• The Album Leaf - Into the Blue Again
• Arcade Fire - Funeral
• Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
• Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
• Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
• The National - High Violet

TO BE CONTINUED WHEN I HAVE ENERGY.

• Monday
  • read chapter 9.1 in calculus textbook
  • read part of chapter about the sun
• Tuesday
  • read the first part of La Partie de trictrac in Balzac to Zola
  • exercises in Bonne continuation - A + B (pg. 1-3)
  • read chapter 15 in Give Me Liberty!
• Wednesday
  • read chapter 9.2 in calculus textbook
  • read some more of the sun chapter
• Thursday
  • Susan Mann article for history
  • Georgia sharecropper thing
  • finish La Partie de trictra...

• Lemonworld - The National
• Bloodbuzz Ohio - The National
• Untitled 02 - Brand New

• "You think I'm lying? Dude, you don't even know what I'm talking about! Fuck you, man! ... Just kidding, I love you."
• "Am I making you uncomfortable, Josh?"
  • "You make me uncomfortable all the time."
• "I have a girlfriend who tells me she needs me and she loves me, I guess we got married." AWW SO CUTE.
• the Konstantine chant
• WHEN THEY CAME BACK FOR THE ENCORE AND PLAYED KONSTANTINE.
• The crowd shouting "HEY...

• The touch screen is sensitive. TOO SENSITIVE. If you're holding the phone in your hand and you put a finger on the side of your phone (NOT THE SCREEN, JUST NEAR THE SCREEN), you will inevitably touch something and that will screw everything up.
• For some reason it has a habit of switching from the home screen through the other screens as far left as it can go. FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT ...

My sister and I were inspired by this to put together our own True Blood bingo boards to play while watching the show.

• "Shut the fuck up!"
• Talbot makes a comment about his decor
• SOOKEH
• Eric is shirtless
• Jason is shirtless
• Lafayette calls someone a bitch
• Lafayette calls someone a hooker
• It was all a dream
• Lorena is a crazy bitch
• Eric flashback
• Bill flashback
• Tara's mom is a bitch
• Terry mentions the war
• Andy has ...

If I had money, I would buy these things, because unlike this list, they're actually useful... or in the case of LeakyCon, just plain awesome.

• iPod classic - $249 (to replace the iPod touch I left in Amsterdam)
• Canon EOS Rebel K2 35mm film camera - $297 (to replace the identical camera I had that was stolen from my locker in sophomore year - THOSE BITCHES THAT WAS MY CHRISTMAS PRESENT)
• admission/hote...

• Ritz crackers
• Club crackers
• Better Cheddars
• Barnum's animal crackers
• Townhouse crackers
• SnackWells
• Crispix
• almond poppyseed muffins

These are the material things that I want more than anything in the world. And I know it's bad to base happiness on possessions, buuuut...

• hippie van (specifically a Volkswagen Kombi or Samba bus, circa 1965)
• old-fashioned typewriter - specifically this one
• record player
• a pair of Christian Louboutins

• Colly Strings - Manchester Orchestra
• If I Had You - Adam Lambert

More or less in chronological order.

• Corona - tastes like carbonated ass
• rum and coke - sort of good, all things considered
• Jack Daniels - gross... Ke$ha is a crazy bitch
• gin and tonic - tastes LITERALLY like the aftertaste of vomit
• Baileys Irish Cream - SO YUMMY!
• rum and grape juice - meh
• cider ale - it just tasted like beer... kind of gross
• appletini - tastes like candy!
• Jack and coke - better than strai...

• There is a Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
• The Tension and the Terror - Straylight Run
• Soco Amaretto Lime - Brand New
• In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
• The Neighborhood is Bleeding - Manchester Orchestra

• The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• Song of th...

Not that I can afford any of these, but that's okay.

• Marc by Marc Jacobs
• Alice + Olivia
• Christian Louboutin
• Alexander McQueen
• 3.1 Philip Lim
• Versace
• Burberry

• Do-Wah-Doo - Kate Nash
• Somebody to Love - Leighton Meester ft. Robin Thicke
• Your Love's a Drug - Leighton Meester
• Shots - LMFAO
• Paris - Kate Nash
• All Around the World - Cooler Kids
• You're My Incentive - Kevin Devine
• Paper, Rock, Scissors - JamisonParker

Ideally I'd like to reclaim all of these before I graduate, but we'll see how that goes.

• Claire - The Jungle
• Ms. Shutz - No Plot? No Problem!
• Adrian - English translation of Cyrano de Bergerac
• Zach - The Children of Dynmouth

• book swapping/lending party
• famous literary figures party
• Disney princess marathon party (dress up as Disney princesses and watch Disney princess movies)
• Boy Meets World marathon party
• LOST marathon party
• font type party (dress up as font faces)

• "If you see any naaaked weeeemon, don't stare, don't take pictures, just run away." - Manuel
• "Let's kill this chicken!" - Manuel
• "Helloooo? Time to wake uuuuup." - Manuel
• "You are a nice-looking woman." - creepy guy in the park to Ms. Foster
• "You speak English, you understand me, fuck you!" - gypsy woman
• "Don't get drunk and don't eat any locals." - Manuel
• "Don't drink too much, but don't drink too litt...

These things have been starting to get on my nerves in the last couple of years. Maybe I'm weird, I don't know.

• Competition with friends. I admit that I fall into this sometimes, and friendly competition is okay for pushing yourself to be better, but when you're happy when a friend doesn't do as well as they normally do because it allowed you to beat them, that's just not cool. Being happy for frie...

• in the car with my aunt and cousins listening to Rascal Flats
• at work trying to get Isabelle to stop shrieking and crying
• somewhere with Owl City blaring in my ears
• in the Verizon store waiting another hour and a half to get my phone set up
• writing a Pook paper
• on the Colgate campus tour that I took - an hour and a half tour while wearing slingback heels
• taking any standardized test

From the book Stuff White People Like by Christian Lander. Hooray for conforming to stereotypes!

• film festivals
• organic food
• diversity
• Barack Obama
• non-profit organizations
• awareness
• traveling
• 80s night
• architecture
• The Daily Show/The Colbert Report
• breakfast places
• Netflix
• Apple products
• indie music
• plays
• public radio
• arts degrees
• vintage
• irony
• living by the water
• Sarah Silverman
• dogs
• Juno
• bicycles
• study abroad
• threatenin...

Listed alphabetically by last name because, yes, I did whip out the yearbook to make this list. If we're already friends and you're on this list, it means I don't think I've hung out with you enough and I think it is simply unacceptable!

• Emily A.
• Craig
• Ariel
• Julia
• Alex
• Ali G.
• Adriana
• Katherine G.
• Sam
• Dustin
• Ellie
• Will
• Allen
• Sofia
• Jen
• Adrian
• Kate
• Heather
• Maeghan
• Tim
• Chandra

• get into college
• graduate
• read 50 books
• watch 100 movies
• go on a road trip of some sort
• do something about a certain boy situation
• GET A DATE TO PROM BECAUSE I WILL NOT SPEND A FORTUNE ON A DRESS AND HAIR AND SHOES AND NAILS TO GO STAG. I AM DONE.
• get over this depression thing
• get involved in a sport in college (intramural or otherwise) to avoid the freshman fifteen
• go to The Wizarding World of Harry Pott...

• peacoats
• boots - especially ankle booties
• scarves
• evening gowns
• high heels
• jeans that fit just right
• polka dotted underwear
• sweaters
• hoodies
• tights
• unique dresses
• denim jackets
• tan trench coats
• black blazers with white pinstripe lining on the inside

These are in no particular order, for the record.

• The Book Thief
• I Am the Messenger
• Peeps
• Looking for Alaska
• Paper Towns
• An Abundance of Katherines
• 13 Little Blue Envelopes
• Uglies series
• The Hunger Games/Catching Fire
• Feed

• They're so much easier to blend, so I can get really good skies.
• It's really nice when I can come back the next day and still work on it, without having to remix paint and try to get the same color.
• The colors are so pretty!

This is a really lame list, but I'm sure I'll be able to add more at some point...

• my sister
• Drew Barrymore

• I can talk to her about anything. Anything. That's more than I can say for anyone else in the world.
• We think the same things at the same time. We're on the same wavelength.
• We have exactly the same sense of humor. We find the same things funny and we have really good little banters with each other.
• She'll go anywhere with me, and I'll go anywhere with her.
• She loves Walt Whitman. That automatically m...

• scantily clad
• Be off with you!
• humdinger
• nincompoop
• DAG NABBIT!
• Gadzooks!
• a woman of easy virtue
• vamoose
• delightful
• swell
• dandy

• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Betty Friedan
• Gloria Steinham
• Anne Frank
• Queen Elizabeth I

• Noro
  • Why doesn't anyone I know sleep? Are they all just scared of their dreams? When they lay their heads down at night, what are they haunted by?
  • Little light, lead us through the night. And if we die, burn down the forest.
• You Stole
  • Last night they said the fire had spread, and we said our prayers. Now the flames are burning me in my bed, and I just don't care.
  • So if I'm a liar and you're a thief, at...

• going to the Wing Bar with Caroline
• wearing just spandex and no pants as a team at field hockey practice to freak out Ann
• Mr. Anthony telling us he was on heroin
• sititng on the Poof during activities pretending to do work
• going to KFC with Philippa
• winning the quarterfinals in double overtime and ATTACKING Ann for scoring the winning goal
  • when Jamie tripped while running to tackle Ann
• making field hockey...

• When people get gas at the diesel pump. Seriously? There is ONE pump where I can fill up my car. If there are other pumps open, why can't you just use those?
• People who tailgate you even if you're going 40 in a 25. It's just ridiculous. I'm sorry I don't want to get pulled over.
• People who speed up to cut you off and then drive slowly once they're in front of you.
• When people tailgate you at night. T...

• World Wildlife Fund
• Human Society
• ASPCA
• Plan
• Kiva
• Breast Cancer Foundation

• My feet. They hurt when I run and they didn't used to. Plantar fasciitis?
• My knees. They cause me all sorts of problems. Mostly being unstable and sometimes collapsing on me when I have my leg and a slightly awkward angle.
• My jaw. I don't have like... permanent lock jaw or anything on one side (I don't think), but one side of my jaw just doesn't function like it used to.
• I'm pretty sure I haven't bee...

• Bad plan.
• Bitch, please!
• Ooh, fancy!
• It makes me want to fling myself off a building.
• I'm so distressed.
• I hate my life/I love my life
• Alas.
• fabulous
• awesome

• THERE IS SO MUCH WORK AND IT MAKES ME WANT TO DIE A LITTLE INSIDE.
• Pook is crazy and makes me miserable. (Although I'm sure he's a lovely person.)
• I have no time to sleep. Ever. If I sleep for more than five hours I sacrifice getting something done.
• Field hockey consumes my life. Why do we have away games on Tuesdays? It's just a bad plan.
• I have senior privileges BUT NO TIME TO USE THEM.
• Since when di...

I am definitely NOT still in the running towards becoming America's Next Top Model.

• I'm not thin enough.
• ... But I'm too thin to be a plus-sized model.
• I don't photograph very well.
• My face doesn't have enough angles.
• I have a big nose. I think it's fine, but Paulina would be like, "SHE HAS A BIG NOSE, SEND HER HOME!" like she did with Analeigh.
• The judges would criticize my personal style, I'm sure.
• I'm...

• I always go 70 on the highway, no matter what the speed limit is.
• I tend to go somewhere between 5 and 10 miles an hour over the speed limit, depending on where I am.
• I call people who go the speed limit "Johnny Law-Abider," a habit prompted by my mom's one use of the phrase.
• I usually correct my parking job, unless I'm in a rush. Sometimes I make it worse, I think.
• I say "Bitch, please!" a lot when I...

This is what I know is coming in field hockey preseason every year, and it makes me want to die.

• The twenty-minute run. The lovely third of an hour devoted solely to gasping for air, wishing you were in better shape, and getting lapped by the DiPastina sisters.
• Sprint relays. Three cones. Three balls. Sprint to the one cone, put a ball down, sprint back. Sprint to another cone, put a ball down, spri...

Kind of a dud list, especially since I've seen like... five or six cycles. Oh well. I'm sure I'll add on.

• Analeigh - cycle 11
• Natasha - cycle 8
• Alison - cycle 12
• Fo - cycle 12
• Nik - cycle 5
• Kahlen - cycle 4

Some things that should never be cool, at least in my opinion.

• Denim in the form of anything other than jeans or a jacket - denim dresses and shirts? Come on people.
• Animal print. Sorry, but it's always going to be tacky.
• Harem pants. Just... no.
• Velour sweatshirts and sweatpants. Velour makes me cringe.
• Wearing neon colors. And only neon colors. Especially if some or all of this neon outfit is made of...

• Tours. Every school starts to look the same after a while, and they all say the same things and it gets really annoying.
• Interviews. They're just stressful, and I'm sick of using the same lines at every school.
• Naviance. That software is the devil and I will not miss it or its taunting me with unfavorable statistics. (1/22 admitted to Bowdoin? Thanks for crushing my dreams, Naviance.)
• My parents hagg...

Because I'm a dork.

• Jimmy/Trina
• Paige/Alex
• Jane/Spinner
• Peter/Darcy
• Manny/Jay
• Liberty/JT
• Ellie/Craig (but only when Craig's not being a coke addict)
• Ashley/NOBODY BECAUSE SHE'S AN ANNOYING BITCH

When you've seen so many small liberal arts colleges, they start to blend together. Especially since they use a lot of the same lines.

• "This is our dining hall. People say it looks like Hogwarts."
• "You get to use all of this expensive research equipment starting in your freshman year, and you're not competing with grad students for it."
• "The biggest class you'll have is about 50 students, and those a...

I'm a world traveler, clearly. Also, it helps that New York has towns named after EVERYWHERE. We passed through the following vacation destinations:

• Rome
• Verona
• Poland
• Amsterdam
• Madison
• Bangor
• Augusta
• Philadelphia
• Cleveland
• Malta

Some questions to ask a student interviewer:

• What has been your experience with the [insert department here] department?
• What was the best class you have taken here?
• Why did you choose [insert college name here]? How do you like it? Are the reasons you chose it the same reasons you like it now?
• What is there to do in the area? How does the area affect the college? Do students go off-campus on the week...

These are the ones that I remember, but I'm sure I've been to more.

• Chicago O'Hare
• Philadelphia
• Washington Dulles
• Reno-Tahoe
• Sacramento
• Port Columbus
• Boston Logan
• Manchester
• Houston
• San Francisco
• London Heathrow
• Amsterdam Schipol
• Berlin Tegel

CAUTION: THIS LIST MAY CONTAIN MOVIE SPOILERS. SORRY.

• I think this was Michael Gambon's best performance as Dumbledore. He did it really well, and although it doesn't make up for "DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE?!!?!" he's not as horrible in my mind anymore.
• MAJOR PACING ISSUES. The horcri (John Noe!) didn't feel like the central part of the movie, which they definitely were in the book....

These girls are really awesome. Just sayin'. This list was inspired by the fabulous list-maker Monica.

• Alexis Bledel
• Marion Cotillard
• Leighton Meester
• Zooey Deschanel
• Rachel McAdams
• Natalia Vodianova
• Emma Watson

Because I thought it was about time to make an updated list of actors I'd like to do. In no particular order.

• Gaspard Ulliel
• Milo Ventimiglia
• Hugh Dancy
• James Franco
• Adam Brody
• Ryan Reynolds
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers
• Henry Cavill
• Mitch Hewer
• David Boreanaz
• Jesse Lacey
• Matt Czuchry
• Nicholas Hoult
• Luke Pasqualino
• Chace Crawford
• Matthew Fox
• Jude Law
• Chris Pine
• Alexander Skarsgård

• All Summer in a Day
• The Whole Town's Sleeping
• The Rocket
• Season of Disbelief
• And the Rock Cried Out
• The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
• The Flying Machine
• The Visitor
• The Man
• The Exiles
• The Illustrated Man
• The Pedestrian
• Zero Hour
• The Veldt
• Kaleidoscope
• The Other Foot
• The Highway
• The Rocket Man
• The Fire Balloons
• The Last Night of the World
• No Particular Night or Morning
• The Fox and the Forest
• The Concrete Mixer
• Marionettes, Inc.
• T...

• The Shining (1980)
• Airplane (1980)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• The Sure Thing (1985)
• The Breakfast Club (1985)
• Ferris Bueller's Day off (1986)
• The Little Mermaid (1989)
• Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Not to offend anyone...

• Keith
• Rudolph (really, the only excuse for naming your child this is if he's a reindeer)
• Joshua
• Jason
• Jared
• Jacob
• Tyler
• Terry
• Bruce
• Wade
• Hank (unless it's Hank Green)

• The water at the beach is warmer in Cape Cod.
• Things seem to be more expensive in Cape Cod than they are on MDI.
• There are rich New Yorkers in fancy cars in both places, and in both places they are equally annoying.
• All of the houses at the Cape (at least it seems like) have shingle siding.
• I felt like things were closer together at the Cape, in that each town was compact and you didn't have to go far...

Not to say that I don't like being around people. But spending every waking minute with others can be a little draining for an introvert like me.

• When do I have time to read?
• People get annoyed by things that I do, and likewise I get annoyed by things that they do.
• People are always like, "Are you okay?" when I'm not as happy or energetic as I usually am.
• For some reason I find it a lot more difficult...

• In my car, you can't go 80 without realizing it.
• It's smaller, which makes it easier to park.
• The windshield is farther away in my car, which I like better.
• My car has a place to plug my iPod directly into my stereo system (which means I can actually listen to my iPod, seeing as I don't have one of those things that uses the radio).
• Seat heaters make the winter more bearable.

• I hit a traffic cone going 70 miles an hour at 10 at night when they were doing work on 93... with Rachel in the car (I'm pretty sure she's scared to drive with me now)
• A massive pickup truck parked very poorly at the grocery store. I was tired and lazy and thought I could fit into the parking spot next to it, because I have a small car. I couldn't. The truck was fine. My headlight broke and I now ...

• Employee discount?! Fabulous.
• I'd get to talk to people about books.
  • I could recommend some of my favorites to people.
• Sliding book ladders. Enough said.
• Being surrounded by books would be amazing.
• The atmosphere of bookstores is really great. I love it.
• I could get new books right away.
• Is it weird that I think that stocking shelves would be really fun?
• Nerdfighter bookworm boys? Maybe?

• NO SCHOOL.
• having time to read and do things that are enjoyable
• nice weather
• summer clothes are more fun than winter clothes
• riding my bike in Maine on the carriage roads and kayaking on Eagle Lake
• lazy summer afternoons
• not having to drive back and forth to Manchester every day
• freeze pops
• being tan (kind of)
• staying up as late as I want

• Cyrano de Bergerac
• A Very Long Engagement
• Skins - series 1 and 2
• The Sure Thing
• Charlie Bartlett
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• LOST - all seasons
• Gilmore Girls - all seasons

• Last.fm - colormedorky
• Twitter - elise_margaret
• LiveJournal - colorxmexinsane
• Polyvore - songofmyself
• Shelfari - elisemargaret
• Tumblr - elisemargaret

• Hardwood floors! (Because you can't deny the awesome.)
• window seats with fluffy pillows for reading and such
• A room dedicated to libraryhood. Ideally with a sliding book ladder for optimum awesomeness.
• some sort of rounded part of the house, because rounded parts are awesome
• wide wide windows
• a baby grand piano
• lots of art
• a comfy bed with fluffy pillows

• Seventeen
• Nylon
• Harper's Bazaar
• Vogue
• Teen Vogue
• Elle
• Lucky
• Allure
• Glamour
• Glamour France
• Vogue Paris
• L'Officiel
• Numero
• Elle France

• Deja Entendu - Brand New
• Put Your Ghost to Rest - Kevin Devine
• One Fell Swoop - The Spill Canvas
• Like Vines - The Hush Sound
• The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me - Brand New
• Almost Here - The Academy Is...
• In a Safe Place - The Album Leaf
• Something to Write Home About - The Get Up Kids
• We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. - Jason Mraz
• Rock Art and the X-Ray Style - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
• Even If I...

• awesome
• fabulous
• I see how it is!
• Bitch please!
• Whoa there, Skippy.
• distress/I am so distressed.
• chagrin
• I'm a fan/I'm not a fan
• Toodles! (to finish LiveJournal posts)
• Suck levels are high.
• It'll be such a party.
• Are you excited for [insert event here]? Because I am!
• Go for it.
• That was a bad plan.
• alas
• this ______ business

I realized that there are a lot of things even from my childhood that are quickly becoming things of the past and that kids today will never be exposed to.

• "Be kind, rewind."
• old school Nickelodeon cartoons
• the golden age of Disney Channel
• having to call to get the voicemail for our home phone
• screening calls
• Walkmen
• "It is now safe to turn your computer off."
• AOL (dialing into the internet, "You've got m...

• What I Wore Today
• Fortune Telling Dreams
• All About Me
• Forbidden Knowledge
• More Forbidden Knowledge
• Cinematherapy: The Girl's Guide to Movie...
• Bibliotherapy: The Girl's Guide to Books...
• 100 New Fashion Designers

• The Swan Princess (We rented it so many times from the video store that they just gave it to us.)
• A Little Princess
• Mulan
• Sleeping Beauty
• The Wizard of Oz
• Beauty and the Beast
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (My sister and I used to watch it, rewind it, and watch it again.)
• The Little Mermaid
• Snow White

• LiveJournal. Obsessively checking my flist, making rambling posts, or cruising Twatlight - I always find some way to waste my time.
• Facebook. Stalking people is oddly amusing.
• Looking at clothes and shoes. I don't know what the appeal is at looking at things I can't afford and probably wouldn't waste my money on if I could afford them, but I like it.
• Looking at books. Amazon is possibly the best way ...

Italicized bands cause me pain to listen to now.

• Boys Like Girls
• All Time Low
• Relient K
• Plain White T's
• Fall Out Boy
• Nevertheless
• Valencia
• Mayday Parade

• Aldo
• Express
• Anthropologie
• Sephora
• Barnes and Noble
• Delia's
• The Gap
• Nine West

• floor-to-ceiling bookshelves (preferably built in and complete with ladders)
• a baby grand piano (because I swear I would pick up the piano again if I had something better than my grandmother's old out-of-tune piano and that stupid keyboard)
• a painting studio
• a record player
• a typewriter

Because earlier today my sister was looking at shoes and therefore I had to go look at these gorgeous shoes, which I have no place to wear other than prom, which caused me to look at prom dresses online that might match them.

• I'm not really sure what the big deal with prom is. It's just a dance. It's not going to define your existence. Why put so much importance on it?
• I don't want to be one of thos...

• Snow is horrible, cold, and gets really dirty and brown after a while.
• The temperature. Enough said.
• Snow and ice on the roads leads to driving mishaps.
• Running out of windshield wiper fluid when you're driving on the highway right after it's snowed is a BITCH. Trust me. It has happened to me on several occasions. It usually results in me not being able to see and nearly hitting someone.
• You can't wea...

• I almost always have a book in my purse.
• Unless I'm out, I never answer my cell phone. Unless I called someone on my cell phone and they call back. Otherwise it's in my purse and I can't hear it.
• I believe in Barack Obama.
• I want a 1950s typewriter, a record player, and a hippie van. Ideally as soon as possible.
• I want to read more books than could ever be possible in my lifetime.
• I am made of awesome....

Newly available usernames that I like.

• abstractstatic
• absolutefacade
• abyssed
• acresofstars
• accordingtolove
• ambiguityshows
• safebysecrets
• embersofmylife
• ebbtheflow

• Am I Wrong - Brand New (originally by Love Spit Love)
• Straight to Hell - Lily Allen feat. Mick Jones (originally by The Clash)
• Redemption Song - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros (originally by Bob Marley)
• Simple Twist of Fate - The Format (originally by Bob Dylan)
• Across the Universe - Jim Sturgess (originally by the Beatles)
• Wild World - Mike Bailey (originally by Cat Stevens)
• Suffragette City - The Get...

• get plastic surgery of any kind unless I get in some sort of gruesome accident
• wear fur
• read any stupid teen series like The Clique or Gossip Girl
• have anal sex
• stay in the United States for the rest of my life (I plan on living abroad/spending extended time in a foreign country)
• go into any sort of medical profession

• Honors Physics - Mr. Cousineau (11th grade)
• Modern European History - Mr. Curley (10th grade)
• English IV - Mr. Cotton (9th grade)
• Advanced Studio Art - Mr. Moerlein (11th grade)
• Drawing - Ms. Steele (10th grade)
• Civics - Mr. Blaisdell (7th grade)
• AP English - Mr. Anthony (12th grade)
• AP Calculus AB - Mr. Holland (12th grade)

• I wouldn't spend so much time on the internet, obviously. Probably better overall for my brain.
• MORE READING! No more being distracted by LiveJournal, Facebook, and Listography.
• I'd have to handwrite papers, lab reports, etc. Ugh. Suck levels would be high. OR I could use a typewriter. Actually, that would be kind of awesome.
• Making graphs by hand in physics would not be fun.
• I'd undoubtedly get more ...

• Dave Rygalski - Gilmore Girls
• Cassie Ainsworth - Skins
• Maxxie Oliver - Skins
• Josie - Skins
• Charlie Pace - LOST
• Kate Austen - LOST
• Blair Waldorf - Gossip Girl
• Fez - That '70s Show
• Kitty Foreman - That '70s Show
• Chuck Bass - Gossip Girl
• Jess Mariano - Gilmore Girls
• Emily Fitch - Skins
• Pandora Moon - Skins
• JJ Jones - Skins
• Kirk Gleason - Gilmore Girls
• Chris Miles - Skins
• Dr. James Wilson - House, M.D.

Hopefully wherever I end up going will meet all of these. Probably not.

• I'd like to go to school in a city. After living in New Hampshire for most of my life, I'd like a change of pace. Or if it's not in a city, it has to have a really pretty and green campus.
• The bookstore must be up to par. I read. A lot. If the bookstore isn't big and pretty and up to my standards, I'm not going to be happy.
• Some ...

• when, in a book or a paper, just one word goes onto last line of a paragraph (the shorter the word, the more it annoys me)
• people who walk slowly in the mall and block the whole aisle so I can't get by them
• chat speak (honestly people, how hard is it to spell out the word "you?" NOT HARD!)
• when people mix up your/you're, their/there/they're, or it's/its (seriously, it's not that difficult)
• people bein...

I'm really worried that these things will happen.

• books becoming obsolete and everyone watching TV and using the internet instead
• the extinction of any animals
• always being watched (think 1984)
• people becoming unable to think for themselves
• the media being consolidated any more than it already is
• destruction of nature so that the land can be occupied by strip malls and housing developments

• Block Island, Rhode Island - along with basically all of my mom's side of the family
• Camden, Maine
• somewhere in Rhode Island
• Lake Tahoe, California (on several occasions)
• Lake Plaid, New York
• Bar Harbor, Maine (basically all the time)

• a scar above my right eyebrow from when I fell on my Big Bird toy at the age of two
• birthmark on my left shoulder
• a mole to the lower right of my belly button
• two little moles right next to each other on the left side of my neck
• three freckles on my left hand that form a scalene triangle (did I just use the word scalene? Really? I'm such a dork)

• I always use self-checkout at the grocery store. Always.
• I fail at small talk. Big time. I'm not good at making conversation with people who I don't talk to very often or I don't know very well.
• I avoid confrontation at all costs.
• Awkward silences are abound when you talk to me.
• The phone is possibly the most terrifying device invented by man.
• I'm not assertive. At all.

• Spring Awakening
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• [title of show]
• Wicked
• Chicago
• The Phantom of the Opera
• The Lion King
• Legally Blonde
• Spamalot

I probably have unrealistically high expectations for my college experience.

• As much as I love New Hampshire, I could really use a change of scenery.
• I want to take classes that are relevant and interesting and (hopefully) taught by interesting and funny professors.
• I'd like to be able to decorate a new room, considering that mine is beyond all hope. (Of course, there's that slight problem of a roomm...

The best thing - and possibly the only good thing - to come out of the Twilight phenomenon.

• EMMETT CAN YOU KEEP IT DOWN I AM READING PROUST!!!!
• NO ONE UNDERSTANDS MEEE HE WOULD SEETHE AS HE PRESSED HIS WILDFLOWERS
• YOU USED ALL MY FEBREZE LAST WEEK AND I LET IT GO BUT THIS IS TOO MUCH. I AM PUTTING MY FOOT DOWN.
• emmett. we don't even have the same hair type!!!!
• EMMETT I CAN READ YOUR MIND, AND THAT WAS ...

• While you were sleeping, I figured out everything. I was constructed for you, and you were molded for me. Now I feel your name coursing through my veins. You shine so bright it's insane. You put the sun to shame.
• I hate to break this to you but being a coward is not a legitimate career.
• I am unraveling unbearably empty, and if this ground gives way I just hope that you'll catch me.
• See there's a ther...

This is mildly shameful.

• "I Want it That Way" - The Backstreet Boys
• "Truly Madly Deeply" - Savage Garden
• "You're Still the One" - Shania Twain
• "Coming Clean" - Hilary Duff
• "So Yesterday" - Hilary Duff
• "Hamster Dance" - Hampton and the Hamsters
• "Pon de Replay" - Rihanna
• "We Belong Together" - Mariah Carey
• "S.O.S." - Rihanna
• "Be My Escape" - Relient K
• "Which to Bury, Us or the Hatchet?" - Relient K
• "Grand Theft...

• Kurt Vonnegut
• Oscar Wilde
• Gaspard Ulliel
• J. K. Rowling
• Hank Green
• John Green
• Markus Zusak
• M. T. Anderson
• Stephen Colbert
• Anne Frank
• Maureen Johnson

• "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
• "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
• "I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
• "Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover whe...

• Kaitlyn - January 22nd
• Ellie - June 9th
• Kim - June 11th
• Chandra - July 11th
• Caroline - July 22nd
• Tucker - September 30th
• Erin - October 4th
• Emily - October 5th
• Claire - October 16th
• Sam - November 9th
• Phil - December 18th
• Jen - December 24th

• The Little Mermaid
• Beauty and the Beast
• Mulan
• Sleeping Beauty
• Snow White
• Cinderella
• The Lion King
• Up

• Grace - We spent SO much time at each other's houses. Even now, I've never been to one of my friend's houses as many times as I've been to hers.
• Olivia - A friendship was born on the first day of first grade when she mistook me for her friend Mallory. We made our friendship official (in typical first grade "will you be my friend?" style) while putting together the caterpillar puzzle.
• Stephanie - Fel...

It makes me sad that it's over.

• MuggleCast. It was basically the best hour of my week and always kept me entertained.
• surfing the MuggleNet forums during my free period
• wrocking out
• anxiously counting down the days until the release of the seventh book
• "Draco Malfoy, what's your problem?"
• fangirling BNFs like Emerson and Jamie
• "HorCREE!" Oh John Noe.
• overanalyzing EVERYTHING and theorizing
• "Bye, bye, bye, ...

• a Candy Land-themed birthday party with all of my little friends and a hardcore five-year-old-sized Candy Land game that my mom made in our backyard (five)
• a trip to Canobie Lake Park with my friends (fourteen)
• a super awesome party and sleepover (sixteen)
• felt too nauseous too eat my birthday cake (fifteen)
• saw The Lizzie McGuire movie with my friends (eleven)
• a Tweety-themed party and sleepover with ...

• Augustana
• The Spill Canvas
• The Hush Sound
• Jason Mraz
• Dashboard Confessional
• Brand New

• Harry and the Potters - 7/20/07
• The Hungarian Horntails - 7/20/07
• Draco and the Malfoys - 7/20/07
• The Spill Canvas - 12/5/08
• Augustana - 12/5/08
• OneRepublic - 12/5/08
• mewithoutYou - 3/7/09
• Brand New - 3/7/09
• Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - 4/19/09
• Lily Allen - 4/19/09
• American Idols Live - 9/15/09
• Tom Flash and the Lightening Band - 2/5/10
• Recycled Percussion - 2/19/10
• Something Corporate - 8/12/10

• pandas!
• koalas
• tigers
• snow leopards (and regular leopards, for that matter)
• platypuses (they're basically the best thing ever)
• penguins
• polar bears
• elephants
• red pandas
• dogs

• randomly talking about college and the future that one time in the car when I was about ten years old
• her asking me for gossip and talking about what boys in my grade she thought were cute
• "Ressaminute Mommy?"
• driving down to Maryland with her, staying in the hotel, and getting room service with mini ketchup and mini mayo
• putting that ridiculous pizza hat on her head
• her telling me that I should date Z...

• going to the Red Sox-A's game in Boston that one night, just the two of us
• going into Washington, D.C. the night before leaving Maryland, eating at Johnny Rockets, and him showing me the Exorcist stairs and where he used to live in college
• sharing the sea animal cookies with him after dinner when we ate at Shorty's
• that feeling of family I always got when Dad was home and we were all in the kitchen a...

If I ever have time to do something about my room...

• repaint walls - light yellow
• replace calendars with posters, etc.
• organize shelves - a new bookshelf?
• clean out closet
• a chair for sitting and reading in so that I don't fall asleep doing APUSH reading in bed
• clean out drawers and other places where I keep crap that I don't need
• very snazzy music system
• new comforter (because mine is woefully unfluffy)...

• Raised by Another
• Born to Run
• Numbers
• Flashes Before Your Eyes
• The Constant
• Greatest Hits
• The Incident
• Across the Sea

• bus
• car
• paddleboat
• canoe
• kayak
• ferry
• airplane
• bicycle
• walking
• horse

Or almost. Sometimes I've been in public and had to hold back my tears, to my dismay.

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• A Very Long Engagement
• The Notebook
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
• LOST - "The Beginning of the End" (season 4 premier)
• LOST - "Through the Looking Glass" (season 3 finale)
• Skins - "Everyone" (series 2 finale)
• Titanic (I was a WRECK)

• smoking
• a criminal record
• animal cruelty
• racist
• sexist
• more tattoos than bare skin (a couple well-placed, non-creepy tattoos are okay, but too many is just... bleh)
• a fanatical Christian (particularly one who tries to force his beliefs on others... ugh)
• physical abuse
• a sincere dislike of reading
• a staunch Republican (moderate Republicans are okay, but if you're really hardcore about it I question your san...

• the Bible Belt
• the fact that the Republican party has basically become the Christian party and they want to force their conservative beliefs on everyone
• state bans on gay marriage
• urban sprawl
• Southern accents
• the general ignorance of the American public
• George W. Bush and his complete and utter idiocy
• big media
• the Patriot Act and invasion of privacy in general
• everyone thinks California is the best place...

• Anne - mother
• Doug - father
• Carolyn - sister, twenty months younger than me
• Joan - grandmother, mother's side
• Phil - grandfather, mother's side
• Marie - mother's sister
• Mike - Marie's husband
• Alanna - Mike and Marie's daughter, eight months older
• Tommy - Mike and Marie's son, three years younger
• Linnea - Mike and Marie's daughter, four and half years younger
• Ruth - mother's sister
• Mark - Ruth's husband
• Jackson...

• smart
• funny
• pretty
• loyal
• reliable
• a good artist
• a bookworm
• nice

• Burton Valley Preschool
• ? Elementary School (kindergarten in CA)
• Clark Elementary School
• Wilkins Elementary School
• Amherst Middle School
• The Derryfield School

• Penny - mixed breed
• Pebbles - mixed breed
• Larry - cat
• Wally - cat
• Speedy - hermit crab
• Rocky - fish
• Marlin - fish
• Nemo - fish
• Chum - fish
• Bubbles - hermit crab
• Pearl - hermit crab
• Poppy - miniature schnauzer
• Chula - miniature schnauzer

• sprained my ankle (sliding practice in softball)
• sprained my wrist (tripped playing tennis)
• massive ear infection of DOOM
• a piece of rust in my eye
• pink eye
• strep throat
• prolonged coughing bouts (bad enough to need medication)
• lost a toenail (I opened a door and it ripped in half)
• kneecaps popping in and out of place at random times during sporting events/group hugs

• travel to every state in the United States
• travel Europe on next to no money (because let's face it, traveling to Europe on a lot of money isn't going to happen)
• own a grand piano (and be able to play it at least reasonably well)
• have a library in my house
• kiss someone in the rain
• float in the Dead Sea
• go on an epic road trip (preferably Paper Towns style)
• walk across Abbey Road with three friends (and h...

• SAT math
• the smell of math textbooks
• wearing high heels
• frolicking in green fields
• organizing my bookshelf
• popping pimples
• office supplies of all kinds
• history jokes

• House, M.D.
• Skins
• That '70s Show
• Gilmore Girls
• Boy Meets World
• The Tudors
• America's Next Top Model (You wanna be on top?)

• talking about books
• being a nerdfighter
• awkward romantic gestures
• kissing my forehead
• lots and lots of hugs
• cuddling
• not buying me a lot of unnecessary things
• letting me pay for dates sometimes
• not being too clingy
• good conversation

Bring on the embarrassment.

• Gabe Lubier - first grade
• Matt Comstock - second grade
• Evan Green - third grade
• Mike McGrath - third grade (in retrospect; I didn't consciously like him at the time, but now it's so obvious)
• Adam Stokes - fourth through sixth grade
• Nathan Marcucci - sixth grade

• make friendship bracelets
• paint wooden things (miniature gazebos, heart-shaped boxes, etc.)
• paint-your-own pottery
• make jewelry
• make things out of Sculpey clay
• paint furniture

• I and this mystery here we stand. - "Song of Myself" - Walt Whitman
• There's an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we're all crossing the bridge of dreams together. That there's nothing more than that. Just us, on the bridge of dreams. - Feed - M. T. Anderson
• Veil after veil of thin, dusky gauze is lif...

• reading
• sleeping
• drawing
• writing
• frolicking
• designing
• enjoying nature
• kissing
• running
• listening to music
• doing my laundry
• cleaning my room
• traveling

Basically, I would marry Jesse Lacey for being able to write like this. He is my hero.

• I'm an old abandoned church with broken pews and empty aisles.
• What they call love is a risk, cause you'll always get hit out of nowhere by some wave and end up on your own.
• I wrote more postcards than hooks. I read more maps than books.
• I need the smell of summer, I need its noises in my ears.
• Coordinate brain and m...

• pasta
• pizza with tomato sauce
• eggplant parmesan
• quiche
• steak
• salad
• anything with carbonation
• coffee (although it smells delicious)

• photographs
• impressionist paintings
• art you can become a part of, regardless of how that is achieved
• sidewalk murals
• outdoor sculpture (as long as it's not too abstract)
• music

• shenanigans
• ergo
• espionage
• chagrined
• nerdfighter
• jargon
• shanty
• scamper
• blasphemer
• snazzy
• zany
• derby
• escapade

• Intelligent. Not necessarily a genius, but the ability to carry on a reasonably intelligent conversation is crucial.
• Willing to indulge my craziness. If I want to do something wild or embarrassing or spur-of-the-moment silly, he needs to go along with it. Or at least humor me.
• Laid back. Doesn't care as much about what we do as the fact that he's with me.
• Spontaneous. Think Logan Huntzburger from Gil...