• Write (crappy) poetry on my typewriter.
  • Read cheesy science fiction from the sixties and seventies.
  • Knit a hat for a baby.
  • Cry about Harry Potter with Anna Baird.
  • Go see an indie flick at a tiny theater.
  • Talk about the music I love with people who love it too.
  • Go to a concert and dance and yell and sing.
  • Visit trees in a park.
  • Rewatch the entirety of Battlestar Galactica.
  • Memorize poems by E.E. Cummings.
  • Take a creative writing class.
  • Bake.
  • Pet a pet.
  • Parle français avec mes parents.
  • Go vintage shopping.
  • Spend an hour in a bookstore. A real bookstore. One that smells like books and doesn't sell USC merchandise.
  • See the ocean.
  • Smell the ocean.
  • High five Luke Watkins so hard it stings and my hand turns red.
  • Talk politics with Rachel Viele.
  • Make my lunch and pack it in a brown paper bag.
  • Eat my lunch on a patch of grass.
  • Go to IHOP with my grandparents.
  • Go to Target and Trader Joe's once a week.
  • Write secret notes.
  • Laugh so hard I start crying and can't breathe.
  • Be Maja Palmquist's twin.
  • Cry because something is far too adorable and precious for words.
  • Read something besides text books and post-apocalyptic novels (for Environmental Issues).
  • Listen to This Week in Tech and watch Diggnation.
  • Be in a house.
  • Get a protein style burger and a Neapolitan shake at In-N-Out.
  • Complain about communism with people who understand.
  • Do ridiculous and embarrassing things and not care.
  • Decorate a binder.
  • Wear a bandana.
  • Make a stencil and spray paint it on something.
  • Spend an entire day at Ikea.
  • Paint my nails blue.
  • Be put to shame by Adriana Campoy's brilliance.
  • Go camping with Haley Johnson.
  • Call people "fancy" and "classy".
  • People watch.
  • Talk about Gossip Girl with Hugo Chang!
  • Get up at six in the morning, just for kicks.
  • Live without drama.
  • Listen to Paris Gray talk about all the places she wants to visit.
  • Buy a taco from a roach coach.
  • Remember to breathe.
  • Watch Transformers G1.
  • Make a daisy chain.
  • Talk about the books I am in love with.
  • Tell someone why cuttlefish are the most amazing creatures on the planet ever.
  • Take snapshots of everyone and everything.
  • Say silly, silly things like "I love you like pandas love bamboo".
  • Cry because I'm happy. So infinitely happy.
sep 29 2008 ∞
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