Boy Names

• Ezra
• Ephram
• Matthew
• Daniel
• Graham
• Luke

Girl Names

• Arcadia
• Charlotte
• Hollis
• Aubrey
• Kate
• Rachel
• Natalie

2012

Total: 15

• We the Living , Ayn Rand
• Ender's Game , Orson Scott Card
• Harry Potter Series , JK Rowling (number 6 twice)
• Fahrenheit 451 , Ray Bradbury
• Hunger Games Series , Suzanne Collins
• The Big Trip Up Yonder , Kurt Vonnegut
• 2 B R 0 2 B , Kurt Vonnegut
• Dune , Frank Herbert

2013

Total:30

• Cat's Cradle , Kurt Vonnegut
• Harry Potter 1-3&5 , JK Rowling
• Multiple Blessings , Kate Gosselin
• Ender's Game , Orson Scott Card
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower , Stephen Chbosky
• A Man Without a Country , Kurt Vonnegut
• 1984 , George Orwell
• Bossypants , Tina Fey

• "period eyes"
• "conspicuous sweat"
• "just play with it"
• "oh you know...!" (in a Canadian accent)
• "number nine... Number nine... Number nine..."
• "Mr. Lawrence get up and walk it off. It's only food poisoning."
• "We let a blind kid into second year [of architecture school] once, but he couldn't pass drawing class so we had to kick him out."
• "Your lines are so fat it looks like you drafted with candy bars."
• [trombone plays loudly in the distance] "Oh God. That sounds like a hoard of elephants. Do we ever sound like that?"
• "There are finials that look like pineapples along the roofline. Except in the literature people called them 'pine cones'. They didn't know the difference. They wer...

• 12 Years a Slave
• A Hijacking
• Admission
• An Education
• American Hustle
• Argo
• Blue Jasmine
• Brave
• Casablanca
• Celeste & Jesse Forever
• Clockwork Orange
• Cloud Atlas
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Frances Ha
• Funny Girl
• Hugo
• LA Confidential
• Les Miserables (2012)
• Lincoln
• Magic Mike

I want my house to have:

• a dedicated library with big comfy chairs/couches for lounging and reading
• a large dining room for dinner parties and host lots of friends and family
• near bike trails/in a bike friendly community
• dishwasher/laundry room
• music practice room

crossed off = read (completely)

current count: 107

• Architecture/Art History
  • 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, Matthew Frederick
  • A New Theory of Design, Alexander
  • Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art, Dan Franck
  • Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscape of North American Slavery, Clifton Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg (editors)
  • Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Venturi
  • Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas
  • Design of Cities, Edmund Bacon
  • Falling Glass, Patrick Loughran
  • Frank Gehry in Pop-up, Roland Lewis
  • Gaudi Unseen: Completing the Sagrada Fami...

• A Crow Left of the Murder , Incubus
• A Fever You Can't Sweat Out , Panic! at the Disco
• A Lesson in Romantics , Mayday Parade
• A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar , Dashboard Confessional
• A Rush of Blood to the Head , Coldplay
• Back at One , Brian McKnight
• Brand New Eyes , Paramore
• Codes and Keys , Death Cab for Cutie
• Death of a Bachelor , Panic! at the Disco
• Dusk and Summer , Dashboard Confessional
• Everything in Transit , Jack's Mannequin
• Folie a Deux , Fall Out Boy
• From Under the Cork Tree , Fall Out Boy
• Hanson: Live and Electric , Hanson
• Hot Fuss , The Killers
• Hot Mess , Cobra Starship
• Infinity on High , Fall Out Boy
• Light Grenades , Incubus
• Like Vines , The Hush Sound
• Live From Albertane , Hanson
• Make Yourself , Incubus

A: apple cider on holidays // airports // architecture // afternoon naps // afternoon snacks // audiobooks //

B: boyfriend // black tea // books // bonfires // berlin // backpacking // breakfast // biking // best friends // banana pancakes on sunday mornings // bikram // beards // Blue Bell ice cream //

C: chai tea lattes // coffee // college football games // cat pictures // clean sheets // cereal for dinner // cereal sandwich! // CSPAN // central New York //

D: dawson's creek // dci // dresses // driving on the highway // daria (while I'm on the treadmill) //

E: everwood // europe // eggs (over easy) // earl grey tea // emails from friends //

F: family // friends // france // fried rice // first kisses // first 'I love you's // frozen thin mints //

G: germany // graduate school // girl sco...

• "My life is like a box of chocolates, except someone already ate them all and handed me the box back."
• "I would have spent my whole life telling you how much I love you, but you already told me how much you don't."
• "If God wanted you to walk in the street, He wouldn't have made sidewalks!"
• "If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train."
• "Everyday might not be good, but there's something good in every day."
• "it is frequently the function of the great books to achieve in advance what technology will merely put into execution." -Barthes

I want these things when I finally get a house!

• iron
• ironing board
• dishwasher
• washer & dryer
• food processor
• furniture that matches
• HVAC

2006/2007:

• Tempe, Arizona, Insight Bowl (December/January)

2007/2008:

• Jacksonville, Florida, Gator Bowl (December/January)

2009:

• Albuquerque, New Mexico, Balloon Fiesta (October)
• Angel Fire, New Mexico, Skiing (October)

2010:

• Paris (May-July)
• Berlin (July)
• Regensburg (July)
• Prague (July)
• Vienna (July)
• Venice (July)
• Florence (July)

• "When you can't get through it, listen to it" -Been There Before
• "Don't wander to this glassy surface, expecting to find more than me, cause what am I without a purpose, but a lone mirage to see" -Song to Sing
• "Where'd you go? My forehead is still bleeding from the thorns I used to wear, left alone and beaten for this cross I choose to bear" -When You're Gone
• "Just one breath is a million sighs" -Runaway Run
• "Fear has got to go this time around" -This Time Around
• "Murder wears a friendly smile, like a perfect end in a plastic vile, no pain" -Believe
• "When every eye is on the fortune, well it can only breed contempt, they say blood is thicker than oceans, still we box our brothers in?" -Great Divide

Grammar

• people who don't know the difference between 12 AM & 12 PM
• you're/your
• there/their/they're
• its/it's
• plural possessive vs. singular possessive in names that end in "S" (ex: Jesus's (correct for singular possessive) vs. Jesus' (correct for plural possessive))
• using 'a' instead of 'an' when the next word starts with a vowel (ex: 'a apple' instead of 'an apple')
• the new spelling rules in electronic media (ex: U = you or 4 = for; using 'q' in place of 'p', etc.,)
• anytime someone uses the word 'wicked' (and doesn't mean a witch or evil creature) especially in conjunction with the word 'awesome'. (IE: "that's wicked awesome!")

I pretty much NEVER buy movies so I'm kind of behind.

• 13 Going on 30
• 27 Dresses
• 28 Days Later
• 28 Weeks Later
• 500 Days of Summer
• A Cinderella Story
• American Pie
• Avatar
• Baby Mama
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Bridesmaids
• Burn After Reading
• Celeste & Jesse Forever
• Clueless
• Crazy, Stupid Love
• Dan in Real Life
• Django Unchained
• Dirty Dancing
• Elf

Stuff I want to do but haven't yet done while living in Virginia:

• Go to the Civil War Dinosaur Park
• Go to the speakeasy at Fellini's
• See a show at the pavilion on the Downtown Mall
• Go to Williamsburg
• See the permanent exhibit at the Holocaust Museum in DC
• Eat in downtown Belmont

• A Different World
• Big Bang Theory
• Boy Meets World
• Breaking Bad
• Dawson's Creek
• Everwood
• Frasier
• Friday Night Lights
• Friends
• Full House
• Game of Thrones
• Gilmore Girls
• Grey's Anatomy
• Growing Pains
• Mad Men
• New Girl
• Parks and Rec
• Roseanne
• Sex and the City
• Smart Guy
• Teen Mom (1/2/3)

• Albany, New York (ALB)
• Atlanta, Georgia (ATL)
• Baltimore, Maryland (BWI)
• Berlin Tegel, Germany (TXL)
• Charles de Gaulle, Paris (CDG)
• Charlotte, North Carolina (CLT)
• Charlottesville, Virginia (CHO)
• Chicago Midway (MDW)
• Chicago O'Hare (ORD)
• Cincinnati, Ohio (CVG)
• Columbus, Ohio (CMH)
• Dallas Love Field, Texas (DAL)
• Denver, Colorado (DEN)
• DFW International, Dallas, Texas (DFW)
• Dresden, Germany (DRS)
• Düsseldorf, Germany (DUS)
• Greenville, South Carolina (GSP)
• Houston Hobby, Texas (HOU)
• JFK Airport, New York City (JFK)
• Los Angeles, California (LAX)
• London Gatwick (LGW)

• Albuquerque
• Bali
• Berlin
• Boston
• Charlottesville
• DC
• London
• New York City
• Paris
• Vienna

• 50cent (terrible)
• All Time Low
• Bowling for Soup
• Boys Like Girls
• Britney Spears
• Charlie Marks
• Cobra Starship (twice)
• Fall Out Boy
• Hanson (three times)
• Hellogoodbye
• Hey Monday
• Josh Abbott Band (twice)
• NSync (twice)
• Panic! at the Disco
• Phantom Planet
• Rocket to the Moon
• Sherwood
• Steel Train
• The Hush Sound
• The Maine
• VersaEmerge