• Social Intelligence (from Jun)
• Emotional Intelligence
• The Art of Seduction (and Power) (from Jun)
• This is Modern Art
• Blimey!
• Jerry Saltz anything
• books on creative writing
• books on critical writing
• books on self-publishing
• personal travel writing
  • ma vie en rose
  • conde nasts book of travels
  • the geography of bliss
• ✔ The War of Art
• ✔ The Tao book of Sexology
• Zen and the Art of Knitting
• Confessions of a Shopaholic
• Confessions of a Window Dresser
• ✔ Why He Didn't Call You Back (for a good laugh)

Art to Research

• Steve McQueen 0 Deadpan (film of Steamboat Bill Jr, Buster Keaton, slapstick/drama)
• Wolfgang Tillmans (photos, Central Line, Deer Hirsch, Sosckson Radiator...I don't want to get over you)
• Martin Creed, work No. 227 (lights going on+off)
• Anya Gallacio (NP), Because I could not stop
• British School (NA), The Cholmondely Ladies
• Euan Uglow, Nude(s) 1950s, Giacomettish
• Coldstram, Reclining Nude 1974
• Allen Jones First Step, Wet Seal (painted shoes in/?? Fredricks of Hollywood), Man Woman
• Christina Mackie, Shakerman
• Sarah Lucas, The Stinker (tights_cigs) Chicken knickers

"...life is too short to fritter away in a constant state of yearning, aching, wanting, waiting for something to happen."

• ✔ break up with boyfriend by Jan
• ✔ quit job by June (ok maybe not june...december, check)
• ✔ limit shopping expenditures to $100-200 per month
• ✔ save 500/mo and pay off debt before moving
• ✔ pare down boring/normal clothes from closet, keep classic/interesting things
• sell clothes/furniture on ebay before move
• make/knit items during july/august/sept
• pack up everything into 15-20 boxes
• move by JAN 1!!!
• get new job doing something i
  • a) actually like
  • b) pays enough

in order of appearance, solely in chicago:

• jay (project runway)
• rufus wainwright
• desiree rogers
• mellody hobson
• george lucas
• rachel weisz
• darren aronofsky
• diamanda galas
• bette midler
• claudia schiffer
• michelle, sasha, malia obama
• john cusak
• joan cusak
• natalie cole
• leanne rhymes
• katie lee-joel
• jeff koons
• brian atwood
• kanye west

Books To read

• tge art of loving
• hes scared she's scared
• girlboss
• how to be a man
• lean in?
• a dialogue between fashion a d death
• Things I wish I'd known before I got married
• dries
• interwoven by kvadrat
• lean in
• sophia Coppola outfits from Japan
• it Alexa Chung
• nudge
• the pathfinder
• jeffrey eugenidies - the marriage plot
• Robert Indiana and Louise b To whom it may concern
• Louise bourgeois fabric works
• Sheila hicks 50 years

Dentist recs from Tom Carroll/ Andrews

• Dr. Donald Burger
• 873.5400
• Dr. Colleen Cournot
• 682.0770
• Dr. James Hudson
• 246.2682
• Dr. Alan Pollet
• 942.2997