11 Fictional Characters I'd Want to Befriend: This may not be completely serious but-

• Tom Buchanan
• Kevin Khatchadourian
• Neville Longbottom
• Humbert Humbert
• Dolores Haze
• Alaska Young
• Oskar
• Matilda
• Blankie
• Mouth
• Lucas

11 Books I Read as a Child:

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Are You My Mother?
• I Spy Haunted House
• Amelia Bedelia
• Junie B. Jones
• The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls
• Egyptology
• Caps for Sale
• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Which witch?

11 Words I like:

• petrichor
• cafune
• amaranthine
• pfeffernuss
• verklempt
• lacuna
• saturnine
• marmalade
• adoxographic
• pink
• window

11 Items I Carry in My Bag:

• hand sanitizer as of late
• makeup pouch
• wallet/money
• ID lanyard
• scratch offs
• monoculus because so cute
• schoolbooks
• iPod
• phone charger/phone
• gel pen
• stamps

11 Historical Figures Who Interest Me:

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Mao Zedong
• Thomas Jefferson (what an asshole)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Marat
• Charlotte Corday
• The Medici family
• Albrecht Durer
• Ghengis Khan
• Phyllis Wheatley

11 Things That Annoy Me:

• Whistling
• Party-goers
• Unsupported egos
• Republicans
• Feminists, too
• Inflation/prices
• The cost of education---what am I paying for?
• Valley Girls
• Bugs
• Sickness
• Tummy pudges

11 Things That Bore Me:

• 18th century literature
• Comedy films
• Normal people
• Modern art
• Having nothing to do, nowhere to go
• No food in the fridge
• Contemporaries
• TV
• Twitter newsfeeds
• Cold days
• Same old conversations

11 Last Purchases:

• Water
• Foods
• Anthropologie shoes
• Urban shorts
• Urban nail set
• American Apparel socks
• American Apparel scrunchie
• Museum tickets
• SEPTA coins
• Posters
• 742 more things to draw about for Erika

11 Places I've Visited:

• Germany
• Italy
• Belgium
• France
• The Netherlands
• Greece
• Switzerland
• England
• Virginia
• Florida
• New York-ha-ha

11 Favorite Quotes:

• All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Ernest Hemingway

• If you love me as you say you do,’ she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.

Leo Tolstoy

• You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

Kazuo Ishiguro

• You are flowers in my stomach.

Cutting me open nightly, blooming through the cracks of the ribs. Elke River

• I’m a cynical idealist.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

• What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?

Sylvia Plath

• I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation.

Stanisław Lem

• The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

• Why are you sad?”

“Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings.Anna Karina, Pierre Le Fou

• In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

• I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.

Jewish Proverb11 Things I Am:

• Snarky
• Smart
• Plain
• Complex
• Cynical
• Critical
• Open
• Unspeakably loving
• Forgiving
• Passionate
• Sad