I know I'm not perfect, but there are some things I'm just not going to change. That's just who I am.

• Having a work ethic (sub-topics: wanting to do well at my job/loving my job/not being a slacker)
• Being stubborn.
• Making lists incessantly/needing to plan things out (I've loosened up on this one a lot, I think)
• Setting unreasonably high expectations for myself
• Liking every type of music (including country), except for most rap
• Being anti-social for extended periods of time
• Living in organized chaos (except to the extent that it affects other people)
• Being a football/hockey/sports fan, even when it means that I sometimes can't focus on conversations if there's a game on

• My kitten
• Coffee (making it and drinking it)
• Crossword Puzzles (and being snobby about doing them in pen)
• Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
• Thunderstorms
• Pacific Ocean
• Driving across Wyoming
• Snow
• Fires (especially the smell of burning wood)
• Letters
• The United Nations
• Being cold (Especially when I turn the heat all the way off and snuggle under a bunch of blankets at night)
• Pilates

A selection of quotes from 5B, from my roommate, or from my life without her

• "Can you febreeze your cat?" (me, in a shining moment of glory)
• "I did not throw the cat...well, okay, I threw the cat." (Susannah)
• "Choose the one who loves you more." (Sidewalk advice)
• "I'm going to sit in the corner and like men." (me)
• "I saw Ben and I rode his bike. (Pause) No, his actual bike." (Miranda)
• "The rat was NOT supposed to go in the microwave." (me)

All the things I would like to accomplish in the coming year

• Be accepted to law school
• Visit Seattle
• Read more and read well (especially all the books lying around my house)
• Learn to (really) cook
• Make an actual (paper) photo album just in case my computer crashes again
• Learn a new language (French?) and practice the ones I know
• Go for more hikes
• Learn to surf
• Take a spontaneous vacation somewhere