things ≥ homework on labor day

• drinking
• playing drums
• time traveling
• dance
• minor surgery
• mescaline
• grill
• cigarettes
• makin' out
• sleeping

things ≤ homework

• meat
• middle-school aged children
• bear maulings
• fruit flies

• plan for the gre's.
• finish NonFic piece
• begin Narrative piece
• tofu + grill
• critlit assignment
• cheap beer
• learn old english pronunciations

• poststructralism
• post-positivist realism
• sentimentalism
• anarcha-coxian horizontalism

• Live off of creative writing. Ha!
• Academia
• Journalism

• celebrate
• sleep around
• play pretend

• Hemingway
• Avner
• Balzac
• Liquor in 375 ml Bottles
• The option key on macs
• Girl from Kentucky/Tennessee
• Barthelme
• Photorealism
• Henry James
• Dreaming of East Africa
• Filthy Martinis
• sentimentalism
• Times New Viking
• Scratch off Lotto Tickets

• pretend to be an art school student
• get into a grad program in Pittsburgh
• become sassy
• graduate

I need to write my finals. I'm bored with academia that doesn't challenge or engage. Methods of solving the problem

• Jimmy Beam
• Relentless flirting and dates
• XR 30mg
• Activism

Things that could help

• XR 30mg
• Coffee
• Actually writing
• Dropping out

• the morning after

• cigarette
• couch
• outlaw country

• barthes
• sontag
• kumar

• Brown- american civilization, phd, modern culture and media, phd, english phd
• CMU- literary and cultural studies, phd
• Harvard Divinity- religion, literature, and culture, mts
• UCBerkerley- rhetoric, phd
• SCAD- professional writing, mfa
• Sarah Lawrence- writing, mfa
• Chatham- creative writing, mfa
• University of Wyoming- creative writing, mfa
• West Virginia U- creative writing, mfa
• Upitt- creative writing, mfa

• Dar es Salaam
• Nairobi
• Lagos
• Johannesburg
• Bamako
• Rabat
• Tunis
• Dakar
• Kampala
• Antananarivo
• Conakry
• Capetown
• Mombasa
• Cairo
• Casablanca
• Douala
• Tripoli

• NYC
• Mexico City
• Quebec
• LA
• Buenos Aires
• Rio
• Veracruz
• Kingston
• Havana
• Toronto
• Omaha
• Pittsburgh
• Sao Paul
• Chicago
• Toluca
• New Orleans

• shyness
• 50 bucks for 1 hour of gang gang and half a star.
• not writing a novel
• shyness

• waking up at sunrise
• writing complete stories
• saying exactly how I feel
• sympathetic listening
• check my finances
• deflate my ego

• casual
• meet lots of new people
• no pressure
• sometimes leads to casual hookups
• no break ups
• boosted esteem
• flirting

• slept
• finaid shit
• gotten a job
• relaxed
• clean my room

• cheap wine
• american spirit rollies
• drums
• pesto
• Pablo Neruda
• Animal Studies

• figure out how to be both
• read a lot just to figure out formatting to be used
• come up with a catchy title
• figure out what exactly you are writing about

• avner
• jj
• air france
• memory cassette
• lady gaga
• menomena
• nite jewel
• townes van zandt
• the o'jays

• awkwardly saying goodbye
• awkwardly saying good morning to their housemates
• noticing the brightness of the sun
• cigarette with morning breathe
• avoiding eye contact with joggers
• walk of shame
• almost vomiting
• seeing your old hookup also making walk of shame
• needing a breather after 2 minutes
• not watching traffic
• have housemates pass you, and see how hung over you look
• coffee whilst sprawled on the kitchen table
• cover ears as housemate vacuums
• notice that you smell like latex and sweat and cum and her hair
• pass out on the couch
• wake up, and check email

• don't write about boring everyday topics
• be outrageous
• be an asshole

but most importantly:

• be uppity

• a pair of hopefully vegan boatshoes
• a pair of canvas slip ons
• a pair of flip-flops
• a pair of green jeans
• a pair of grey jeans
• a pair of shorts
• an eye exam
• a purple hoodie
• pink jersey knit sheets
• a pair of aviator eye glasses
• a pair of blue jeans

my bank account is depleted, but I am set for the semester.

• boat shoes like paw used to have
• shoes that look good in general
• can someone please make vegan wool

• over sentimentality
• disregard for my liver
• itching for a fight
• messaging people I should not

• the persyn you had a crush on in that one seminar is staying for the summer & has asked a friend about you
• you are having fun
• you sleep till noon or 5.30am depending on how you feel
• whiskey

• ex-girls
• super famicom
• avocado sushi
• cibo matto
• $14 feivue shoes
• balisong
• yuyuhakusho
• monsoons
• buddhism
• tea
• tibetan solidarity
• yoga
• kamehameha childhoods
• pokefanatic
• fortune cookies
• chutney
• kali & shiva-- my first loves
• hyphen subscription
• hind swarj
• Yellow- Frank Wu
• As/Am Studies

• Native American Ethnobotany
• Animal Metaphors
• The Automobile
• Critical Theory Since 1965
• Transnational Queer
• Race and Popular Culture
• Oz Lit
• Electronic Music
• Printmaking
• Swahili
• Asian American Lit
• American Alienation
• Printmaking