• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C Clark
• Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, for none but ourselves can free our minds. Bob Marley.
• I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stumped by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, 'Hi.' They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word. Augusten Burroughs
• It was us, baby, who were the lucky ones. Maureen, RENT
• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and take a look around, you might miss it. Ferris Bueller.
• Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies wont believe i...

• be late
• be overly intrusive (read: nosy)
• give me parenting tips when i didn't ask
• have double standards
• leave a crappy tip
• refuse to use your turn signal
• use poor grammar in a professional email
• wax poetic about things you know nothing about

• a wrinkle in time
• dry
• god-shaped hole
• never let me go
• neverwhere
• the hunger games
• the time-traveler's wife
• twilight
• where the wild things are

• italy
• spain
• greece
• australia
• england
• japan

husband made a playlist for me because i was complaining about the supreme suck that is austin radio lately. here's who he put together:

• alice in chains
• amon tobin
• asobi seksu
• athlete
• the beatles
• beck
• the big pink
• bjork
• blink-182
• bon jovi
• carrie underwood
• the cars
• the cure
• dave matthews & tim reynolds
• dave matthews band
• david bowie
• dj krush

• anything by jane austen
• most classic authors, really.
• the secret life of bees
• wuthering heights

the ones i can recite

• empire records
• ferris bueller's day off
• lost in translation
• the princess bride
• reality bites
• RENT

the ones i adore

• before sunrise
• before sunset
• fight club
• garden state
• sideways
• slumdog millionaire

the ones i love but still don't own

• lock, stock and two smoking barrels
• snatch
• rock n rolla

(do you sense a theme with that last grou...

• alice in chains
• foo fighters
• kings of leon
• mgmt
• the gorillaz
• zero 7

I have to get home first, because I have a list going already.

• at my computer
• coffee shop patios
• in my overstuffed red chair
• half-price books
• target

• birthday: 12/8
• husband's birthday: 9/8
• kid's birthday: 7/25
• wedding anniversary: 5/24

friends

• apurplekitchen
• cloudlessblue
• pants
• wildlegislator

otherwise

• a beautiful mess
• mine