i'm alli. i...

• am 24
• live in tennessee
• have a bachelor's degree in journalism
• ...that i don't know if i'll ever actually use
• have an apartment to myself
• just bought a home :)
• have one cat
• have a huge cat and small cat
• have tattoos and plans for more
• love grammar, spelling, syntax
• think way too much
• love lists too much

• take a mini vacation over a long weekend
• charleston in august!
• take another mini vacation :)
• run more, eat better
• get a DSLR
• canon rebel xs!
• get a new tattoo and/or a bike
• update my flickr constantly
• make art for my new place
• now hang it
• think less, do more

• eaten a pb&j sandwich
• left the country
• lived with a guy i was dating
• pierced anything other than my ears
• played golf
• eaten cottage cheese
• done any drugs
• been to california

• a flickr pro account
• a new ipod
• got a blue 16gb nano for my bday :) thanks jesse!
• a DSLR
• a new tattoo
• a subscription to the new yorker
• a tripod

• twitter - mine
• flickr - mine
• tumblr - mine
• gmail

• everything is illuminated - j.s. foer
• rules of attraction - b.e. ellis
• the lovely bones - alice sebold
• lucky - alice sebold
• blankets - craig thompson
• life of pi - yann martel
• smashed - koren zailckas
• the awakening - kate chopin
• confessions of a shopaholic - sophie kinsella
• bitter is the new black - jen lancaster
• extremely loud and incredibly close - j.s. foer
• eat pray love - elizabeth gilbert

• jesse
• music
• books
• english, spelling, grammar, punctuation, syntax
• art
• the beach
• lip balm
• my tattoos and plans for more
• laying in the sun
• photography
• iced coffee
• eye makeup
• my cats
• my home
• rain
• knoxville
• jeans
• flipflops
• long sleeved t shirts
• heels and pretty flats
• bookstores
• swimming
• road trips
• sunburn
• text messages
• night time in the summer
• back roads
• showers
• dark nail polish
• nice strangers
• law and order reruns
• spearmint gum
• hood...

• slaughterhouse five - kurt vonnegut
• a tree grows in brooklyn - betty smith (again)
• franny and zooey - j.d. salinger
• great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald (again)
• smashed - koren zailckas (again)
• animal farm - george orwell
• middlesex - jeffrey eugenides
• virgin suicides - jeffrey eugenides
• life of pi - yann martel (again)
• girls' guide to hunting and fishing - melissa bank (again)
• american psycho - bret easton el...

• best american nonrequired reading 2008
• water for elephants
• smashed - koren zailckas (again)
• a heartbreaking work of staggering genius - dave eggers (again)
• american psycho - bret easton ellis
• the friday night knitting club - kate jacobs
• the handmaid's tale - margaret atwood (again)
• bitter is the new black - jen lancaster
• extremely loud and incredibly close - j.s. foer
• salem's lot - stephen king
• shopaholic t...

• american beauty
• everything is illuminated
• rules of attraction
• garden state
• fight club
• super troopers
• the dark knight
• the devil wears prada
• closer
• juno
• slc punk