• Become a physician (internist v.s. surgeon tbd)
  • Specialize in either Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's (tentative)
• Master the snare drum roll
• Own and play a cajon
• ✔ Learn how to play the ukulele
• Learn how to play a double bass
• Learn how to play an electric bass
• Volunteer as a doctor in Africa
• Visit Antarctica
• Sky dive (if I have the guts)
• Stay in Hong Kong for a few years
• Buy my own piano
• Hug a lion
• Spend a night out on the streets to experience what it's like to be homeless
• Volunteer at a hospital
• See Wicked
• Be published in a medical/scientific jour...

Nail Polish

• taupe

• not taking spanish in high school
• "it"
• not getting to know more of my teachers (a few of them are awesome!)
• not starting a long-term volunteer activity in high school
• not taking APUSH (I feel like I should have a good knowledge of history.. sigh)
• being such a fangirl back in the day
• being so... judgmental back in the day
• being so ignorant back in the day
• occasionally being mean to my brother
• snapping at my parents
• the curses I muttered in my mind
• being materialistic
• NOT READING MORE CLASSICS BACK WHEN I HAD THE TIME

• "Pressed but not crushed, persecuted not abandoned!"
• "THE SKY IS FALLING"
• "WE'RE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER" -- fake a break-up and make it really dramatic and immature

• how I got the dream that foreshadowed the break-in into my dad's car
• how I heard something different from assistant principal regarding "it."

Note: various percussion instruments included!

• piano
• timpani
• ukulele
• marimba
• vibes
• xylophone
• glockenspiel/bells
• crash and suspended cymbals
• bass drum (and with cymbals attached... worst thing ever)
• snare drum
• temple blocks
• wood block
• triangle
• chimes
• wind chimes
• tam tam
• tambourine
• castanets

• Commodore Matthew Perry's landing on Japan (albeit the start of a sad time)
• Copernicus vs. Ptolemy debate
• Galileo vs. The Inquisition (Trial)

Tops

• Black/Maroon blazer (must have elegant detailing)
• Brown leather jacket, with studs perhaps?
• AA jacket
• Rep the King sweatshirt (Maroon)
• ✔✔ Simple sundress
• Sheer button-down blouse
• ✔ Bright colored solid blouse
• ✔ Whimsically patterned button-down blouse
• ✔✔ Business blouses with some flair
• ✔ Plain dress with some special detailing
• Denim Jacket
• Chambray button-down shirt
• Graphic, oversized sweater for fall
• ✔ pullover
• ✔ plaid shirt
• ✔ long-sleeved tops

• My named inanimate objects
• My work experiences and how they impacted me
• The web interfaces I created over the years
• My music-listening timeline
• The fun things I did (will do) in college

• I've come so far, and I can't stop.
• I promised to give it all I have.
• I can go into missions for a living.
• "Life is sweeter on the other side" - The Afters "Life is Sweeter"
• Where do I want to be in five years? Ten years? Fifteen years?

• “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• "If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." - Roald Dahl
• “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
• "Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small," said Lee. "Maybe, kneeling down to atoms, they're becoming atom-sized in their souls." - John Steinbeck, East of Eden
• “Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I hav..._The Glass Menagerie_

• Respond to emails quickly
• At the beginning of the year, make a spreadsheet to document everyone's after school activities

• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

• girlsack "Going back to school? I thought you were too cool for school!" [x]
• girlsack outfit ideas [x]

• AP English Language The Awakening Create-an-AP-Multiple-Choice-Test project.

• TIME magazines
• White iPhones
• Macbook Pros
• Bibles
• Hymnals
• Moleskines
• Bacteriophages
• White Blood Cells
• Purses
• College viewbooks
• Lanyards
• Button-down blouses
• Sundresses
• Good mascaras
• Labcoats
• Watches
• Used books
• the stories that elders tell me
• Enthusiastic elders

(list to be continued)

• Antigone by Sophocles
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (have)
• Candide by Voltaire (have)
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck (have)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (have)
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare (have)
• Hiroshima by John Hershey
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (have)
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare (will have)
• Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (have)
• My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (have)
• Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• Tartuffe by Moliere (have)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (have)
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell (have)
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White (have)