long-term

• yellowstone
• zion national park
• monarch butterfly migration map
• yosemite
• sea turtles hatching
• hot air balloon ride

short-term

• indiana dunes
• gary, indiana (mj's house)
• milwaukee
• madison

• visit kathy kelly and creative voices for nonviolence
• dance (in a class and/or collective, consistently, continuously)
  • ✔ contact improv at links hall!
  • use my living social dance class coupons!
  • www zumba or zumba with liz at cheetah's
• volunteer in a dialogue/conflict resolution-related organization (ccr)
• network (?)
  • jackie kaplan!
• study for the gre
• play a sport (soccer, as america scores! coach or through america scores staff team)
  • meetup with andrea and/or ben
• go camping

• tamara drewe
• nice boy johnny
• the four-faced liar
• happythankyoumoreplease
• scotland, pa
• i'm no angel
• butterfield8
• the help
• alice in wonderland
• capitalism: a love story
• helvetica
• justin beiber: never say never (that's right, it's true)
• red riding hood
• snow flower and the secret fan
• the tree of life
• annie hall
• beginners
• tomboy
• the purity myth
• wild

• wilco
• neil young
• crosby, stills, nash, and young
• will's mixes
• john butler trio
• ani difranco
• james taylor
• joni mitchell
• beirut
• cocteau twins

• felicity
• sex and the city
• arrested development
• friday night lights
• modern family
• parks and recreation
• gilmore girls
• clarissa explains it all
• the good wife
• the office
• community
• bob's burgers
• master chef junior

• positive
  • travel to a new part of chicago each week (or twice a month, if each week seems impractical)
  • read more books
  • attend a "meet up" group
  • start playing soccer
  • go to dance classes
  • draw for fun/in free time
  • ✔ witness one flash mob
  • ✔ attend a fertility awareness class
  • attend a jewish renewal service
  • continue my epistolary relationships
  • work out...zumba?!
  • call mimi each week
  • call at least two non-chicago friends each month
  • make time for journaling/writing reflectively
  • ✔ go to karaoke!

• rice chex
• life
• frosted mini wheats
• crispex
• frosted cheerios
• berry kix
• cap'n crunch
• french toast crunch
• honey bunches of oats
• special k protein
• total

• learn how to garden
• live near water
• own a dog (boston terrier? cavalier king charles?)
• be trained as a dialogue facilitator
• live in an intentional community
• learn how to play guitar
• take another drawing class
• learn italian
• make a killer scrapbook
• maintain an epistolary relationship
• grow lupines
• learn how to sail
• study french feminism in french
• run a half-marathon
• work at an independent bookstore
• live abraod
• keep a journal
• visit friends
• make a quilt
• study more philosophy

• make mimi's 85th birthday book
  • contact friends and family
  • get pictures
  • use living social/coupon
• go home to interview mimi
• coordinate trip to ireland/england with mom
• go home to interview mom
• apply to graduate schools

• songs that make me happy
• color combinations
• core feminist values of mine
• smells/scents
• favorite tv shows
  • felicity, 30 rock, daria, my so-called life,
• favorite books
• famous people i wanted to be
  • winona ryder, chrisitna ricci,
• favorite movies/types of movies
  • drop dead gorgeous, momento, weekend,
• favorite stumbleupon finds
• bucket list?
• ideal careers
• art/dance therapist,
• travel destinations
• favorite literary characters

• "little secrets" by passion pit
• "five years time" by noah and the whale
• "she's electic" by oasis
• "bulletproof" by la roux
• "baby" by justin beiber
• "shake it off" by taylor swift

• 6.21.11
  • beautiful kansas city sky
  • finished "sula" and started "the help"
  • mimi's fried chicken!
  • started a blog...well, designed a blog
  • thoughts about chicago me vs. kansas city me

• randolph street market
• green city market (saturdays!?)
• millenium park music mondays
• shedd aquarium
• field museum
• that island from the world's fair
• architectural artifacts
• rogers park community space
• logan square!?

• school
  • compile a list of potential graduate schools/programs for the future
  • actually call the places i'm interested in applying to
  • apply to rva (july 11)
  • apply to ccr (july)
  • apply to jewish funds for justice (wendy)
• work
  • talk to cwhc about job possibilities for next year
  • find babysitting jobs
    • call rachel h.
    • ask carrie for recommendations
    • lela's recommendations
• everything else

• finished:
  • the girl with the dragon tattoo
  • sula
  • the help
• in process:
  • the girl who played with fire
  • the cookbook collector
  • the history of love
• to read:
  • deborah, golda, and me
  • feminisms
  • kitchen table wisdom
  • purple hibiscus
  • how jews became white folk
  • from hilary's class
    • the house of mirth
    • voyage in the dark

• people love you. let them love you. (ari w)

• "everytime a couple gets married, two single people die." -parks and recreation
• "help is here. prepare for flight." -birthday night song at lincoln hall
• "the thing about youth culture is i don't really understand it." -parks and recreation
• "once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering." -nicole krauss, the history of love
• "one of my new years resolutions is to say yes. yes to love. yes to life. yes to staying in more. -30 rock
• "it takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence" -alexis jennings
• "the summer came. a summer limp with the weight of blossomed things. heavy sunflowers weeping over fences, iris curling and..._sula_

• the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay
• a room with a view
• catcher in the rye
• lolita
• wuthering heights
• anne of green gables
• sense and sensibility
• anthem
• the age of innocence
• for whom the bell tolls
• war and peace
• madame bovary
• a portrait of the artist as a young man
• the scarlet letter
• tess of the d'urbervilles
• walden

• palestine
  • olive harvest (october of 2011?)
  • nonviolence tour
• greece
• egypt
  • pyramids
• italy
  • tuscany
  • rome (again)
• england
  • jane austen tour
  • shakespeare tour

• inside llewyn davis soundtrack
• fleetwood mac by fleetwood mac
• blood, sweat, and tears- dad's cd
• john mayer
• on and on by jack johnson

• what do you remember about your mother? father? step-mother? siblings? family?
• where are all the places you lived growing up?
• categories: family, moving, marriage, tennis, friends, feminism, smoking, food/cooking, motherhood, dating, world war II, vietnam war, segregation and integration, college: art, television and movies, technology,

• family
  • picture of mom and dad for their anniversary
  • money for 30th anniversary trip for/with mom and dad (summer 2014)
  • card for father's day (late, late, late)
  • write-up of mimi's stories
  • something for scottie's birthday (re: music? songbook?)

• joni (joni mitchell)
• lena ("sisterhood of the traveling pants")
• lily
• penny (the beatles)
• river (gender-neutral)
• eva
• elle
• jack (gender-neutral)
• ryan (gender-neutral)
• lux ("the virgin suicides")
• ophelia (william shakespeare)
• amelia
• mae (mimi)
• madeline (mimi)
• sula (sula by toni morrison)
• madeline mae (mimi)
• lovey (mimi)

• passion pit
• eddie vedder
• wilco
• neil young
• cocteau twins
• the gossip
• edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros
• oh darling
• john butler trio
• cut copy

• zach gilford (friday night lights)
• kuno becker (sex and breakfast)
• ryan gosling (blue valentine)
• taylor kitsch (friday night lights)
• matt czuchry (the good wife)
• adam scott (party down)
• matthew goode (imagine me and you)
• diego luna (dirty dancing: havana nights)
• emile hirsch (lords of dogtown)
• nicholas hoult (skins)
• joseph dempsie (skins)
• matt damon (good will hunting)
• leonardo dicaprio (romeo + juliet)

• jonah house teachings
• quotes from goucher courses
• clt teachings/notes

• general
  • utne
  • the week
  • newsweek
• gender studies
  • bitch
  • hypatia
  • lilith
  • bust
  • meridians
  • journal of the history of sexuality
  • differences
• judaism
  • heeb
  • bridges (+ feminism)
  • nashim (+ feminism)