• My name is Elise.
• I'm sixteen years old and a junior in high school.
• I live in New Hampshire.
• I have a sister named Carolyn, a mom, a dad, and two dogs named Poppy and Chula.
• I am an English literature nerdfighter and you should not go into a bookstore with me because you might not make it out alive.
• I write novels. But only in November.
• I am obsessed with Brand New and The Hush Sound.
• I have a core grou...

• French reading in Bonjour Tristesse
• On Justice reading and notes/outline
• problems in physics book
• precalc graded homework
• 8 1/2 x 11 "winter scene" for Advanced Studio (start work/brainstorm ideas)
• catch up on House ("Last Resort")
• read some Pride and Prejudice
• pick up dirty clothes off the floor

If the economy wasn't in the toilet/we had money coming out of our ears.

• very snazzy record player
• Barnes and Noble membership
• WWF Darwin's fox symbolic adoption
• a LiveJournal paid account
• new iPod (damned fountains...)
• a NaNoWriMo 2008 t-shirt
• Gaspard Ulliel (hey, I can dream)

1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. The Godfather
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. The Graduate
8. On the Waterfront
9. Schindler's List
10. Singin' in the Rain
11. It's a Wonderful Life
12. Sunset Boulevard
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai
14. Some Like it Hot
15. Star Wars
16. All About Eve
17. The African Queen
18. Psycho
19. Chinatown
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
21. The Grapes of Wrath
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey
23. The Maltese Falcon
24. Raging Bull
25. E.T. the Extra...

• panda
• red panda
• pygmy elephant
• polar bear
• black-footed ferret
• Darwin's fox
• spectacled bear
• sea turtle
• snow leopard
• tiger
• Amur leopard
• manatee
• jaguar

• randomly talking about college and the future that one time in the car when I was about ten years old
• her asking me for gossip and talking about what boys in my grade she thought were cute
• "Ressaminute Mommy?"
• driving down to Maryland with her, staying in the hotel, and getting room service with mini ketchup and mini mayo
• putting that ridiculous pizza hat on her head
• her telling me that I should date Z...

• going to the Red Sox-A's game in Boston that one night, just the two of us
• going into Washington, D.C. the night before leaving Maryland, eating at Johnny Rockets, and him showing me the Exorcist stairs and where he used to live in college
• sharing the sea animal cookies with him after dinner when we ate at Shorty's
• that feeling of family I always got when Dad was home and we were all in the kitchen a...

If I ever have time to do something about my room...

• repaint walls - light yellow
• replace calendars with posters, etc.
• organize shelves - a new bookshelf?
• clean out closet
• a chair for sitting and reading in so that I don't fall asleep doing APUSH reading in bed
• clean out drawers and other places where I keep crap that I don't need
• very snazzy music system
• new comforter (because mine is woefully unfluffy)...

• finish Pride and Prejudice
• Breakthrough Super Saturday
• find a semi dress
• buy concert tickets
• work - 9:30-11:30 on Sunday the 23rd
• work - 9:30-11:30 on Sunday the 30th
• catch up on House, Gossip Girl, and ANTM
• FINISH NOVEL!
• catch up on APUSH reading
• chapter 19 in Pageant
• Hofstader on Lincoln
• APUSH reading - chapter 21 in Pageant
• see Twilight and laugh at its ridiculousnes
• pig out on Thanksgiving
• do laundry
• clean r...

Snagged from here.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Austen
2. To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
3. Jane Eyre - Bronte
4. Gone with the Wind - Mitchell
5. Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
6. The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
7. Little Women - Alcott
8. A Prayer of Owen Meany - Irving
9. The Stand - King
10. The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
11. Mists of Avalon - Bradley
12. David Copperfield - Dickens
13. Kristen Lavransdotter - Undset
14. Beloved - Morrison
15. Age of Innocence - Whar...

In no particular order...

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Aeneid: Virgil by Virgil
• Aesop's Fables by J. Pinkney
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• Confucius Analects by Confucius
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Fra...

• Raised by Another
• Born to Run
• Hearts and Minds
• Numbers
• Flashes Before Your Eyes
• The Constant
• Greatest Hits

• precalculus - study for quiz (finding asymptotes)
• APUSH - read packet, three questions
• composition - summary of feedback, revision letter
• French - reread part II, chapter I of Bonjour Tristesse
• Advanced Studio Art - nothing
• physics - worksheet that I brilliantly did not pick up

• bus
• car
• paddleboat
• canoe
• kayak
• ferry
• airplane
• bicycle
• walking
• horse

Or almost. Sometimes I've been in public and had to hold back my tears, to my dismay.

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• A Very Long Engagement
• The Notebook
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
• LOST - "The Beginning of the End" (season 4 premier)
• LOST - "Through the Looking Glass" (season 3 finale)
• Skins - "Everyone" (series 2 finale)

Ideally I'd like to read all of these before I die.

1. "Ulysses," James Joyce
2. "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," James Joyce
4. "Lolita," Vladimir Nabokov
5. "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley
6. "The Sound and the Fury," William Faulkner
7. "Catch-22," Joseph Heller
8. "Darkness at Noon," Arthur Koestler
9. "Sons and Lovers," D. H. Lawrence
10. "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck
11. "Und...

• smoking
• a criminal record
• animal cruelty
• racist
• sexist
• more tattoos than bare skin (a couple tattoos are okay, but too many is just... bleh)
• a fanatical Christian (particularly one who tries to force his beliefs on others... ugh)
• physical abuse
• a sincere dislike of reading
• a staunch Republican (moderate Republicans are okay, but if you're really hardcore about it I question your sanity)

• the Bible Belt
• the fact that the Republican party has basically become the Christian party and they want to force their conservative beliefs on everyone
• state bans on gay marriage
• urban sprawl
• Southern accents
• the general ignorance of the American public
• George W. Bush and his complete and utter idiocy
• big media
• the Patriot Act and invasion of privacy in general
• everyone thinks California is the best place...

• Anne - mother
• Doug - father
• Carolyn - sister, twenty months younger than me
• Joan - grandmother, mother's side
• Phil - grandfather, mother's side
• Marie - mother's sister
• Mike - Marie's husband
• Alanna - Mike and Marie's daughter, eight months older
• Tommy - Mike and Marie's son, three years younger
• Linnea - Mike and Marie's daughter, four and half years younger
• Ruth - mother's sister
• Mark - Ruth's husband
• Jackson...

• smart
• funny
• pretty
• loyal
• reliable
• a good artist
• a bookworm
• nice

• Burton Valley Preschool
• ? Elementary School (kindergarten in CA)
• Clark Elementary School
• Wilkins Elementary School
• Amherst Middle School
• The Derryfield School

• straight A's (and maybe a B+ or two, because face it, A's in Advanced Studio Art, APUSH, and Mr. Anthony electives may be hard to come by)
• a 4 on the AP exam
• highest honors throughout the year
• 2200 or higher on SATs
• A+ in French IV and Precalculus
• don't go insane
• make some good pieces for the Advanced Studio Art show at the end of the year (ones that don't make you cringe)