• tea party with kristina and nene
• hang up decorations for bday party
• camping trip, last week of july
• write thank you notes
• update ipod with new music
• Kris Allen's "Brand New Shoes"
• Billie Holiday
• Jeff Buckley
• Florence and the Machine
• Bat For Lashes
• Edith Piaf
• Yann Tiersen's more obscure albums (e.g. Les Retrouvailles)
• summer playlist
• Tegan and Sara
• Death Cab for Cutie
• Regina Spektor's "Far"
• She & Him's "Why Do You...

I scribble pretty names on torn napkins and receipts, never to be found when I seek them, though appearing when they are unnecessary. It annoys me to no end when that happens. Hence this list.

(!)'s are the ones that I happen to adore.

icon credit goes to helcaxe on lj.

Girls

• Amelie (!)
• Amie
• Bree
• Briony
• Cecile
• Celine (!)
• Charlotte (!)
• Claire
• Esther
• Felicity
• Hollie
• Grace (!)
• Jane
• Madeline
• Madison
• Marcelle
• Marguerite
• !!...

I have many fictional crushes. My top 5 hard crushes are from literature, no doubt:

• Sydney Carton, whose utterly selfless sacrifice for Lucie touched my heart and soul and hence brought tears to my eyes. His last speech and final act was total epitome of love.
• Henry Tilney, whose wit, charm, and eccentricities totally surpass that Darcy over there :P. He never ceases to make me laugh with some sarca...

(Saw this idea in someone else's listography, can't remember who)

If I could invite any 100 people, living or dead, fictional or real, the invite list would include the following:

• Jane Austen
• Jimmy Stewart
• Anne Bronte
• Emily Bronte
• Charlotte Bronte
• Zooey Deschanel
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Jack Black
• Sean Connery
• Will Smith
• Jaden Smith
• Jenny Lewis
• Albert Einstein
• Atticus Finch
• Lewis Caroll
• Henry Tilney
• Benjamin Franklin
• Ro...

This could very well go on forever and ever, but I'm a'cutting it short.

• the Battle of Waterloo
• the 1920s, undoubtedly.
• the execution of Marie Antoinette
• Regency balls
• Napoleon's coronation.
• anywhen Victorian.
• the Edwardian era.
• oh, the Fourties and Fifties!
• Pre-Revolutionary France.
• Tudor! 'D love to meet the real Anne Boleyn.
• the Salt March with Mahatma Gandhi
• when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Thesis to the ...

• Jane Eyre // Charlotte Bronte
• Ethan Frome // Edith Wharton
• A Tale of Two Cities // Charles Dickens
• Wuthering Heights // Emily Bronte
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall // Anne Bronte
• North and South // Elizabeth Gaskell
• Vanity Fair // William Makepeace Thackeray
• Pride and Prejudice // Jane Austen
• Le Petit Prince // Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Mrs. Dalloway // Virginia Woolf
• Wuthering Heights // Emily Bronte
• Catcher in...

• God
• books, preferably in a "classic" appearance
• the original copies of things
• the undying hope of the people in this world
• belief that there is goodness, peace, love, and joy in the world
• the smiles of everybody in the world
• laughter
• the ability to dream
• freedom
• nature and its charming tranformations
• berets
• countrysides and moors
• cottages, especially Victorian & English ones
• finally being able to achieve somet...

• create some sort of art, usually sketching something
• watch period dramas (again)
• particularly North and South
• swoon over brooding mill-owners
• go on a nice walk outdoors
• reread Jane Eyre or other literature masterpieces
• daydream, eyes closed
• read tucked under the covers, accompanied with tea
• reflect nostalgically on past memories and sentiments
• hum to soothing classical tunes
• brew large amounts of tea
• sleep
• da...

• world peace, end of strife and hardships
• an antique writing desk from the 1800s
• an antique typewriter, ancient but still in use
• anything antique
• 50s inspired eau de perfume (Fifi Chachnil)
• a muslin gown
• a secret closet, indeed a porthole to a secret world filled with secret delights and merriments
• a revolving bookshelf
• with each shelf filled original, rather worn out editions of the best classics in the w...