• animal collective
• beach house
• little dragon
• jorge ben
• amy winehouse
• new order
• brazilian girls
• air
• lady gaga
• broken social scene
• daft punk
• devendra banhart
• eluvium
• cocteau twins
• best coast
• fleet foxes
• tv on the radio
• gorillaz
• lemon jelly
• m.i.a.
• musette

• when we were walking home from seven lions and you gave me your sweatshirt because i was cold
• smoking hookah on my roof and eating peaches and looking at the stars
• finding blackberries in california when we stopped to get gas in that tiny little town
• getting stoned out of our minds and watching adventure time and feeling like we were tripping
• watching really funny horror movies, like in the Haunting of Connecticut 2 when the girl threw up cockroaches and maggots
• looking at the snakes in the pet store in Eureka and then going out for Hawaiian food
• talking to Rafael at the stoplight on Highway 1
• when we went to pick n slave and we both jumped on the shopping cart and careened ...

strengths

• my creativity/imagination/visual artistry
• my spontaneity and willingness to try new things
• my positive outlook and ability to laugh at myself
• my ability to remain calm
• my vitality and storytelling abilities
• my sense of humor

weaknesses

• i'm extremely scatterbrained
• i have very poor situational awareness
• i lose track of pretty much everything
• i always act on impulse (sometimes it's a good thing)
• i'm terrible at standing up for myself
• i'm really bad at socializing in groups
• i'm shy

• sitting on the terrace at night, listening to live music and watching fireworks and tripping on acid
• smoking a joint in the forest at dusk and listening to the crickets and staring at the trees until they became ripply
• Grace from my environmental discussion giving me a cucumber/tomato fruit
• walking very far down the commuter path with Corinne when I needed someone to talk to
• playing pictionary in Corinne's apartment
• that party at Bri's house where we all got drunk and high and smoked hookah on the porch, and Chris kissed me (and more...)
• people remembering me when they saw me cashiering at Gordon
• being really blazed at work and being very flirtatious with my customers

• Kollektiv Turmstrasse / Tristesse
• Fantasy / DyE
• Second Song / TV On The Radio
• Seven Nation Army / White Stripes
• Zodiac Shit / Flying Lotus
• Dinosaurs / 16bit
• Sing Sang Sung / Air
• Parabola / Tool
• Witchcraft / Wildfox Couture
• About You / XXYYXX
• Closer / Nine Inch Nails
• My Girls / Animal Collective
• Windowlicker / Aphex Twin
• Plains Milky Way / Milky Way Timelapse
• Lex/Planet Earth / Ratatat
• Eyesdown (Machinedrum Remix) / Bonobo
• The Music Scene / Blockhead
• Vicarious / Tool

• Local Natives
• Paul McCartney
• Wilco
• Animal Collective
• Rock n' Roll Superjam
• Tame Impala
• The National
• Björk
• The Lumineers
• Beach House
• Tallest Man On Earth
• Milo Greene
• Empire of the Sun
• Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers

• the sweet scents of crab apple blossoms and lilacs
• hens clucking around the nature center
• a painted turtle in the small pond
• the soft, green grass
• sourdough bread
• glowing embers and bonfire smoke and yellow flames
• a red moon over sussex
• smoking hash on the bridge
• rushing down holly lane on a bicycle at full speed
• birds chirping all day long

• a full moon
• an untimely winter chill
• indifferent, overcast sky
• magenta camelias and yellow daffodils - sad and dull in the grey afternoon
• naked trees
• cardinals and finches chirping happily
• the path in the woods that led to sweeten creek drive
• giant colored easter eggs strewn about the lawn of the big white house on the corner
• talking with Betty, aged 102 - her parents were Jews who came from Russia - her dad from Kiev, her mom from somewhere that is now Turkey. She talked about how she abhorred orthodox Jews, how close minded she thought they were - not being allowed to look at women and all that. She had a sharp mind to be sure, but she was just about deaf, so it was extremely hard to ta...

• eating my first salteña
• playing volleyball at the womens' prison
• when Bolivia scored against Peru
• when Mike and Andrew lit their guitars on fire and smashed them
• wild strawberries on the choro trail
• arroz con leche
• mud fight on the Beni
• clubbing in Cusco and watching everyone get down, especially Isaac
• fruit smoothies at el mercado central
• cliff jumping at the waterfall
• hot springs
• nights at the program house
• the sound of the waves at Isla del Sol
• the freezing sunrise over Lake Titicaca
• getting hypothermia in the Cordilleras and driving through a rainstorm to Hostal Austria
• café Alexander
• getting to the top of that little mountai...

• The Lord of the Rings (all of them)
• Pride and Prejudice (2005)
• Spirited Away
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Howl's Moving Castle
• O Brother Where Are Thou?
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Death at a Funeral
• Amy
• Mary & Max
• Donnie Darko
• Peter Pan
• The Aristocats
• La Vita È Bella
• Forrest Gump
• Das Boot
• The Princess Bride
• Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
• Sweeney Todd
• The Devil Wears Prada

• cream di cioccolato cupcakes at the frosting shoppe
• descending into metro stations (secret lair/secret abyss)
• jogging from the capitol to the lincoln memorial and back
• lying in the grass on the capitol lawn
• buying ice cream from the ice cream truck
• the botanic garden - cacti and ferns and smelling all the scent samples (favorites were tarragon, bay leaf, vanilla, cinnamon, sassafras, and balsam pine)
• japanese scrolls: 'the colorful realm of living beings' by Ito Jakuchu at the National Gallery
• wildlife photographer of the year exhibit at Natural History (favorites were spoonbills, leopard, polar bear, fox, and blue shark)
• Native American museum - reading children...

• bare feet in the grass
• nighttime crickets
• that bonfire smell in the air
• bird symphonies at dawn
• soft patches of shade in sun drenched grass
• mud between toes
• hearing the ice cream truck
• sticky afternoons and feet in cool creek water
• overgrown trees blowing in the wind
• thunderstorm air
• caterpillars and snails in the garden
• ripe peaches in the sun
• cool glasses of lemonade
• fog in the morning after a rainy night
• night noises (tree frog, cicadas, and owls)
• leafy tree branches silhouetted by moonlight
• mushrooms and dandelions

• The Funeral (Band of Horses) - in a cabin in the Sierra Nevada mountains, looking longingly out the window of a cozy bedroom. At the time, I was reading The Singer of All Songs.
• Into the West (Annie Lennox) - in my grandmother's house in the woods. It was Christmastime. I was listening to the song on my CD player over and over again while eating curiously strong tangerine Altoids. All my cousins were there.
• Spaceman (The Killers) - We had just said our tearful goodbyes to the Thai exchange students whom we loved so much. We were driving east and I kept turning around to watch the beautiful sunset, thinking of my Thai friends.
• Closer (Nine Inch Nails) - Driving home from Spring Green, the beautiful rural town where we stayed with our friends for a weekend. We had gone hiking, canoeing in ...

• albatrosses
• aquariums
• autumn scents
• Baikal seals
• barbecue and coleslaw
• bluebells
• crickets
• dancing
• darkness
• deserts
• dogwoods
• dusk
• eggs
• English gardens
• English history
• fairy tales and legends
• fantasy
• forests
• French pastries
• fruit bats and flying foxes
• Gaspard Ulliel

• go berry-picking
• buy some watercolor paints and paintbrushes and start making art again
• sleep outside
• learn something interesting almost every day
• READ, read a lot
• go horseback riding
• go skinny dipping
• write poems
• wear hippie skirts and crop tops
• run all the time

• the countryside in general
• rolling green hills and gently sloping pastureland
• bluebell forests
• wisteria
• the lovely smelling flowers that bloom in the springtime
• the narrow, winding roads
• the thatched cottages
• antiquity of everything
• Stonehenge and the sheep that surround it
• the lovely parks in London and the myriad species of ducks and geese and swans
• the old cathedrals
• the fascinating history of the castles and cathedrals
• the gardens at Windsor Castle
• the charismatic Beefeaters at the Tower of London
• the real artefacts on display at the Cast...

• the smell of lilacs
• crocuses
• robin songs and sparrow songs
• yellow daffodils
• an earlier sunrise
• bluebell forests
• green grass
• bunnies hopping about
• dandelions and clovers
• gentle rain
• growing gardens
• spiderwebs
• wisteria
• pale dresses and daisy crowns
• tea parties
• lace and satin (in rose and champagne colors)
• rainboots
• cherry blossoms
• heart shaped sunglasses
• doll-faced girls

• pound cake
• a bowl of fresh summer berries
• ripe peaches and nectarines
• chocolate coconut candy bars
• broiled asparagus
• melted cheese and honey on toast
• pancakes and french toast with hot maple syrup (and strawberries)
• sweet breakfast bread (pumpkin, banana, lemon..)
• homemade cinnamon rolls
• tomato bisque soup
• poached eggs and bacon
• spinach, tomatoes, hard boiled egg, salt, pepper and mayonnaise on thick slices of bread
• spinach quiche
• buttermilk bread

• "To die will be an awfully big adventure." (J.M. Barrie)
• "Finishing a book is bittersweet. You spend days getting to know the characters. Learning their nuances, their faults, their loves, their lives. They become your friends, acquaintances, enemies. And after the story ends, you miss them. You look for them in your own life, wonder where they’ve gone, you forget that they aren’t real. You fall in love with the hero and dream of him at night. The strange girl becomes your best friend. Their heartaches become your heartaches. You laugh when they laugh. And cry when they die. Eventually you realise they aren’t a part of your world, you were just briefly visiting theirs." (Whimsical Enlightenment)
• "And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in t...

• Art and drawing
• Writing stories
• Making up imaginary countries and animals
• Animals
• Nature and exploring
• The Ocean and all its creatures
• Other countries and cultures
• Learning new languages
• Magic, lore, myths, and fairytales
• History (cultural, not political)
• England - from Celtic to Medieval to Victorian

• country white bread
• an assortment of cheeses
• huckleberry jam
• wildflower honey
• several ripe apples
• a pail of wild berries
• sweet tea and lemonade
• a blackberry tart
• fluffy scones
• peanut butter and bananas
• watermelon and honeydew

• Atlantic
  • looking for seashells
  • building sand castles
  • wading in the surf
  • watching the pelicans and gulls
  • looking for ghost crabs under the moonlight
  • watching the moon and make a wish
  • sitting on the deck and listen to the waves
  • going inland to see the egrets that live in the marshes
  • finding horseshoe crabs and pufferfish that have washed up onto shore
  • going to the fishing pier to see the catch of the day
  • flounder gigging in the sound at nighttime
  • going to the sound to see the lighthouses...

• visit Iceland
• learn a Celtic language (Irish, Welsh, Gaelic...)
• climb a mountain
• grow a rose garden
• see an albatross in the wild
• go to sea on a tall ship
• fall in love
• live in a little house by the sea
• go scuba diving in Australia
• live abroad
• see the Northern Lights
• experience the midnight sun
• have a campfire circle in the desert

• deer
• porcupine
• rabbit
• whale
• sea otter
• wolf
• albatross
• raven
• horse
• mountain lion
• shark
• puffin
• bear (black, grizzly, and polar)
• fox (red and arctic)
• owl
• duck
• orca
• narwhal
• pelican
• musk ox
• buffalo

• pan flute music
• celtic lore
• mushrooms and fungi
• wild herb lore
• floriography
• medieval Italy
• incense and candles
• astronomy
• geology
• trolls and fairy rings
• Norse and Greek mythology
• botany - plants and flowers and trees
• seafaring
• woodland creatures
• marine animals
• seabirds

• velvet dresses
• satin sheets
• purring cats
• soft lips
• cold hands
• a mug of hot tea or cider
• eyelashes
• earlobes
• kitten noses
• seashells
• beautiful hair
• my favourite stuffed animal
• feathers
• pearl necklaces
• baby bunnies
• horse noses
• kitty paws

• gran's house in the woods
  • the footpaths along the creek
  • building forts in the trees
  • the smell of pine trees
  • getting muddy in the creek and looking for frogs and fish
  • going to bed on christmas eve and waking up at 2 to peek at the presents
  • the ceiling fans going round and round
  • feeding the goats
  • picking blackberries
  • running down the long hallway
  • venturing into the basement and smelling the mustiness
  • grandpa's workshop
  • the big spiders in the basement
  • the crunch of gravel as we drove along the road
  • the sunroom and all the feathers, rocks, ...

• Magnificent - U2
• She's Got You High - Mumm Ra
• Yes - Coldplay
• Sleepy Maggie - Ashley MacIssaac
• So Happy I Could Die - Lady Gaga
• Ambitions - Donkeyboy
• One Headlight - The Wallflowers
• The Captain and the Hourglass - Laura Marling
• American Cowboy - Jada
• Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn and John
• X & Y - Coldplay
• In Tango - Sharleen Spiteri
• Houses Of Healing - Howard Shore
• 10 Dollar - M.I.A.
• Sugar Mouse - Oh, Atoms!
• Hey Stephen - Taylor Swift
• Ticket To Ride - The Beatles
• Gobbledigook - Sigur Rós
• I Lost Her - Brighten
• Everything's Just Wonderful - Lily Allen

• under an overgrown peach tree in the flower field
• wading in the ocean at night
• sitting on a footbridge on a cloudy day
• on a beautiful walk in the park in autumn
• in the garden
• on top of the canyon at sunrise
• in a cosy sitting room drinking tea and eating scones
• in a theater, watching a wonderful Shakespeare play
• in the mountains, seeing the fog roll in

• disposable camera
• sunscreen
• cash
• earplugs
• portable phone charger / car charger
• rainboots and rain jacket
• warm layers
• shoes you don't care about
• tent / tarp / rain fly / stakes
• cooler with ice
• beer
• snacks - peanut butter, pre-made sandwiches, granola bars, carrot sticks, fruit
• pashmina or shawl
• cigarettes / lighters
• sun hat / visor / sunglasses
• sleeping bag / sleeping mat / pillow
• reusable water bottle
• fold-up chairs
• shade tent
• tapestries to block out sun

• weed
• hash
• mushrooms
• MDMA
• MDA
• LSD
• DMT
• 2C-B
• speed
• cocaine
• ketamine
• xanax
• adderall
• vicodin
• vyvanse
• nitrous oxide

• pumpkin bread
• lemon poppyseed bread with icing
• campfire mocha
• phish food ice cream
• double stuf oreos
• peach pie
• mangoes
• lasagna
• carrots with peanut butter
• santa fe smoked turkey wrap
• hazelnut butter
• peaches

• blackberry picking
• camping for 28 days straight
• candyflipping
• videotaping myself rolling down a hill
• thunderstorms
• road tripping
• music festival vibes
• bartending at the headliner stage
• gettin turnt at the tiki bar with my coworkers
• shooting stars and satellites up north
• building two hiking trails
• using a sledge hammer
• using power tools
• working up on the roof all day
• campfires and s'mores
• smoking bud with my leaders on a golf green and going for a night hike
• hacky sack, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, and pool
• hostel bonnaroo

• baking bread
• cat food
• humidity and rain
• musty, humid basement
• laundry detergent
• thunderstorm air
• marshland

• cross country practice
• reffing soccer at Mount Mary
• driving to Tosa, listening to my favorite music
• riding my bike all over town as the sun started to set
• baking a new dessert recipe almost every day
• eating homemade pizza on the patio on summer evenings
• going out running at 11pm on sticky nights when the crickets were singing
• evening walks in July
• rain at track meets
• smoking weed in the park
• carbo crams
• drawing chalk cities on the driveway
• playing pokemon on my brother's gameboy
• building cushion forts
• sliding down the basement stairs on my stomach

• Yolandi Vi$$er
• Mr. Rogers
• Gwen Stefani
• Ezra Miller
• Liv Tyler
• Bill Nye
• Jeanie Arthurs
• Gran
• Big G
• Tatiana
• Regina

• blobfish
• yeti crab
• star nosed mole
• pink fairy armadillo
• proboscis monkey
• sea dragon
• coconut crab
• aye-aye
• platypus
• tube nosed fruit bat
• tarsier
• Dumbo octopus
• narwhal
• sun bear

• I love fried eggs with extremely runny yolks
• I hate almond flavored desserts
• lilacs and honeysuckle are my favorite spring flowers
• I'm a cat person through and through
• I really like knives and blood
• I love Lord of the Rings, and everything else by Tolkien
• I'm an anglophile
• I deplore waking up after 10am
• I love learning other languages
• I'm obsessed with birds, plants, and animals
• I have a few morbid fascinations
• I never brush my hair
• Autumn is my favorite season
• I like my coffee black, and my tea as well

• flourless chocolate fudge cake
• barbecue pork and coleslaw and corn on the cob
• lemon poppyseed bread with icing
• soft boiled eggs
• french baguette with tomato, basil, and mozzarella cheese
• asparagus with lemon
• rhubarb pie with vanilla ice cream
• honeyed ricotta and fig tart
• strawberry jam on fluffy bread
• blackberry tart

• Jane Eyre
• Death at a Funeral
• Bright Star
• National Geographic: Witchcraft Myths and Legends
• National Geographic: Iceland River Challenge
• National Geographic: Australia's Improbable Animals
• National Geographic: Amazing Caves
• National Geographic: The Secret Life of Cats
• National Geographic: Lord of the Rings

• Bright Star
• Submarine
• Wilde
• Labyrinth
• The Red Shoes
• The Little Princess
• Cracks
• Human Traffic
• Much Ado About Nothing
• The Neverending Story
• Princess Mononoke

• Lord of the Rings
• Pride & Prejudice
• Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
• Sweeney Todd
• Across the Universe
• Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Fantasia
• Amélie

• Aragorn
• Calvin O'Keefe
• Faramir
• Fred Weasley
• Howl
• Jack Sparrow
• Legolas
• Mr. Darcy
• Patrick Verona
• Peter Pan
• Rudy
• Severus Snape
• Sirius Black
• Sweeney Todd

• Little Creek Farm and its forests
• Point Lobos
• Saddle Road
• 124 Grafton Street
• North Carolina mountains and rhododendron thickets
• The Silvers' Cottage on the beach
• The Briscoes' cottage on the sound
• The California desert
• Cabin in the Sierra Nevadas
• The Utah canyonlands
• Notre Dame in Paris
• The English countryside
• Home

• James Franco
• Viggo Mortensen
• Norman Reedus
• David Tennant
• Dave Franco
• Orlando Bloom (since I was nine)
• Mads Mikkelsen
• Gaspard Ulliel
• Francisco Lachowski
• Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
• James McAvoy (especially in Becoming Jane)
• Chris Martin
• Christian Bale
• Leonard Whiting
• George Harrison
• David Villa
• Iker Casillas
• Johnny Depp

• One Time Too Many - Phoenix
• The Garden That You Planted - Sea Wolf
• Lighting Candles - The Weepies
• Wild West - Gregory and the Hawk
• Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People
• Big Jet Plane - Angus & Julia Stone
• Gila - Beach House
• Rainy Day - Coldplay
• Intermission - Coeur de Pirate
• Swallow It - Brandon Flowers
• Sugar Mouse - Oh, Atoms!
• I Summon You - Spoon
• One Headlight - The Wallflowers
• Gotta Have You - The Weepies

• There are approximately 350 different species of known sharks.
• Sharks have been around for about 400 million years - long before dinosaurs even existed
• Sharks can hear a fish swimming over one mile away, and can smell one drop of blood in a million drops of water.
• A large meal may last a shark up to three months without it having to eat again.
• A shark may lose and grow up to 30,000 teeth in its lifetime.
• Two-thirds of the brain of a shark is dedicated to its sense of smell.
• Oil in the liver is what keeps the shark from sinking as its density is lower than that of the surrounding water.
• The Megalodon, believed to have lived between 25 and 1.6 million years ago, is speculated to have been as large as 30 meters long.

• incense
• summer crickets
• warm summer breezes through open windows
• soft music
• a quiet house
• sleepiness

• live a secluded little cottage in the woods
• have the most beautiful flower garden
• grow my own vegetables
• take walks every morning and every afternoon
• be healthy and happy
• have bookshelves filled with wonderful books
• do yoga at sunrise
• have a wonderful husband and delightful children
• sketch the plants and animals in the woods
• do all my cooking from scratch
• collect treasures from the forest, like beehives, rocks, and leaves
• have lovely friends that i'll invite for lunch once a week
• sleep in a lovely lavender nightgown
• play the piano and sing the songs my gran...

• collecting blackberries in a pail
• looking for toads
• listening for owls
• finding interesting leaves
• looking for mushrooms and fungi
• building forts of fallen tree stumps and branches
• collecting rocks
• following new paths in the woods
• watching for deer
• identifying plants and trees
• listening to the crickets at dusk
• looking for stars at night

• Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
• Lolita - Vladmir Nabakov
• Looking for Alaska - John Green
• Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
• A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Watership Down – Richard Adams
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Steve Hockensmith
• The Girl Who Played Go - Shan Sa
• The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn - Eric Ives
• The Peach Keeper - Sarah Addison Allen
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making - Catherynne M. Valente
• The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting...

• rain
• fire crackling in the fireplace
• thunderstorms
• strong gusts of wind outside while i'm warm in my bed
• owls hooting in the dark
• the ocean waves
• summer crickets
• leaf blowers on an autumn day
• kind words
• hymns sung by choirs in beautiful churches
• the ice cream truck
• grandfather clocks
• music
• alan rickman's voice
• people speaking languages I don't understand
• seals
• coyotes and wolves howling

• a candlelit meal in the dead of winter
• a dream catcher floating in the wind
• a hidden road in the mountains
• an old house covered in ivy
• an owl's call in the dusk
• baby bunnies in the garden
• birds singing in the morning sunlight
• curled up in bed with a book and a cup of tea while it's raining outside
• incense burning in the evening air
• the first star at dusk
• the morning mist and dew in the garden
• the ocean's rhythm under the moonlight
• the silence of the desert
• the smell after the rain
• the smell of homemade pumpkin bread in the oven
• the way the autumn air smells
• wild blackberries in the forest

• dancer in the dark
• a ghost story
• the departed
• daisies

• Stockholm, Sweden
• Oslo, Norway
• Sponvika, Norway
• Grans, France
• Marseille, France
• Coutures, Dordogne, France
• Perigueux, France
• Vega de Pas, Spain
• Barcelona, Spain
• Montserrat, Spain
• Costa Brava, Spain
• Segovia, Spain
• Madrid, Spain
• Richmond, England
• Edinburgh, Scotland
• Glasgow, Scotland
• Kilchoan, Scotland
• Isle of Mull, Scotland
• Isle of Skye, Scotland
• Fort William, Scotland
• Loch Ness, Scotland

• walking down King Street in Alexandria
• spontaneously going to the Chinese tea lounge in Georgetown and drinking flowering tea and feeling so zen
• feeding the gulls in Georgetown by the Potomac River
• riding the subway, together
• exploring the museums together
• the staring contest/head exploding video with Matthias
• the flight simulator with Matthias
• Morgan and me trying to find the fucking Circle Bus and running into the giant president heads
• Bryce and his leather shoe collection and leather furniture and leather iPad case and his broken bathroom door
• how Morgan and I almost broke his vintage camera artifact thing when all his books tipped over
• drinking Heineken with Bryce and watching...

• that sunny day we went to the quarry after school. it was march or april, one of those rare warm spring days. i had a stomachache. chris kendl was with us and we blindfolded him so he wouldn't know how to get there. i watched sam and aaron frolic while i sat in the sun. that day was so gorgeous, i think of it so often.
• senior year spring in general: the imaging lab with Mr. Juran, the sunshine, the photoshoots, spending time at Angie's house, watching shitty movies with Amanda and Jacii, smoking weed with Aaron and Sam.
• skipping art class with Aileen when i was in chinese school. we walked across the Marquette Campus and went to walgreens and starbucks and i got a double chocolate chip frappucino.

Bonnaroo

• Lindsay - her cool tattoos, wide smile, and gentle voice
• Carly - her skinny legs and big awesome personality
• Ken - he reminds me of a really cool turtle with his awkward but hilarious sense of humor, especially when he told us how a black lady assaulted him
• Katie - super chill and super cool, how she always had an ice pack tied to her forehead
• Jeanpaul - an extremely good and giving friend, how he talked about politics while on shrooms, how much he respected Mateetee, his life stories
• Jimmy - super nice and generous, a stellar neighbor, his attempts at 'smiling' in pictures
• Jesse - reminded me of Julien, the way he kept smacking his lips while rolling

• finding tadpoles and turtles at the nature center with amanda
• driving downtown with brian and skipping across boulders at the lakefront
• circumnavigating the fountain in bare feet
• shish kebabs and pita for dinner at a persian restaurant
• roasting marshmallows at tamur's campfire and watching the glowing embers and floaty red sparks (like fireflies)
• bike ride around wirth park and down holly lane and all around coach house
• walking along pewaukee beach and then on the backroad - doing cartwheels in the grass, attempting to climb trees, scrambling up a willow that leaned over a lake, finding its trunk drenched in glue (or something?)
• the lightning storm from across the lake
• driving 60 down a narrow windy road with ...

• it's cold and rainy
• the wind is bitter
• the heating pipes are creaking incessantly
• i lost one hundred dollars
• the skin disease on my legs still won't go away
• my acne is disgusting
• i had to turn down an internship that i really, really wanted
• we had to choose partners for a french project, and of course i'm the only one who ended up without a partner
• my knuckles are bleeding because they're so dry
• i'm a lazy fuck

Things to Like about Cell Phones:

• It's easy to contact whoever, whenever
• When you get lost, a GPS app is very helpful
• Drunk texting is fun
• When you're in really awkward social situations, it's nice to able to just play on your phone

Things to Not Like about Cell Phones:

• People are scared now to actually talk on the phone
• People are always in their 'bubble of technology' - I mean, when you're with someone in real life, you're not actually 'with' them because both of you are busy texting various other people
• Everyone is so dependent on their phones and they get mad when people don't respond within five minutes
• You can never really get away - parents a...

• persimmon
• sweet gum
• black gum (tupelo)
• fig tree
• white oak
• goldenrod
• maple
• blackberry bushes
• pin oak
• sunflowers
• zinnias
• pitcher plants
• poison ivy
• kudzu
• rosemary
• sea oats
• thyme
• mayapples
• wild ginger
• gardenia
• magnolia

• Vlada Roslyakova
• Lily Cole
• Gemma Ward
• Sasha Pivovarova
• Yuri Pleskun
• Liu Wen
• Bruna Tenorio
• Rachel Rutt
• Karlie Kloss
• Ai Tominaga
• Tanya D.
• Mariacarla Boscono
• Ollie Henderson
• Oluchi Onweagba
• Jessica Stam
• Miranda Kerr
• Anja Rubik
• Freja Beha
• Jourdan Dunn
• Daphne Groeneveld

• the smell of soap
• hanging dried herbs from wooden beams
• fog at dawn
• fine art galleries
• fairy lights
• silent barn owls in the trees
• home baked bread and honey in the afternoon
• clean white laundry in morning sunlight
• men in suits and hats
• clear skies on a summer night
• trees planted in rows along little lanes
• falling asleep to favorite songs
• getting a long awaited letter in the mail
• moths gently bumping against the window screen
• spring flowers

• azaleas
• dogwoods
• redbud
• tulips
• magnolias
• virginia bluebells
• cherry blossoms
• singing birds
• blue twilight
• lilacs

• La Vita È Bella
• Ikiru
• La Dolce Vita
• Nights of Cabiria
• Jean-Luc Godard Film
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• The Little Chinese Seamstress
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• Castle in the Sky
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Blue Velvet
• Sedmikrásky (Véra Chytilová) (1966)

• watching the sunrise from a desert canyon while Max played the pan flute
• watching the shooting stars each night as we lay side by side, in the desert sand
• experiencing the most beautiful sunset at my favorite place in the whole world, while perched on a sea rock among the crashing waves and sea lion colonies
• having a wonderful picnic and then seeing Taming of the Shrew in the beautiful outdoor American Players Theater
• canoeing in a secluded marsh where three bald eagles were perched in the trees overhead
• going out in the total darkness of the countryside at night, and gazing at the clear, bright stars, and seeing the most magical firefly field (it looked like a faerie kingdom)
• driving through the English countryside, and seeing Stonehenge emerge from behind ...

• asphalt
• sunscreen
• bug spray
• chives and basil
• rain
• chlorine
• morning dew
• grass
• dirt
• fireworks
• carnival food
• corn and barbecue on the grill
• river water
• pine needles in the sun
• morning coffee
• pancakes on the griddle

• a warm sunset
• ocean waves
• the beach at twilight
• lovely letters people write to me
• sleeping cats
• hot chocolate with whipped cream
• summer berries
• stargazing
• summer morning breakfasts
• crickets in the night
• geese flying overhead
• gardens
• tall, tall trees in the forest
• owls hooting
• mountain silhouettes in the setting sun
• favorite song on the radio
• family reunions
• the smell of pine needles in the sun
• getting genuine compliments
• sharing secret smiles

• Mila Kunis
• Megan Fox
• Miranda Kerr
• Liv Tyler
• Jennifer Aniston
• Helena Bonham Carter
• Penelope Cruz
• Dita von Teese
• Scarlett Johansson
• Frida Gustavsson
• Lily Cole
• Karlie Kloss
• Sasha Pivovarova
• Vlada Roslyakova

• hairspray
• candles
• incense
• bread and pastries
• wind and earth
• dampness

• have a slice of warm, homemade bread with honey
• have a cup of tea
• go for a jog at dusk, when the sky starts turning pink
• take a hot shower
• call your best friend
• go for a walk in the forest and write down everything you see or notice
• dance to your favorite music
• play with your cat
• play the piano and sing, too
• write a letter to someone you miss
• ride your bike through a new neighborhood

• How I'd love to go to Iceland
• Icelandic horses
• Coastlines in Iceland
• The California coast
• Point Lobos
• How I'd love to go on Outward Bound for 3 weeks in Utah or Alaska
• Oceans and ships and mermaids
• Grandpa and Far Far
• Faeries and magical lands
• Summer gardens and forests
• The Little Creek Farm house
• What I will end up doing in life
• Running and how I'm not fast enough

• Denali in Alaska
• Arches, Bryce Canyon, Zion, and Canyonlands in Utah
• Olympic in Washington
• Yellowstone in Wyoming
• Yosemite in California
• Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico
• Crater Lake in Oregon
• Everglades in Florida
• Glacier in Montana
• Grand Canyon in Arizona
• Hawaii Volcanoes
• Mesa Verde in Colorado

• summer berries and ripe peaches
• green grass
• all the flowers and trees in bloom
• warm weather
• thunderstorms
• someone I can talk with all night long
• an adventure
• to laugh until I cry
• to be able to fly, like an albatross
• lemonade
• a walk in the forest
• someone to hug me and stroke my hair

• lovely white dresses
• knitted knee socks (in pale pink and soft grey)
• oxford shoes
• flowered hairclips
• white lace tights
• a lacy bralet in beige
• a pale pink cardigan
• a white cardigan
• a soft grey v-neck t-shirt
• high-waisted black shorts
• a cameo necklace
• ripped denim shorts
• a sheer, white top
• a soft, loose, tissue-thin grey long sleeve tee
• a ruffled skirt with pockets
• a high-waisted skirt with a big bow at the waist
• a pearl bracelet

• climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
• trek to Machu Picchu
• backpacking in Alaska
• See the Northern Lights
• hiking in Yellowstone and Yosemite
• hiking the Southern Clouds of China
• scuba diving in Australia
• rafting through the Grand Canyon
• hiking in New Zealand
• sea kayaking in Alaska or Washington

• new snow covering the trees and the ground
• winter fog
• Christmas cheer
• hot chocolate
• looking for animal prints
• the silence of snow
• listening for birds
• the crunch of snow under my feet
• hot soup and cups of tea
• wearing velvet
• wearing cosy clothes
• baking Christmas cookies
• snowball fights
• catching snowflakes on my tongue

• fresh wilderness air
• bonfires
• christmas trees
• lilacs
• honeysuckle
• Butterfly by Hanae Mori
• incense
• a room full of burning candles
• the sea
• mountain air
• morning mist and dew
• roses
• cookies in the oven
• old books
• before and after a thunderstorm
• a man's subtle cologne
• someone who just got out of the shower
• coconut
• burning leaves
• autumn

• california
  • san francisco
  • carmel by the sea
  • point lobos
  • a mountain cabin in the sierra nevadas
  • sequoia national forest
  • desert in southern california
• france
  • paris
  • avignon
  • les baux de provence
  • nice
  • nîmes
  • grans
  • marseille
  • le calanque de cassis
• utah

• apple pie
• blackberry jam
• buttermilk bread
• buttermilk pancakes with maple syrup and berries
• caramel gelato
• crêpes with nutella and bananas
• fluffy scones with jam and cream
• french baguettes
• green tea ice cream
• halloween candy
• homemade yogurt
• honey
• macarons
• margherita pizza
• oatmeal with honey, berries, bananas, cinnamon, and nutmeg
• parathas with ghee
• peaches and nectarines
• pumpkin bread
• rustic fruit tarts