• Norweigan Wood (Haruki Murakami)
• The Psychopath Test (Jon Ronson)
• The Devil Bones (Kathy Reichs)
• A Game of Thrones (George R. R. Martin)
• The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
• World Without End (Ken Follett)
• Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
• Girl Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen)
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barberry)
• Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)

• The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Stieg Larsson)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks)
• Colonial Habits (Kathryn Burns)
• Lieutenant Nun (Catalina de Erauso)
• Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)
• My Sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult)
• Saving Fish From Drowning (Amy Tan)
• The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
• Catch Me If You Can (Frank W. Abagnale)
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt)
• Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
• Midwives (Chris Bohjalian)
• Suite Française (Iréne Némirovsky)
• Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
• In The Woods (Tana French)

• The Following
• Revenge
• Scandal
• Girls
• The Mindy Project
• New Girl
• The Office
• How I Met Your Mother
• Bones
• The Big Bang Theory
• Desperate Housewives
• Friends
• Freaks and Geeks
• Misfits
• The Simpsons
• Family Guy
• King of the Hill
• King of Queens
• Malcolm in the Middle
• Weeds
• The IT Crowd

• papaya
• granadillo
• ceviche
• sopa con una pata de pollo!
• mango

• The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
• The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
• La Préférence Nationale (Fatou Diome)
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl)
• Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)
• Bridge Jones: The Edge of Reason (Helen Fielding)
• The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)
• The Westing Game (Ellen Raskin)
• I Am Charlotte Simmons (Tom Wolfe)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
• Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
• Saving Fish from Drowning (Amy Tan)
• The Audacity of Hope (Barack Obama)

• Brooks & Dunn
• Kain (2x)
• Les Cowboys Fringants
• Boreal
• John Mayer
• Ben Folds
• James Morrison
• Sugarland
• Cobra Starship (2x)
• Metro Station
• We the Kings
• The Cab
• Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
• The Higher
• Relient K
• Gym Class Heroes (2x)
• Katy Perry
• Jack's Mannequin
• Say Anything
• Jennifer O'Connor
• The Whomping Willows

• Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews (Jonathan Cott)
• Bob Dylan: Lyrics (1962-2001)

• streak through the undergrad library
• let someone stab me in a non-vital organ
• sarah
• set fire to half the clothes i own
• sleep in avery's study lounge for a week
• run 6 miles non-stop
• jump in a disgusting dumpster
• roll around in mud or cow manure

I TOLD YOU I'M HARDCORE HATING ON THIS.

• sunglasses
• tights with an interesting design
• shorts for running
• cream-colored medium-length cardigan
• black studded belt

• nice fashionable haircut
• clear skin, impeccable makeup
• working out 3 times a week or more
• learning to cook and bake!
• doing schoolwork on time
• being organized at home
• keep reading as much as i do
• lots of amazing friends!
• keeping up with family all over the world

• the hush sound "goodbye blues"
• the wombats "a guide to love, loss, and desperation"
• the format "dog problems"
• vampire weekend, "vampire weekend"
• the fratellis "costello music"
• motion city soundtrack "even if it kills me"
• motion city soundtrack "i am the movie"
• ben kweller "ben kweller"
• the shins "chute's too narrow"
• jack's mannequin "everything in transit"
• guster "satellite"
• five times august "brighter side"
• taylor swift - self-titled
• taylor swift - "fearless"
• sara bareilles - "careful confessions"
• sara bareilles - "little voice"
• kt tunstall - "eye to the telescope"
• lily allen - "alright, still"
• lily allen - "it's not me, it's you"

• Penelope, kiss #2
• Titanic, front of boat
• 10 Things I Hate About You, all of them
• Amelie, at the end
• Aladdin, pushed up from magic carpet
• Across the Universe, all of them
• When Harry Met Sally, all of them
• Twilight, on Bella's bed
• Disturbia, makeout session
• Charlie Bartlett, kiss in bathroom
• Blind Dating, first kiss in the garden
• 500 Days of Summer, copy room
• Girl Next Door, frat party
• Prison Break, Michael and Sara in train
• Serendipity, first kiss
• New Girl, Nick and Jess
• Grey's Anatomy, Izzy and Alex

• people who insist on peeling off protective stickers for me
• jeans wet from walking in the rain
• being looked down upon by adults
• people who comment on relationship statuses on facebook
• loud people in dorms late at night
• when guys describe doing something with other guys then adding "no homo"
• the sound of someone biting into an apple
• tractors on major highways
• slow drivers in general
• discussing weddings on your facebook status
• any references to twitter in real life
• teenager love that is clearly teenager love
• local news on TV
• TMZ
• the judges on any tv show (particularly A...

• wedding song: just the way you are, billy joel
• i'm gonna have a DJ but i'm going to supervise every single music choice - there will be no song i don't like at my wedding
• in the background... a slide show of hundreds of pictures taken through the years :)

• Safe Haven
• The Lego Movie (2x)
• The Muppets
• Wolf of Wall Street
• The Amazing Spider-man 2
• The Heat
• How to Train Your Dragon
• This is the End
• Her
• Spice World

• see the Pacific ocean! (aka go to the beach)
• visit Otavalo
• visit the Galapagos Islands
• visit the tropical rain forest
• learn to salsa dance jk
• become FLUENT in Spanish
• study for and take the GRE
• make plans for the summer
• read 50 books
• figure something out for post-grad

• 30 Gordon Road - first home in Québec, Canada. Lived there for 10 years. Surrounded by woods and fields, across the street from the railroad tracks and the Yamaska River. And next-door neighbors on either side were my uncles!
• 749 Sir Raleigh Drive - First home in the United States. Lived there for 8 years. In Concord, close to everything including Central and a relatively short drive to Rocky River Coffee. Great neighborhood when we moved in - but happy to move out when we did.
• 3945 Chatter Lane - Family still resides at this house in Midland, going on 3 years of living there. Out in the country, nice, quiet, and beautiful. Finally had my own bathroom but live there less than part-time.
• 310 Horton - Chapel Hill. Freshman year. Enjoyed a semester with Zoe and a semes...

• Sofia
• Aviv
• Milo
• Sebastien
• Ava
• Leonardo
• Eileen/Aileen
• Elena

• Lindbergh (A. Scott Berg)
• The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (Randy Shilts)
• John Adams (David McCullough)
• Rough Magic (Paul Alexander) - on Sylvia Plath
• Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams (Nick Tosches) - on Dean Martin

• inability to extricate myself from a certain relationship
• dealing with people who are behaving like they are still in the 4th grade
• dealing with people who can't make a life for themselves
• wanting to be home
• wanting to talk to mom
• presence of unattainable cute boys, or sweet, cute boys with incompatible personalities
• inability to help everyone....trying the best i can just doesn't seem to cover it
• trying to not be walked all over
• trying to keep control of my life. failingg

• fashion & decor collage notebook like i had when i was younger
• hardcore songwriting sessions
• some more thrift stores raids & sewing machine attacks
• read read read like it's breathing
• redecorate my half of the room in some interesting manner

• "blue" malbec
• "bruises" chairlift
• "new in town" little boots
• "fern beard" the submarines
• "wish i" jem
• "mayor of your town" leona naess
• "cheated hearts" yeah yeah yeahs
• "the twist" metric
• "swimming pool" the submarines
• "hey boy" the blow
• "the last ocean" pictures and sounds
• JULIETA VENEGAS - NEEEEED.

• An Open Heart (the Dalai Lama)
• The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
• The Nanny Diaries (McLaughlin and Kraus)
• The Kite Runner (Hosseini)
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Eggers)
• Water for Elephants (Sarah Gruen)
• The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
• On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
• The Pump House Gang (Tom Wolfe)
• Le Libraire (Gerard Bessette)
• Salut Galarneau (jacques Godbout)
• The White Album (Joan Didion)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
• The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
• Geography III (Elizabeth Bishop)
• In Country (Bobbie Ann Mason)
• The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
• The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
• Faithfull (Marianne Faithfull)

• Leona Lewis
• Linkin Park
• Megan Fox
• Lauren Conrad
• Coldplay
• the bottom of lakes
• gray days
• the Ellen show (sorry guys!)
• commercials
• Kanye West
• that part of Regis and Kelly when they spin the wheel and give away vacations

• facebook
• myspace
• livejournal
• listography
• twitter
• tumblr
• blogger
• craftster
• pandora
• ravelry
• goodreads

original

• resignation
• spring

cover

• speechless
• you were meant for me
• poker face

maybe

• inevitable
• la maison est grande
• everybody

• 500 Days of Summer
• Taking Woodstock
• Bruno
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Funny People
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• Mona Lisa Smile
• Dead Poet's Society
• Coco

• Parental Guidance
• Pitch Perfect*
• Men in Black III
• Wreck-it Ralph
• Johnny English 2
• Argo*
• Liberal Arts
• Taken 2
• Brave
• Batman Begins
• Seven Psychopaths
• Django Unchained
• Star Trek
• Oz
• Cloud Atlas
• Con Air*
• Sherlock Holmes*
• The Campaign
• Gabrielle
• 12 Years a Slave
• Love Actually

• 10 Things I Hate About You
• Love Actually
• The Holiday
• Bridget Jones' Diary
• The Wedding Singer
• When Harry Met Sally
• A Walk to Remember

• Centro Historico
  • Iglesia San Francisco
  • Museo de la Ciudad
  • Casa de la Cultura
  • Confederate Bookstore
  • English Bookstore
  • Black Market
  • Basilica
• Mercado Artesanal cerca de la Mariscal
• Jardines Botanicas
• USFQ/Cumbayá por supuesto
• Guapulo - mirador y iglesia
• Parque Metropolitano
• Otavalo
  • Animal Feria
  • Mercado Artesanal
  • Cascadas Peguche
  • Cuicocha
• La Mariscal

• return from Quito on May 15
• spend a week or so in North Carolina
• go to Montreal, get settled in Phil's apartment
• find a job - no matter where
• spend my summer working, knitting, weaving, reading, and doing light studying for the GRE
• make a good amount of money
• come back to North Carolina
• begin first semester senior year
• take the GRE
• apply for the Masters of Arts Teaching program
• see if I'm eligible for Teach for America

• The God of Small Things
• Never Let Me Go
• How to Kill a Rockstar (Tiffanie DeBartolo)
• Mostly Harmless (Douglas Adams)
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Douglas Adams)
• Life, the Universe, and Everything (Douglas Adams)
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
• Long Way Gone (Ishmael Beah)
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
• Knit Two (Kate Jacobs)
• Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortensen)
• Mockingjay (Collins)
• Catching Fire (Collins)
• The Hunger Games (Collins)
• Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
• Slam (Nick Hornby)

• taking German lessons on livemocha
• reading from the Spanish Conversations book
• reading Madame Bovary / Gabrielle Roy book
• thinking about food - making it, buying it, eating less of it
• watching How I Met Your Mother
• watching movies, often with cute unavailable boys
• playing guitar
• learning a little bit of piano
• facebook/tumblr/listography/goodreads
• random trips with friends
• running (yepp still trying to do this)
• napping (often inevitable)

• Pandora Radio - It's perfect both for finding new music and listening to old favorites. Sets moods and is perfect as background music for working.
• Notecards - Why is everything easier to remember when it's on a notecard?
• Gmail - Being able to check my email on any computer is a comfort - and as evidenced with my laptop issue - a blessing.
• Skull Candy Headphones - Reasonably priced and block out sound perfectly. In other words, I won't be deaf in ten years because I don't have to blast music now! So nice in noisy libraries, etc.
• The song "Hey Soul Sister" by Train - It's beautiful and makes me happy.
• Planners - Keeps me sane and feeling organized. I like to be able to see what my week is gonna look like.

• Sunshine Cleaning
• Paper Heart
• So I Married An Axe Murderer
• Priceless
• American Pie 2
• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
• Kate and Leopold
• Nola
• Punch Drunk Love
• City of Angels
• Footloose
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• Mr. Holland's Opus
• Julie and Julia
• New York I Love You
• In the Time of the Butterflies
• Brokeback Mountain
• Evita
• Year One
• Being John Malkovich
• The Ugly Truth

• The Hours (Michael Cunningham)
• This is Charlotte Simmons (Tom Wolfe)
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl)
• La Mulatresse Solitude (André Schwarzbart)
• La Préférence Nationale (Fatou Diome)
• Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
• Bonheur d'occasion (Gabrielle Roy)

• visual and performing arts [intro to country music]
• philosophical reasoning [GERM 245]
• 2nd quantitative reasoning [PSYC 210]
• experiential education [study abroad/APPLES]
• world before 1750 [try to get FREN 370/371 to count)
• beyond the north atlantic [WMST 388]
• global issues [WMST 388]
• 1 more distributive credit
• one more science credit

ALMOST DONE :)

Regular Stuff

• volunteer at kitty city (7 hrs/week)
• volunteer at concord library, children's room (3 hrs/week)
• 2 classes at RCCC (soci/span)(11 hrs/week, not incl hw)
• YMCA (3x week) + yoga

Been to

• Chapel Hill
• Lakehouse in SC
• Farnham, QC
• Quebec City, QC!

Going to

• Beach off NC coast

2008

• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
• A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

2007

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier

2006

• Night by Elie Wiesel

2005

• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
• Light in August by William Faulkner
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

pop culture

• spice girls & backstreet boys & britney spears
• pokemon
• tamagotchi (which i never got)
• furbies
• huge lego sets
• star wars

endeavors with cousins

• Five Rescue Mission - we rescued animals (including a bird, a chipmunk, a few cats, and a cow - only casualty was the bird)
• screenplay of Star Wars, my own edition, with entire family as cast
• Pokemon Center. Enough said.
• DDCP - our band. first only played with blocks in basement of grandparent's house. had to become DDCPA when alex wanted to join

• whatever book i'm reading
• my journal
• my quotes notebook
• my guitar
• a comfortable pair of jeans
• my pillow
• a knit or crochet project
• cell phone
• lap top
• coffee
• girls state flannel blanket
• silver ring
• my ipod