• The Idiot
• All of Jane Austen's novels. Except the epistolary, Lady Susan. I don't like epistolary novels.
• Everything I've read by PG Wodehouse- which is the Bertie Wooster books. I haven't delved into PSmith yet, I should.
• Robin McKinley's older works, The Hero and the Crown, The Blue Sword, Beauty. Recent, not so much.
• Lloyd Alexander, especially the Taran series
• The Wasp Factory by Iain Bainks. Not because its as awesome as all that, but because it stays with me, in wisps.
• Beverley Nichols' garden/autobiographical novels. So funny, so touching. I wish they were available more cheaply and more common at the library.
• Steppenwolf. Really, any of Herman Hesse's books. I've read them all, I think. ...

• My hubinator
• My family
• Cats
• Good food (this could be broken out into the whole list...)
• Exercise
• Live music
• Board games
• Plants
• Gardening
• Walks in the woods
• Picture taking
• Drawing/painting
• Museums
• Archeological finds
• WXDU/WXYC and DJing at WXDU
• Cloudy warm days
• Lakes
• Zoos
• Dogs
• Frogs/amphibians

• Verify that one is not hungry or thirsty, eat regularly
• Stay warm
• Don't stay too warm
• Exercise regularly
• Get out of the house once a day
• If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (COPE!)
• Talk to people instead of imagining what they'll say/are thinking
• What is the worst thing that could happen?
• Make a plan/ lists are your friends
• If something is a problem, give it a set time and then re-evaluate. Problems sometimes go away by themselves.
• Everything is a choice

Girl's Names

• Olive
• Holly
• Beatrix
• Coral
• Dorthea
• Emma
• Myrica
• Linnea
• Hazel
• Hannalore

Boy's Names

• August (or Augustin)
• Alaric
• Lazare
• Corbin
• Zebo
• Zebulon
• Darwin
• Linden

• Start fencing again: review/repair equipment and buy new shoes (got suitable shoes 3/8/09)
• Draw/paint tattoo design
• Contribute 50 dollars to the Costa Rica Amphibian Protection folks
• Organize my BPAL imps and create/post a swap list
• Finish patch-work skirt
• Organize and discard/gift away old art supplies
• / Donate un-needed/wanted books to Prison book drive (FINISHED)
• /Visit a zoo (Audubon Zoo, New Orleans April 3 2009)
• ✔ Floss for 30 days in a row (0/30) (trying this in March)
• /Make hard cider (2/28/09 - it turned out okay)
• / Make Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings (FINISHED w/help from birdfigme...