• Hot Fuzz (?!?!?!)
• Walk Hard
• There Will Be Blood
• Cloverfield
• The Innocents
• Confetti
• half of the Darjeeling Limited
• Juno
• Alien
• The Thing
• half of Notes on a Scandal
• The Third Man
• Scream
• Au Revoir Les Enfants
• Mon Oncle
• Les Jeux Interdits
• Au Hasard, Balthazar
• half of Eastern Promises
• The battle of Algiers
• M Hulot's Holiday
• Ridicule

Because I've spent so much damn time with it. Warning, gross:

• There’s a notch on the left side of my nose, up near to the brow. I can feel it if I run my fingernail along it. It’s two fleshy-ish areas with a little gap between. Sort of indistinct, but definitely there.
• One of my front teeth is higher up than the other.
• A single dark hair grows out of the mole on my right cheek.
• There’s a small bump on the bridge of my nose, right in the middle. I think it’s a really old pimple or dead skin or something.
• There’s a patch of dry skin above my right eye.
• There is one thick black hair that grows underneath my left eyebrow that I pluck all the time.

• “What’s, like, when your hair is all tussled and messy?”
• “Where do fugitives hide?”
• “What’s an awkward animal?”
• “What’s a big dog, not a lab or a golden retriever, that’s meaty and has long legs?”
• “How would you describe my ears?”
• “Yo, what’s an adverb for, like, troubled?”

I'm including TV, too:

• Jerri Blank
• Queen Doris in Forbidden Zone
• Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous

• Beyond Therapy
• Party Monster
• that adam sandler hannukah movie
• something about blondes
• Ice Age
• Garden State
• Me and You and Everyone We Know
• The Water Boy
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• The Scarlet Letter
• that chris kattan movie molly kept watching :(

• my fish-- he died :(
• a small porcelain figure of a cat-- I threw it at a tree
• my thumb, playing blind man's bluff
• molly's arm

• Someone coughing sporadically so you keep waiting for the cough
• the photocopier
• squeaky coffee cups that squeak when you sip from them
• people wearing corduroys that go VVVFTT when they walk
• plastic bags
• Myles laughing to himself while he reads
• the sound of my sighs of self-pity

• Rollo
• Tzega
• Jaz Katz
• Emily Schnebly
• Mouse
• Should
• Asphalt (he was a dog)
• Piglet

• A pioneer man (me) slowly went blind.
• Molly was three brothers.
• Kyle didn't save someone from drowning.
• I forgot that I was supposed to be blind and accidentally referenced the paintings on someone's wall.

• "Babies need to grow up."
• "What you said about silence really resonated with me."

• cello music by my cello teacher
• Spice Girls- Spice World
• Hanson
• Alanis Morisette- Jagged Little Pill
• Bela Fleck- I forget

• Finish Heart of Midlothian
• Read for Shakespeare
• Shakespeare paper by Thursday at 6:00
• Read articles for lit. journal meeting
• class response for Shakespeare
• Acoustics homework
• Study for Acoustics quiz
• Send Absentee ballot
• apply for internships
• submit essays

• Wet Hot American Summer
• Best in Show
• Bringing up Baby
• Horsefeathers

• a horse
• a duck
• a pocketbook
• one sock (I never finished the second one)

• Thank you, dear.
• You could work on your sun tan!
• Will you massage this so it doesn't beep?
• I wouldn't mind doing research if you could JUST do that and you didn't have to DO anything!

• Memo. Short for memory!
• mimesis. Enclosed Ms. Change in tone.
• sober
• moth. muted sounding
• epithumetikon. almost fantastically complicated.
• theory. "eo" is cool.
• born. Seems totally enclosed. A whole word.
• hubris. Fun to say. Silentish h can be extended for comic effect.
• variant. happens all on the same low register; three vowel sounds in a row-ish.
• calendula. Almost inverted!
• fox. Short, clean word.
• vivify. V= sounded F. Modest double vi doesn't sound silly.
• nominal
• motorcycle
• indivisible. fun to type.
• hand. The n leads to gently to the d. the...

• apples with peanut butter
• cheese and crackers
• roll, apple (or tomato) and cheese in the broiler
• soy sauce and rice

• Haaaaav... fud
• 'Burban
• Wynnnnneeeeewood (imagine a "wheeeee" sound)
• Bryyymaaarrr
• ROSEmahn
• VillNOvaaa
• Rahhhhhhhduuunh
• Wayyh
• Straffa
• Delllsfuh

• man in a taco
• man in a wave
• ginko leaf
• cicada

• Austin Scarlet
• the head of the 9/11 commission report
• Circulatory System
• Bela Fleck
• Victor Wooten
• Thomas Struth
• Frankie Faison
• does Pajo count?

• Somehow got all the cups and silverware dirty, left them in his room, refused to wash them
• refused to wash his hands after handling raw chicken
• spilled hot pepper flakes into the burner, making the air unbearably spicy
• moved the trash can from his room onto the kitchen table whenever it got too full/ unbearably smelly
• used my toothpaste every night, refused to put lid back on it
• lived on a diet of olives, frozen ten cent burritos, and chinese food. left dishes on his floor.
• invited his friend from home to stay at our house for a week when I'm in PA for break. Let friend sleep in my bed. He's a bed-wetter.
• NEVER LEFT THE HOUSE except for classes
• ate macaroni and cheese straight from the...

• The Ambassadors by Henry James
• Five Women by Musil
• The Surrounded by D'Arcy McNickle
• Washington Square by Henry James

• look at photography books
• stretch in the stacks
• walk laps through all the levels
• read Ms. magazine
• visit the water fountain
• take off my shoes
• rock my chair
• write to you
• write a poem
• draw people
• stare out the windows at people walking on ice
• go get coffee
• eat a banana
• find the sunniest spot
• look at dictionary illustrations

• Beethoven, Fisher, Matthews recital
• Lecture on breeding in the 18th century
• Play: Terrorism
• ISO Cultural Show
• Cafe at the Grand Boef (play in Philadelphia)
• The Ring!!! at the Met
• Choir concert
• The Lower Depths
• That girl's play about AIDS
• Tennessee Williams play
• Night of one-acts
• 24 Hour Play Festival
• Senior film show
• various art shows
• Marat Sade
• That really bad play that I forgot about
• The other play about AIDS that Myles was in
• Oklahoma
• The Slits

• "He becomes a cock! He's completely molllded himself to society. And we Bard kids have, too! We wear clothes, we eat cooked meat..."
• "MAAAASIVE influxes! He's got whimsy in him!"
• "I believe 50% of problems can be cured by a hug. Well, emotional problems..."
• "I took physiology. We had to dissect cats."

• "I don't know the details of this story. Nor do I much care."
• "I put my mother against the wall and I shot her." Giving an example of a poem about human relationships.
• "There are disorders of civilization in Hemingway, but there don't seem to be any eating disorders."
• “There’s someone I’ve talked to art about for years… In fact, I don’t talk to him anymore because it’s so boring.”
• "I have a friend who collects barns."
• “I love the Pacific, because it’s full of psychic material! You know, dreams.” paraphrasing Moby-Dick
• Teacher: “It’s sink or swim, and drowning is not an option. Right?”

Student: “I don’t know how it could be sink or swim if drowning is not an option.”

• Woke up at eight
• laid in bed for fifteen minutes or so
• prepared for my day
• ate gross yogurt
• did homework for acoustics
• drank strawberry orange banana juice
• walked to the science building and took my acoustics test
• ate three variations of the same thing with Noah (grilled cheese, quesedilla, bagel with cream cheese)
• went to Shakespeare class
• bought dried apricots, Cheerios and sunflower seeds
• walked home
• now I'm going to Lali's house!

• that origami show on at 6am or something where they just smiled and folded origami
• Shining Time Station
• that by kids, for kids, and starring kids show
• PEPPER ANN
• Zoobilee Zoo

• the shark candygrammer!
• King Tut
• "Jane, you ignorant slut!"
• Blues Brothers

• Michel Foucault: History of Sexuality, What is An Author?
• Descartes: Discourse on Method
• Montaigne: Apology for Raymond Sebond
• Leibniz: Monadology, On Body and Force, Against the Cartesians, Meditations on Truth, Knowledge and Ideas, Principles of Nature and Grace.
• Hirschman: half of The Passions and the Interests
• Abbe Gregoire: On the Cultural Achievements of the Negroes
• Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Kant: What is Enlightenment?, Idea for a Universal History, Perpetual Peace
• Walter Benjamin: The Task of the Translator, The Storyteller, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Theses on the Philosophy of History, Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of his Death,...

• When the outhouse was full of spiders
• When Casey was in the bathroom for an hour
• When I was drunk in Brooklyn
• When I didn't feel like walking all that way

• Suck an egg.
• Fly a kite.

• woke up late
• ate oatmeal
• sat in front of the heat cube
• ate an orange
• watched The Simpsons
• ate half a cheese calzone at the cafeteriaorium
• photocopied my driver's license
• wrote a little
• ate a bagel
• got coffee and drank it
• ate a banana
• played FreeCell
• looked at pictures
• planned to eat an apple

• bonfire
• cloves
• nutmeg
• dirt/ rain
• apple
• book

• a shadow
• Jerri Blank
• On Safari
• a bear
• Kyle
• Uncle Courtney
• a cat
• a gypsy
• an Indian lady
• Bugs Bunny
• an American Indian lady
• a teenage boy

• piano tuner
• teacher
• book reviewer
• editor
• writer
• nurse
• dictionary illustrator
• father
• dolphin trainer
• photographer

• rabid cats that bite me
• tornadoes
• water in all its many forms
• warehouses
• Nazis
• the New York subway system
• rip tides
• uncontrollable cars

• You look like a variety of soups.
• Who are you, the first lady?
• Those are the three colors that office furniture comes in.

• pastoral homecoming to an orchard farm
• pastoral homecoming to a cattle farm
• hangovers
• overstimulation/ overeating to the point of stasis/ impotence
• bout of impotence warns of dying love
• a romantic exchange between birds who are then shot by a young man; he realizes his error and dies
• voluptuous clouds
• voluptuous pastoral landscape
• my true love is sick and it isn't serious but it reminds me of mortality
• rustic drunk
• emotional drunk

• Bald girl in Canterbury Tales class. "Just the way she said everything in that class."
• Arlene
• Sam and Michaela. "Because they drove Matt out of college, and that's not cool." On Matt: "He was always there. It was just comforting."
• Allen. "He's just very annoying."
• Samantha. "She won't stop talking about menstruating and her boyfriend."

• Bonnie and Clyde- Serge Gainsbourg
• Wuthering Heights- Kate Bush
• Gone Ridin'- Chris Isaak
• Broken Up Adingdong- beta Band
• Who Knows Where the Time Goes? - Fairport Convention
• Morning Morgantown- Joni Mitchell
• A Northern Song- The Beatles

• 'tis inept penis, it
• a ton, not a
• Peanut Tuna E.P.
• Hug an UFO of u ag uh
• spam maps
• shellac all ehs
• mesapotamia aim atop as em
• Wet snot on stew
• Emil, asleep, peels a lime
• As EGA ages, a...
• Reality til a E. R.
• ASL as salsa

• Everybody Loves... Gilgamesh?
• Such Trumpery, or: A Lustre to Her Sex?
• Texts for Torturers
• Flatulence, Blasphemy, and the Emperor's Clothes
• Luck be a Lady Tonight or at Least Make Me a Gentleman: Economic Anxiety in Centlieure's the Gamester
• Andrew Lloyd Webber: One Conflicted Cat
• What Body Parts do we Owe Each other?
• Rational Pessimism, Rational Exuberance, and Asset Pricing Models
• The Anti-Zombie Argument
• How About the Platypus?
• Thinking Things
• Local Anesthesia: Once More, With Feeling
• The World's Smartest Bears
• Baltic Blues

• Hanne
• my friend's step-brother on the trampoline in 7th grade
• Kyle
• Myles
• Spruce girls
• Jeremiah

• Rita Pavone
• Kate Bush
• Chrissie Hynde
• Josephine Foster
• ginger Rogers
• the girl with the sweet voice from the shirelles

• piano teacher
• database administrator
• steel mill worker
• english teacher
• quilter
• accountant
• actor
• pharmacist
• nurse apparel shopkeeper
• teacher in a classroom for "bad kids"
• Jewish radio show host
• speech pathologist
• artist
• baker
• piano tuner
• science teacher
• plastic surgeon to the stars
• farmer

• students, faculty, and staff worked all week to capture a beautiful, endangered Cooper Hawk (Cooper is the name of our security director) and deliver it to a zoo. They sent us out a security message about it
• this monday, at first year seminar: Peter Seeger in Power of Song
• New class: Child Sacrifice

• a portable electronic Oxford English Dictionary
• headphones that don't fall out of my ears
• a loose tea kettle like the one I lost :(
• my ballot already!

• Liquo-Rama. A store of liquids of all sorts, from egg creams to windex.
• Pants, Perchance?
• Literally Linen
• Oh, My Tea!
• Jessica Rubbinghouse's Ribs, Thighs and Breasts
• Wow, It's Wrinkled! (competing linen store)
• Topless Tapas

• library ladies. All in unison: "Ohh, that's fine, that's fine!" "Sometimes I forget my name too!" "Sometimes I can't say my real age!" "That's so interesting!"
• polite half-friends. They continue the conversation without acknowledgment.
• Mom. "What?! What?! What are you going to say?! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" lol
• Myles. "Stolid? Static? Stovepipe? Stingray? Sticky?"
• My boss. "You should try Buddhist meditation. You should try visualizing the word that you can't say in flames."
• Anthropology professor. (putting his head in his hands) "Emma, you MUST PROMISE me that you'll do something about your speech!"
• Acoustics professor. Smiles vaguely and focuses his eyes somewhere beside me.
• Molly. "I don't notice it. I don't care." uh huh. But thanks.

• peanut butter soup
• executive fish soup (more confusing than gross)
• fried dough with choice of powdered sugar, hot fudge or hot caramel toppings (AS AN ENTREE!!!)
• foot long hot dogs, boiled

• They were born one day apart
• they have the same last name
• they hung out with chubby checker
• they think my grandmother is haunting my mother's throat

• the recycling committee!
• the student affairs committee... less exciting
• Forum lit journal!!!
• Brownies for a month
• environmental committee for one meeting
• I hate clubs and organizations

• An illustrated planner
• 30 copies of "All About Craps: A Beginners Guide to the Casino's Most Exciting Game!"
• half a tuna sandwich
• an electric beverage warmer
• A kit for painting Chinese characters
• Sunny D
• A gyro
• A book of men's butts called "Buns"

• Typed my favorite Simpsons quotes found in my Simpsons quotes book on my computer.
• Tried to win every game of FreeCell.
• Made 45 lists.
• Handwrote the text messages I've received in a notebook.
• Organized the songs on my computer into seasonal categories in a notebook.
• Wrote a description of every piece of art I looked at when I went to some museum in Harrisburg.
• cut my apples into cubes the size of grains of rice before eating them.
• Watched Digimon every day after school.
• Rewrote Harry Potter with a character I made up added in

• M.S. Word tells me it's FreeCell, not Freecell.
• True Life: I'm Addicted to FreeCell.
• I once planned to win every game of FreeCell on my computer. From 1 to 100,000 or whatever. I got up to about 200.
• Wouldn't it be funny if on a sitcom some character casually referenced how annoying it is that FreeCell takes like four hours to play?
• And then everyone's like, "uhhh, FreeCell shouldn't take that long..."
• Isn't it creepy that the king follows the mouse? Why is he so interested?
• I'm not even that interested in FreeCell.
• (that's a lie.)
• Whenever I win a game of FreeCell I'm always let down somehow. A big, pixelated king isn't all that rewarding. I work hard!

• carry around cymbals
• throw up often, in many places
• keep an annoying pet
• wear clashing colors
• lots of yelling

• They were right, I was wrong. True love didn't last long. As the dew light turns to moonlight I'll be on my way.
• There's that word again: pride. Do you pride yourself on being polite? Do you feel pride when you're alone? Does the mirror say "good day," today? Does your family make you feel pride?
• Now I know you're not the only starfish in the sea, if I never hear your name again it's all the same to me.
• Driving down Sunset blvd at three in the morning doing ninety miles per hour in a 30 mile zone! And she blamed me when she got a ticket!... She was a stewardess, you know.
• And the sign said "long-haired freaky people need not apply!"
• Just like a photograph, I pick you up. Just like a station on the radio, I pick you up.

• Are You Ready, Girl?
• Nothing Lasts Forever
• Autumn Almanac
• Motorway
• You Do Something to Me
• Young and Innocent Days
• No More Looking Back
• Session Man
• I'm Not Like Everybody Else
• Strangers
• Misfits
• In A Foreign Land
• Complicated Life
• Oklahoma USA
• Daylight
• Misty Water
• Creeping Jean
• Life Goes On

• "Aha, look at Emma's face! It looks like she's in the fall moon." (shining a flashlight at me)
• "This vet, as you know from meeting him, is Mr. Bizarre Head."
• Trish: "Ellen, you have something in common with giraffes. They are strict vegetarians and pacifists."

Mom: "Oh, I'm not a pacifist."

• Mom: "I always want to sit down to put my socks on."

Uncle Neal: "Or to take them off." Mom: "Or to put one on and take one off."

• On our house: "Too many walls in that house."
• "I mean, I like him, but he's a dullard."

• Molly: ballet-themed ornaments
• Dad: Shirts with long sleeves, those cherry candies
• Aunt Beth: candles
• Uncle Wade: Golf books
• Uncle Neal: Ansel Adams calendar
• Aunt Trish: "funky" bracelet
• Me: A journal
• Mom: a beautiful Asian calendar

• "And then, in the first episode of the SECOND season..."
• "We should get drunk AND high!"
• "It's not about you, dogg! Not everything is about you!"
• "It tasted gross, but it made us, like, retarded."
• "We have to make a top ten hottest guys list RIGHT NOW."
• "And then June's like YO DOGG! You can't be doin' that! That is totally violating... but the context being which..."
• "I have this fear of getting, like, too high."

• Dan: Tell him that the White Stripes are siblings.
• Kyle: Sing from "Cats"
• Deanna: Tell her that her clothes don't match.
• Mom: Touch her face.
• Casey: Act as though he's acting strangely.
• Bubbie: Wear a short skirt.
• Dad: Ask him if we can buy Chinese food/ rent a movie/ buy whole milk.
• Myles: Suggest that he's lazy.
• Liz: Bring up Holocaust deniers.

Creative Arts is a publisher that closed. My bookstore bought their remainders. It was a vanity press, which means that the authors generally paid to have their books published. But it was a scam. These are quotes from the author bio section at the back of the books. They touch me:

• He lives in Washington, D.C., with his dog, Nietzsche.
• Edwin J. Drechsel was born in Bremen of an Australian mother and a German sea captain father.
• He has been teaching Sociology at Mary Baldwin College since the late seventies, specializing in the topics of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.
• She has a U.S. patent for a differently-abled doll, for differently-abled children.
• He is currently working on his first opera, "The Poet's Miracle."

• Eh. Hegel has "ah" leg, eh? He!
• An anagram O'Mama- Gran oh Margo-Man or Namohmana!
• An anagram mamagram margamam marganana

• canatoibs
• catanobas

• Provigil
• Wellbutrin
• house-shaped anxiety pill
• Prozac
• Zoloft
• Allegra
• Paxil
• Celexa
• Effexor

• cook something complicated
• wash my dishes/ clean my room
• crafts/ draw/ make origami, greeting cards, knit, hook rug, collage
• go for a nice long walk
• arrange my books alphabetically
• watch Absolutely Fabulous
• really LISTEN to music for once!
• write a letter
• play guitar
• clip my toenails
• do yoga
• write poems
• go look around at the grocery store

• never did fail one gigantic test exam
• sad professor come home
• I adore money & love power
• talk you darling rose weed
• woman have brain