- Never apologize simply for taking up space (example when passing someone else in doorway) 
 
    - always smile and ask "how are you?" when you see anyone you know, especially those you are not so fond of 
 
    - Be polished, positive, and unrevealing in everything but your creative work 
 
    - let your achievements stand alone 
 
   
            aug 8 2013 ∞  aug 9 2013 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - Do unto others as I would have them do to me 
 
    - Be compassionate: seek to understand, not to judge 
 
    - Understand that the world is vast, with many different lived experiences: my own views and values arose of my unique and narrow experience, and therefor cannot possibly be projected onto, forced upon, or expected of others whose path I have not walked 
 
   
            jun 27 2013 ∞  jul 8 2013 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - callipygian- having perfectly proportioned buttocks 
 
    - cachinnate- to laugh loudly, immodestly, resoundingly, compulsively 
 
    - chthonic- of or pertaining to the underworld and its deities and spirits; dark, primitive, mysterious, infernal 
 
    - compunction- pang of doubt or guilt 
 
    - formication- a tactile hallucination that things are crawling on or under ones skin 
 
    - algedonic- characterized by or relating to pain especially as associated with pleasure 
 
   
            sep 5 2012 ∞  jan 6 2013 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - The Diner Journal 
 
    - Swallow Magazine 
 
    - The Art of Eating 
 
    - Condiment Magazine 
 
    - Gourmet 
 
    - Kinfolk Magazine 
 
    - New York Food Book Fair 
 
    - Lucky Peach food & literary journal 
 
    - Whole Larder Love by Rohan Anderson 
 
    - College & Cook 
 
    - Smitten Kitchen cookbook 
 
   
            apr 18 2012 ∞  dec 25 2013 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - Breakfast at Tiffany's 
 
    - The Labrynth 
 
    - Blue Velvet 
 
    - I like killing flies 
 
   
            feb 1 2012 ∞  aug 10 2013 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - to write a novel 
 
    - to be an actress in a film 
 
    - to be the editor of a feminist fashion/life magazine 
 
    - to be very very skinny 
 
    - to work at babeland 
 
    - to play Maureen in RENT 
 
    - open an english language bookstore/coffee shop/art gallery/ performance space in a spanish-speaking city 
 
   
            sep 9 2011 ∞  oct 30 2011 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - Rome, Italy (eat. dance. see art. speak.) 
 
    - Israel (taglit. go to markets. jerusalem.) 
 
    - New Zealand (backpack. swim.) 
 
    - San Juan, PR (family ties.) 
 
    - Bogota, Colombia (family ties) 
 
    - Australia (see a baobob tree.) 
 
    - California (hug a redwood.) 
 
    - Cypress Gardens in North Carolina 
 
   
            aug 29 2011 ∞  jun 18 2012 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - lolita-love the titles/photographs 
 
    - party tights 
 
    - pneumonia white 
 
    - luxyland-perfection. 
 
    - fashion for writers 
 
    - wasted rita 
 
    - doorknockers 
 
    - free people blog- great DIY apartment decoration ideas 
 
    - echo india 
 
    - womanhouse zine 
 
    - froufrouu.com 
 
    - wolves and bucks 
 
    - gotagirlcrush.com 
 
    - closetvisit.com 
 
    - a girl named hermia 
 
    - this is naive 
 
    - allison eats 
 
    - amyrosespiegel.com 
 
    - feelslikewhitelightning.com 
 
    - sousstyle.com 
 
   
              aug 29 2011 ∞  jul 20 2013 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - glasses 
 
    - suspenders 
 
    - Nigella Lawson's The Domestic Goddess 
 
    - gold nike high top sneakers 
 
    - purple lipstick 
 
    - leather pants 
 
    - leather skirt 
 
    - chunky gold hoops 
 
    - white button up 
 
    - slips for layering 
 
    - funky necklaces 
 
   
            aug 29 2011 ∞  nov 13 2011 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
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    - outdoor dinners with friends 
 
    - making holiday traditions 
 
    - hostessing dinners, parties, holidays 
 
    - planning halloween costumes for my children 
 
    - wedding 
 
   
            aug 19 2013 ∞  aug 19 2013 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - f.lux- adjusted screen brightness at night for more natural lighting conducive to sleep 
 
    - self control- allows you to temporarily block distracting web pages when you need to get shit done 
 
    - hidden facebook- google chrome extension that blocks facebook's ability to show others when you have read their messages 
 
   
            jun 30 2013 ∞  jun 30 2013 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - The Magus  John Fowles 
 
    - A Perfect Day for Bananafish  J.D. Salinger 
 
    - Lavender and Want  Caitlyn Byrne 
 
    - The Joy of Writing Sex  Elizabeth Benedict 
 
    - Less Than Zero  Brett Easton Ellis 
 
    - Mrs. Dalloway  Virginia Woolf 
 
    - The Hours  Michael Cunningham 
 
    - The Virgin Suicides  Jeffrey Eugenides 
 
   
            jan 4 2013 ∞  jul 8 2013 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - Madonna- Edvard Munch 
 
    - Le Due Frida- Frida Kahlo 
 
    - The Embrace- Schiele 
 
    - The Malicious- Schiele 
 
    - The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters- Goya 
 
    - The Minotaur- Salvador Dali 
 
    - Shirley Temple- Salvador Dali 
 
    - Bond of Union- M.C. Escher 
 
    - Waves- Sara Rossberg 
 
   
            sep 5 2012 ∞  sep 5 2012 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - lingerie 
 
    - stationary 
 
    - blank notebooks 
 
    - earrings 
 
    - pretty mugs 
 
   
            jun 3 2012 ∞  jun 3 2012 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - bigbigbigthings.com 
 
    - aim is to bring people together making, seeing, doing everything is sold with this aim,
      
        - ex stationary to write a letter to someone, 
 
        - cupcakes to brighten someone's day, 
 
        - wall of things to do in the community, 
 
        - zines 
 
        - common space 
 
        - can buy for self with self care angle 
 
       
  
    - this goal combined with the handmade/local artists, photography, humanizes and personalizes retail experience 
 
    - really cool decor 
 
    - to find out something 
 
    - live music 
 
    - space to read and write 
 
    - coffee 
 
    - really cool fashion magazines 
 
   
              nov 1 2011 ∞  may 13 2012 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - speak spanish, french, italian 
 
    - learn to bake 
 
    - learn to sew 
 
    - send handwritten letters 
 
    - take photographs, learn to use digital camera well 
 
    - keep journaling 
 
    - wake up in the early morning 
 
    - keep things clean and organized 
 
    - stop procrastinating 
 
    - make mix cds, baked goods, handmade books, personal zines for other people 
 
    - accept people's limits 
 
    - accept things as they are 
 
    - know when to walk away 
 
    - press flowers into books 
 
    - play with baby gorillas 
 
    - learn to knit 
 
    - go back to Tulgey Wood or to Camp Zeno 
 
    - be outside in beauty 
 
   
            aug 29 2011 ∞  sep 7 2011 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - The General In His Labryinth  Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
 
    - One Hundred Years Of Solitude  Gabriel Garcia 
 
    - The House Of The Spirits  Isabel Allende 
 
    - Lolita  Vladimir Nabocov 
 
    - The Virgin Suicides  Jeffery Eugenides 
 
    - Boricua  Roberto Santiago 
 
    - Poetry of Sylvia Plath  Sylvia Plath 
 
    - The Unbearable Lightness of Being  Milan Kundera 
 
    - The Lord of The Rings  J.R.R. Tolkein 
 
    - The Motorcycle Diaries  Che Guevara 
 
    - The Dialectic of Sex  Shulamith Firestone 
 
    - Intercourse  Andrea Dworkin 
 
    - The Girl Project  Kate Engelbrech 
 
    - 101 Things I learned in Culinary School  Luis Eguares and Matthew Frederick 
 
    - Mother Night  Kurt Vonnegut 
 
    - The Edible Woman 
 
    - Things Fall Apart  Chinua Achebe 
 
    - Turn of Mind  Alice LaPlante 
 
    - tiny beautiful things  Cheryl Strayed 
 
    - How to be an explorer of the world  Keri Smith 
 
    - Steal like an Artist  Austin Kleon 
 
   
              aug 29 2011 ∞  jun 6 2013 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
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    - painted nails 
 
    - painted toes 
 
    - flowers on bedside table 
 
    - sleepy kisses 
 
    - long meals 
 
    - completing a workout 
 
    - sore muscles after exercise 
 
    - compliments 
 
   
            jul 8 2013 ∞  jul 9 2013 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - Make a summer reading list and read through it 
 
    - Write every single day 
 
    - Ultimate Fit and yoga 
 
    - Blog 
 
    - Cook through Budget Bytes 
 
    - 1200 calories/ day 
 
    - Become a morning person 
 
    - Make video montages 
 
    - Make $ 
 
   
            may 10 2013 ∞  jun 18 2013 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - struggles with "dark side" 
 
    - sex makes her feel whole, balances 
 
    - physically splits with "dark side" during sleep paralysis, is watched/confronted by her 
 
    - multiple personality disorder/borderline personality disorder 
 
    - whore of babylon, mythical evil females 
 
    - salem witch trials 
 
    - FGM 
 
    - caterpillars/butterflies-ate live caterpillars in a bowl when she was young 
 
    - wants to be saved 
 
    - should be a romance 
 
    - sex makes her feel whole, completely submissive as a way to feel no responsibility for dark side, "daddy" 
 
   
            oct 20 2011 ∞  oct 22 2011 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - magical realism 
 
    - altering memory and reality by lying, limits of that 
 
    - dreams 
 
    - family, generations, destiny 
 
    - non possessive love 
 
    - the power of sex 
 
    - loving the whole vs loving parts 
 
    - dichotomies in personalities 
 
    - evil vs mental illness 
 
    - anxiety 
 
    - becoming strangers 
 
    - stopping time 
 
    - the eternal movement of time 
 
    - escaping 
 
    - objectifying/simplifying people 
 
    - two people doing the same thing together at the same time, having completely different experiences 
 
    - personal voice/ striving to express identity on own terms 
 
   
            aug 29 2011 ∞  sep 2 2011 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
                           
         
 
  
          
  
    - getting to know someone new 
 
    - being outside somewhere beautiful 
 
    - new photographs 
 
    - delicious meals 
 
    - pretty outfits 
 
    - sex 
 
    - good books 
 
    - long conversations 
 
    - walking alone 
 
    - laughing 
 
    - making things 
 
    - making things for other people 
 
    - vivid dreams 
 
    - seeing monkeys 
 
    - starry nights 
 
    - snowy woods 
 
    - feminist activism 
 
   
            aug 29 2011 ∞  sep 1 2011 + 
        
           
      
 
   
   
  
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