get a book, make it official.
And there...... there I am stuck. What is going to happen after that year is a curiously wobbly question. And one that I don't really fancy going into with the world who never reads this anyway..... So, the conclusion is that I am not currently in a position to have a 5 year plan. Can I have a series of 5 year plans and choose appropriately as time progresses? Ah well, Actually, the fact that I can't really devise anything now does fill me with a little bit of excitement. It means i'll still have moments of possibility and chance to look forward to. Why then is that so terrifying?