• synecdoche - a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part; the special for the general or the general for the special/ex: a Croseus for a rich man
• frump - a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive/ a dull, old fashioned person
• pullulate - spread, produce rapidly/exist abundantly/send forth buds, sprouts; germinate

When he moved back to Hawaii...

• a little spider plant
• Unused journal with ocean watercolor on cover
• plastic vampire door knocker
• wooden carving of a woman with a baby that he carved himself
• box of Sleepytime Extra
• a white knit hat
• blue and black glass pipe
• Alae seasoning
• Pohakea
• kava root powder
• taro pancake mix
• rose made out of Hersey's Kisses
• felt roses
• a bunch of food and Hawaiian seasoning
• roasted seaweed snack
• one of those germ masks
• Sleepytime tea tin holding a blue patterned Bic lighter and some weed stems (o_O)

• The Human Stain , Philip Roth
• White Teeth , Zadie Smith
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay , Michael Chabon
• The Feast of Love , Charles Baxter
• Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men , Padgett Powell
• The Name of the World , Denis Johnson
• The Night Listener , Armistead Maupin
• Pastoralia: Stories , George Saunders
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius , Dave Eggers
• The Verificationist , Donald Antrim
• Off Keck Road , Mona Simpson

• Sierra
• Joseph
• Nainoa <3
• Emily
• Paul
• Jeremy
• Rian
• Indigo
• Rosemary
• Jardin
• Shannon
• Zuriel
• Chris

• Giant flying zombie bears = most terrifying thing ever.
• What if I open my eyes...and a real life Claydol is hovering over my bed?
• Relationships are like bird poo. You see it everywhere, it's gross, sometimes you step in it...but if it falls on your head, it's good luck!
• I will not strive to be a martyr
• We are only tools and portraits
• People are more scared of love than they are of death.
• Love is the only great thing.
• Fantasies that actually happen have an unexpected way of feeling mundane.
• Subtle manipulation = the key to love
• Complaining about complaining about things that are easily fixed and should be dealt with.
• Hypocrites complaining about how people are such hypocrites.

• food: sushi
• musical instrument: tenor saxophone
• hero: Adam Young, Hayao Miyazaki
• color: red
• non-color: gray
• season: summer
• book: The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
• book series: A Song of Ice and Fire
• videogame: The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
• videogame console besides PC: 3DS/Gameboy
• comic book: The Walking Dead
• graphic novel: Scott Pilgrim
• manga: FLCL
• song: Here Comes the Sun, the Beatles
• band: Passion Pit
• second favorite band: Blue October
• website: DeviantART
• Song of Ice and Fire character: Tyrion
• mythological creature: PIXIES
• word: zombie

• Buttcrack Pants (aka, yoga pants, leggings, sausage casing, or Every Nook n' Cranny pants)
• Music straight from a cellphone, where it sounds all fuzzy and weird. Gives me a headache. My ears are spoiled.
• The whiny tone of voice, which sucks when it is just that persons voice and they aren't trying to be whiny.
• When people whine about things they shouldn't be, like their parents, or friends, or their job
• Cali-Girl "accent"
• Acquaintances/Friends from classes who ignore my existence once the term is over
• Slutty girls complaining about the sluttiness of other girls.
• When people decide to major in Psychology or Art history because they believe it is "easy"
• When its obvious people are only in colle...

Types

• 1. Fairy!!!
• 2. Ice
• 3. Fire
• 4. Electric
• 5. Steel
• 6. Dark

Pokemon Battle Prowess

• 1. Glaceon
• 2. Blaziken
• 3. Roserade
• 4. Frosglas
• 5. Claydol
• 6. Poliwrath

Pokemon Appearance

• 1. Aipom
• 2. Roserade
• 3. Whiscash
• 4. Emolga

• Darkhorse Comics
• OHSU
• Gamestop
• Barns & Noble
• Powell's City of Books
• Guardian Games
• Red Castle
• Daycare Center
• Work study

Volunteer

• Outside-In
• Teacher aid at Lents

• ✔ Dawn of the Dreadfuls
• Women of the Silk
• The Samurai's Garden
• Ravens
• Turn me into Zeus's Daughter
• The Sky Fisherman
• Infinite Jest
• Violin
• Zombies
• Catch-22
• Ishmael
• Life of Pi
• The Beautiful Things Heaven Bears
• The Egyptian Coffin
• White Oleander
• The Secret Garden
• The Girl Who Played With Fire
• Never Let Me Go
• The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

• Ready Player One , Ernest Cline
• Dragon Age: The Stolen Throne , David Gaider
• A Dance of Dragons , George R.R. Martin
• The Eye of the World , Robert Jordan

• Everything is Illuminated , Jonathan Safran Foer
• ✔ Atonement , Ian McEwan
• Female Trouble: A Collection of Short Stories , Antonya Nelson
• Middlesex , Jeffrey Eugenides
• July, July , Tim O'Brian
• The Little Friend , Donna Tartt
• Seek My Face , John Updike
• In the Forest , Edna O'Brian
• Yonder Stands Your Orphan , Barry Hannah

• Grave of the Fireflies
• Metropolis
• Nasuka of the Valley of the Wind
• Akira

• Female
• "A bro" (whatever that means)
• Adam Young fan
• Adventurer
• Otaku
• Aquarius
• Arachnophobic
• Asocial
• Asperger's
• Aspiring Comic book Artist
• Automophobic
• Bad Poet
• ...but published
• Band geek
• Biodegradable
• Biology minor
• Bookworm
• BoomslAg
• Boring Blogger
• Boy crazy
• Brunette

• Get legs like Chun-Li from Street Fighter
• ✔ Wrrrriiiiiiiiiiteeeeeeeeee!
• Practice, Practice, Practice DRAWING
• Get a job or internship
• Get rid of the flub

• Waking up in the morning hours
• Stretching Upon waking up
• Take lactate pills when eating dairy!! SERIOUSLY DO IT!
  • Or just don't eat dairy at all!
• Eat various things for breakfast, not just one big thing.
• Eat smaller portions throughout the day
• Bring snacks with you to school!
• Carry a water bottle around
• Go to the library after last class for a few hours.
• Replace the urge to play videogames with the urge to write or draw
• Exercise with mom or whoever
• Drink only one or two cups of coffee a day
  • Stop buying it at coffee shops!
• Take time to actually practice drawing or...

• Camp alone
• Go on a soul-searchy adventure
• Go to Japan, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, Scotland, Greenland, Switzerland and Norway
• Go to one of those couples resorts in the tropics (what can I say? I'm a romantic)
• Get a boat and go on a trip with it along the coasts
• Visit all of the ancient temples and ruined/abandoned cities of the world
• Have a "Holiday in Guam"

• Book of Numbers , Joshua Cohen
• Make Something Up , Chuck Palahniuk
• How to Survive Anything , Time MacWelch
• The Seven Good Years: A Memoir , Etgar Keret
• I'd Walk With My Friends If I Could Find Them , Jesse Goolsby
• Loving Day , Mat Johnson
• On the Move: A Life , Oliver Sacks

Every answer must start with the first letter of your first name.

• Name: Sydney
• Animal: Squid, Squirell, Salmon, Shark, Sardine, Shrimp
• Boys name: Samaquias
• Girls name: Shaniqua
• Occupation: Sailer, Seamstress, Shaman
• Color: sky blue, salmon
• Something you wear: Sweater, Shirt, Socks, Scarf
• Drink: Shake, Soda, Squirt (the soda, you pervert), Shasta,
• Food: Squidink spaghetti, Sandwich, Starburst, Saltines, Sardines, shrimp, salad, Smarties, Sweettarts,
• Something you find in the bathroom: Sand (after a day at the beach), Soap, Shampoo, Squirt bottle, smelly laundry, sopping wet rug, slippery floors
• Place: Sandy River, Salmon Street, Starbu...

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• Slaughterhouse Five , Kurt Vonnegut
• ✔ The Metomorphosis , Franz Kafka
• Animal Farm , George Orwell
• ✔ Of Mice and Men , John Steinback
• The Waves , Virginia Woolf
• The Old Man and the Sea , Ernest Hemingway
• Waiting for the Barbarians , G.M. Coetzee
• A Christmas Carol , Charles Dickens
• Things Fall Apart , Chinue Achebe
• Home , Toni Morrison
• The Stranger , Albert Camus
• Notes from the Underground , Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Invisible Cities , Italo Calvino
• Heart of Darkness , Joseph Conrad
• The Day of the Owl , Leonardo Sciascia
• The Quiet American , Graham Greene
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich , Leo Tolstoy
• The Time Machine , H.G. Wells
• Darkness at Noon , Arthur Koestler
• ✔ The Great Gadsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald (own!)

• Alistair
• Zevran
• Morrigan
• Fenris
• Anders
• Solas

• If I were a month, I’d be October.
• If I were a day of the week, I’d be Friday.
• If I were a time of day, I’d be 2:45am.
• If I were a planet, I’d be Mars.
• If I were a sea animal, I’d be a sea horse.
• If I were a direction, I’d be Up.
• If I were a piece of furniture, I’d be a bed.
• If I were a liquid, I’d be glue.
• If I were a gemstone, I’d be a ruby.
• If I were a tree, I’d be a cherry blossom tree.
• If I were a tool, I’d be a painting palette.
• If I were a flower, I’d be a tiger lily.
• If I were a kind of weather, I’d be a thunderstorm.

• What is one thing you will never do again?
  • Fall in love with an asshole
• Would you rather be twice as smart or twice as happy?
  • Knowledge is a curse; I choose happiness
• What happened the last time you cried?
  • My boyfriend moved back to Hawaii
• What were you ever most nervous about?
  • that's a secret
• What would your parents be surprised to learn about you?

• "Is it just me, or are your buttcheeks really cold?" ~ Campbell
• "What in the name of ding-dong is going on here?!" ~ Prof. Ruedas
• "I mean, come on! Who DOESN'T want to be raped by Jennifer Aniston?" ~ Prof. Leslie
• "It used to be that being barrel-chested was a GOOD thing, but then the 90s hit and now guys have to be skinny, sad and girly." ~ Guy at crosswalk next to the apartment
• "I'm sure you all know about how polar bear liver is toxic, but don't worry, it's only if you eat too much." ~ Prof. Ruedas
• "They're like shin splints, but with fire." ~ Guy on the Steel Bridge near the Blues Festival
• "Then they came out speaking a fancy form of gibberish called poetry." ~ Prof. Arm...

• A few people in various poses each day
• Sketch every idea, even the dumb ones!
• Devote sketchbook pages to something specific to practice
• Practice ordinary objects
• Make something on Bristol every week!
• Practice OCs every day

• Finding an actual letter in the mailbox
• That moment after finishing an extremely good book
• Waking up to see that I can still sleep
• Falling asleep to rain
• Waking up to SNOW
• Coffee at 4-7am
• Meeting up for lunch break.
• Hearing a pregnancy announcement
• Watching a scary movie/playing a scary videogame on the couch, in the dark, with a bunch of friends
• Early mornings with a loved one (esp. with the smell of coffee and cooking)
• When strangers pay you compliments
• When acquaintances from past classes say "hi" at random encounters (usually they pretend we never had met)
• Getting an Email with the subject "Class Canceled"
• Overhearing something hilarious