• for the month of july: write that post-apocalyptic zombie mess that you've always been gunning to write.
• more poetry - who knew you remembered how to write a poem, even after you vehemently decided you were never going to write one ever, ever again.
• enter the contest: it's time to *try* something new.
• there's a thing called being a little braver, risker, and trying it won't hurt either - push yourself to write something more than abstract but less than conventional.

• the teenagers
• isobel campbell and mark lanegan
• these new puritans
• new buffalo
• the lucksmiths
• blonde redhead
• the kills
• the last shadow puppets
• my teenage stride
• feral children

• kafka - the metamorphosis & other stories
• sir arthur conan doyle - sherlock holmes, volume one
• jack kerouac - on the road
• ayn rand - the fountainhead
• fyodor dostoevsky - the brothers karamazor
• mark z. danielewski - only revolutions
• joan didion - the white album
• eugene o'neil - mourning becomes electra
• vladimir nabokov - laughter in the dark
• nietzsche - the birth of tragedy

• battlestar galactica
• lost
• heroes
• csi
• mi-5
• life on mars
• friday night lights
• stargate sg-1
• qi
• hex
• law & order: ci
• how i met your mother
• in plain sight
• spooks - all seasons
• chuck

to keep on doing regularly:

• job searching
• gym
• letter writing
• keep working on the poetry/short story entries to send away.

to improve:

• stop sleeping in later - not good for your health, you know, unless it's a saturday or sunday because then you'll have the excuse.
• read more - set a goal for the summertime. try to finish joyce without drinking. the whole she-bang.
• keep to your lists.

• iron man (+)
• sex in the city (+)
• the hulk (-)
• the chronicles of narnia (+)
• get smart (-)
• wanted (+)
• hancock (-----------)
• batman: the dark knight (+)