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[the_honey_badger]

Its Saturday night, what crazy idea or fantasy are you secretly confinced will happen? 
Big love-of-your-life about to appear?
A call from the "prize patrol" (Publisher's Clearing House, Pulitzer, whatever?)
That next article will write itself while you sleep?

I'll give mine:

I am weirdly convinced I will be *offered* another job. I have no active applications, nevertheless, I'm convinced that something is going to come out of the blue.

[wild_rose]

It's not terribly exciting, but I believe something will turn up (and I'm hoping it's not bankruptcy!) that will allow me to pay off all my debt.

I also believe I won't lose my hair and be bald by April.

That I'll look cute in a Louise Brooks haircut.

[magistra]

Wow.  Tenure (and alcohol, methinks) has gone to your head.  Not only are you have crazy fantasies, but they're positive ones!  Here in the Slough of Despond, aka the non-tenure track, we only have Doomsday fantasies.  Or maybe that's just me.

If anyone receives any prize money, you know where to find me.  I could use a shot of optimism, so I think I'll go find myself a shot of the liquid variety.

[grasshopper]

I have very little optimism, but I've got some sorts you can borrow.

Despite my lack of optimism, however, I am convinced that I will make enough money during the next academic year to not only subsidize basic costs of living, but also to attend three Very Important (and largely unfunded) conferences, where I will be offered the job of my dreams in That Special Place Where I Want to Work.

[danny_boy]

I believe things will work out.

[prytania3]

I think I will marry badly for the third time.

[grasshopper]

Despite my lack of optimism, however, I am convinced that I will make enough money during the next academic year to not only subsidize basic costs of living, but also to attend three Very Important (and largely unfunded) conferences, where I will be offered the job of my dreams in That Special Place Where I Want to Work.

Even though they're not hiring. And technically don't even really have a department in my discipline.

[daurousseau]

Cooperation for the mutual good will replace competition for personal aggrandizement.