• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• Monday:
  • Work
  • Talbot adventures
• Tuesday:
  • Work (death-shift)
  • Kat Dinner! (and sleepover!)
• Wednesday:
  • KAT
• Thursday:
  • KAT
• Friday:
  • Work & Kat
• Saturday:
  • Kat + Family Party!
• Sunday:

• Zoology 12 page report (due friday)
• Zoology animal project
• Zoology final
• Big Ass comparative essay for Lit (due Friday)
• Final for Lit (which includes reading a play & a literary criticism & learning lit terms) (due June 2nd)
• Art Movement project
• Government speech (due tuesday)

• got some writing done
• sassed with Karlberg
• Vegan Club
• more sassing with Karlberg
• excessive compliments from Mr. Powers
  • He believes in me!
• excessive compliments from Annie Freshwater
  • She believes in me!
• Dune
• drank some manly tea that makes me feel like a cowboy
• saw Taylor
• people confided in me
• no homework

• finish all of my academic homework tonight
  • my journals for Spicer (8 pages of bullshit)
• Utilize tomorrow as a day for writing
  • and more writing
• Tomorrow night--put together my Senior Portfolio
  • give my Senior Portfolio to Mr. Wood
• Do my Stats homework at lunch (tuesday)
  • or copy someone else's Stats homework at lunch

• pulling splinters out of my hands
• exercising
• yanking out an ingrown toenail
• gargling gasoline
• cleaning my room
• dancing in ballroom
• running from a street gang
• sitting on the early bus with annoying children
• eating a moldy banana

• S Club 7
• Charmed
• Friends
• Will & Grace (I only understood half of the jokes)
• Anything on Nickelodian
• Anything Mary-Kate & Ashley
• Disney Channel (but only the featured movies, like The Thirteenth Year, The Luck of the Irish, Quints, etc.)
• Boy Meets World
• Are You Afraid of the Dark?
• That's So Weird
• Jeopardy
• The Price is Right
• All My Children (i loved watching soaps with mom)
• Full House (on occasion)
• Seinfeld
• Gilmore Girls
• My Little Pony (until it was cancelled)

• eating cat food
• laughing ridiculously
• hitting my head on bookshelves
• greeting people too exuberantly
• slamming my finger into car doors
• finishing people's sentences
• my choice of clothing
• my inability to paint my own nails
• obsessing over xena
• obsessing over everything

• Sonic (the restaurant)
• New Zealand
• India
• Kilimanjaro
• The Grand Canyon
• Israel
• Six Flags
• China
• Australia
• Coney Island

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being--Milan Kundera
• Absolam, Absolam!--William Faulkner
• Dune--Frank Herbert
• To The Lighthouse--Virginia Woolf
• Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit--Jeanette Winterson
• Game of Thrones
• Your gift

• Today:
  • Possibly get a new computer!!!
• Saturday:
  • Work (7am-1pm)
  • Oma's 80th Birthday (6pm-8ish)
• Sunday:
  • Katie Pipal's grad brunch
• Monday:
  • NOTHING (hopefully)
• Tuesday:
  • Spot
• Wednesday:
  • LUNCH WITH KARLBERG (at the spectrum)
  • maybe Carissa playtime
• Thursday:

Monday:

• Monologue needs to be memorized and background research of character needs to be complete
• Jason IV section of Sound and the Fury needs to be read
• Government assignment (use late pass and turn in Wed.)

Tuesday:

• Zoology Test (complete labs and fill out lab journal)
• Research on the Bachata (I probably won't do this).

Wednesday:

• ...

Thursday:

• Complete Little Red Riding Hood adaptation (and story with Baba Yaga--ask for exte...

• Tomorrow: work from 7am-11am.
  • try to finish most of my india powerpoint
  • shit, and my business project needs to be done for econ.
• Monday: study for Zoology
  • and Stats
• Tuesday: study for Stats and Econ
• Wednesday: don't study?
  • I can't study for two timed-writes, and I don't think we have a final in joy shannon's class

• General necessities, like water and food and electricity
• Xena
• My beautiful friends
• My lovely family
• My job
• Xena
• All of the events (good or bad) that have shaped me
• My car, Judy
• My laptop, Milly
• Amber Tamblyn
• My teachers
• My school
• Xena
• Narwhals, Sloths, Elephants, and Otters
• Char

• public milk mustaches
• simplicity
• make-believe wasn't make-believe--it was real.
• my dad reading to me at night
• dirty hands and feet
• possibilities
• the world seemed smaller, more intimate
• nap time
• being preoccupied for hours at a time with just a crayon and a blank sheet of paper
• not knowing what calories were and eating whatever the hell i wanted, guilt-free!

• politics
• math
• war strategies
• South Park
• infidelity
• heterosexuality
• parasites
• KIIS FM

• eternally flowing chocolate fondue fountain
• angels who make raunchy jokes
• continuation of Xena (seasons 7,8,9...etc.)
• no one feels embarrassed to walk around naked
• costume parties that happen frequently
• women can grow facial hair if they want to
• cuddling is a mandatory practice
• everyone gets their own personal baby animal (kitten, puppy, lil' elephant, etc.)

Max

• Dirty Projectors + Bjork
• New Andrew Bird
• The National (everything but High Violet)

Austin

• Squirrel Nut Zippers

• Friday:
  • Nothing
• Saturday:
  • 4:30am-10am work (THEN MORE KARLBERG ADVENTURES!)
• Sunday:
  • 4:30am-9:45am work
• Monday:
  • 8:15pm-12:15pm work
• Tuesday:
  • 11:30am-5:pm work (AKA: the day-killer shift)
• Wednesday:
  • NOTHING!
• Thursday:

Sunday (today):

• rough draft of sound and the fury essay
• government paper
• print out spicer stuff

Monday:

• nothing

Tuesday:

• government essay final draft

Wednesday:

• unknown

Thursday:

• second draft of sound and the fury essay

• set up my brother's science fair board
  • this includes pictures and thick colorful paper and creativity and effort that i don't quite have this week.
  • (sometime before thursday)
• set up my brother's science fair booklet
  • this includes finding one of those special clear presentation books, and writing two of the assignments that he still hasn't done yet.
  • (sometime before thursday)
• write a four page feminist essay
  • this includes sweat, tears, and resisting suicidal urges.
  • (sometime before thursday)

• EVERYTHING

• glanced at my essay. literally.
• eaten food.
• watched xena fanvideos.
• made a playlist appropriate for heartbreak.
• checked facebook 343533452425457545543 times.
• checked tumblr 2374692874284737462947 times.
• eaten food.
• stared at the phone, willing it to ring.
• made this list.
• stared at the phone, willing it to ring.

• tell them made up stories, such as myths about: the toilet goblin, the one-legged arbor day squirrel, the birthday lobster, etc.
• on Sundays (instead of church) go to museums, or discovery centers, or the park, or something else adventurous and cool.
• buy them things in line at the grocery store, like gum and candy, because i feel like every child leaves the grocery store disappointed if they don't get something by the register.
• watch the Sound of Music with them, at least three times a year (Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving).
• while traveling by car, encourage them to bark at dogs in other cars to see if its ears perk up, or if it barks back (my parents did this with me, and still do...it's gotten past the point of embarrassing).

• embarrassing myself
• making quesadillas
• laughing ridiculously loud
• fashion faux pas
• fainting in mexican food places
• remembering the lyrics to songs
• blushing
• pointing and winking
• over-caffeinating myself
• sleeping in
• napping
• obsessing
• myrmaiding