• "Buffy" and "Baywatch"
• The Dirty Projectors and The New Pornographers
• Joyce Carol Oates and Joan Didion

• "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W.B. Yeats
• "Poema Siete" by Pablo Neruda (from Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Cancion Desesperada)
• "Young Sea" by Carl Sandburg
• "Sonnet 23" by William Shakespeare
• This excerpt from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman

"Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?

Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?

Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems"

• Peru
• Nepal
• Spain
• New Zealand
• NEW MEXICO (it's happening...)
• Scotland (it's also happening!)
• Chicago
• Costa Rica
• Galapagos Islands
• China
• Egypt
• Morocco
• Prague
• Portland
• Patagonia, Argentina
• Lake Titicaca, Bolivia (my mother visited!)
• the American South (again, my mother!)
• French Riviera
• Paterno, Sicily
• India

I love the random list topics this site generates... Though I'm not really sure what constitutes obscure...

• Gabriel Kahane (LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE)
• Next to Normal!!! (not really obscure, but...)
• Bollywood music
• Babasonicos (Spanish techno ftw)
• Dark Chords on a Big Guitar, Joan Baez's newest album
• French alternative (Coeur de pirate, Coralie Clement, etc.)
• Spanish alternative (Denver, Manu Chao, Pilar Diaz, etc.)
• Quetzal
• CHEESY Spanish music ("No Seas Cobarde," Julieta Venegas, "Corazon Salvaje", etc.)
• Bright Star soundtrack <3
• Brother Bear soundtrack

• above-the-knee black leather boots
• ballet-pink flats
• monokini
• maxi dress
• strapless dresses...
• ball gown
• v-neck tee
• t-shirts in general
• huge earrings
• large scarf + fitted coat
• pullover cardigan
• form-fitting skirt
• wide headband
• bandage dress
• heels

• The New York Times
• Tea
• South Coast Repertory
• Wheat bread
• Email
• Facebook
• Lavender (color, flower, scent)
• Leaves in fall
• Philosophizing
• Worrying
• Dried tart cherries
• Tote bags
• Preserving memories
• Almost-spring
• Flavored Perrier in individual size bottles
• William James

Attending

• Harvard!

Acceptances

• Bowdoin
• Macalester
• Carleton
• Pomona
• Middlebury
• Yale
• Harvard

Rejections

• Swarthmore
• Brown

Waitlists

• Wesleyan
• Amherst

• I didn't have any crushes until middle school... But in elementary school, I thought I was abnormal, so I tried to force myself to have crushes. Just like I tried to force myself to be homesick at sleep-away camp. Ah, childhood.

• running
• singing
• dancing
• exercising
• grace
• humility
• having a sense of direction
• making decisions
• not procrastinating
• making conversation
• keeping rhythm
• doing things quickly
• understanding/employing humor
• cooking
• not worrying
• relaxing
• keeping my room clean
• maintaining health and sanity

• certainty
• being okay with uncertainty
• friendship
• love
• meaning
• a warm yet modern and artistic house
• a job with the flexibility and salary to support the people I love
• a job that doesn't exacerbate my anxiety
• finding out what I enjoy and am good at (and not worrying about what isn't right)
• good theater nearby
• time to read all the books and magazines I've been meaning to
• a cat
• inner peace
• improvement in writing
• improvement in yoga
• improvement in social skills
• travel all over the world
• never-ending learning

• lavender
• black and pink
• coral
• blush (ballet pink)
• turquoise and violet
• sherbert pink and turquoise
• black and gold
• green, rose, and gold
• cream, gray, and pale blue

Thursday, May 12

• Ate part of a chocolate bunny and a whole chocolate covered marshmellow

Friday, May 13

• Read four treasured childhood picture books: "The King, the Mice and the Cheese," "Moonflute," "Have You Seen Trees?", "Sleep Book"

Saturday, May 14

• Ate dessert for breakfast! A (rather large) mango mousse and chocolate cake tart topped with fruit.

Sunday, May 15

• Had my annual atypical birthday party that my mother is pleasantly surprised to find works! Tore up paper into little pieces and talked to them (apparently I did this in preschool). Went to bed before 10...

• “I chose and my world was shaken/ So what?/ The choice may have been mistaken/ The choosing was not/ You have to move on.” - Stephen Sondheim, "Sunday in the Park with George"
• “Into the woods you have to go… But everything you learn there / Will help when you return there.” - Stephen Sondheim, "Into the Woods"
• "Nice is different than good." - Stephen Sondheim, "Into the Woods" (notice a trend?)
• “Of course it’s hard. It’s supposed to be hard. If it weren’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” -"A League of Their Own"
• "When you take it out, put it away."
• "Work first, fun second."
• "Do the hard work it takes to change."
• "Isolate and marginalize." (advice for ho...

• Very very young: cake with family = cake all over my face.
• Preschool: Both at the Pony Rides. And my babysitter used to take me to the park, where babysitters would throw parties for their young charges as an excuse to eat cake and sing the Spanish birthday song and chat. Even though I knew none of the other kids, I remember appreciating the cake!
• Kindergarten: The Creature Teacher! Brought snakes, chinchillas, other fun animals to the park (Side note: Last coed party!)
• First Grade: Atlantis Park. SOOOO fun! Like a giant playground all ocean-themed.
• Second Grade: The Kellog House. We drove everyone there in a huge van we rented, and I was annoyed that everyone wanted to listen to Radio Disney when I wanted KRTH 101! The Kellog House is cool too - Vi...

#1 requirement: blue skies and sunshine. Temperature may vary.

• Wake up at 7am after falling asleep at 10pm the night before
• Don slippers and fuzzy robe!
• Make fancy herbal tea
• Curl up in the chair by the window, where the light streams in mottled between the tree branches
• Read the NY Times. And the NY Times magazine. And the NY Times Book Review
• Around 10am, eat omelets with the family while we talk and listen to Breakfast with the Beatles
• Take a shower (Late morning showers are the best!)
• Meet up with friends and go to a museum, preferably somewhere where the views are stunning and the architecture and gardens gorgeous
• Have a late lunch at the museum cafe (gou...

• nytimes.com (best in the whole world! :) )
• jezebel.com (...this is embarrassing)
• facebook.com (this too)
• collegehumor.com (aaaaand possibly this too)
• apps.nccd.cdc.gov/dnparecipe/recipesearch.aspx (Yay, fruits and veggies! Tasty too.)
• scr.org (<3)
• latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-playwrights-sg,0,2098795.storygallery (Playwrights on Writing series - so good!)
• amazon.com (free two-day shipping = love)
• nordstrom.com (virtual window-shopping...)
• forever21.com (and again...)

Also, annoyed by ads on websites? This one's great too!