• Gone Home
• Spirit Island
• Dream Daddy
• Papers, Please
• ✔ Root

• New York Earth room: 250 cubic yards of dirt occupying a million dollars in real estate in a Soho gallery.
• Bradbury Building: Victorian wrought-iron masterpiece in Los Angeles
• Svalbard global seed vault: before it melts
• Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return: probably the closest I'll get to visiting Nightvale
• ✔ Dumbarton Oaks: stop trying to make Boston Ivy happen, Beatrix Farrand, it's not going to happen.
• ✔ C&O Canal tow path, Georgetown: just want to see a pony pull a barge down a canal before I die
• ✔ Glenstone: without any humans under the age of 12
• Isabella Steward Gardner Museum: get inspiration for indoor courtyard and stealing stuff

• Lead contamination found in the 32nd St Open Space and now the city has closed it indefinitely pending remediation
• Cleaned up and park reopened!
• Baltimore's waterways are polluted with sewage and you can't swim in them.
• The city took away the public boat docking along Fell's Point waterfront.
• People appear to be docking agin!
• I never got my EZPass
• Kvetching wins the day! Several angry phone calls and emails later, my EZPass, which apparently did not exist and could not be refunded, has arrived in the mail!

• 2013 meditation retreat at Karme Choling: Hepatitis C outbreak
  • outcome: already vacinated. Yessss.
• 2017 Wickerman Festival at Four Quarters Farm: Dysentary/Norovirus
  • outcome: infected. Nooooo.
• 2020 trip to Japan canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
  • outcome: didn't actually contact CDC. Probably should have just gone to Japan and stayed there.

Men:

• "I was going to offer to help you, but now I see you're almost done."
• "Girl power!"
• "You look like you're ready for battle."

Women:

• "Excellent job."

• digital camera presumed lost several years ago
  • 800 photos I'd forgotten about
• many vials of fake blood
• whose keys are these?
• a handmade Amish quilt

• 2020: Plague year
• 2019: Table for two-be year
• 2018: Flood stage year
• 2017: Grill on the creek year
• 2016: Missed tube year
• 2015: Sick Lucas year
• 2014: No rain year
• 2013: Finished the tube year
• 2012: Miracle Jeff year
• 2011: Hypothermia year

• Oliver Sachs
  • often mistakes other bearded clumsy people for mirrors
• Jane Goodall
  • remarkable ability to identify chimpanzee faces, zero ability to identify humans
• Chuck Close
  • portrait artist with photographic memory of faces, until they move, turn their head or change expression
• Brad Pitt, so he claims...
  • ...probably a poser

• Are you a she?
• You're a pretty good dancer. If you actually learned how to Lindy Hop, you'd be one the best ones here.
• So what kind of stuffed animals do you like to sleep with?
• I've been stalking you all night.

• Renly Baratheon & the Knight of Flowers (duh)
• Stannis Baratheon & the Onion Knight
• Rob Stark & Theon Greyjoy (only before the latter stole the former's castle. And not in a sexy way)
• Robert Baratheon & Ned Stark (after the Victory on the Trident, and probably only once)
• Pyp & Grenn (on the Wall)
• Tyrion & Bronn (when they're not boning whores)
• Beric Donadarion & Thoros of Myr (also duh)

• "A ginger snap will never die."
• "Find a vinegar you really connect with."

• Enforced the peace
  • herded children away from oncoming sculpture traffic
  • herded sculptures away from oncoming real traffic
  • prevented toes from being run over
  • distributed band aids
  • distributed fake blood
  • performed vehicle safety inspections
• Accepted bribes
  • cookies cookies cookies
  • love note written by a third grader
  • homemade toy car
  • fake mustache
  • "Go Ask Alice" temporary tattoo
  • stuffed road kill tiger (best)
  • pringles (worst)
  • apples and bananas
  • chocolate raspberry cukpcake

• Tim Robbins: Susan Sarandan's Exhusband/Bob Roberts
• Qorianka Kilcher: Pocohantas
• Nawal El Saadawi: World's leading opponent of Female Genital Mutilation
• Stevie Salas: Bill & Ted's Excellent Guitarist
• Karl Rove: Bringing enhanced interrogation to a home near you

All the Problems:

• Loneliness
• Cruelty to animals
  • the frozen ducklings that never made it to the Farm Show
• Both our toilets are clogged, and I'm too embarrassed to go poop at our neighbor's house
• when governments don't respect peaceful protest and thereby legitimize violent protest
• sexual dissatisfaction in all its forms
• passive aggression
• our limited perception of time
• people dying
• people not cleaning the kitchen
• unequal distribution of labor (at the restaurant)
• hair in the drain
• people being mean to their partners at Li...

• Lost:
  • Blair's keys
    • please let us know if you find them! His car is stuck in front of our house until we do.
    • turns out he left them in his car. tsk, tsk.
  • My sequin tee-shirt
  • Jennifer Jordan's phone
  • Probably some innocence
  • the remote control which is the only way to turn on the only light in our kitchen
  • memory of spilling an entire cup of beer on Jeff McCloud's head and then trotting away
• Found:
  • assorted hats, scarves and sweaters
  • a really sweet Scorpio lighter

• Go for it!
• ween myself off texting as a substitute for real conversation
  • actually, ween myself off everything that substitutes real conversation
  • work the word "ween" into everyday conversation more
• "generosity beyond belief"
• Contemplate embodiment
• Dont overextend
  • in yoga
  • and in life
• Always, always, always be more moisturized
• ✔ Re-acclimate menstrual cycle to not being on the pill anymore
  • preferably start cycling with the moon
  • that one was easy!

• Emile
  • What I thought: Dreamy Buddhist Frisbee player with substance abuse and lady problems.
  • But actually: Pseudo-Buddhist Frisbee player with substance abuse/lady problems and a dog
• Dori and Summer
  • What I thought: Kind of weird Lindy Hop couple who fight a lot and are swingers
  • But actually: he's an internationally renowned transplant surgeon and she's a brilliant mathematician who developed a new system for locating organ donors. FOR REAL.
• Demery
  • What I thought: Overly talkative, drunken exchange student in South Africa with po...

• Herb and Dorothy
• The New World
• Holiday
  • Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant version, not Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz version
• Akeela and The Bee
• ✔ The Company
• ✔ Lost In Translation
• Bossa Nova
• Enchanted April

• Become famous enough to star on Dancing With The Stars
  • Preferred partners: Derek, Tony or Cheryl Burke
• Open my own animal rescue ranch in Colorado
• Replace Terry Gross on "Fresh Air" when she retires
• Buy an old Firehouse and turn it into a yoga studio called "Firehouse Yoga"
• ✔ Organize my closet by color
• Go back to school for Economics/Financial Planning degree
• ✔ Get yoga teacher certification
• Unionize Donna's
• Oral History of:
  • refugee kids in Patterson High School ESOL class
  • Burning Man

• Could you help me with this power tool?
• I just got a bunch of cash from the ATM. Maybe you could help me count it.
• Want to go for a ride?
• Let's go get some pork tacos.

• Cape Cop
• The Cod

• Science-y women
• the Southwest
• wilderness
• death of loved ones
• men who are either shorter, younger, blue collar, or ethnic
• unexpectedly acquired babies
• ageing
• people who speak with a twang
• Daddy issues
• farming

• People who are my favorites:
  • Sawyer
  • Sayid
  • John Locke
  • Hurley
  • Ben
  • Daniel Farraday
  • Desmond
• People who are hotties:
  • Kate
  • Sayid
  • Sun
  • Jin
  • Boone (until he died)
  • Ana Lucia (diito)
  • Alex
  • Demond's lady friend (but maybe it's just her accent)
• People who I feel like I should like more...

• mouth breathing
• waking up with hardened snot on my arm
• sleeping with the vaporizer on made all my posters fall down from the wall

• Blizzard of '96
• fall from the tree in Bennett's yard
• jelly fish sting
• 3 car wreck at the Progress Ave. exit of Route 81
• rabid dog by the Israel-Jordan border
• being burgled in South Africa
• tongue lashing by Karl Rove (that sounds dirty, but it's not)
• scorpion attack
• Wednesday night sail racing when it's WINDY
• Crazy Emile S

• Shells
• Rocks
• Coins
• Currency
• Stamps
• Crushed pennies
  • not the same collection as coins
• Quotes
• Lists
• Earings

• first snow of the year
• rare books and rare book stores
• bubbles
• Holocaust survival stories
• any survival stories
• Midnight Mass
• waking up early...sometimes
• technology that works
• playing soccer at night under the turf field lights
• sunset on the Miles River
• seeing Delicate Steve in concert
• driving over the Bay Bridge at night
• unfurling a clean white table cloth over a table
• skyping Sun and Ep's son in Laos late at night in the dish pit of the restaurant

• Definite:
  • ✔ Hair cut!
  • see the new bookstore
  • ✔ make chocolate cake w/ peanut butter icing
  • ✔ deposit paychecks
  • ✔ get more birth control pills
  • read for senior thesis
  • write Modern Dance paper
  • interview Aunt Dolly
• Maybe:
  • planetarium
  • see New Moon
  • ✔ eat at Vietnam Garden
  • take Ruby to run free

• grey wool coat
• sleeping bag
• Before Sunrise and Before Sunset DVDs
• bag with lamp, surge protector and bottom of electric kettle in it
• The Little Princess on VHS
• Vera
• Green vest

• Pieces of April
• Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Howl's Moving Castle

• a very uncomfortable bridesmaid dress (lebanon)
• foreign bodies (maui)
• a love of star trek: voyager (frat haus)
• too much used clothing (seattle)
• a hula hoop (goddess gathering)
• the gayer half of bennett's wardrobe (montrose park)
• a sheriff's hat (lewes)
• eye problems (the warehouse)
• water skillz (HACC)
• sweet messneger bag (rehobeth)
• a radical haircut (harrisburg)

• Listening Is an Act of Love
• V for Vendetta
• Reading Lolita in Tehran
• Animal Dreams
• The Milagro Beanfield War
• The Transcendental Murder
• Tales of a Shaman's apprentice
• In Defense of Food
• People of the Book

• Meat
• Ballet
• Emile S
• Facebook
• Shaving

• Laura Dolid
  • "That looked like I just sprayed Raid on ants"
  • "Are you a junior or a senior? Well, it doesn't really matter because you're not turning out enough."
  • "Actually, it makes me happy when you make mistakes, because otherwise I wouldn't have a job."
  • observing women's lacrosse practice outside, "Do you think they're really having fun out there? I guess they get to hit each other with those sticks."
  • "I know you feel like you have to throw up, but you've already missed three classes so I really think you should dance."
• Thomas Hanner
  • "Even if I didn't see that double piroutte, God was still watching."

• Literature
  • Woman at Point Zero
  • ✔ The Bell Jar
  • Eichmann in Jerusalem
  • A Room of One's Own
  • Luce Irigaray's "The Sex Which is Not One"
  • Helene Cixous's "The Laugh of Medusa"
• Film
  • ✔ The Hours
  • The Reader
  • Mona Lisa Smile
  • The Last King of Scotland
  • ✔ Into the Wild
• Music
  • India.Arie
  • Randi Driscoll
  • Stephen Speaks

• World War Z
• Sense and Sensibility
• Magic for Beginners
• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
• Ask the Dust
• Reservation Blues
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
• The Talmud and the Internet

• Financial
  • ✔ Open a money market account
  • Get a credit card
  • Get some high interest CDs
• Professional
  • ✔ Write my resume
  • Research internships in Baltimore
• Personal
  • Cook healthy meals
  • Look into new forms of contraceptive (IUD, nuvaring, etc.)

• Pros:
  • less cruelty to animals
  • less cruelty to immigrants and poor people who work in slaughterhouses
  • Eating vegetables is generally less expensive
  • Not eating meat is healthier for my body in the long run
  • Less guilt about supporting a violent system
  • Attempt to wash away the traumatic exper...
• Cons:
  • Meat is so tasty!
  • Meat is a good source of protein and energy. Also helps me maintain a healthy weight
  • Nature of life is to consume life: even some animals eat other animals
  • People are designed to meat: molars and d...

• Whackadoodle: Suede
• Leatha: Stella
• Licious: Blayne
• Holla atcha boy: Tim Gunn

All I could think of was Neil Young, and then I remembered he's Canadian. This list is going to require some deep thought.

• the domestication of maize
• rabble rousers
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Dad
  • Woody Guthrie
• Bluegrass Music
• Bill Moyers
• Pink Flamingos

• birds trapped inside buildings
• regret
• gender-based violence
• applying for PEPFAR
• Conflict Diamonds
• when the library printers get jammed and you have to wait two hours to get your paper.
• being hung over for a flight
• people who bite their nails in class
• cruelty to animals

• ✔ Listography!
• Book Mooch
• Keiskamma Trust
• Prison Dharma Network
• Solar Energy International
• ✔ American Visionary Art Museum
• ✔ Changing the Present
• ✔ WWOOF
• The Smooch Project
• From Death to Life

• Lord of War
• ✔ Blood Diamond
• Last King of Scotland
• Babel
• ✔ O Brother Where Art Thou
• ✔ The Pianist (not when I'm depressed though)
• Goodnight and Good luck
• ✔ Angels in America (again, not when I'm depressed)
• ✔ Paris Je T'aime
• Amandla
• ✔ Cry Freedom
• Nausicaa
• ✔ Tsotsi

• Unaccustomed Earth-Jhumpa Lahiri
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail (ah! my house in St. Michaels has this book)
• No Logo-Naomi Klein
• The Miracle of Mindfulness-Thich Nhat Hanh
• Wretched of the Earth-Frantz Fanon
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain
• A Short History of Nearly Everything-Bill Bryson
• Memory of Fire Triology-Eduardo Galeano
• Getting a Grip-Francis Moore Lappe
• Deep Community-Scott Alarik
• All the Shah's Men
• ✔ Lake Wobegone Days-Garrison Keillor
  • ugh rapists. Do I need to start a list of writers and filmakers from my Listography who have been demoted to the rape list???

• Inspired by Li Ziqi
  • gardening
  • get good at hair braiding
  • maybe learn mandarin?
• Write letters
• Draw stuff
• Reading
  • Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
  • Death and Life of Great American Cities
  • Garrett Eckbo
  • Wild Urban Plants
  • Science for a Sustainable City
  • Lessons from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study
• Cross some stuff off of Michael Sorkin's Big List
• Online ballet class
• Fantasy bird watching
• Reality bird watching

• Salto
  • something briny with mescal
• Lady in the moon
  • maybe a blueberry floating on a lemon peel?
• Skin the cat
  • coconut flakes
• Elsie Rollup
• Single Star
• Jack knife
• Fish on a hook
• Serenity roll
• Plinko
  • ice cubes to be theatrically plinked in glass at serving time

• Become a ham radio operator
• Scuba certification
  • volunteer ray feeder at the Aquarium
• Informational interviews of people with kewl jobs
• Learn how to sail
  • start anti-racist yacht club
• Start a neighborhood seed library
• ✔ Volunteer at the Conservatory
• ✔ Walk all the dogs
• ✔ Poop sleuthing with Bluewater Baltimore's outfall screenings
• ✔ Maryland Master Gardener certfication
• Choreograph aerial dance performances
  • ✔ two broke girls in The Roches "Mr Sellack."
  • Aerial dance adaptation of "Somnambula," see also: sleep walking

• Short & Sweet:
  • The Maura: lemon poppy seed tea cookie (yes there is a cookie named after me)
  • The Nancy: dark chocolate and espresso
• Harmony Bakery, vegan gluten free, how is it so good:
  • Dark chocolate thin mint
  • Chocolate oatmeal sandwich cookie with chocolate filling
• Mom:
  • Chocolate breasts: peanut butter cookie with Hershey's kiss in middle
  • Ron's cookies: chocolate walnut delight bars
  • Snickerdoodles: a nod to non-chocolate desserts

• 2013: Got there too late
• 2014: Got there too early
• 2015: Ducklings froze
• 2016: Avian flu = featherless Farm Show

Is it cursed?

UPDATE: 2017 Duckling Slip N Slide was moved to the Main Convention Hall adjacent to tractors and was slippin and slidin in full force!

• Read a book
• Read a thing online
• Write a letter (postage?)
• Watch a Netflix movie
• Go for a bike ride
• Go for a bird walk
• Meditate
• Sort things
• Ayurvedic self-massage
• Garden
• Shtupping

• Neighbor Harvey returns from Thailand to pick up the trash and pretend that other humans don't exist
• Potholes expand
• Ethiopian food and mushroom lady return to Farmer's Market

• Wake up
• Contemplate Being for five minutes while lying in bed
• Brush teeth, use neti pot
• Pranayama and sitting meditation for 20 minutes
• Eat breakfast
• Check phone & email

Order in which Things Actually happen

• Wake up
• Drift in and out of sleep hitting snooze alarm for 20 minutes
• Moan
• Brush teeth and pop some claritin D
• Check phone, realize there is fire to put out at the yoga studio
• Do I really need to meditate today?
• Cliff Bar

• Remembering to take my vitamin
• Watering the plants
• Swinging on swing sets

• Tandem "doggy style" Charleston
• The difference between 6 count and 8 count basics
• The Swingout
• Susie Q

But I'm still wondering:

• When to use 6 count or 8 count
• If everyone knows the Shim Sham, why don't we do it all the time?
• Balboa?! What and when.
• What's the proper etiquette if your partner is an asshole?

• Conquer the forearm balance: Pinchamayurasana
• Journal, dammit
• Be nicer to our plants and cats
• And as always, be more moisturized

• Collect used bikes from Craigslist
• Rollerskate to pop music on Sunday nights at the Olympic skate rink in Enola
• Drink $2 beers and dance to traditional folk music at the Croatian Fraternal Society of Steelton
• Watch movies at the Midtown Cinema
• Read the Hunger Games trilogy
• Contemplate the pros and cons of Rick Santorum's potential Presidential nomination
• That's about it

• Upon hearing that Senator Barbara Mikulski was in the restaurant, "Tell her she should order the Cubano, in honor of what she's trying to do to our health care system."
• When we started bombing Libya, "What's your favorite part of our new war?"
• "Somebody clean this plate up. I wouldn't serve that dish to Barack Hussein Obama."
• "You know what you can tell those debt collectors? Tell them to S your fucking D."
• Amy, watching Ian pour himself a kids cup of Franzia cooking wine, "I can't believe you drink that shit." Ian, "Trust me Amy, if I took a shit on a spoon, and put it in my mouth, it would NOT taste like this."
• "I don't care what Al Gore says, the earth can't be getting warmer AND colder at t...

• Movies
  • Enchanted April
  • Easy A
  • The Company
  • She's the Man
    • you've probably already seen it, but amanda bynes plus bizarrely insightful gender commentary still equals awesome
  • The Social Network
• Music
  • Dirty Projectors
  • Frontier Myth
  • Jenny Lewis
• Books
  • Poisonwood Bible
    • really, all Barbara Kingsolver

• Shani
  • stop planning
  • Enough with the potato products!
• Sue
  • "Oh, who cares."
• Misc.
  • Stop should-ing all over yourself
• Adam B.
  • Take more vacations from the internet
• Me
  • Try new things or your life is over

• Hang out with Lady Friends
  • Interior decorating thoughts
  • "What's going on with the Bar Mitzvah planning?"
  • "This nail polish is a totally different shade of clear than the one I use."
  • "I'm a grandma!"
• Plan European vacation
• Discuss whether or not Obama is a "fascist thug"
  • Result:undecided
• Creep me out by letting their high school age daughter sit on their lap
• Didn't feel like cooking
• The basement of your fancy Roland Park house flooded so you're staying in the Radison
• Family Problems:

• anythingness
• the end of the world
• dance
• stories
• buoyancy
• nudity
• making out

• Northern Exposure
• Dancing With The Stars
• 30 Rock
• Project Runway
  • Best Episode: Season Five Drag Queen Challenge
• Masterpiece Mystery
  • all of them really, but mostly Inspector Lewis
• Lost
• The West Wing
• Downton Fucking Abbey
• Arrested Development
• Dance Academy
• Sherlock
• The Wire
• Twin Peaks

• Used tissues she finds on the street
• Mommy and Daddy and Sissies
• Bean
• Donna's Challah
• Bearie
• Henry
  • person
  • and stuffed toy
• rolling in things
• Bella (not as much as Bean)
• runnin' around
• when the peoples come home
• when we leave food on the counter
• jumping up on people beds
• presents
• the Mail Carrier
• watching birds
• rubbing herself against the futon until she and it are completely static-y
• digging holes in the yard and flinging th...

• ✔ Join Creative Alliance and start volunteering
  • ✔ Halloween Lantern Parade!
  • Burlesque
• ✔ Charm City Swing
  • ✔ get really really good at swing dance
    • kind of, as good as I'll ever get
• The Hexagon
  • work events
  • yoga trance dance?!
• Max
  • mooch off of rock climbing passes some more
  • ✔ go to shows
• ✔ Charm City Yoga $40 membership
• Judaica

• you're not a good listener
• you're not a good storyteller
• you're wearing plaid shorts/crocs/a bow in your hair
  • if all of the above, good luck
• you don't like animals
  • really bad if it's dogs
• you have crappy taste in music
• you eat really crappy foods
• you're not a Harry Potter person
• you drive a P.T. Cruiser
• you refer to your "father" in an overly referential way as in "Father's always been a great patron of the Museum."
• you tried to give me a stupid nickname when we barely knew each other
• you use emoticons :{
• you have a weak immune system, and not because of an immunodeficiency disorder.

• ✔ Eat delicious local seafood
• ✔ Go to thrift stores
• Befriend Goucher girl who works at local wine tasting room and get free wine
• ✔ get people to take me on their boats
• ✔ Tilghman Island
• Smith Island?!
• ✔ bird watching walks
• check out quilts at St. Michaels Museum
• ✔ Dinner and a movie at Lynne's house
• Visit Kate in Chestertown
• Visit Marian's farm in Cambridge

• At Goucher
  • Computer Music Concert May 7
  • Goucher woods, site of the old incinerator
  • the Labyrinth
• Foods and Drinks
  • Sofi's Crepes
  • The Dizz for the crab dip
  • Golden West for the elvis pancake and tater tots
  • Holy Frijoles for the margaritas
  • The Crease for the dive-iness
  • Amicci's because it's Little Italy
  • One World Cafe for the crunchiness
  • Vaccaros, because it is a dessert restaurant
• Museums, Baltimore has a shit ton of these

• Draft Ch.1: Single-sex vs. Coed debate
• Draft Ch.2: History of Women's Colleges going coed
• Draft Ch.3: Brief history of Goucher College 1885-1985
• Draft Ch.4: THE DECISION
• Draft Ch.5: Effects of coed on social life at Goucher
• Draft Ch.6: Effects of coed on academic and institutional life at Goucher
• Draft Intro and Conclusion
• Edit that fucker
• Get release forms from everyone
  • Rick Pringle, I still need yours, dammit!
• Deposit interviews in Goucher College Archives
• Student Symposium
• Thesis Defense

That doen't sound too bad, right?

• Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas: Fortunate is the one who knows the causes of things.
• Fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore: Time flies irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail
• Homo sum, nihil humanum alienum: I am human, nothing human is alien to me
• Illegitimi non carborundum: Don't let the bastards grind you down
• Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus: Never tickle a sleeping dragon

• ✔ Posession
• ✔ My Life in France
• The Periodic Table
• Survival in Auschwitz
• ✔ Legacy of Silence
• ✔ Whose Body?
• ✔ The Reader

• ✔ Yoga Trance Dance: Dec. 18
• ✔ Leader Hain's Christmas Tree Decorating: Dec. 23
• ✔ Dentist Appointment: Dec.29
• ✔ Visit Shana in Seattle
  • laser show
  • ✔ eat delicious stuff
  • ✔ thrift shopping
  • ✔ also go to Portland
• Planetarium!
• Outdoor ice skating?
• ✔ Play viola!
• ✔ Bike to the library and do reading for my senior thesis
  • alright I didn't bike, but it's 19 fucking degrees outside
• ✔ visit the new bookstore
• ✔ Get my computer cleaned
• ✔ Get a massage

• That I currently practice
  • Dance
  • pooping
  • listening to the radio
  • checking to see how much my plant grew overnight
  • flossing!
  • pranayama
• That I would like to practice
  • starting the day with a cup of tea
  • bird watching
  • getting a really great massage
  • ✔ practice yoga

• stampeded through Opening Ceremony
• House Meeting parade
• family style burrito dinner
• found Anndal's insulin kit
• Blackout dance in the gopher hole DJed by Debra
• Support the Volleyball Team signs:
  • "Once more unto the breach, Goucher volleyball."
  • "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall, and put up a volleyball net."
• Modified reenactment of Debra's romance novels
• Anything But Clothes Party
• post-intermural soccer game shower parties
• Back from Abroad Potluck
• Game Nights
  • Celebrity Salad

• In Baltimore
  • Free Store
  • ✔ Book Thing
  • Charm City Roller Girls
  • Student night at Aquarium
  • Book Fest
  • ✔ New exhibit at AVAM
  • Free School
  • ✔ Great Halloween Lantern Parade
  • ✔ 32nd St./Waverly Farmer's market: Saturdays 7am to noon
• Dance
  • ✔ Sarah's senior thesis concert: April 9-11
  • ✔ 361 concert: Dec. 4-6
  • ✔ Open Marley nights
• Environs
  • Experimental Laser Show

• ✔ Get a radical hair cut at the student hair salon
• ✔ Eat delicious things
• ✔ Thrift store shopping
• ✔ Visit public library
• ✔ Kayaking on Puget Sound
  • actually it was canoeing at the arboretum, but same diff
• ✔ Hot House Women's Spa
• Bike along Burke-Gilman

• Museums
  • Baltimore Museum of Industry
  • National Museum of the American Indian
  • American Visonary Art Museum
  • District 6 Museum in Cape Town
• Oral History
  • Storycorps (read Listening Is an Act of Love)
  • Independent project?
• Environmental
  • WOOF again
  • SCA internship
• Counselor of some sort
  • probably requires grad school
  • troubled youth?
  • marital?
  • religious?

• navigating public transportation
• opening and closing an umbrella
• Minesweeper
• using a washing machine

• Vegetable Studies
• The very old man with the young man's voice
• Another day without Jesus
• The magic banjo

• Yoga trance dance
  • get formula from Shani
• Guest class with Shani
• Guest class with Heather?
• Yoga club slumber party!
• Yoga club camping trip

• ✔ The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
• ✔ Magic for Beginners
• Persuasion
• The Sparrow
• Love in the Time of Cholera
• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• ✔ The Talmud and the Internet
• ✔ Reservation Blues
• ✔ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
• Wuthering Heights
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
• The Periodic Table
• ✔ Animal Dreams

• The Ghost and the Darkness
• Blood Diamond
• Tsotsi (OK, I haven't seen this one yet, but everyone says it's great)
• Yesterday

I wanted to put "Cry Freedom," on this list because it's about Steve Biko's life in South Africa, but ironically, when the movie was shot in 1987, Zimbabwe was a safer and more stable location for filming than South Africa.

• Qorianka Kilcher
• Tim Gunn
• Kate Blanchett
• John Cusack
• Anderson Cooper
• Emile Hirsch
• Cynthia Terry
• the bassist in Wilco whose name I always forget
• Yossarian
• Gael Garcia Bernal
• Michelle Obama
• Alan Cumming
• holy shit Naveen Andrews, why do you onl...
• Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Antoni from Queer Eye
• Dilone

• Watching TV alone
• Comparing my experience studying abroad to anyone else's
• African Street at night
• hippos
• generalized and specific anxiety
• attachment
• meat

• Nelson Mandela
• Yossarian
• Arundhati Roy
  • Or not. Turns out she's Naveena's dad's ex girlfriend, and she's a pill
• Woody Guthrie
• Zachie Achmat
• Nola Elliott
• David Byrne
• John Waters
• Azar Nafisi
• Bill Moyers
• Mikey Thomas
• Tim Gunn
• Jane Goodall
• Chelsea Manning
• Toby

• ✔ Merrell brown leather shoes
• ✔ Membership to National Museum of the Ame...
• Products from The Body Shop
• Changing the Present donations
• ✔ Things from Global Exchange
• ✔ Something to display earrings on, extra points if you make it yourself!
  • thanks me
• Desert Essences facial scrub
• ✔ sewing machine
• ✔ external hardrive
• small fold up camp chair
• ✔ digital voice recorder
• ✔ P-38
• guitar OR banjo
• ✔ a massage from Shani Stevenson
• ✔ 2010 personal planner
• yellow legal pads
• small dry erase board to hang on wall
• ✔ canvas ballet shoes

• Start a Goucher Outing Club: events could include hikes, festivals, daytrips, etc.
• Attend Women's Solar Workshop in June 2008
• Find HIV/AIDS related internship in Baltimore
  • HERO
  • AIDS Action Baltimore
• Find HIV/AIDS related internship in Harrisburg
  • AIDS Community Alliance
• Take summer classes at HACC
  • glass blowing
  • Spanish
• Attend Mountain Justice Workshop
• Work on an Indian Reservation
• Work for National Museum of the American ...

• Cry the Beloved Country
• American Shaolin
• Maus I
• Maus II
• Oryx and Crake
• Long Walk to Freedom
• Tranquil Mind
• Poisonwood Bible
• A Country at War with Itself
• King Solomon's Mines
• A Handmaid's Tale
• Zen in the Art of Archery
• The Bingo Palace
• The Tent
• No Country for Old Men
• Never Let Me Go

• Watermelon basil sorbet: looked like brains, should have used brain mold
• Plum: not as magenta as 2020 plum
• Mulberry: bleh
• Green tea: for Shira's birthday
• Chocolate peanut butter: ol' reliable
• Vietnamese coffee
• Strawberry basil
• Mint fudge swirl
• Chocolate peanut butter pretzel
• Chocolate peanut butter
• Chocolate chili: way too much chili, almost inedible, but Shana liked it
• Green tea
• Plum: never to be repeated in flavor or beauty
• Honey Lavender
• Peach blueberry: Ice cream machine broke midway through the process, waited 8 years and a pandemic to get another

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• What what what is the deal with Bruce Willis' orange man-tank
• Was a Luke Perry cameo appearance a requirement of all films made in 1997?
• Is the machine they use to regrow Mila Jovavich from that severed hand the same thing the Trisolarans used on Yun Tianming's brain?
• What was the giant skull fireball thing, and why was it in league with the evil capitalist guy?
• Why was there a giant trash mountain at the airport?!
• Can the bandage dress trend in late 90s fashion be traced back to to Jean Paul Gaultier's iconic white Leeloo costume or was it the other way around?
• Is that giant alien armadillo still inside the pyramid?

• In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
• Everything is Illuminated
• Season Two of Transparent

• Jennifer Connelly in Labyrinth
• Katniss in The Hunger Games
• Danaerys in the House of the Undying
• Ofellia in Pan's Labyrinth
• Crow Song River

• Jimmy McNulty
• Endeavour Morse
• Spock
• Edward Snowden
• Fox Mulder
• Special Agent Dale Cooper

• Mary & Tom
• Mrs. Crawley & Dr. Clarkson
• Daisy & Mrs. Patmore
• Sybbie & ...whoever the other baby is
• Robert & Isis

• Springtime
• Outdoor festivals
  • First Thursday concerts in Mt Vernon Park
• The hours of the day between 4 and 7 pm
• Being in New York City for the weekend
• Bike Party After Party if you aren't volunteering

• "flow through the vinyasa of your choice"
• "set an intention for your practice"
• "choose the level that's right for you"
• "don't drop out"
• "find length into your spine"
• "let go of what's no longer serving you"
• "we're going to stay here for a few breaths"
• "open to grace"
• "tuck your tail"

Need to think more about this one. Once I make the cards you need to get five in a row, and then correctly spell the Sanskrit name for Downward Facing Dog to win.

• How do I come to terms with death?
• What is blues dancing, really?
• Why did I win those Alicia Keys tickets when I didn't even enter the contest?

• Freedom
• Happy eaters
• Meteorology
  • tracking weather patterns on his phone during dinner service
  • warning us to get everyone off the patio before a thunderstorm as if he were in the movie "Twister"
• Snow!
• Looking at ladies' butts/thinking about having ladies' butts on his face
• Drinking
• His wife and kids
• America
• Documentary films
• Mushrooms
• Singing
• Ron Paul
• Gardening

• Capicola: traditional Italian coldcut, dry cured whole from the shoulder or neck of a pig
  • dry cured?
• Bresaolo: air cured salted beef, from the top round of the cow
  • top round?
• Saltimbocca: traditionally veal with prosciutto and sage but at Donna's, chicken with prosciutto and cheese
• Wines: who the fuck knows
  • driest red on list: malbec
  • driest white: uh...
  • my favorite wine: The Eve chardonnay because it has the prettiest label and a screw top. I mean, the Eve chardonnay because it's a little bit astringent and lemony.

• Zombies, for sure.
• The Facebook
  • as a commodification of individual identity
  • as a replacement for human social interaction
• Taking a poop in the toilet and forgetting to flush
  • sometimes I go back and check
• poisonous insects
• getting my diva cup lost inside me

• The Singing Revolution
• The King's Speech
• Today's Special
• ✔ The Illusionist
• Persepolis
• Greatest Movie Ever Sold
• ✔ Inception
• The Last Picture Show
• Junebug
• In the Mood for Love
• Inside Job
• The Adjustment Bureau
• Word is Out (documentary about gay and lesbian people in america)
• Never Let Me Go
• The Last Days of Disco
• La Haine
• Orlando
• Moneyball
• The Science of Sleep

• "Is that really you, Helena Bonham Carter?"
• "The movie with the best homoerotic bathing scene ever, and I include 'Brokeback Mountain' in that statement."
• "Life will be better if you don't marry Daniel Day Lewis."
• "Making out in the Italian countryside."
• "Blame it on your chaperone"
• "Basically, just a fucking awesome movie."

• My senior thesis
• being a good dancer
• the past
• the future
• Oliver T. Archives
• the end of the world
• technology
  • robots
  • transferring my interview tapes to DVD

• Halloween
  • ✔ Pumpkins
  • ✔ yellow umbrella
  • ✔ container of salt
  • ✔ fake blood
  • ✔ candy for trick or treaters
  • ✔ sheets for haunted house
• Home
  • ✔ foam top mattress
  • ✔ duvet cover
• Kitchen
  • ✔ peeler
  • ✔ whisk
  • ✔ basting brush
  • ✔ sifter
  • ✔ more plates!
  • ✔ hand held citrus juicer
  • mortar and pestel

• At the grocery store, "Are you prepared to bail me out the day I decide to steal an Asian baby?"
• While listening to a news story about Michael Vick's abused dogs, "I am not a violent person, but I think he should have his balls cut off."
• Watching Bristol Palin on DWTS, "Well at least you didn't pee on the floor."
• Observing a construction site, "I love cranes. They're so sexual...you're gonna put that on one of your quote lists aren't you?"
• In response to me complaining about all the things I had to shlep in my bike basket, "Well Fluffy shleps you around all the time, and I never hear her complain."

• "Let's enjoy a Pidgeon."
• "Don't get stuck in the pelvis."
• "There is one very expressive Pidgeon in this room."
• "Thanks for playing"
• "Well. That's in the past."
• "My life was just all about gluten."
• "The armpits are really the groins of your arms."
• "Place your feet on the butt proper."

• It doesn't matter how hungry you are, two packets of Ramen Noodles is always TOO MUCH
• Foods with five or fewer ingredients are probably pretty healthy (thank Michael Pollan)
• Listening to public radio makes you smarter and probably a better person
• The Facebook is a parasite on our already ailing society. Save yourselves!
• It doesn't matter if yours are "the best in town." All crab cakes taste the same
• Condoms condoms condoms
• Putting on an extra layer before savasana

This I do NOT Believe:

• The Facebook
• Jeggings
• Crocs, unless they are for work
• the GPS

• Love Medicine
• Prodigal Summer
• Love and Hate in Jamestown
• Pretty Monsters
• Deer Hunting with Jesus
• The Hobbit
• Kitchen Table Wisdom
• Role Models
• Skinny Leg and All
• A Walk In the Woods
• Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
• Africa In My Blood: Autobiography of Jane Goodall, Vol. 1
• Reason for Hope
• Twelfth Night
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
• Bicycle Diaries
• The Savage Detectives
• A Moveable Feast
• The Heart of Yoga
• Chakras: Energy Centers for Transformatio...

• From Max
  • Being There
  • A.M.
  • Flying Burrito Brothers
  • Townes Van Zandt
• Amadou et Mariam
  • "Sabali"
  • Dimanche a Bamako
• Beck
  • "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime"
• Masood Ali Kahn
• Morning Benders
• Jason Derulo: "Riding Solo"
• Flo Rida: "Club Can't Handle Me"
• Katy Perry "California Gurls"
• "Paparazzi"
• The Goat Sessions

• The Bun Also Rises
• ✔ Northanger Crabby
• Blintz and Blintzability
• All Quiet on the Western Bunt
• The Catcher in the Rye Bread
• The Old Man and the Pea
• The Unbearable Lightness of Herring
• Their Eyes were Watching Cod
• Their Pies were Watching God
• The Grape Gatsby
• Portnoy's Compote
• Finnegan's Cake
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ham
• Hamlet
• The Crying of Latke 49
• The Crepes of Wrath
• War and Quiche
• Slaughterhouse Fries
• The Sound and the Curry
• ✔ Are you there God? It's me, margarine
• Diary of Anne Frankfurter

• Listography (duh)
• Live Journal (on occasion)
• Linked In (if you want to give me a job)
• Formspring (if you want to ask me a question)

• Don't panic
• Be more moisturized
  • this is a perennial goal of mine
  • maybe invest in some essential oils too
  • shit, I already sound superficial
• Devote more time to planning and enjoying yoga classes
• Think about the future in a non-panicky way
  • find a job
  • find somewhere to live
  • always have another trip on the horizon
• go to the pool every week
• stay connected with Auni and Kashmir even though they've graduated
• Call Joy on our mutual birthday: October 29
• don't let food go to waste
• Learn to:

• These days it feels like there is a jumpsuit lurking around every corner.
• I know, I know, I know. It's like THE LAW that we all think Natalie Portman is so tremendous and so beautiful and so NATALIE PORTMAN OH GOD IF ONLY I WERE NATALIE PORTMAN that I'm fairly sure the cops will be here to question me in a mere matter of minutes, at which one point one of them will screech that I'm JUST JEALOUS of how PETITE AND GLORIOUS she is, like a very rare and fragile tea cup that we as a society must protect from harm by hiding her in our very bosom. Me? I'm just not that into her. I don't know why, and I'm SORRY, okay? I'VE TRIED. But I can't pretend anymore that I would take a bullet for Natalie Portman.

• community theater child star
• amateur boxer
• Oxford don
• EMT
• Confederate Civil War reenactor
• devoted "Sex and the City" fan
• Baltimore County firefighter
• opera singer
• Echinacea farmer
• high school football player
• reluctant Quaker
• BWI airplane de-icer
• intramural soccer coach
• amateur rock climber
• Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi

• Crawdad
• Fisher's of Men
• Lady Margaret
• Paradise
• Ring of Fire
• Angel from Montgomery
• Wagon Wheel
• I've endured

• hula hoops
• The bus
• bigger dogs
• smaller dogs that bark
• balloons
• riding in our new van
• global economic meltdown
• walking down steps
• any car which she's never been in.
• bridges
• The Gay Pride Parade in Harrisburg

• Joseph Cornell: Secrets in a Box (3WH-656)
• Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood
• Slightly damaged copy of The Art of Chuck Close
• Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter (1WH-19)
• ✔ The Long Emergency (for dad)
• ✔ Food Fight: Your Guide to the Farmbill

• ✔ Senators games: only $5, go on good promotional night
  • Also talk Mom and Dad into Mini golf
• Midtown Scholar
  • organize the shit out of the new store
  • crack the shell of Kinsey
  • Revive warehouse gocart outings
  • make lots of dollars
  • ✔ Company Party July 24
• ✔ Rasa Vinyasa
  • ✔ hang out with people outside of class
  • Trance Dance and trance dance parties!
  • ✔ Goddess Gathering Aug. 1
• Modern Dance somewhere in H-burg
  • ballet too?
• ✔ Look into joining a pool/water aerobics class

• Girl 1, "So do you think he LIKES you likes you?
• Girl 2, "He BETTER like me if he was touching my butt at the dance."
• Girl 1, "I guess that's better than him touching your butt and liking other girls."
• Girl 2, "Well I definitely have a big enough butt."

I hope these girls become lesbians

• Watching girly movies (as in "Serendipity," not porn)
• Teaching yoga
• Going to Crackpot
  • two dollar whiskey sours
  • Old Bay seasoned french fries
  • good company
• Knowing that Laura's ballet class is the only thing standing between me and the weekend

• Painting my nails
• Vending machine food
• Free stuff
• When Cynthia Terry, Goucher college chaplain, uses the "F" word
• The "Pronti...Via! Beginner Italian" textbook at the warehouse
  • buttery yellow cover
  • fits perfectly in size 1 bag
  • makes me want to learn Italian
• being in the laundry room in the basement of mary fischer
• hot dogs
  • every day is a battle to not just eat hot dogs
• cleaning the lint trap
• putting away clean dishes
• channel surfing on the radio
• not using the a/c while driving alone

• A room full of mushroom sculptures
• An 885 lb. squash: as large as a boulder, it came up to my hip and was just as wide
• State attorney general Tom Corbett mounted on horseback team penning a calf
• An arena full of nothing but old farts pitching horse shoes, and other old farts on bleachers watching them
• The duckling slip and slide
• The baked potato
• The wonderful aroma of the apple displays
• Baby alpacas
• A little girl reading a book on top of a sleeping steer
• Potato people contest
• Drive by flu shots
• Archival display of award winning wools

I have Christmas envy:

• Candylane
• ✔ Hershey sweet lights
  • ✔ It now costs $20. Holy shit.
• miniature train village and christmas tr...
• ✔ Midnight mass at someone's church
• Make cookies and decorate tree with Leader Hains
• ✔ Carpenter and Rosencrans Christmas parties
• Dec. 20: Burlesque Christmas Pagaent

Harrisburg

• ✔ planetarium
• drive around and look at light displays
• learn to cook delicious vegetarian things
• ✔ Trance dance with Shani!
• ballet class?
• ✔ Jan. 10-17: Farm Show!

• Nola: coordinator for Orphans and Vulnerable Children at the Raphael Centre
• Carla: History lecturer, yoga teacher, activist
• Mama Diko: choir instructor, OVC coordinator
• Philippa: Jewish lady who hosted me on Yom Kippur in East London
• Linda: Xhosa instructor

• Independence
• basic conversation skills in IsiXhosa
• grant-writing experience
• camp-planning experience
• thicker skin
• openness to different people
• resolve
• several pounds around the hips
• more hair on my legs and armpits
• a vegetarian diet

• tendrils
• spry
• menstruant
• vapid
• glean

• dreaming about loved ones
• peanut butter
• farting loudly when you're all alone
• happy dogs
• sunshine
• waking up and listening to really good music and feeling excited for the day
• hot water bottles
• dessert
• Marimba ensembles
• the really nice stapler in the library. That shit can staple ANYTHING
• warm laundry
• Simba chips
• painting your nails
• Checking your email after coming back from vacation
• Almost anything deep fried
• Adding things to my "Books I've Read" list
• Turning to a new page in your calendar at...

• Paris
• Germany: visit Andrea and Emile's relatives
• Amsterdam, with Bennett
• America
  • ✔ New York City: visit Margaret
  • Boston: visit Ovadias and Gavi
  • ✔ Washington, D.C.: visit Amaya
  • Colorado: attend solar workshop, visit Anne, also go to Boulder
  • Alaska
  • ✔ Hawaii
  • ✔ South West United States: national parks, reservations
    • Taos Pueblo
    • Roswell
    • Earthships
    • 1000 Waves
• Japan

• Joburg:
  • Demery's friend who films "Escape to Chimp Eden"
  • ✔ Apartheid Museum
  • ✔ Demery's friend who owns a creche we can sleep in (actually in Pretoria)
• Cape Town:
  • ✔ Robben Island
  • ✔ Winelands
  • ✔ township tours
  • Bo Kaap
  • ✔ Simon's town and Boulder Beach (with penguins!)
  • Cape Point
  • ✔ Markets: Grand Parade, Greenmarket Square
• Eastern Cape:
  • Graaf Reinet