genres of books customers have asked me about, and books i've recommended/would recommend

gay

  • sarah waters everything
    • tipping the velvet
    • fingersmith
  • classics
    • the price of salt by patricia highsmith
    • oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson
    • the color purple by alice walker
  • graphic novel/memoir
    • fun home
    • nimona

feminist-y

  • the handmaid's tale
jul 18 2016 ∞
jan 8 2017 +
  • study
    • education (masters)
      • teaching cred
      • tefl
    • food policy
    • environmental...
      • mgmt
      • tourism
    • holistic health (diploma)
      • acupuncture
      • nutrition
mar 23 2015 ∞
mar 23 2015 +
  • spent with Jamie, Paige, Lindsay, Erin, Kelley, Wootae, Michael and Melody (&co) at club in COEX.
  • first drink: 19,000 strawberry margarita :O :O :O
  • first kiss: jamie duh
  • first food: strawberry? popcorn from gs25
  • first taxi drive: 20,000 wootae paid (gangnam to hongdae..)
  • first movie:
jan 1 2015 ∞
jan 1 2015 +

things that have mysteriously disappeared..

  • travel bike pump
  • vail shirt
  • jf&sw shirt
  • ducky door hanger
  • chai from home
oct 7 2013 ∞
jan 17 2014 +
  • beekeeping
  • bread baking
  • brewing
  • coffee preparation
  • cooking basics
  • jam-ming
  • pie making
aug 11 2011 ∞
aug 26 2011 +

FALL 08

  • Core: Environment & Society
  • Environmental Toxicology 80E: Aquatic Toxicology
  • Philosophy 28: Environmental Ethics

WINTER 09

  • Earth Science 20: Environmental Geology
  • Writing 2: Bioethics
  • Envs 25: Intro to Environmental Policies and Economics
  • College Eight 20: Justice on Earth

SPRING 09

  • Envs 23: Physical & Chemical Environment
  • AMS 7/7L: Statistical Methods for the Biological, Environmental, and Health Sciences
  • Art 80V: Issues and Artists
  • College Eight 90: Garden Internship

FALL 09

jul 25 2008 ∞
mar 15 2012 +
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Ongoing

  • New Girl
  • Glee
  • Parks and Recreation
  • Community
  • The Big Bang Theory
  • The Office
  • Modern Family
  • How I Met Your Mother

Caught Up

  • Sherlock
  • The IT Crowd
  • True Blood
  • Project Runway
  • Dexter

Others

  • 30 Rock (s5ep10)
  • SKINS
  • Breaking Bad
jan 25 2009 ∞
feb 14 2013 +
  • Dalai Llama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, said: “ Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
  • The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who...
feb 22 2015 ∞
jan 8 2017 +
  • "encantado"/"igualmente"
  • "papa frita"
  • "te vas a dar la vuelta"
  • "siempre esta en la media como miercoles"
feb 12 2011 ∞
may 13 2011 +
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  • "The question is not what you look at but what you see" -Thoreau
  • "To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." - e. e. cummings
  • "And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." -Roald Dahl
  • "If it was so, it might be; and it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. that's logic." -Lewis Carrol
  • "If the doors of perception were to be cleansed, man would see everything as it truly is... infinite." -William Blake
  • "Love truth, but pardon error." -Voltaire...
mar 29 2008 ∞
jul 14 2011 +
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  • japan
  • scotland
  • belgium
  • italy
  • france
  • england
  • portugal
  • south korea
  • spain
  • dominican republic
  • mexico
  • germany
  • austria
feb 1 2009 ∞
may 7 2014 +
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  • "this is between me and the vegetable" - Little Shop of Horrors
  • " i love you but i'm going to mace you in the face!" - The Darjeeling Limited
  • "the fact that you hate absurdities and silliness so much, makes me imagine you as some man in a gray suit, who tenses up when he hears a child's laughter and who's idea of a party is to sprinkle some salt into lukewarm water." -frezned
  • "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be", said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." -Alice in Wonderland
  • "They go to big american universities.. like Oxford" -Giovanni
  • "i want to discover why i know what's right and still do what's wrong. i want to d...
apr 7 2008 ∞
jan 3 2011 +

one day ..

  • bike trip
  • wwoof
  • kpop concert (yg family concert)
  • korea burn
dec 30 2012 ∞
jan 1 2015 +

because i can.

  • working holiday in new zealand
  • own a farm, with lots and lots of animals that will not be eaten.
  • complete the JMT...
    • possibly the PCT.. one day...?
  • travel NZ by van
  • get a tattoo
  • have a written work published
  • shave my head
  • read all the works of the following authors.
    • jk rowling
    • jane austen
    • jack kerouac
    • john steinbeck
    • sarah waters
    • rachel carlson
nov 16 2014 ∞
may 6 2015 +
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  • Attend a church of each religion once
  • Touch a whale
  • See baby sea turtles hatch on the beach
  • See the northern lights
  • Snorkel around coral reefs
  • Burn a dollar bill
  • Bike a great distance
  • Go to a live taping of the Ellen Show
  • Live in England
  • Live in Brazil
  • Backpack south america
  • Get a PhD
  • Be in a band
  • Participate in a historical social movement
  • Shave my hair
  • Backpack New Zealand
  • Have a piece of artwork displayed in public
  • Get a tattoo
  • See a musical on Broadway
mar 29 2008 ∞
feb 23 2013 +
  • pray for me
  • i am a master hunter
  • mama how far i've come
jan 29 2012 ∞
jun 12 2012 +
  • melancholy by louise and the pins
  • remember by misty miller
  • piece me back together by melodica, melody and me
  • alleyway by life in film
  • yes, yes, we're magicians' by the crookes
  • self esteem by jeremy larson
  • feet to the sky by lulu and the lampshades
  • judgement day by beat circus
aug 5 2011 ∞
jan 16 2012 +

because my other list is really long and kind of boring

  • youth in revolt
  • stardust
  • pulp fiction
  • kill bill
  • cloudy with a chance of meatballs
  • mannequin
  • death to smoochie
  • blazing saddles
  • wedding crashers
  • moulin rouge
  • chicago
  • throw momma from the rain
  • lucky number slevin
  • an education
  • there will be blood
  • ferris bueler's day off
  • big
  • he's just not that into you
  • another year
jun 26 2011 ∞
sep 16 2012 +
  • "anytime you lie about anything, take a look. anytime you feel the need to pretend, investigate that. anytime you feel less than or inadequate, take a look. what causes you pain? what makes you squirm? what patterns of behavior are not serving you? we won't know unless we pause, we turn in and take a look at the source of our struggle. only then are we able to take appropriate action toward change. our perception and our awareness of ourselves will change but what we are never changes. what you are at your core is good." - stephanie snyder.

Main Entry: spir·it

  • Pronunciation: \ˈspir-ət\
  • Function: noun
  • Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French, espirit, spirit, from Latin spiritus, literally, breat...
mar 16 2010 ∞
apr 23 2014 +