Clothes & Shoes

• nude and patterned tights
• various leggings
• biz-cas skirts: pencil skirt!
• biz-cas shirts
• chocolate brown dress pants
• rain boots (black and white? or grey?)
• tall snow boots
• moccasins and/or comfy slippers
• any sweet black, silver, red, or white heels
• a little black dress
• any dresses, really.
• good bras & underwear (some matching pairs, please)
• chocolate brown bra
• black scarf (and brown?)
• black elastic waist belt
• skinny jeans (including very dark wash)
• white cords

Crafting

Would have:

• ✔ Green or blue eyes
• ✔ Long hair that covers his forehead
• A few well-placed tattoos and/or piercings
• Good teeth
• ✔ Strong cheekbones
• ✔ A crazy sense of humor
• ✔ A wild side
• ✔ A romantic side
• ✔ Honesty
• A sense of style
• ✔ Intelligence
• An accent
• Creativity
• ✔ Good grammar

Would like:

• Facebook
• Yahoo! Mail
• Twitter
• Threadless
• MLIA
• FML
• Ruminations
• Texts From Last Night
• BuzzFeed
• FailBlog
• Listography
• College Candy
• Ebay
• Youtube
• Deviant Art

And this is why I get nothing done.

• Keeping my mouth shut when I need to say something.
• Eating before going to sleep.
• Putting off homework for ridiculous amounts of time.
• Liking guys who are taken.
• Being sedentary.
• Leaving my shit everywhere.
• Putting off doing laundry.
• Buying things I will never use.
• Skipping breakfast.
• Lacking confidence.
• Cracking under the pressure of public speaking.
• Sitting like a loner in my dorm room listening to people having fun.
• Failing quizzes
• Being attractive to creepers. Hah.

• Weekends
• Free booze
• New guys, as opposed to the old idiots I was stuck in school with for years on end
• New friends
• Only 2-3 hours of class per day
• Peace from lecturing and nagging
• Take-out ice cream ;)

• Caffeine
• Racing mind
• Procrastination
• Internet
• Headlights in the window
  • not at W&J
• Regrets
• The flashing light of Kelsie's TV
• I own the Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-ton Megaset.

• Lemonade
• Coffee with milk; some days with lots of sugar, some days with none
• L&P (They really should sell it in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_&_Paeroa )
• Cream Soda
• Peach Schnapps
• Rumple Minze

• Chipotle
• Angkor
• Mad Mex
• Mendoza Express
• Namaste India

• I Fight Dragons
  • With You
  • Why Bother
  • Don't You
  • Heads up, Hearts Down
  • The Future Soon
  • The Faster the Treadmill
• Lady Gaga
• T. Swift
  • Teardrops on my Guitar
  • You Belong With Me
• Train
  • Hey Soul Sister
• Sam Morris
  • True Blue
  • White Shoes
  • other Conor covers

• I've learned to share a room with another person, specifically, another person that I don't relate to at all.
• I now enjoy chicken and turkey. This is seriously weird for me, considering that for 17.5 years of my life I was a vegetarian. Red meat is still out of my range. Fish is okay.
• I've worked out at the gym and plan to keep going. At home you would have had to pay me to expend energy.
• I've broken my streak of not throwing up since kindergarten.
• I'm convinced that drinking is definitely something I like to do.
• I've decided that drunken dancing is a legitimate form of exercise.
• I'm cleaner. Yes, I still have some clutter. But with this tiny dorm room, I can't afford to throw things around like I used to.

• Look at the person to your left. Look at the person to your right. You're exactly the same person. The sooner you learn that, the happier you'll be.
• There is no truth. There is only you and what you make the truth. --Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come
• We might die from medication, but we sure killed all the pain. But what was normal in the evening, by the morning, seems insane. --Lua
• (How drunk is too drunk?) Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
• Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the soul.
• There's been a great deal of discussion, yes, about the properties of man. Animal or angel? You were carved from bone, but your heart, it's just sand, and the wind is gonna scatter it, and cover everything with love. So if it makes you happy, the...

• Black boots
• Shoes
• Pea Coat
• Sheets
• Threadless Prints
• Dress clothes (Black skirt, shirts, etc.)
• Interesting scarf/scarves
• New iPod and/or iHome? I don't know. My current ones are such loyal friends. Loyal but battered.
• Green, royal blue, yellow, and black nail polish
• Quality, leak-proof, cute travel mug, preferably from Starbucks
• Hair clips
• Stapler
• Coffee creamer

• Internet
• Popcorn
• Coffee in all forms. One form of particular excellence: chocolate-covered coffee beans
• Tees from Threadless. Since December 2008, I've purchased 61. Dear Lord.
• Collecting music
• Sleeping in

Of the past:

• FFR, or Flash Flash Revolution. I would waste a minimum of 2 hours per day, every day, and become irritable if I couldn't play. Thankfully I kicked this one.
• Cookie cake
• Farmville (Sad, I know.)

• Black and white charcoal pencils
• Kneaded erasers
• Stoneware clay and a pottery wheel
• Sharpies
• Oil pastels
• Brush pens
• Brand-new, soft paint brushes

• They Might Be Giants with the Guggenheim Grotto, 2009
• Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band with A.A. Bondy and Deep Sea Diver, 2009
• Manchester Orchestra with Audrye Sessions, Winston Audio, and fun., 2009
• Various high school bands, 2005-2009
• Rusted Root, 200_?
• They Might Be Giants, 200_?
• Smashmouth with Citizen King, 199_/200_?
• Backstreet Boys, 199_?
• Moxy Früvous, 199_?

• Open savings account, deposit cash and coins, and transfer some $ from checking
• Theta braclets
  • fish pattern
  • overlap zigzags
  • alternating arrows
  • number 4
• Old Mex Margarita Glass
• Anchor Splash tank
• Theta latch-hook rug
  • Buy black, yellow, and white yarn, and latch hook canvas
  • cut yarn
  • latch!
• Tasha's smiley bracelet
• Black rainbow bracelet
• Clothes Inventory
  • all-inclusive

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• The Hangover
• (the end of) School of Rock
• Avatar (T)
• The Butterfly Effect
• Valentine's Day (T)
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Alice in Wonderland (T)
• 300
• Mean Girls
• Hero
• Iron Man 2 (T)

(As a newly-converted omnivore, there's a lot of meat I've never eaten.)

• Chicken
• Turkey
• Steak
• Pepperoni
• A real hamburger
• Bacon
• Sausage
• Ham
• Salmon
• Sushi with raw fish

Would have:

• Green or blue eyes
• Long hair that covers his forehead
• A few well-placed tattoos and/or piercings
• Good teeth
• Strong cheekbones
• A crazy sense of humor
• A wild side
• A romantic side
• Honesty
• A sense of style
• Intelligence
• An accent
• Creativity
• Good grammar

Would like:

• Cuddling
• Hugs and kisses
• Good and interesting music

• Sleep
• Alcohol
• Dancing
• Friends
• Uncontrollable laughter
• More sleep
• Coffee
• Dark Chocolate
• Laziness

• A fish, with a bowl and food and whatever else?
• A cactus
• Bookmarks?
• Sleep mask
• Junk food
• Decent food
• Jolly Ranchers
• Hard mints

• Pittsburgh, PA (home)
• Washington, PA (new home... hello W&J!)
• New Richmond, PA (the farm)
• Philadelphia, PA
• San Francisco, CA
• Las Vegas, NV
• Chicago, IL
• Saratoga Springs, NY
• Sandusky, OH
• Washington, D.C.
• Hanover, NH
• Middlebury, VT
• Auckland, New Zealand <3
• Rotorua, New Zealand
• Sydney, Australia
• Cairns, Australia
• London, England
• Valetta, Malta
• Cefalu, Sicily
• Palermo, Sicily
• Naples, Italy

• Graduated
• Bellydanced at Areej's house then fell asleep watching Pride and Prejudice and drinking papaya juice
• Spent a week sunbathing, laughing, and dodging psychopaths in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, with my 3 crazy girls
• Customized and waited for and finally received my wonderful Dell Studio 15 laptop
• Slept in
• Got hired as an Eat'n Park prep cook and worked many 8:30-3 days portioning meats and making strawberry pies
• Downloaded Civilization IV and spent late nights playing with Ryan, followed by AIM conversations that lasted until 6am, and started to fall for him... (Who am I kidding? I fell for him in April.)
• Completely and mysteriously lost touch with Ryan, which still puzzles and upsets me at times

• Moe's Southwest Grill
  • Cashier. Made the chips. Cleaned the dining room. Washed the occasional dish.
• Eat'n Park
  • Prep Cook. Chopped, weighed, baked.