• the protest psychosis
• down out and under arrest
• on the run

• always filled with (affordable) flowers
• clean
• relaxing
• smells nice
• a nice place for people to hang out
• but usually a quiet place

to keep me inspired/remind people we are really cool

• jimmy buffett
• waxahatchee
• laverne cox
• courtney cox
• truman capote (raised)
• tim cook
• nat king cole
• mick jenkins
• george washington carver
• mae carol jemison
• kim dickens
• albert l murray
• rick hall
• walton sanders goggins, jr

• nytimes // the dream of southern republi...
• the maroon // online outrage piece
• buzzfeed books // politics of race and p...
• al.com // alabama should work to lead th...
• hopes and fears// and apology to shia le...
• nbc // the holtzclaw trial: when rape cu...
• npr // schools change ur perception
• the feminist wire // bell hooks on lean ...

• fill cravings for sweets with fruit EVERY (okay not really every) time
• EAT BREAKFAST EAT BREAKFAST EAT A FULL BALANCED BREAKFAST
• allow yourself 4 sweets a week, including milkshake wednesday
• work out 1.5h a day 4-6 days a week
  • work out before class on late days, after class, and on fridays
  • try working out twice a day on good days!
  • try some intramural sports (basketball, volleyball, etc.)
• get 7-8h of sleep 5 nights a week
  • bed time during the week is 11-11:30pm
  • only miss bedtime 2 nights a week
  • if you're not sleepy by 10:45, take a melatonin
  • ...do not become addicted to sleeping pil...

• turntable
  • buy this new
• stereo
  • buy this used
• speakers
  • research. there are probably decently cheap ones you can buy new, but be careful about buying used.
• records!!!!!
• record cleaner & soft towel
• record brush

• requiem for a dream
• eternal sunshine of a spotless mind
• bates motel
• dexter
• american psycho
• cloud atlas
• the shining
• fight club
• the butterfly effect
• the basketball diaries
• the watchmen
• the godfather
• american horror story
• psycho
• pulp fiction
• the conjuring

• still life with woodpecker
• to kill a mocking bird
• the fault in our stars
• anna karenina
• the grapes of wrath
• tulips and chimneys
• a wrinkle in time
• along for the ride
• persuasion
• lolita
• sons and lovers
• vanity fair
• tibetan peach pie
• infinite jest
• the sun also rises
• seduction by the stars
• this boy's life
• dreams from my father
• a problem from hell
• the sense of an ending
• commonwealth

• my best friend's wedding
• american pie
• band slam
• scott pilgrim
• fight club
• ghostbusters
• all the star wars movies
• knights of badassdom
• the art of getting by
• 500 days of summer
• happythankyoumoreplease

• chicago
• my fair lady
• hamilton (with wayne brady!!!)

• post dates book club
• keegan's documentary
• write book
• buy a dslr?
• south side weekly copy editing
• find a second job

• come up with a realistic eating guide
• resolve to adhere to the tips for a healthy second year
• write something
• finish up scripts with kim
• torrent logic pro & make a song
• complete a programming project
• finish anna karenina
• buy 2 new books
• set 3 times to consistently go to the gym every week
• buy a new coat
• start paying off debts responsibly
• think of a good bday gift for sam
• write a poem
• come up with sample for themes for gender & sexuality issue w/ mood boards
• come up with design concept for dressing rooms
• composite a list of hospitality purchases that seem important

• joywave
• young rising sons
• chris brown
• bombay bicycle club
• milo greene
• choir vandals
• tiny moving parts
• the kooks
• dads
• catfish & the bottlemen
• wild party
• kindness
• pell
• azealia banks
• t-pain
• madeon
• father
• abra
• tommy genesis
• cashcarti
• keith charles spacebar

• read at least 5 books from the big blue list
• go to six flags
• FINISH a screenplay or short story
• fill the yellow journal, the black journal, the sketchbook, or the new journal that i'm currently thinking about buying (the pink one with brown pages)
• visit bay & michael in auburn
• go to 10 museums that you haven't been to before
  • III
• cook 20 new recipes
  • IIII
• buy two full priced tops (or bottoms) from madewell
• actually learn guitar or piano chords

• fake septum ring
• cute lil socks
• cute lil floral bucket hat

• the graduate
• kill your darlings
• fight club
• poor little rich girl
• ciao! manhattan
• destino
• the spectacular now
• wit
• life after beth
• gummo
• almost famous
• suburban gothic
• muscle shoals
• before sunrise (series)
• boyhood
• vertigo
• casablanca
• sunset blvd
• the apartment
• one flew over the cuckoo's nest
• gone with the wind

• liferuiner
• being as an ocean
• the saddest landscape
• bastille
• penfold
• funeral diner
• jets to brazil
• weye
• clever girl
• the end of the ocean
• tycho
• pro era
• chance the rapper
• black hippy
• giraffage
• the world is a beautiful place & i am no longer afraid to die
• sky ferreira
• diiv
• wavves
• you won't

• follow the youtube suggestions list into the realm of good music
• paint with watercolors
• take candids with a disposable while we're out
• feed the ducks
• go to a park
• learn a song really well & sing like an a cappella group
• start a band or just play stuff, create cool music
• go to monkey speaks
• have a little poetry circle
• do the really cool moss vandalism thing
• ride bikes
• dance
• get lost
• hike
• thrifting
• changing the thrift clothes
• watch movies

• disposables
• water paint
• a sketch pad
• "wreck this journal"
• colored pens
• more long-sleeved tops
• stamps
• cds
• headphones
• envelopes
• jewelry
• "hello: my name is" stickers
• books
• more toms
• that cool stuff in american eagle
• concert tickets..
• matches

• moonlight
• la la land
• things to come
• white girl
• footnote

LIVE BENEATH YOUR MEANS (which aren't much)

• blue apron, $60 a week = $240 a month
• minimal decorations, with homemade and borrowed touches wherever you can throw them in
  • steal like half of mom's old tupperware
• carry snacks & water bottles with you to spend less on food
• save a small set amount in your savings account every time that direct deposit hits (ideally $20)
• only spend money on big things that you've had your mind on for a while, or small things treats that take advantage or privileges you already have
  • use those rewards points from your credit card & store loyality systems
  • amazon prime a book every once in a while...

• record player setup
• passport
• lomo'instant
• guitar
• keyboard

• lavender &/or baby's breath
• a moon in its last quarter
• the date i saw the ocean for the first time
  • which is entirely too late in my life
  • 10 july 2015
• a reference to the sun also rises
• a double-stick popsicle
• something in the language that's regionally popular or historically significant in the region of africa my descendants are from

• classic timberlands
• a long wool lined coat
• thick scarves
• mittens
• gloves
• long underwear
• beanies and trapper hats
• leggings
• wool tights
• ear warmers
• platform booties
• black tote

• in watermelon sugar
• peter pan {!!!}
• a clockwork orange
• catcher in the rye (again and again and again)
• a hero of our time
• anything about tesla
• dracula
• frankenstein
• cloud atlas
• choke
• Purvas
• the doors of perception
• death comes for the archbishop
• julius caesar (again)
• the electric kool-aid acid test
• the alchemist
• stars fell on alabama
• book of numbers (joshua cohen)
• murphy
• in cold blood

• frida kahlo poster
• a new computer
• a pale yellow quilted blanket
• a jewelry tree
• a super rad roomate with good taste in music
• a record player
  • i don't know if i'd have room for this, but where there's a will, there's a way
• crates
• tupperware. lots and lots of tupperware.
• a mirror
• a blown-up still from a day in the country
• an audrey hepburn poster
• an edie sedgwick poster
• promotional movie posters
• concert candids
• mlkjr poster
• stanley kubrick poster
• a whiteboard

• look mexico
• empire! empire! i was a lonely estate
• ed sheeran
• my heart to joy
• i am alaska
• you blew it!
• mans
• dreams
• foxes in fiction
• castevet
• chalk talk
• milkwede
• boy problems
• belong
• french films
• snowing
• algernon cadwallader
• major league

• "grapes of wrath"
• "a farewell to arms"
• "the moveable feast"
• "of mice and men"
• "as i lay dying"
• "the sun also rises"
• "the old man and the sea"
• "moby dick"
• "oliver twist"
• "great expectations"
• "eimi"
• "the enormous room"
• "tulips and chimneys"
• "billy budd"
• "these 13"
• "the hamlet"
• "the town"
• "the mansion"
• "light in august"
• "the sound and the fury"
• "sanctuary"