• The Passion . Jeanette Winterson
• The Enchantress of Florence . Salman Rushdie
• Northern Lights . Philip Pullman
• The Blood of Flowers . Anita Amirrezvani
• The Princesse de Cleves . Madame de Lafayette
• The Thirty-Nine Steps . John Buchan
• One Hundred Years of Solitude . Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich . Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Postman Always Rings Twice . James M. Cain
• A Room With a View . E.M. Forster

• Japan
• New Zealand
• Athens (hopefully in May)
• The Lake District
• Scotland
• Wales
• Stonehenge
• Petra
• Abu Simbel
• Alexandria
• Turkey
• Germany
• Amsterdam
• South Africa (safari)
• Thailand

here's what I got floating around...

• LipSmackers in Dr. Pepper (giant tube)
• The Body Shop Shea Lip Butter
• The Body Shop Almond Lip Butter
• Origins Liquid Lip Color in Caramel Candy
• Benefit The Gloss in Wooo...
• Maybelline Shiny-licious in Chocolate Cherry
• Ulta Lip Plumper
• C.O. Bigelow Ultra Mentha Lip Shine
• C.O. Bigelow Spearmint Mentha Lip Shine
• Revlon Lip Gloss Super Lustrous #010 Shine City
• LipSmackers Flip Gloss in Vanilla

• born in Phoenix, AZ
• Pisces
• currently living in the UK - Liverpool
• working on my PhD in Egyptology
• like blues and greens
• avid reader
• creative (at least I try to be)
• dreamer
• going out and dancing
• taking photos
• have worn glasses since I was 5
• have 1 younger sister
• have a dog (adopted mutt) named Jasmine

• Birthday in London - shop, drink, eat, dance, see: Wicked, Tut exhibition.
• Travel more - see more of England and get out of England.
• Go to Rhodes, Greece for the Xth International Congress of Egyptologists.
• Get a job and stop relying solely on student loans.
• Write a chapter and have an outline of my thesis by the end of the year.
• Write and submit an article.
• Crochet an heirloom (or at least start one).
• Read 100 books.
• Really put an effort into learning Arabic.
• Love myself (eat better, look better, take good care of me)

• Monet's Garden
• Le Cimietiere du Pere Lachaise
• KV34
• British Museum
• Luxor, Egypt
• Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia
• Mood (Liverpool, UK)
• Sedona, AZ
• Tomb of Akhenaten
• Galleria degli Uffizi
• Family property near Chilcoot, CA
• St. James Cemetery

• force myself to speak French - I can do it!
• learn Spanish
• learn Italian
• conquer 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
• stop struggling with German
• try yoga again
• find my perfect body type and stay there
• stop being lazy (all the time)
• get photos printed - digital has killed my photo albums
• get out of debt and only have 1 credit card
• learn Coptic

almost all of these thanks to my mom and our 3rd row VIP seats

• Linkin Park
• My Chemical Romance
• Taking Back Sunday
• HIM
• Julien-K
• Augustana (twice)
• The Fray
• Korn
• Deftones
• Disturbed
• System of a Down
• 10 Years
• Flyleaf
• My American Heart
• Gwen Stefani
• Akon
• The Goo Goo Dolls
• Counting Crows
• Red Hot Chili Peppers

• books
• yarn
• chocolate
• music - all kinds - no country
• movies
• my best friend
• dogs
• Egypt (obviously)
• lipgloss
• lists
• sleep
• good times with friends

• prefer small groups of people
• emotionally dependent
• am often bored or lonely
• eat when I'm bored
• rule follower
• scared my PhD will get me nowhere
• care way too much about what people think of me
• hate it when people don't like me
• bad with money
• afraid of never finding 'the one' or at this rate anyone
• if I don't have a trip planned or somewhere to go I feel trapped

• Nikon Coolpix S550 in blue
• Lost season 3 on DVD
• MacBook (need to replace my old one)
• iPod classic or touch (can't decide)
• ticket home to visit