• Watchmen
• The Road
• Flaming Iguanas
• Street Gangs: The Complete History of Sesame Street
• Hush
• Fast Food Nation
• One Hundred Poems From the Chinese
• I Remember
• Deliverance
• A Wild Sheep Chase
• Going Postal
• For Girls (And Others)
• The Omnivore's Dilemma
• A Gringo Like Me
• When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
• The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, Second Floor

• She keeps talking shit about people to me when I don't want to hear about it. They are my friends too and I don't want to get involved in drama.
• OH HEY I'M GONNA BE A REBEL JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT
• Apparently I don't "deserve" to have the Faggot with me at school because I wasn't "excited enough" when we got it. Because, you know, I can totally be super excited about a car I a) had never seen and b) ...

• "OH MY GOD, DID YOU SEE WHAT JUST WALKED BY????"
• spontaneous grins and cell phone photos (I like to make nerds happy)
• Other people are doing the same. So far today I've seen The Riddler, a random jester and a girl with Joker scars. (Theme?)
• Random people start singing "The Mysterious Ticking Noise" when I walk by.
• I got a hug from said girl with Joker scars.
• I was "bothered" two times today, so far.
• Thu...

ALPHABETICAL, BITCHES.

• Across the Universe
• The Addams Family / Addams Family Values (double feature)
• Benny & Joon
• The Boondock Saints / Fight Club (double feature)
• The Breakfast Club
• Cats
• Clue
• The Emperor's New Groove
• Enchanted
• Ever After
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Footloose / Flashdance (double feature)
• Get Smart
• The Goonies
• Hairspray
• Hook
• The Incredibles
• The Invisible
• Jeff Dunham's Spark of Insanity (probably gettin...

Warning: This is kind of a depressing-as-shit list. It's mainly for my own cathartic purposes, so feel free to skip it.

• That night he stormed off with no warning and made me follow him through the snow because he thought I'd snapped at him. Which I hadn't.
• The time we were texting and I was in Seattle and I accidentally fell asleep because it was really late and I'd had a long day, and he called and...

• New Year's Eve ice cream parties
• sleepovers
• The Chicken Dance
• Sesame Street / the Muppets
• blocks
• digging in the sand
• face painting
• an enthusiasm for Pokemon
• goofy photos
• dressing up for Halloween
• Play-Doh
• an immature sense of humor
• children's books
• swing sets
• stuffed animals
• Disney cartoons

• CB I Hate Perfume
• Film the Blanks
• We Love You So! ( Where The Wild Things Are movie inspiration blog)
• OBI-WAN VS. DAVID BOWIE Best mashup I have ever encountered...EVER.
• Found Photos (Also check out FOUND Magazine )
• StoryCorps
• Cassette From My Ex
• Feasting On Art
• Vai Avanti

• put it away somewhere until I'm done with school
• go on a long trip with family & a few friends before I have to return to the real world
• buy some kickass theatre and/or concert tickets
• blow a little bit of it at vintage shops
• donate to HRC and maybe some other stuff
• maybe put a down payment on that bakery/bookstore that Lauren wants us to open!

• take long walks
• watch movies
• go over to PetSmart and play with the adoptable animals
• go to the mall
• go to: MT Cup, Village Green Records, White Rabbit Books.
• hang out with friends
• Late Nite
• spend lots of time drawing
• homework, sadly

• pure unself-consciousness. Not that I'm all that self-conscious right now, but there's at least a little bit there.
• playing with "the girls" and our massive collection of Barbie accessories
• actually knowing the neighbors in more than a passing way
• being able to fit through small spaces
• having lots of free time and almost no responsibilities
• feeling like my allowance money was all I'd ever need
• being obs...

• sweetened condensed milk
• Haagen-Dazs or Ben & Jerry's
• Reese's Pieces
• white chocolate pretzels
• no-bake cookies
• vanilla DanActive yogurt

I am not religious, but there have been certain moments in my life when I've had a definite spiritual experience.

• Every time we dance Likrat Shabbat at KDI
• Also at KDI, the final Good Night Circle.
• This one time, I was working in the scene shop, and I wandered onstage. The theatre was completely dark and silent except for one spotlight, and the guy in the booth was testing gels, so the color would ju...

• Ignoring other people in traffic. This can be motorists, cyclists, pedestrians, anyone; I just wish that people in general would stop assuming they are the only ones on the road.
• Assuming that their worldview is the only viable one. I don't care if you're steadfast in your opinion; that's fine, but at least consider the fact that there are other ones.
• Confusing homophones. Your/you're is not that di...

• seeing bones broken
• rashes
• photoshopped urban legends
• pilotfish and other deep-sea fish
• people with bags or sacks over their heads

• "Hells Bells", Vitamin String Quartet
• "Walk Like An Egyptian", The Puppini Sisters
• "Top of the World", Shonen Knife
• "Fools Rush In", The Morning Benders
• "What I Like About You", Lillix
• "Science Fiction/Double Feature" - Me First & the Gimme Gimmes
• "With Or Without You" - The Walls
• "I Will Survive", The Puppini Sisters
• "Diamond Dogs", Beck
• "Across the Universe", David Bowie
• "El Tango de Roxanne", Jose Felici...

• clocks
• pretty notebooks
• miniatures, particularly food
• fountains and waterfalls
• corsets

• Eddie Izzard
• Lewis Black
• Mitch Hedberg
• Jerry Seinfeld
• Robin Williams
• WEIRD AL COUNTS AS A COMEDIAN, OK?
• can we get some more good female comedians out there? Maybe?

I am "girly" because:

• I like to shop.
• I like to cook and bake, and I'm good at it.
• I say "I know, right?" and find myself uptalking at the end of sentences?
• I listen to bubblegum pop and showtunes.
• I enjoy wearing skirts and dresses and getting dressed up.
• I dance to music in my room.
• I'm a feminist.
• I am not interested in sports in the least bit.
• I sew and I work at a fabric store.
• I love kittens and other...

• I am very loyal. Seriously, if you are a close friend of mine, I will have your back no matter what, and do everything I can to get you through whatever problems you might be having.
• I really like making or buying random presents for people. There doesn't necessarily have to be an occasion for it. I also put a lot of thought into those presents.
• I have fun parties that never end with anyone throwing...

• potato cream cheese - used to be at Panera but now I can only find it at au bon pain and occasionally the MT Cup
• tomato soup and potato soup from the Sidewalk Sandwich Cafe
• Campbell's Chunky with steak, potatoes and mushrooms
• Cracker Barrel vegetable soup
• loaded potato soup from My Daddy's Cheesecake
• My Aunt Karen's chili
• Tortilla soup, but I can't remember exactly where it came from.
• ..can you tell I li...

• Urban Outfitters
• Archie McPhee
• vintage shops
• Plato's Closet
• Wet Seal
• Hot Topic
• Golden Age Collectibles
• record stores
• Barnes & Noble
• Cute Minis (technically a website, not a place, but whatever)
• anywhere that's kind of ridiculous but still awesome

• Carly Diane
• 21 and still sober
• one of a close crowd
• writes a lot
• brain can't match the world sometimes
• autumn
• good food, good music, good company
• cat person
• sings
• takes pictures
• hates routine but also hates major change.
• love =/= relationship, necessarily
• gets moods
• wannabe wordsmith
• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• nocturnal
• sometimes floats and sometimes sinks
• elemental
• folk dancer
• musicmusicmusic and booksbooksbooks
• avoi...

• getting the right outfit together
• new haircut
• dressing up for Rocky Horror (seriously, I feel most fabulous when I'm dressed as a man; how messed up is that?)
• skirts and tights
• off-the-shoulder tops (I love my collarbone)
• eyeliner wings
• jeans that fit just right
• long nails
• high heels (although I really hate wearing them)

I eventually plan to relocate to the Pacific Northwest - in particular, Seattle - as do my parents.

Things I will miss about the Midwest:

• My friends, duh.
• County fairs. Not that I think Washington doesn't have them, but there's something distinctive about Midwestern ones.
• Long stretches of flat, open highway
• Small-town life, a.k.a being able to get anywhere in town within 15 minutes.
• Fireflies. Apparent...

Saw this on Vox, had to try it.

• What is your idea of perfect happiness?

I would like to save this summer, this moment in my life, in the palm of my hand so I could go back to it at any point.

• What is your greatest fear?

That one of my friends or close family will die and I won't hear about it until long after.

• What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

I don't handle change well when it comes to th...

• Alternative music
• Blogging
• Cats
• Dancing
• Earrings
• Fall
• Good books
• Halloween
• Independence
• Jamba Juice
• KDI
• Long drives at night
• Musicals
• Neon hair
• Owls
• Photography
• Questionable Content
• Rocky Horror and the people I do it with
• Seattle
• Thrift stores
• Underwear that's cute
• V...(okay, you've got me on this one. All I can think of is "vagina", and I'm not particularly fond of that.)
• Whole Foods
• XKCD
• Youth
• Zebra print matched with ...

• excessive drinking
• loudmouth tendencies
• body odor
• obsession with sports
• having 2,000 Facebook friends
• netspeak
• closed-mindedness
• black-and-white worldviews
• music snobbery

• singing
• writing
• sewing
• drawing
• creative costuming
• makeup
• photography?
• folk dancing

• Boo Boo
• Lauren
• Paige
• Paul
• Sarah
• Mer
• My KDI crowd

• "Don't Pass Me By", The Beatles
• "Walking In Memphis", Marc Cohn
• "Nigunim", Israeli traditional
• "Stars & Sons", Broken Social Scene
• "Consuelo Leaving", Belle & Sebastian
• "King of Swing", Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
• "Autrefois", Pink Martini
• "Voice Mail #2", Rent
• "Mysterious Days", Sarah Brightman
• "Your Song", Ewan McGregor
• "Daylight Fading", Counting Crows
• "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", Queen
• "Pick-Up Line", Ex-Bo...

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Harry Potter
• The Time Traveler's Wife
• I Am the Messenger
• Please Don't Kill the Freshman
• Where the Wild Things Are (actually, anything by Maurice Sendak is a safe bet)
• Vote For Larry
• Wide Awake
• The Prophet
• What Happened to Lani Garver

• playing with "the girls"
• putting on CATS in Boo Boo's basement
• first TPing at KDI
• watching the same movies over and over
• listening to Footloose and Flashdance in the car
• Labor Day trips to Johnson Shut-Ins
• climbing trees
• playing Monkey In the Middle with Jonathan
• doughnuts and Magic School Bus on Sundays
• Beanie Baby gang wars
• Pokemon cards
• collecting cats
• couch forts

Sight:

• the color green
• gothic art
• black and white photography
• autumn leaves
• a good book
• Mer's sketchbook

Sound:

• my favorite bands
• wind on a calm day
• thunder
• wind chimes
• hearty laughter
• cello music

Smell:

• Love Spell
• baked goods
• burning leaves/bonfires
• the air right before it rains
• caramel
• old books & libraries

Touch:

• furry cats
• polished wood
• really soft cotton
• holding hands
• warm fire
• jumping into water on a hot day

Taste:

• salt...

• Pripyat, Ukraine
• Osaka, Japan
• Australia
• Ireland
• New York City
• Oregon
• New England

• stupid grammatical errors
• arguing with people who clearly don't listen to anyone else
• trying to upload photos to Facebook with a computer that freezes every time I try to do more than 3 at a time
• interpersonal drama
• people who use Jesus as an excuse to be an asshole
• actually, just assholes in general, excluding the Brad variety.

• Horseflies
• Turbulence on airplanes
• The thought of one of my friends dying
• Really deep water - or rather, the thought of primordial sea monsters
• Mob mentality, especially in a time of crisis
• the future (somewhat)
• Large power tools
• Giant spiders (okay, I know they are not real, but seriously, if I ever ran into Shelob or Aragog, I would shit my pants.)

• beat up the neighbor kid
• listened to pop music
• tried to come up with snappy comebacks to all the kids who teased me
• wore weird clothes
• not much else

• raisins
• breaded/fried things
• Coke and Pepsi products
• bacon
• broccoli
• whole milk
• peach-flavored or banana-flavored things
• low-sodium V8
• sugar-free pudding
• white bread
• overly spicy or overly salty food (I like a little bite, though.)
• ham (except in sandwiches)
• pea pods
• anything with excessive thyme or oregano
• olives
• peppers
• American or other highly processed cheese

• octopus (tasty)
• toasted mealworms (not too bad if you don't think about it)
• escargot (okay taste, gross texture)
• fried alligator tail (tastes like really dry chicken, and I don't like fried things)
• balsamic vinegar on ice cream and brownies (not at the same time, but both good)
• lollipop with a cricket in the middle (chickened out and didn't actually make it to the bug)
• squid salad (too oily)
• larb (delici...

• Rosenshontz
• Cats
• Mary Chapin Carpenter
• Footloose
• Flashdance
• The Big Chill
• The Beach Boys
• John Denver & the Muppets
• cliche 90's pop

• At school
• Where do you want to eat?
• At rehearsal
• Okay, guys, are we gonna do this or not?
• Whose script is this? I'm using it.
• At work
• Anything I can help you find, sir/ma'am?
• No, sorry, that's not on sale.
• Among my friends
• That's what she said.
• I'm writing that down. Get the book!
• Among my family
• Excellent.
• Which car should I take?
• In general
• Epic fail.
• That's so random.
• Mrow?

• A nice rare prime rib, or the Filet Tenderloin from Outback
• Mochi ice cream
• Cornbread and sweet potato casserole from Boston Market
• Black bean burritos with plenty of pico de gallo and guacamole
• Grilled salmon
• Gold potatoes with goat cheese
• Haagen-Dazs 5 in Brown Sugar
• Cherry spice cake
• Pasta House ravioli
• Tostada pizza from CA Pizza Kitchen
• Sparkling white grape juice
• White chocolate pretzels
• Raspberry pie
• Pr...

• Cats, all kinds
• Owls
• Wolves, foxes, and other doglike feral creatures
• ...do I have a thing about nocturnal animals?

My childhood spanned a number of years, as did most people's, so my taste changed. All of these still rock, though.

• Reading Rainbow
• Sesame Street
• Magic School Bus
• Boy Meets World
• PowerPuff Girls
• So Weird
• Zoboomafoo

• Cake decorator
• Conceptual artist for a movie studio (although I could not pull that off. Maybe Mer could. Mer definitely could.)
• Bookstore or music store owner
• Songwriter
• Album cover designer
• Photographer
• Chef or pastry chef
• Freelance novelist
• Librarian
• Exotic animal trainer

• Musicals
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show - particularly the audience participation aspect
• Cat makeup
• Creative costuming
• Cat breeds
• Fanfiction - what works and what doesn't (hint: don't write erotica if your only sexual knowledge comes from romance novels.)