People to see.

• Eli, before he moves
• Steph? It might not be possible.
  • I guess she moved? Sadface.
• people that are actually in Columbus
• family, naturally

Eating out.

• ✔ Aab
  • though I'm sure I'll go again...just not for a month or so. SO MUCH FOOD.
• ✔ Taj Palace
• Spagio
• Shoku
• Haiku
• Akai Hana
• North Market
• Hubbard Grill
• ✔ Surly Girl

Nonfiction

• Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties , Beth Kobliner
• My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey , Jill Bolte Taylor
• The Language Instinct , Steven Pinker
• Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language , Steven Pinker
• This is NPR: The First Forty Years , NPR et al.

Fiction

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle , Haruki Murakami
• The Alchemist , Paolo Coelho
• Pygmy , Chuck Palahniuk
• Snuff , Chuck Palahniuk
• Son of a Witch , Gregory Maguire
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , Philip K. Dick

• still be awake
• be looking at the Urban Outfitters website and lusting after these shoes like a crazed lunatic
• generally be looking online at anything I can purchase when I know I don't have enough money
• mope about and wish I got paid more
• still be awake

Books in order of when I read them.

• The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Culture , Roger Davies
• Pygmy , Chuck Palahniuk
• Slapstick , Kurt Vonnegut (reread)
• Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa , Karin Kuller (NF)
• Look at the Birdie , Kurt Vonnegut (unpublished short fiction)
• Black Hole , Charles Burns (graphic novel)
• Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick , Philip K. Dick
• Bluebeard , Kurt Vonnegut (reread)
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch , Philip K. Dick
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , Plilip K. Dick
• The Game Players of Titan , Philip K. Dick

Although this list is ongoing, I know I'll have to wait on a lot of things until I get back from teaching overseas. Sadface.

Including both major but mostly very minor desires (pens, what?).

• washi tape
• butcher's paper - which is connected to the washi tape situation (gift wrapping, yay)
• super awesome and incredibly fine-point pens (like that woman had at work)
  • They are so incredibly awesome. Oh yes.
• a new (gently used, ehem) bicycle
• an inexpensive sewing machine
• new shoes for work
  • They made my feet hurt so badly, I don't even think I can wear them anymore. Angst, I have it.

I need to make a packing list, which I suppose is forthcoming if/when I get my contract, but this is all the little things I know I just have to do before I leave.

• save a BAJILLION DOLLARS, or something close
• sell my car
• get a haircut RIGHT BEFORE I GO
• get a back-up pair of glasses
• EXTREME clothes shopping
  • shorts
  • nice black pants or dress pants
  • jeans
  • dress shirts (three-ish)
  • MOAR CARDIGANS!
  • comfortable cotton tees - crew-neck, v-neck, scoop-neck, what have you
  • tanks and undershirts (just a few that fit well and are a little longer)
  • insoles so I can keep my Keds that kill m...

I have a long list of somewhat distracted and/or unfocused desires, most (well, okay, all, I'm sure) of which I would like to keep a stellar blog about. For instance, if I could only have a bit more kitchen space to myself, I would love to keep a cooking blog of some sort - sort of a "let's challenge this recipe today and see how it pans out" or a "home canning/smoking/pickling/things-that-seem-old-fashioned-but-would-be-very-handy" type of thing. So, let's make a list of things I would blog about if, god willing, I had either time or patience to do more than complain. Shall we?

cooking/food-tackling blog

• Like I said, most likely a recipe, experimentation blog.

dining blog

• Nothing special, just photos from dining out experiences. This would probably requ...