things I want to do for my birthday, but probably won't

• see Bruce Springsteen
• go to Louisville with Tessa and Joanna
• eat Hawaiian food
• make a haupia cake
• see my family

• Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
• Empire State Bldg & that awful ride thing
• Wicked
• Times Square
• MoMA
• Rode the bus and the subway a lot
• Ate pizza, bagels, bialys, barbecue
• Trader Joe's
• Talked
• Walked a lot

broody and brawny, hold the sensitivity

• Gladiator
• Master and Commander
• 3:10 to Yuma
• L.A. Confidential
• Heaven's Burning

• rock star (of course)
• lady who sits on a couch and knits and gets paid tons of money for it
• kicker for a (winning) pro football team
• ice cream flavor tester
• professional tea drinker
• park ranger in Alaska or Hawaii
• sheep herder in rural Scotland, with a very smart dog or two
• writer (with a very smart dog or two)

• Adrift in Tokyo (awesome--my favorite!)
• Sad Vacation (it's all in the name)
• Berlin Alexanderplatz (so German)
• Wings of Desire (2nd time, also German)
• Goodbye Lenin (odd. German)
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (about what I expected)
• Enchanted (not as good as I was expecting)

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• Mr. Darcy was not was not nearly as interesting after he fell in love
• People should not be so easily swayed
• Can people really change their feelings that dramatically? (Elizabeth Bennett) (fickle)
• Can people really change their outward personality so dramatically? And so earnestly? (Mr. Darcy) I don't think so.
• Does Pemberley exist, and if so, let's go there.
• What happens to Lydia and Wickham? Who will support them for the rest of their dreary-ass lives?
• There are too many people like Mrs. Bennet, Lydia, Miss Bingley, and (ugh) Mr. Collins.
• I liked Mr. Bennet the best.
• I keep wanting to refer to Elizabeth as Jo
• Why do so many characters in Jane Austen'...

• Berlin & Prague
• World Wide Knit in Public Day in Central Park
• Sigur Ros at MoMA
• 3 Japanese movies
• Baked tiramisu cake, blueberry muffins, blueberry cake, green tea cookies
• Walked to work most days
• Hamlet, Shakespeare in the Park
• Knitting group 3x
• Greenmarket arugula, lettuce, strawberries
• Wrote 1 letter
• Tai chi as usual
• Knitting Monica's November baby blanket
• Ate Korean food once
• Read 2 trashy murder mysteries
• 4th of July fireworks

• Persuasion (my favorite so far)
• Northanger Abbey (a little annoying, but easy)
• Mansfield Park (I liked)
• Pride and Prejudice (not as good as I remember from college)
• Emma (stuck on this one. Hoping Emma gets her comeuppance. Otherwise it's just annoying)
• Sense and Sensibility (another fave)

• Ricola
• Halls vitamin C drops
• Robitussin cough drops
• Halls cough drops
• Duane Reade cough drops
• Water bottle
• Cough medicine
• Hot tea
• Steam from a sink of hot water
• Steam from a coffee cup of hot water (at my desk)
• Dr.-prescribed cortisone nasal spray (briefly, too paranoid to continue)
• Antihistamine
• Aspirin
• Emergen-C
• Chicken soup
• My pillow
• My tears of agony