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
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers
• Henry Cavill
• Mitch Hewer
• David Boreanaz
• Alex Pettyfer
• Matt Czuchry
• Nicholas Hoult
• Luke Pasqualino
• Chace Crawford
• Matthew Fox

• "Jesus Christ" - Brand New
• "Dragonfly" - M. Craft
• "Lighthouse" - The Hush Sound
• "The Burning City Smoking" - Kevin Devine
• "Details in the Fabric" - Jason Mraz
• "I'll Catch You" - The Get Up Kids
• "Momentum" - The Hush Sound
• "Hometown Glory" - Adele
• "Coffee and Cigarettes" - Augustana

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

• Othello
• Lolita
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Corelli's Mandolin
• The Turn of the Screw
• Romeo and Juliet
• As I Lay Dying
• Invisible Man
• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
• Swann's Way
• The Naked and the Dead
• Light in August

• 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)

• Remember to wish parents a happy anniversary! 24 years FTW.
• working at the church from 8:45 to approximately 2:45
• make headway in Oscar Wao
• clean up room because Carolyn messed it up
• do laundry - clothes and sheets
• watch a movie - rent one from Movie Scene?

Because I'm a girly girl sometimes too.

• Max Complexion Correction Pads
• Dior Addict Lip Glow
• Trattamento al Fango
• LORAC blush in plum (I'm running out.)
• Take a Brow
• Color Me Couture Eye Shadow Palette

• Bowdoin
• Middlebury
• Williams
• Kenyon
• Colby
• Bates
• Hamilton
• Macalester
• Carleton
• University of Wisconsin, Madison
• St. Lawrence
• Skidmore

• 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...

Because it's been a while since I've made a good old-fashioned to do list.

• SLEEP IN
• make some serious headway in Oscar Wao - halfway through?
• kickin' it old school movie party at Kay's house at 5:30
• sign up to volunteer at Hartshorn (pick a week)
• find out what the colleges that I will (most likely) apply to require for SAT IIs
• How am I going to learn French so that I don't fail AP French next year? Are ...

• shorts - denim shorts, khaki linen shorts, purple Bar Harbor shorts
• jeans - the dark pair
• blue and black swim suit
• white cardigan
• flip flops - two or three pairs?
• Converse, perhaps?
• clothes to sleep in - black FH shorts and a t-shirt
• shampoo, conditioner, razor, face wash
• toothbrush and toothpaste
• bras and underwear
• beach towel?
• sunscreen
• books - Oscar Wao and Suite Scarlett?
• DVDs - Across the Universe, Juno, ...

• 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...

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

• What good is a laptop with a broken screen? No good!
• Frankly, it is not aesthetically pleasing. Which shouldn't technically be a reason to dislike a laptop... if it works. But it doesn't work. SO THIS JUST FUELS THE FIRE!
• I seem to be almost out of memory, which is unfortunate.
• My graphics card is really bad, apparently.
• I have to restart it a lot because it decides it doesn't like me.
• Safari randomly ...

• 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

• go to the Currier at least once a month - drag Carolyn along, if possible
• average one painting every two to three weeks - small or large, size doesn't matter
• improve people skills, if possible, because your people always SUCK
• at least one painted and one drawn self-portrait
• look at art during college visits
• attempt to find camera?
• take pictures with monochromatic color film if camera is found
• buy an unfi...

Because I never have cash and, as a result, I have to borrow money from people.

• Kim - $4 (borrowed for lunch when my parents forgot to give me money)
• Ellie - $7 (borrowed for food at Physics Day when I forgot to get money from my mom)
• Phil - approx $5? (borrowed to get tickets for the carnival because there wasn't an ATM - paid the other $20 back via dinner, etc.)
• Ms. Beaudoin - $5 (for our advisory g...

• True Blood
• House (get caught up)
• Gossip Girl (also get caught up)
• Arrested Development
• Greek (maybe I'll watch the new season...)
• The Tudors (finish season two and watch season three)
• 30 Rock

• 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

• Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
• Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres (for DS summer reading)
• The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
• The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
• Hamlet - Shakespeare (for AP English)
• The Collected Oscar Wilde
• The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
• As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
• Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
• Saturday - Ian McEwan
• Anthem - Ayn Rand
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ...

I would have put all of the books on here and crossed them off, but that would be too time-consuming and also rather embarrassing (due to the fact that I haven't read enough). So here is what I've read.

1. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
2. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
4. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
5. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
6. Cat...

• Last.fm - colormedorky
• Twitter - elisemargaret
• LiveJournal - colorxmexinsane

• I didn't wake up until 6, which is an issue considering I wanted to get up at 4 to finish physics stuff.
• I wanted to leave the house at 6:40. We left at 6:50. Ten minutes actually makes a big difference.
• I opened the door to yell at Carolyn to get in the car, because she was standing in the driveway petting the dogs and I HAD TO LEAVE. Bad plan. Zoey ran in and jumped into my lap, and she had mud al...

• Get new windshield wiper blades, because the current ones have ceased to properly windshield wipe.
• Get the sunroof fixed so that you can actually open it.
• That broken light in the back that seems to have no purpose... (And when did it break? I just don't know.)
• Is touch-up paint an option? Because there are two distinct scratches on the back of my car that make me look like an irresponsible driver. W...

• 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

• Own the AP exam in the face (which, by the standards of someone who has JP for a teacher, means a 3).
• 2250 on the SAT.
• 2260! BAM!
• 33 on the ACT.
• Average a book a week.
• Apply to college.
• Get into college.
• Write a novel.
• Get a summer job.
• Buy a MacBook to replace current screen-less laptop. (With money from summer job?)
• NEVER BUY A PLASTIC WATER BOTTLE AGAIN.

1. Everyone's At It
2. I Could Say
3. Never Gonna Happen
4. Oh My God/Everything's Just Wonderful
5. Him
6. Who'd Have Known
7. LDN
8. Back to the Start
9. He Wasn't There
10. Littlest Things
11. Chinese
12. 22
13. Not Fair
14. Fuck You
15. Smile
16. The Fear
17. Womanizer

1. Mix Tape
2. The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
3. Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades
4. Jaws Theme Swimming
5. The Archer's Bows are Broken
6. Millstone
7. A new song whose name I think I missed
8. The Shower Scene
9. The No Seatbelt Song
10. Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
11. Luca
12. Sowing Season (Yeah)
13. Jesus Christ
14. Deguasser
15. You Won't Know
16. Seventy Times 7
17. Play Crack the Sky

• A kickin' it old school movie party, like back in the good old days.
• A NaNoWriMo 2009 kick-off party with all NaNo-ing friends.
• Going to the drive-in in Milford, having a sleepover, and going out to breakfast at the Red Arrow afterward.
• A book swap/lending party!

This is kind of a lame list, sorry.

• Seventeen (I know, it's shameful.)
• Nylon
• Harper's Bazaar
• Vogue
• Teen Vogue
• Elle

• 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 ...

• Summer reading. Enough said.
• I'll be able to hang out with my friends a lot and not have to worry about getting homework done.
• The weather will be wonderful and warm and I'll be able to wear shorts and tank tops and flip-flops without freezing to death.
• I'll get a new clothing budget for the new season, and I'll be able to revamp my wardrobe so that it's actually sort of respectable.
• Junior year will ...

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....

• those rare nights when I don't have any homework
• spending time with my friends on the weekends
• when no kids are there at work and I get paid to sit in the nursery and read for APUSH
• when I actually have time to get a decent night's sleep
• having my driver's license?
• I have a comfortable bed...

The fact that this list is so short really, really worries me.

Newly available usernames that I like.

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

• 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 Up Kids (originally by David Bowie)
• Unravel - Somethi...

• 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)

• 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

• "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
• Lauren - June 5th
• Ellie - June 9th
• Kim - June 11th
• Caroline - July 22nd
• Tucker - September 30th
• Erin - October 4th
• Claire - October 16th
• Phil - December 18th

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

• 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 - 4/17/09
• Lily Allen - 4/17/09

• 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

• My name is Elise.
• I'm sixteen years old and a junior in high school.
• I live in New Hampshire.
• I have a sister named Carolyn, a mom, a dad, and two dogs named Poppy and Chula.
• I am an English literature nerdfighter and you should not go into a bookstore with me because you might not make it out alive.
• I write novels. But only in November.
• I am obsessed with Brand New and The Hush Sound.
• I have a core grou...

• panda
• red panda
• pygmy elephant
• polar bear
• black-footed ferret
• Darwin's fox
• spectacled bear
• sea turtle
• snow leopard
• tiger
• Amur leopard
• manatee
• jaguar

• 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
• Hearts and Minds
• Numbers
• Flashes Before Your Eyes
• The Constant
• Greatest Hits
• The Incident

• 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)

• 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