• day 1: self portrait
• day 2: what i wore
• day 3: clouds
• day 4: favorite color
• day 5: someone i love
• day 6: childhood memory
• day 7: something new
• day 8: technology
• day 9: faceless self portrait
• day 10: something i made
• day 11: something fun
• day 12: close-up
• day 13: from a distance
• day 14: flowers
• day 15: my shoes
• day 16: what i ate
• day 17: on the shelf
• day 18: in my bag
• day 19: where i slept
• day 20: what i read
• day 21: pretty pattern

• dorothy - a good pair of headphones
• dad - wine, cigars, running gear
• mom - yoga blanket, 2 white t shirts medium (gap, old navy), new washer and dryer, pillows from world market, self-threading needle
• joseph - zelda guidebook, wii points card
• henry - war in the north videogame

stocking stuffers:

• dad - tabasco chocolate tin
• henry & joseph - nintendo star candy, nutella packets
• dorothy - art nouveau chocolate tin

• City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) Internship
• Charleston magazine
• Skirt magazine - Charleston or Greenville
• Charleston City Paper

dream internships

• National Geographic
• publishing company
• international relations

• "It would have to be a winged creature or else it wouldn't be able to catch the archduke" - Allison
• "I would just wink my right eye and walk diagonally rightward" - Allison on the human equivalent of a turn signal
• 320 b Brackett
• (^_^) (;_;) (*o*)(^_~)(^o^)(#^.^#)(^^;)m(__)m
• Strode 316
• Accio double stuff!
• My little bistard son
• Cards against humanity
• Professor sugar daddy
• Grage door drunk
• A: I am a tree today. L: I was thinking more of Barney.
• I cannot function correctly as a vertebrate
• Exactly, and the bigger your stick, no one will mess with you (overheard at Alan's...

• beginners
• midnight in paris
• the help
• deathly hallows
• captain america
• friends with benefits
• crazy stupid love
• cowboys and aliens

• photos of home, family, friends
• lots of tissue packs
• peanut butter
• lotion
• cute shoes (not just walking shoes)
• sunglasses

• Hangzhou
• Suzhou, Xiamen
• Tibet
• Hong Kong
• Taiwan
• South Korea
• Japan
  • Ghibli museum
  • Tokyo, Kyoto
  • countryside
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Bali
• Cambodia
• Malaysia

Now I've got to start saving some travel money!

• skype with taters
• clubbing in europe
• buy cool souvenirs for everybody
• go to Maine, eat lobster, skip stones
• donate clothes to goodwill
• buy bootleg Deathly Hallows DVD in China
• tie-dye
• make my own granola bars
• play with hank and teddy
• go to the farmer's market every saturday
• learn to french braid hair
• blog
• go surfing
• have a successful picnic
• make friendship bracelets
• feel weightless
• eat italian ice
• go to a drive in movie
• berry-picking
• steal something
• learn to use a darkroom

• make a playlist for people watching
• how do you determine truth?
• how do you recognize discrepancies between reason and faith?
• what drains your soul? what recharges it?
• five questions you hate not having answers to:
• what fuels your creativity? what drains it?
• "art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human."
• what is the purpose of art?
• have an artgasm.
• tai chi - translates to 'supreme ultimate life force' and is a Chinese martial arts form used for exercise and as a spiritu...

• Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language
• Chinese in three months
• The Chinese Language
• Dreaming in Chinese
• Dreaming in Hindi
• Hindi language books/ tapes

Barnes and Noble

• Skinny Bitch
• travel guides
• vegetarian/ vegan cookbooks

• Xavier Rudd
• Fleet Foxes
• Jose Gonzalez
• Wolfmother
• Matt Costa
• State Radio
• Bon Iver
• Sufjan Stevens
• Wilco
• Band of Horses
• Neutral Milk Hotel

• becoming blonde
• eating ben & jerry's americone dream ice cream
• 15 minutes of unprotected sun and an obnoxiously large sun hat for each minute after that
• painting your porch ceiling aqua
• the sale soiree at memminger
• 2 hour Saturday morning eco ride
• bear hugs instead of barely there hugs
• designing big bling at Beads on Cannon
• Katy Perry tickets in Hot-lanta on June 7
• Vitamix smoothies with local u-pick fresh fruit and veggies
• sweating off wine flu at Bikram Yoga
• flying Southwest Airlines to wherever
• entering the 'The South's Best Food Recipe" Contest
• karaoke night at Patrick's
• 5 inch bright pink platforms with ankle s...

girls

• Celeste
• Amelie
• Violet

boys

• Tristan
• Peter
• Milo
• Oliver
• Will
• Gaspar

• Rodrigo Santoro
• Ben Barnes
• Regina Spektor
• James McAvoy
• Joseph Gordon Levitt
• Natalie Portman
• Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes

• tops of parking garages
• the ocean
• church cemeteries
• waterfront walkways
• abandoned buildings
• secret gardens

• yoga
• ballet
• piano
• photography
• people-watching
• scrapbooking & journaling
• baking
• writing poetry and short stories
• collage
• bike-riding
• watching foreign films
• surfing

• INDIA
• Thailand - Bangkok, Krabi beaches and the elephant orphanage
• Japan - the Hayao Miyazaki museum
• Tibet
• New Zealand
• Brazil
• Egypt
• Greece - Santorini
• Italy - Venice, Rome
• England - Bath
• Ireland, Scotland
• Peru
• Sweden - Stockholm
• Switzerland

• Peter Carey's Illywacker
• Angela Carter's Night at the Circus
• Milan Kundera's Immortality
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Salman Rushdie Midnight Children
• Graham Swift Waterland
• Toni Morrison - Beloved
• Laura Esquivel- Like Water for chocolate
• Sarah Addison,
• Monique Truong 'Bitter in the Mouth',
• Aimee Bender 'The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake' - she can taste the emotions of those who cooked or grew her food, whether that person is her desperate mother or the farmer who grew the organic lettuce in her salad.
• Isabel Allende, 'The House of the Spirits,'
• The Princess Bride,
• Nutcracker by Ralph Manheim,

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED

• traditional cultures - the past is honored and symbols are valued because they contain and perpetuate the experience of generations.

- The Consequences of Modernity, Gidden

• utopia of utopian realism - would not be a world that 'collapses outward' into decentralized organizations but would no doubt interlace the local and global in complex fashion.

- The Consequences of Modernity, Gidden

• she simultaneously inhabits multiple linguistic spaces.
• disregard the boundary markers of these fields and urge creative trespass of fields focused on the study of difference (Koshy, Minority Cosmopolitanism)
• everyday life measures and embodies the c...

• pinterest baking/ crafts
• scrapbooking
• watch Nausicaa
• make bubble tea
• henna (sharpie) tattoos

• Blackwell's Bookshop
• The Eagle & Child in St. Giles
• Hob Goblin pub

Inklings walking tour of Oxford1) from Carfax Tower (intersection of High St. and Cornmarket, Queen's Street, and St. Aldate's Street) to New College.

• Walk south, down the hill from the Carfax then turn left just past the church. The college across this quiet side street is Pembroke, where J.R.R. Tolkien spent twenty years as a fellow and Professor of Anglo-Saxon.
• go one block and turn right onto Brewer Street. The stone house on the left is the house in which Dorothy Sayers was born. Return to St. Aldate's and continue one more block.
• Cross the street and enter the great iron...

• Fulbright ETA in Taiwan
• JET program
• 四川大学－研究生

• Hocus Pokus
• It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
• The Little Vampire
• Corpse Bride
• Halloweentown
• Coraline
• Kiki's delivery service
• all the Harry Potter movies
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Teen Witch
• Boogeyman
• Beetlejuice
• The Others
• Matilda
• Halloween (Michael Myers)
• Bewitched
• My Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire
• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

• Leshan Giant Buddha
• teahouses
• China Lane (Kuan-zhai Lane)
• Jinli Ancient Street
• Chengdu Panda Base
• Mount Qingcheng
• The Thatched Cottage of Du Fu
• Huanglong Scenic Area (extremely beautiful in winter)
• Jiuzhaigou Valley a.k.a "Wonderland on Earth"
• Mount Emei
• Wangjiang Tower Park
• Wenshu Temple
• Wolong Giant Panda Museum

Eats:

• Mac’s Drive-In
• The Esso Club: Meat & 3 and Boiled Peanuts
  • bonus points if you chat with any current/former players/coaches
• TD’s - write your name in a booth
• Find Paw’s Diner
  • fried creamed corn
• Super Taco
• figure out how many mix and match flavors are possible on the Cook-Out menu
• Columbo’s Atlas Pizza

Drinks:

• Beer at Nick’s 
  • bonus points with a professor, double-up: with a dean, triple points if you get yo...

September

• The Lion King 3D
• Dolphin Tale (with Morgan Freeman!)
• Moneyball
• 50/50 (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen)

October

• Toast (Helena Bonham Carter)
• Footloose
• Like Crazy (Anton Yelchin)
• Sleeping Beauty (Emily Browning)

November

• The Muppets

December

• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• The ADventures of Tintin
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

• Bald soprano & other plays - Eugene Ionesco
• Pleasure of the text - Roland Barthes
• Crying of lot 49 - Pynchon
• Drown - Diaz
• Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
• Enduring love - Ian McEwan
• Women of algiers in their apartment - Djebar
• The sheltering sky - Bowles

• clothes
  • ✔ pants: 1 pair jeans, 1 khaki capris, 1 black trousers
  • ✔ 1 pair knee length shorts & 3 skirts
  • ✔ 3 dresses
  • ✔ tops: 5 t-shirts, 5 tank tops
  • ✔ my trusty travel cardigan
  • ✔ shoes: keds, oxfords, toms
  • ✔ 3 pairs leggings
  • ✔ socks & underwear
• toiletries
  • toothbrush & toothpaste
  • retainer
  • St. Ives apricot scrub
  • ✔ shampoo & conditioner
  • ✔ milk and honey soap
  • ✔ loofah
  • razor
  • hairbrush

• Get punched
• Tell a friend a truth they don’t want to hear
• Burn a book you hated
• Eat something that challenges your gag reflexes
• Jump on a bus without knowing the end destinations
• Grow something
• Walk barefoot all day
• Hit something hard enough to break it
• Stay up all night
• Don’t get out of bed for an entire day
• Read a book cover-to-cover without stopping
• Feed yourself for a week with only $7
• Plunge your hands in soil
• Take a nap on a park bench
• Stand in the pouring rain
• Spend a day with the oldest person you know

• Books not bombs
• Sarah dinosaur from Land Before Time
• blue umbrella with the European Union logo
• Kermit the frog
• Coexist
• the Flying Pig hostel in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• treehugger
• Clemson University pin
• the Shins
• gold key Scholastic writing award
• LEAF international
• Normal's Overrated
• Harry Potter's World - "I saw HArry Potter's magic at the library!"
• Snape keychain
• Belgium pin

• ✔ slurp hot noodles
• buy the Miyazaki DVD collection
• ✔ go to the Wangfujing late night snack market
• ✔ dance with old people in parks
• ✔ eat as much delicious spicy eggplant as possible
• ✔ celebrate the 4th of July and my birthday
• try turtle soup in Andy's hometown
• souvenirs
  • ✔ the coconut candies
  • ✔ piece ceramic tile for mom's garden
  • ✔ pee pee boy(s)
  • swords for Henry and Joseph (too expensive)
  • ✔ Chinglish t-shirts
  • party poncho
  • ✔ gift for Celeste

• write lesson plans
• get visa and passport in the mail
  • email scanned copy to Tsinghua
• pack bags
  • remember camp dress code
• heal sunburn with aloe
• take Joseph to get a milkshake from Ye Old Fashioned
• move boxes up to the attic
• sleepover & beach with Celeste
• yoga at the city gallery
• farewell dinner at FIG
• jump in fountain at waterfront park
• shopping
  • long shorts/ skirts
  • new pair of jeans
  • herbal essences shampoo & conditioner
  • coconut hair serum

• confederate jasmine
• sunburns
• farmer's market
• raspberry hibiscus iced tea
• cicadas and crickets at night
• dolphins swimming by me in the shallow surf
• water parks
• she-crab soup
• palmetto trees (and palmetto bugs... bleh)
• splinters from the boardwalk
• pelicans
• strawberry and nutella crepes
• homemade milk and honey soap
• citronella
• sunscreen
• still more freckles

• Amelie
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Pride and Prejudice
• Coraline
• Spirited Away
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Beauty and the Beast
• Stranger than Fiction
• Garden State

• Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
• Moby Dick - Herman Melville
• Gone with the Wind
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
• Wuthering Heights
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The Hunger Games
• The Virgin Suicides
• The Beatrice Letters - Lemony Snicket
• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
• Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy
• 100 Years of Solitude
• Lolita
• Dune
• Little Bee - Chris Cleave
• After Dark - Haruki Murakami
• Room - Emma Donoghue
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy

• Firefly
• Law and Order SVU
• Gilmore Girls
• House
• Skins
• Pushing Daisies
• Misfits
• The Office
• Weeds
• Travel channel
• Grey's Anatomy

• use darkroom, develop my own photos
• have a lover in every country
• open a bakery
• become a yoga instructor
• learn Japanese to have a conversation with Hayao Miyazaki before he dies.
• bind my own book
• drive across the country
• become fluent in Chinese
• make fancy coffee drinks
• make a quilt
• cuddle with a panda
• do a split easily and then walk on my hands
• publish a book of poetry
• give great massages
• play the cello
• knit an entire scarf
• pull off a triple pirouette
• play Claire de Lune on the piano
• cook tasty authentic Chinese food

• finally finish Game of Thrones!
• finish 'Anna Karenina'
• C.S. Lewis - Four Loves
• Confederate in the Attic - Horowitz
  • American Oracle, Race and Reunion - Blight
• The Girl Who Fell beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There - Valente
• Tolkien's Letters to Father Christmas
• The Letters and Journals of Sylvia Plath
• finish 'The Stuff of Thought' - Steven Pinker
• Intercultural Communication - Helen Spencer Oatey

• Joseph - flying shark toy
• Henry - War in the North video game
• Celeste -
• Taters - nothing owl related
• Vineeth -
• Allison -

Shannon- Lauren Hester - Alan

• 2 small pans
• corn tortillas
• onions
• cheese
• chili powder
• olive oil

heat tortillas in one pan, in the other pan heat the oil and chili powder so it starts bubbling. fry the tortilla in the oil for about 15 seconds until it is barely bubbling, then flip it. put the tortilla on a small plate, fill with the cheese and sauteed onions. add salt and pepper to taste.

• read Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
• write 500 word reflection on the novella, post to class blog
• read The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
  • parts I-III
  • print hard copy for annotations
• readings for HON203:
  • Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe, chapters 1-8, 17, 21, 29-33, 35-45.
  • Machiavelli, The Prince, chapter 26
  • Hobbes, Leviathan, Author’s Introduction; Part 1, chs. 13-15
  • Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government, ch. 2.
  • Francis Bacon, “Of Nature in Men”
• write 2-3 page paper comparing Hobbes and Locke’s views on the “state of nature”.
• study Chinese 305 vocabulary

• Dave Eggers
• Miranda July
• Jeffrey Eugenides
• Stephen Chbosky
• Jonathan Coe
• Ian McEwan
• David Mitchell
• Michael Cunningham
• Chuck Klosterman
• Michael Chabon

• Go Outside - Cults
• Our Deal - Best Coast
• Amor Fati - Washed Out
• 10 Mile Stereo - Beach House
• Usual pop line - iroi
• Mouthful of Diamonds - Phantogram
• I Don't Really Mind - Tame Impala
• When I'm Small (RAC mix) - Phantogram
• Run - Vampire Weekend
• Video Games - Lana Del Rey
• Pressure and time - Rival Sons
• The Honest Truth - Typhoon

• famous apple pie
• oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
• peanut butter banana muffins
• chocolate ice box cake
• honey polenta cake
• wheat bear bread
• peach cobbler
• raspberry chocolate cheesecake
• strawberry rhubarb crumble pie

breakfast:

• pancakes (whole wheat, blueberry, chocolate chip)
• beignets with powdered sugar
• strawberry nutella crepes
• french toast
• croissants
• scones
• muffins (lemon poppyseed, corn muffins, blueberry)

In the spirit of Jean-Pierre Jeunet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AspmmjBl1...

Things I like:

• people-watching at airports
• biting into an apple
• when the windshield wipers run in time with the song playing on my car radio
• used book sales
• baking something delicious for someone and then watching them take the first bite
• when the moon is full and orange
• having my hair braided by a friend
• riding my bike at dawn when the streets are empty

Things I don't like:

• when an airline cancels my flight on the morning of
• vacuum cleaners (the smell, the sound, everything)
• the feel of having my nails filed
• the sound of a knife scraping a plate

• A - ask a friend to join you
• B - bring your favorite book/ magazine
• C - create a destination playlist
• D - decide on one glass of champagne. or two.
• E - eat! calories don't count on vacation.
• F - fashion counts! dress the part
• G - get off the tourist track
• H - house swap to save money
• I - invest in a mobile wi-fi device
• J - jewelry expands a small wardrobe
• K - kiss the world hello
• L - live like a local
• M - make a new friend
• N - negotiate a deal
• O - observe, record, reflect in a journal
• P - pack black and accessorize
• Q - quite worrying about work
• R - remind yourself how lucky you are

• drink tea
• wear something that makes you feel good
• say please and thank you
• tell somebody you love them
• eat dessert first
• watch sunrise or sunset
• wear perfume
• smile a lot
• read a book
• cook or bake for someone else
• watch a good film
• wish others a lovely day

• ✔ My Best Friend's Wedding
• Pride and Prejudice
• When Harry Met Sally
• You've Got Mail
• Center Stage
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Bounty Hunter
• The Princess Bride
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding
• When in Rome
• The Four-Faced Liar
• ✔ Beauty and the Briefcase
• Step Up 3
• Practical Magic
• ✔ White Oleander
• A Knight's Tale
• Footloose
• Gone With the Wind
• A Room With a View
• Jane Eyre
• Emma

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• http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/
• http://www.everydayshakespeare.com/
• http://frommoontomoon.blogspot.com/
• http://film-grain.tumblr.com/
• http://photographic-energy.tumblr.com/

• Enter the Void
• Rear Window
• The Tree of Life
• lots of Audrey Hepburn films
• HARRY POTTER 7!!!
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• Never Let Me Go
• One Day
• Super 8
• Blue Valentine

• bike rack & satchel
• paper lanterns (round & star)
• sugar scrub from the farmer's market
• new bathrobe

• The Shins
• Regina Spektor
• Yann Tiersen
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
• Explosions in the Sky
• Iron & Wine
• Robert Cray
• Jake Shimabukuro
• Bob Dylan
• Bonobo
• Hot Hot Heat
• Black Keys
• the Flaming Lips
• Tycho
• Bon Iver

• ✔ evolution - (featuring fontella bass) cinematic orchestra
• ✔ i wish - skee lo
• folle de toi - biolay & mastroianni
• ✔ instead- madeleine peyroux
• ✔ angel in the snow - elliot smith
• ✔ the party punch - oh no! oh my!
• ✔ i need a life -born ruffians
• ✔ kilojoules - freelance whales
• ✔ little talks - of monsters and men
• ✔ the end - best coast
• ✔ breakin' up - rilo kiley
• ✔ what i wouldn't do - a fine frenzy
• ✔ dirty laundry - bitter:sweet
• ✔ some surprise - gary lightbody & lisa hannigan
• interruptions - rogue wave
• ✔ sun hands - local natives
• ✔ chris and thomas - broken chair
• ✔ coffee & tv - blur
• ✔ tive razao - seu jorge

• I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited. - Sylvia Plath
• Why does s/he think that anybody should not delight in the creative work of God? To me, it’s very illogical. God made the body. And this suggests that God made mistakes about the body. He’s done these shameful things, we must do our best to cover them up. This is not the faith. The faith is that God looked at his creation and thought it was good. - Sister Wendy
• The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had always been before and now seemed a little worse. - Atonement, Ian McEwan
• Religions have been used throughout history as a cause to wage war and kill people, but it's my opinion that religions are ...

• the sound of trains
• thunderstorms
• the smell of laundry
• snuggling with my cats
• Joseph's freckles
• hot chocolate
• a smile from a stranger
• back-scratches
• homemade cookies
• mom's laugh
• good poetry
• singing in the car
• taking long walks at night
• slurping noodles in China
• silences that aren't awkward
• Harry Potter
• green tea
• genuine compliments
• when someone plays with my hair
• walking barefoot in grass
• sitting on the library porch