• bakeries
• changing seasons
• Chinese herbal stores
• cut grass
• eucalyptus oil
• when someone has a fireplace going
• fresh linen
• fresh photocopying
• freshly picked mint
• lavender oil
• new apple products
• new book
• new car
• next door's Sunday barbecue
• olive oil
• orange/citrus peel
• smoke from candles
• sushi
• tea leaves
• that certain smell from old CityRail trains

• a tan
• formal dress
• formal shoes
• full length mirror
• good speakers (to use with laptop &/or ipod)
• ipod dock
• my own DSLR
• suitable skin for ipod touch
  • no tacky designs
  • no tacky colours
  • actually protective
  • perhaps more of a plastic cover
• summer dress/es (with nice prints)
• wall clock

Mostly phases. The ones that still appeal to me are in bold.

• archeologist
• architect
• art critic
• art historian
• art journalist
• artist
• astronaut
• author
• barista
• curator (art gallery)
• curator (museum)
• explorer of distant lands
• fashion designer
• fashion illustrator
• fashion photographer
• film director
• furniture designer (for IKEA, etc)
• geologist
• historian

(t) for transition / (m) for emphasis / (v) for verbs / (c) for compare/contrast / (x) for examples / (o) for other

WORDS I USE TOO OFTEN

• (m) in particular
• (v) alludes to
• (v) creates a sense of
• (v) emphasises
• (v) including
• (v) indicates
• (v) reflects
• (v) suggests
• (x) such as

WORDS TO USE MORE

• (c) comparatively
• (c) likewise
• (c) similarly
• (m) furthermore
• (o) alongside
• (t) consequently

• people who typ lyk dis on fb/msn/evrywhere
• rudeness on phones, on either end
• people who don't say anything within the first five seconds after I pick up
• people who repeat their sentence/question with different intonation thinking it will help the interpretation
• persistent callers - callers who wait over a minute in hope that someone will pick up + callers who call back after less than 5 minutes when they didn't get a pick-up the first time (I don't answer phone calls - they terrify me!)
• people who don't at least glance at me while I'm talking to them
• people who speak over the top of everyone else
• "you're so stupid, your going to fail that exam"
• "their going to there house over they're"...

• sunrises
• sunsets
• silence
• nature
• beautiful film scores
• art galleries
• beautiful movies
• artists
• landscapes
• cities
• the vastness of the universe
• human progress
• ancient civilisations

• Entre les murs / The Class (2008)
• Joyeux Noël (2005)
• L'invité / The Dinner Game (2007)
• Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain / Amélie (2001)
• Le scaphandre et le papillon / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
• Les choristes / The Chorus (2004)
• Paris, je t'aime (2006)

• Abby
• Adriane
• Agatha
• Alana
• Alexandra
• Alice
• Alyona
• Annie
• Bianca
• Blair
• Callie
• Camille
• Chloe
• Claudia
• Daul
• Diane
• Dorothea
• Eleanor
• Ellen
• Eloise
• Elspeth