• get a job
• get into law school
• run
• eat a vegetable maybe every other day
• drink less coffee
• drink less vodka
• stop falling for guys you can't have
• finish the novel
• be marvelous and happy
• stop being so damn selfish

• a rage to live, john o'hara
• bel canto, ann patchett
• generation kill, evan wright
• slouching towards bethlehem, joan didion
• wide sargasso sea, jean rhys
• gravity's rainbow, thomas pynchon
• atlas shrugged, ayn rand
• play it as it lays, joan didion

• from neil gaiman's "cold colors":

"...someday I'll find my tube train underground, I'll pay no fare, just, "This is Hell, and I want out of it," and then things will be simple once again."

• from joanna newsom's "clam, crab, cockle, cowrie":

"there are some mornings when the sky looks like a road... i do as i please and i'm on my knees and your skin is something that i stir into my tea and i am watching you."

• from elaine dundy's "life itself!":

"Soon after I realized I was also filled with a down-to-earth craving, which came over me whenever I met or even just viewed the aforementioned young men in the workplace, in the canteen, in the Arlington village restaurant, the Grill, or at the ...

• nanowrimo project 2008
• that vegas crime story that never seems to want to end; long-winded much?
• modern office romance - art imitating life, or the other way around?
• soviets in the u.s.a., and shit
• A NOVEL

• scarlett o'hara
• starbucks' skim vanilla latte
• arriving at the metro platform just as the train pulls in
• paper planes
• vodka tonics
• joan didion
• knowing all the lyrics to "party & bullshit"
• boys that smell really fucking good
• fresh sheets
• lemonade in the summer
• jean-luc godard
• pesto