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jul 1 2008 ∞
jul 1 2008 +
  • More community involvement (Refugee work?)
  • Test for embassy work?
  • SAT
  • Writing classes/workshop
  • Language course
  • TEFL course?
  • WFR course?
  • CPR etc. update
  • Photography
  • School?
  • Photography portfolio/ website
  • Organize photos
  • organize Music
  • Sunday Correspondence day
  • Drama?
  • Buy a bike
  • Cooking classes
  • buy a sewing machine
  • sewing classes?
  • buy a tiffin in china town
  • Organize Flickr account
jun 18 2008 ∞
jun 24 2008 +
  • What Is the What-David Eggers
  • The Shadow of the Sun-Ryzard kapuscinski
  • Lucy-Jamaica Kincaid
  • Kafka on the Shore-Haruki Murakami
  • The Maytrees-Annie Dillard
  • The Road-Cormac Mcarthy
  • The Inheritance of Loss-Kiran Desai
  • Purple Hibiscus- Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie
  • The Thief and the Dogs-Naguib Mahfouz
  • Heart of Darkness-Joseph Conrad
  • The Book Thief-Markus Zusak
  • Tess of the D'urbvilles- Thomas Hardy
  • The Constant Gardner...
jun 18 2008 ∞
jun 18 2008 +
  1. USA
  2. Canada
  3. Mexico
  4. New Zealand
  5. Antarctica (yes, I know this is not a country, but I still count it.)
  6. Thailand
  7. Laos
  8. Cambodia
  9. Malaysia
  10. Singapore
  11. Iceland
  12. Germany
  13. Czech Republic
  14. Italy
  15. France
  16. Spain
  17. The Netherlands
  18. Finland
  19. Estonia
  20. Latvia
  21. Lithuania
  22. Poland
  23. Great Britain (Scotland, Wales, England)
  24. Ireland
  25. Costa Rica
  26. India
  27. Kenya
  28. Uganda
  29. Tanzania
jun 18 2008 ∞
jun 18 2008 +
  • The state of constant confusion everyone seemed to be in
  • Toilet paper as hand towels
  • Malaria
  • Matatu's not leaving until they are full
  • Haggling
  • Instant Coffee
  • 'Free Breakfast" at b&b hostels that was just bread
  • Dial up 'internet cafes'
  • Dealing with Vayama.com (don't EVER use them...)
  • Dirt towns
  • overnight bus rides
  • 'friendly' street people
  • travel clothing
  • doing laundry by hand
  • Lackadaisical attitude (Restaurants,...
jul 28 2006 ∞
jul 28 2006 +
  1. there is, ironically a melancholy in happiness.
  2. it’s only in the loss of something that we can fully understand it’s meaning.
  3. meaning is meaningless
  4. love is not happiness
  5. love is primal
  6. hate is easy
  7. fear is pointless
  8. fear is fun
  9. usually, behind the door you never tried because you were told there was nothing there, is .nothing.
  10. that doesn’t make it not worth trying.
jul 26 2006 ∞
jul 26 2006 +
  1. they have no idea what an americano is: "so, you want... water... in your coffee?"
  2. they always man handle your greens at the grocery store.
jul 26 2006 ∞
jul 26 2006 +
  1. the color yellow
  2. when check out boys/girls man handle my greens (ie salad, spinach, bok choy, et all)
  3. waking up from dreams where someone gave you something and you think you still have it. what a fucking disappointment.
  4. plastic grocery bags
  5. when i have to listen to a song i hate.
  6. itchy scalp
  7. wet socks
  8. bad tv
  9. people thinking that what they believe is what everyone should believe.
  10. poop in the yard
  11. when peopl...
jun 14 2006 ∞
jun 14 2006 +
  1. have an insane amount of fun as a party planner in antarctica
  2. finish my children's book
  3. finish at least two of the three parts of my novel
  4. write a story every month
  5. MORE COLLABRATIVE ART!!
  6. no more missing body parts
  7. volunteer in at least four countries
  8. travel with my little sister
  9. buy a bike and bike around New Zealand
  10. make my friends travel with me
  11. go to new york
  12. see a good band before i leave for the ice
  13. kn...
jun 13 2006 ∞
jun 13 2006 +
  1. the bell orchestra
  2. jose gonzalez (thanks lisa!)
  3. xiu xiu
  4. akron/family
  5. jolie holland
  6. red red meat
  7. richard buckner
  8. parker& lily
  9. phospherescent
may 20 2006 ∞
may 20 2006 +
  1. the beattles
  2. the doors
  3. arrested developement
  4. adaptation
  5. chocolate with fruit
  6. white wine with fish
  7. anne geddis
  8. anything that gives me that falling feeling
  9. rene zelwiger
  10. correct spelling
may 20 2006 ∞
may 20 2006 +
  1. dew in the morning after camping and you smell like ash
  2. after you've been driving for a really long time and it's night now and you've almost reached your destination but you could drive forever
  3. when you are just about to start a road trip/travel and you start thinking about all the possabilities
  4. when you've been sitting on the porch watching the rain and you remember a time before when you sat on th...
may 19 2006 ∞
may 19 2006 +
  1. bonnie prince billy
  2. mum
  3. dolly parton
  4. mirah
  5. songs: ohia/magnolia electric co.
  6. gram parsons
  7. band of horses
  8. lady sovereign
  9. ann peebles
  10. laura veirs
  11. rolling stones
  12. xiu xiu
  13. r. kelly's trapped in a closet
  14. antony & the johnstons
  15. zbignew preisner
  16. trailer bride
  17. emmylou harris
  18. fontella bass
may 19 2006 ∞
may 19 2006 +
  1. johnathan safaran foer
  2. jeanette winterson
  3. ALI SMITH (FUCKING AMAZING!)
  4. salman rushdie
  5. greta ehlrich
  6. mary beth norton
  7. howard zinn
  8. bruno shultz
  9. michelle tea
may 19 2006 ∞
may 19 2006 +
  1. just so you know, using a spray hose instead of toilet paper is really fresh feeling. it makes you feel way more clean too
may 19 2006 ∞
may 19 2006 +
  1. writer
  2. photographer
  3. journalist
  4. designer
  5. history teacher
  6. cook
  7. gardner
  8. farmer (seriously!) (come on I'm not kidding have a little farm, be self seficient...)
  9. dolly parton's personal assistant (or even the personal assistant of dolly's personal assistant)
  10. director
  11. actor
  12. happy
may 19 2006 ∞
may 19 2006 +
  1. One In A 1,000,000 Lene Lovich
  2. Two Doors Down Dolly Parton
  3. Three O'Clock Blues B.B. King
  4. Four Hours in Washington M. Ward
  5. Five Moments The Field Mice
  6. Six Different Ways The Cure
  7. Seven Year Ache Rosanne Cash
  8. Eight Men, Four Women O.V. Wright
  9. Nine Thousand Nautical Miles Clue To Kalo
  10. Ten Cents a Dance Ruth Etting
  11. Eleven O'clock Morphine
  12. Twelve Fold Chain The Books Lost and Safe
  13. Thirteen Grand The Wrens The Mead...
may 19 2006 ∞
may 19 2006 +
  1. street chicken (mmmm.)
  2. sticky rice
  3. non-sticky, regular rice
  4. coca-cola
  5. pepsi (they were out of coke)
  6. ice shards
  7. iced coffee
  8. maybe liver of some sort...
  9. unknown black liquid-ish food substance of some sort
  10. jack daniels and soda
  11. green curry tofu
  12. pad thai
  13. some sort of fruit with chilli peppers and sugar
  14. pinapple
  15. roseapple
  16. spicy papaya salad
may 19 2006 ∞
may 19 2006 +
  1. the sadness of songs with lyrics that give you goose bumps {mirah's 'while we have the sun' lyrics "i'm sorry for all the sorrow in your life you'll know, it's true that all the ones you love will someday have to go."}
  2. the sadness of relationships that will never change {my mother}
  3. the sadness of feeling how large the world is and what a little place you hold in it {when i'm walking late on a stary ...