• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Me and Mia

Do you believe in something beautiful? / Then get up and be it!

• Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

You feel terrified at the thought of being left behind / Of losing everybody, the necessity of dying / Oh, we kid ourselves, there's future in the fucking / But there is no fucking future / I'm just practicing my accents, picking at old sutures

• The National - Available

did you dress me down and liquor me up / to make me last for the minute when the red comes over you / like it does when you're filled with love or whatever you call it / do you feel alone when I'm in my head/when you wait for me to take my breath/do you still feel clean when the only di...

• of Montreal's huge ass horse poster
• The Flaming Lip's baller lithographs
• of Montreal poster six pack

• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• world peace
• a successful surgery for my mother
• a quietly passionate love
• a horse of my own
• the money for grad school
• a better self-image
• less jiggle-zones
• vegas trip to the star trek experience with Jen
• spontaneous road-trip that doesn't go horribly awry
• millions more wishes (;

• make friends at college
• join equestrian team
• pick a second major/minor
• be more proactive
• get into SMAD
• bring my keyboard to school and actually practice again
• be less fat
• take french
• do laundry not just once a month
• pierce my ears
• have less road rage
• get a holga and use it

• Radiohead - True Love Waits
• Radiohead - No Surprises
• Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes
• Elliot Smith - King's Crossing
• The National - Available
• The National - Cherry Tree
• WHY? - Simeon's Dilemma
• WHY? - Rubber Traits
• Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
• Beirut - Elephant Gun
• Cat Power - Silver Stallion
• Belle & Sebastian - Funny Little Frog
• Destroyer - Loves of a Gnostic
• Destroyer - The Sublimation Hour
• The Wrens - She Sends Kisses
• Animal Collective - Bluish
• Yann Tiersen - Comptine D'un Autre été: L'après Midi
• Bon Iver - Creature Fear
• Gogol Bordello - Wonderlust King
• Sufjan Stevens - For the Windows in Parad...

• University of British Columbia - Digital Media
• University of Washington - Visual Communication or Interaction Design
• University of Virginia - Digital Humanities
• George Washington University - Media and Public Affairs
• American University - Electronic Media
• Georgetown University - Art, Media, & Representation

• comfortably ride 4' courses
• develop a more consistent half-pass
• fucking piaffe period
• foxhunt more (:
• find a local lease
• do equestrian team/show ihsa (at least once)
• find another community-oriented stable
• keep up with fox meadow