• Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
• Buck 65 - Kennedy Killed the Cat
• Panic at the Disco - Nine in the Afternoon
• Sister Hazel - All for You
• INXS - I Need You Tonight
• Feist - Secret Heart
• Marty Casey - Trees
• Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died
• Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
• k-os - Crabbuckit
• Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
• Paolo Nutini - New Shoes
• Of Montreal - Tim I Wish You Were Born a Girl
• Placebo - Pure M...

• 'Seven Nation Army' by the White Stripes
• 'You Are A Runner And I Am My Father's Son' by Wolf Parade
• 'Hurricane' by the Hush Sound
• the verses (but not choruses) to almost any Tom Petty song
• ..so I kind of fail, for the record. :3

• nautical archaeologist
• professor
• photographer
• graphic designer
• author
• journalist
• florist
• animator
• something in tourism
• chemist
• rock star, baby
• coffee shop owner
• bookstore owner (is there seriously anyone out there who hasn't dreamt of owning their own cafe and/or bookstore? it seems to be the overly-romanticized dream of everyone I've ever met, and I am no exception)
• interpreter/translator
• teacher
• carnie
• so many ...

Or: the things that keep me from going insane when insomnia hits.

• Being awake when the music stations actually play music! French Kiss on Much Music; all the random videos MuchMoreMusic plays - today I have seen k-os, Danko Jones, Creature, and Jarvis Church, among others... and later in the day they'll be playing the same reruns of trashy reality shows over and over.
• That first cup of tea that clea...

• 1. Orange pekoe tea, a little milky and a little sweet, in my mug with a bird on it.
• 2. Meteor showers.
• 3. Songs with handclaps!
• 4. When the cheap theatre shows classic movies for five dollars.
• 5. xkcd - my reason to get up early on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays... or else my reason to stay up late on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
• 6. Taking pictures.
• 7. History (particularly: ancient, medieval, I...

In my three years of university before calling it quits:

• chemistry
• English language and literature - general
• English language and literature - honours
• English language and literature - drama specialty
• archaeology and physical anthropology
• political science
• folklore
• medieval studies
• history
• religious studies
• heritage resources
• Spanish

This is what happens when you want to be a photographer and your university d...

• have something published in National Geographic
• buy a house and make it a home
• record an album
• learn to play guitar
• learn to play piano
• have (a) child(ren)
• move to a big city
• move to a small town
• become fluent in as many languages as possible

• The Doors - Orange County Suite
• Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
• The Beatles - The Long and Winding Road
• Hawksley Workman - The Future Language of Slaves
• Hawksley Workman - No Reason to Cry Out Your Eyes (On the Highway Tonight)
• The Hush Sound - You Are the Moon
• Empires - Spit the Dark
• Fall Out Boy - I'm Like a Lawyer With the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me and You)

I'm not one for hymns, really.

• Petty Harbour, Newfoundland
• Chicago, Illinois
• Toronto, Ontario
• Ottawa, Ontario
• Portugal Cove, Newfoundland
• The Battery, St. John's, Newfoundland

I cannot do basic math or conjugate French verbs, but I can quote Antigone like nobody's business! Fun facts from high school include:

• infinity technically cannot exist.
• turning lead into gold is technically possible - oh, alchemy.
• 'bastante' is a great Spanish word for if you want to sound like you're cursing without actually doing so.
• everything is made of stardust. including you. you're goddamn ste...

(when I am not broke)

• acoustic guitar
• record player (or get the old one fixed)
• typewriter
• new drumsticks
• more cymbals
• clove cigarettes (where to find them in the middle of nowhere, that is the question!)
• oil paints
• National Geographic subscription
• digital SLR
• sneakers
• yoga mat
• cowbell! :D
• plane tickets everywhere.

• singer: Hawksley Workman
• band: Empires
• album: Beautiful Midnight, by the Matthew Good Band
• song: Orange County Suite, by the Doors
• lyrics: 'Suzanne', by Leonard Cohen
• Beatle: Ringo :)
• book: The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• author: John Green
• poet: Walt Whitman
• war poet: Siegfried Sassoon
• poem: 'the lesson of the moth', by Don Marquis
• movie: Breakfast at Tiffany's
• musical: Hedwig and the Angry In...

• find concerts that I can (and want!) to go to; buy tickets!
• Panic at the Disco/Dashboard Confessional/The Cab
• buy: (for as cheaply as possible, or else I won't be eating when I'm there!)
• shampoo
• conditioner
• bra
• underwear
• socks (DO NOT FORGET THIS, SELF. November is too cold for bare feet!)
• jeans
• wallet
• print out flight itinerary
• work out where I'm staying in Toronto
• work out if/when I'm going to visit my cous...