• make sure to put backs on my favorite earrings when I wear them
• don't rely on 24-hr grace
• listen to myself

• semi-sweet riesling wine
• sex on the beach, from britt
• shots
  • Applesauce, from lolo
  • Lemon Drop, from sandy
  • Washington Apple, from britt
  • Jolly Rancher, from ahn
  • Red-headed Slut
  • Jack Daniel's, from tai
  • Washington Apple, from ty
  • Chubby Girl Scout

• relax
• speak up
• be on time
• have patience
• be more creative
• call people back
• stop procrastinating

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." -Karl Marx

• meanness, rudeness, and arrogance
• when people are very reluctant to help you when you're in need, especially if you've done favors for them with no problem
• newspaper columnists and other people who promote uninformed opinions on serious matters so they can get attention
• when people who must talk at the movies even during the most intense, heart-wrenching, gut-twisting scenes.
• when people get a kick out of excluding others
• when people are condescending, or like to make people feel stupid to cushion their fragile self-esteem
• people who ALWAYS want to take the easy way out
• when people lash out when their confused
• when people make more drama than there needs to be

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery/ None but ourselves can free our minds"

• No matter how hard I try to avoid them, little kids always trip over me. Then their moms give me dirty looks.
• It takes a lot of energy to be mad at someone.
• College students are the indentured servants/slaves of the 21st century.
• I hate banks.
• I celebrate Easter for chocolate bunnies. And for eating good food with good company.

• "867-5309/Jenny" by Tommy Tutone
• "Jenny from the Block" by J.Lo
• "Jenny was a Friend of Mine" by The Killers (creepy ass lyrics though)

FICTION

• Anna Karenina
• The Woman Warrior
• The Bell Jar
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morisson
• Beloved
• Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp
  • In a Lonely Place
• Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
• Shanghai Girls
• something by Margaret Atwood

WOMEN'S STUDIES

• BITCHfest
• The Female Brain
• When God was a Woman
• The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
• The Chalice and the Blade
• Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
• Flow: The Cultural History of Menstruatio...

• don't laugh at racist jokes
• educate myself and others
• recycle as much as i can
• use a reusable water bottle
• pack my sandwich in a tupperware instead of plastic sandwich bags
• buy local, fair trade, natural and/or organic
• ask a lot of questions

• ✔ sign up for a yoga class
• ✔ try some vegetarian recipes
• learn to snowboard
• make enough jewelry to sell at the market
• write a book
• learn to play an instrument
• take creative photos
• see a play at the local theatre
• get better at salsa dancing
• make a blog

• Adele
• India.Arie
• Erykah Badu
• Aretha Franklin
• Etta James
• Lauryn Hill
• Alicia Keys
• John Legend
• Corinne Bailey Rae
• Joss Stone
• Amy Winehouse

• paper girl
  • I had perfect aim...
• golf course hot dog & beer stand cashier
  • best job ever
  • nice tips
  • accomplished lots of summer reading
• hostess
  • did bitch work
• food server at mall Chinese restaurant
  • gave out samples of orange chicken all day
• temp worker at distribution center
  • alienated and exploited

• "Need You Tonight" INXS
• "Push It" Salt-N-Pepa
• "Tainted Love" Soft Cell
• "What I Like About You" The Romantics
• "You're My Obsession" Human League
• "Don't You Want Me" Human League
• "How Will I Know" Whitney Houston
• "Walk This Way" Run DMC & Aerosmith
• "Walk Like an Egyptian" The Bangles
• "Sweet Dreams" Eurythmics
• "Cruel Summer" Bananarama
• more later

• ipod fairy came to visit after my car got broken into
• people offering to pay for my meals if i stayed in China longer, and i know they were serious
• the good samaritans who turned in my phone both times i lost it

• Nawal El Saadawi
• Ida B. Wells
• Vandana Shiva
• Ghandi

• songs that have sirens in the background... i always think i'm getting pulled over

• LIVE drunken shrimp
• sheep stomach
• Peking duck (i tried the brain...)
• little snails
• lotus root...delicious!
• chicken feet
• chicken heart
• raw jellyfish
• black fungus
• mantleshrimp
• goose liver
• bull frog
• snakeskin
• starfish
• turtle
• eel
• grasshopper
• sheep testicle
• scorpion
• snake
• butterfly larva

• i tend to procrastinate
• sometimes i don't do things i say i'm going to do
• i prefer calling to email, but i hate leaving voicemails
• i have a hard time getting close to people
• i'm bad at keeping in touch
• i'm bad at parking
• i lose track of time easily
• i enjoy sleeping in a little too much
• i can be very critical, which can be a fault at times if i get carried away

See

• clouds
• sunsets
• views from high up
• skylines
• fresh snow on trees
• flowers
• spotting wildlife

Smell

• lilacs in the spring
• summer bbq
• the clean smell after it rains
• when I come back from a good trip and my clothes still smell like where I've been

Taste

• dark chocolate
• tea

Hear

• thai
• arv
• michael
• dave
• phitus

assassinated by theresa on the bus (03.17.10)

"...We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. 'Necessitous men are not free men.' People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are:

• The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
• The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
• The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will gi...

• Women's Issues
  • end violence against women
    • V-Day, Vagina Monologues
  • pro-choice
  • positive body image
• Promoting diversity
• Acting against racism
• Environmental sustainability
  • Recycling
  • Organic foods
  • Natural products
• Workers' Rights
  • Fair Trade
• Improving education for all

• pokemon cards
• beanie babies
• rocks
• lip smackers
• hot wheels
• keychains
• seashells
• book series
  • Goosebumps
  • Dear America & Royal Diaries
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Harry Potter
  • Shel Silverstein poetry
• stickers

• ninja
• princess
• bride
• pocahontas
• witch
• rockstar
• devil
• cleopatra
• sporty spice
• alicia keys
• hula dancer
• lara croft
• basketball player
• american gladiator
• cat
• flapper

• hummus
• sunchips
• carrots
• gushers
• apples
• oreos
• granola bars
• blue corn chips
• trail mix (preferably with chocolate chips)

• ✔ Beowulf
• ✔ Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart
• Agee, James A Death in the Family
• ✔ Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice
• Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain
• ✔ Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot
• Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March
• ✔ Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre
• ✔ Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights
• Camus, Albert The Stranger
• Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop
• ✔ Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales
• Chekhov, Anton The Cherry Orchard
• ✔ Chopin, Kate The Awakening
• Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
• Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans
• Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
• ✔ Dante Inferno
• de Cervantes, Miguel Don Quixote
• Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe
• Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities

• Alicia Keys with Ne-Yo and Jordin Sparks (2008)
• John Legend with Rafael Saadiq (2009)
• Lupe Fiasco with Cornel West lecture (2009)
• John Mayer with Michael Franti & Spearhead (2010)

Other Live Performances:

• Dane Cook (2009)

• Alice in Wonderland
• Aladdin
• Wall-E
• Up
• The Jungle Book
• Pocahontas
• Beauty and the Beast
• Mulan

• making blackberry cobbler
• learning to ride a two-wheel bike
• staying up late on the weekends to watch funny movies and eat junk food (the only time i could stay up past my bed time)
• the smile on his face when he ate bbq ribs
• him making fun of people and/or cracking jokes
• the day we went out to the park and i left my bear near the pond, and going back to get it
• when he called to say i love you during a rough time and other random moments
• scratching his back...lolz

• Kick Ass
• Whip It
• Easy A
• Pulp Fiction

Recommended Foreign Movies:

• Antonia's Line
• Cinema Paradiso
• Jeunne de Fleurette
• Minon of the Spring
• Monsoon Wedding

• bacalao
• dilatory
• hippophagy
• pumpkin
• sanguinary
• sibilate
• zephyr
• chaotropic
• concinnity

• when creepy older men persistently hit on me and/or seek me out
• centipedes...there's just too many damn legs
• walking alone at night
• moldy cheeses
• gory films

• i really appreciate it when the bus driver waits
• i'm allergic to cats
• i'm lactose-intolerant
• the neighbor's goat chased me around the yard when i was 14

• Cow's Skull with Calico Roses by Georgia O'Keeffe
• Reflections of Elephants by Salvador Dali
• The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago
• Reigning Queens by Andy Warhol
• Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Peter Bruegel
• Picture of Dorian Gray by Ivan Albright
• by Henri Rousseau:
  • The Snake Charmer
  • The Dream
  • The Sleeping Gypsy

• geologist
• paleontologist
• archaeologist
• science teacher
• marine biologist
• hogwarts student

• philosophy/critical theory
  • existentialism
  • hegemony
• religion
  • islam
  • buddhism
• china
• american history
• history of communism
• art
• poetry by Pablo Neruda
• poetry by Sappho

books i've lent out:

• peaches: The Lost Symbol
• britt: The Historian
• mike: Stolen Harvest (signed copy!)
• k.l.: Marx for Beginners
• britt: The Hidden Face of Eve
• zorro: Riches for the Poor
• britt: Wicked

books i've borrowed:

• britt: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
• greg: The Social Construction of Sexuality
• mike: Earth Democracy
• az: Political Economy
• j.j.: The Alchemist

• sleep in
• make a big breakfast with my boyfriend
• sip hot tea
• read a good book
• run a mile
• take time to actually cook a meal
• get organized for the week
• call grandma

• Catwoman from Batman
• Deathstrike from X-Men
• O-Ren Ishii from Kill Bill Vol. 2
• Poison Ivy from Batman
• Queen of Hearts

• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• X: A Fabulous Child's Story by Louis Gould

• "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" (classic)
• always write lecture notes with a pen

• Star, black shih tzu w/ white spot on head, attention whore
• Martin, blue betta fish, named after MLK and won as a prize from my favorite hippies
• Ginger, brown shih tzu, reserved and protective, liked to show off her toys
• Sheba, black lab-chow mix, we didn't have a choice, she was the last puppy left but we love her anyway ;)
• Nikki, Westie
• Sunshine the canary, he sang when i played music
• Moonlight, white canary, Sunshine's girlfriend