Countries

  • Austria (Vienna)
  • Canada (Montreal and Quebec)
  • France (Paris)
  • Germany
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Spain (Andalucía)
  • The Caribbean (Haiti, Jamaica, the Caymans)
  • England
  • Mexico

States (including home, I guess)

  • Arizona
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • Florida
  • Maryland
nov 15 2009 ∞
apr 29 2013 +

"I wish to weep, but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe, but belief is a graveyard." (Charles Bukowski)

"You shall love your crooked neighbour/ with your crooked heart." (W.H. Auden)

"I suffer from my own multiplicity." (Margaret Atwood)

"I was born lost, and take no pleasure in being found." (John Steinbeck)

"At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—" (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"To fear death, gentleman, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know." (Socrates)

"Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. Solitude is the ally of sorrow as well as a companion of spiritual exaltation." (Khalil Gibran)

jan 12 2011 ∞
dec 26 2011 +
  • Learn Arabic
  • Develop a healthy relationship with food
  • Go to occupied Palestine
  • Go to Jerusalem
  • Backpack through Europe
  • Cross-country road trip with N
  • Be in a meaningful relationship
  • See Kings of Leon
  • Start playing the saxophone again
  • Feel good in a swimsuit
  • Finish "The Book of Disquiet"
  • Make a meal from food entirely self-grown/caught
  • Make an item of my own clothing
  • Visit family in Lebanon
  • Visit family in Germany
  • Participate in a triathalon or (half)-marathon
  • Make it to the Grand Canyon
  • Speak at a Palestine event
  • Watch another Ronald Reagan movie
feb 13 2013 ∞
aug 17 2016 +
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  • The Godfather (1972)
  • The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • Schindler's List (1993)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  • The Dark Knight (2008)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  • Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  • Inception (2010)
  • Fight Club (1999)
  • Seven Samurai (1954)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  • Goodfellas (1990)
  • Star Wars (1977)
  • City of God (2002)
dec 31 2011 ∞
jan 29 2013 +

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. I want to at least try all of these. I've been meaning to read/picked up a bunch. Also, italics = I've made substantial progress .

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • The Bible
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
  • His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  • Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  • Complete Works of Shakespeare
  • Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurie
feb 3 2011 ∞
jan 6 2014 +