- Set up my printer at Dad's house.
- Seriously: finish reading "Anna Karenina." We're so close!
- Finish filling out the common application for Occidental, Reed and Colorado so that I can get started on my stuff for St. John's.
- Find a good granola recipe and make it for peanut butter, banana and granola sandwiches.
- Enjoy the freedom and flexibility I have now while I still have it (i.e. don't worry too much about occasional gettucing and sleeping in till 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning).
- Get Mark and Caroline's number from Stephan.
- Balance my Chase and Oregonian Credit Union accounts.
- Continue taking daily photos of myself on photo booth.
- Buy cashew butter, bok choy, olives, pinto beans, beets, apple cider vinegar, winter squash, avocado, dried cherries, chickpeas, fresh ginger, barley, and other items severely lacking from the apartment. Make something from them.
- Go to Stumptown and take photos myself in an actual photo booth.
- Finish and send the thank you note to Lauri and Jeannie.
- Send in to renew my subscription to the New Yorker.
- Look for a tea set, a new dress and a tray for the ottoman at Goodwill.
- Buy rose water, lavender oil and a lavender pillow to use for sleep.
- At some point try making ful medames again (a little more successfully this time).
- Return Ismael's CD to the library before my appointment with Gretchen.
- Go to Trader Joe's and buy fun perishable things for Ava.
- Talk to Adam about orchestrating a lunch at Lincoln.
- Have taco and/or Mexican night with Doug.
- Buy some presents for my dad and write him a nice card.
- I need to start going to bed before 12 every night.
- Look up plane tickets for Santa Fe and New York.
- E-mail the Christ in the Desert monastery.
- Upload old photos from my camera to Facebook.
- Focus on listening to just five CDs this week very closely:
- ✔ Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me
- ✔ The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
- ✔ Okkervil River - The Stage Names
- ✔ Dan Deacon - Bromst
- Atlas Sound - Logos
- I want more "moments of clarity."
- I think I'll need to name my future child Yolanda.
- I'd like to establish a more regular routine in line with the "requirements" of the Pitta-Kapha dosha. This includes: waking up earlier than 8:00 AM each morning, going to sleep before 10:30 PM, making the appropriate kichadis and curries, taking cool showers, going for frequent walks, etc.
- All I want in life is, 1) to be, in a word, pleasant and, 2) that I want to, as a person, be the perfect combination of Isabella Rossellini, Martin Scorsese and Harvey Keitel's Mr. Wolf from "Pulp Fiction." Also, Amanda Plummer. I'd like to be Amanda Plummer.
- Focus on listening to just five CDs next week very closely:
- ✔ Jens Lekman - Night Over Kortedala
- ✔ Bill Calahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
- Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
- Spoon - Transference
- ✔ Beach House - Teen Dream
jan 24 2010 ∞
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