are used for shifting from one topic to another so that the sentence, or the paragraph, or the paper can progress.

• in the first place
• not only ... but also
• as a matter of fact
• in like manner
• in addition
• coupled with
• in the same fashion / way
• first, second, third
• in the light of
• not to mention
• to say nothing of
• equally important
• by the same token
• again
• to
• and
• also
• then

When I was in 3rd grade I remember feeling awkward around this girl who was my classmate because of the following reasons.

• she wore uneven pigtails
• her nostrils were huge
• because her nostrils were huge, I could always see her snot.
• she always sat near me
• she always talked to me with her nasally voice
• she smiled a lot; but there was always food stuck in her braces (When I had braces, the image of her in my head always reminded me to keep my teeth clean)
• she always seemed eager

But I guess magic happens randomly at random people, because when I was browsing through facebook and I accidentally saw her page and guess what:

• she has no more braces

BOOKS I'VE READ

• A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (on-going actually. I keep on taking breaks on this book I don't know why)
• Norwegian Wood
• Dance Dance Dance
• South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel
• The Elephant Vanishes: Stories
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
• Kafka on the Shore
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel

BOOKS I HAVE TO BUY/READ

• Hear the Wind Sing
• Pinball, 1973
• Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

• Alexi Murdoch*
• Ane Brun
• Awolnation
• Balmorhea
• Ben Harper
• Dirty Vegas
• Emily and the Woods
• Euphoria (Japanese post-rock)
• Frightened Rabbit
• Fryars
• Glasvegas
• Glen Hansard
• Gusgus
• Haruko
• Hindi Zahara
• Hungry Ghosts
• Irma
• Iyeoka
• Kasabian
• Kings of Convinience*
• LCD soundsystem

I went to my old wordpress and I saw the post I made about the lines I highlighted in "Perks of Being a Wallflower". I read it about a year ago. I'm posting it here just in case I forget about the existence of my wordpress. I'm pretty sure I will-- soon enough.

FROM PART I p.16

• So, what’s the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don’t understand that.

p. 21

• We accept the love we think we deserve

p. 31

• I read a book and I think I am the people in the book

p.41

• You see things. You keep quiet about them...

"I have always craved a closeness that I could not find here."

"Why do I only see your images and not your writing? because we dream in pictures, not in words?"

"I crave an art that passionately transcends the mundane instead of being a device for self-deception"

"And I feel like I'm slipping into my drowning pool"

I. Disordered Sensation and Perception

• Anaesthesia

-Glove Anaesthesia -Stocking Anaesthesia

• Hypoesthesia
• Hyperesthesia
• Paraesthesia
• Illusion
• Hallucination
• Agnosia

-Allochiria -Dyschiria

II. Disordered Intelligence and Thought

A. Disorders of Intelligence

• Intellectual Subnormality
• Intellectual Deterioration

- dementia - pseudodementia (common in depressed patients)

B. Disorders of Memory

• Amnesia

- Let's go let's go together doing something extraordinary, and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

- I want what can't possibly happen

- Undeveloped, the whole thing, tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up

- I mean, we wanted to. I mean, he did. We both did. I wasn't sure.

- And Ialmost said Ilove you. Instead, I said nothing and you said nothing.

- ...But then you snored like nobody would pretend, I stood in the doorway watching you sleep. I waited just to see you at that kind of peace. I wanted to be beside you. I wanted you to wake up slowly or startle, or just half awaken and turnover and go back to sleep or murmur my name. I wanted to watch you forever, or sleep forever while you woke and watched me, something forever anyway. I wanted to kiss yo...