• eating
• sleeping
• dreaming
• pushing people away
• being by myself
• giving long awkward hugs

• fix the roof
• drywall- computer room, upstairs hallway, stairway, downstairs hallway
• paint- computer room, upstairs hallway, downstairs hallway
• finish drywall/painting around closet in bedroom
• tile downstairs hallway
• buy flooring for bedroom
• light fixture for bedroom + light switch covers
• carpet for living room
• curtains/blinds for- both bedrooms, computer room, dining room, living room (maybe), kitchen
• finish trim in kitchen/dining room
• fix/paint ceiling in dining room
• bench seat in dining room
• need screens for windows in dining room/computer room
• 2 more towel hooks in bathroom

• The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia De Burgos
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

January

• Bag of Bones by Stephen King
• Paradise Lost by John Milton [work in progress]
• Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst (1/15)
• Persuasion by Jane Austen

February

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (2/8)
• On The Road by Jack Kerouac (3/19)

March

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (4/17)

April

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

May

• Degausser- Brand New
• Savior- Rise Against
• Whatever You Like (T.I. Cover)- Anya Marina
• Your Arms Around Me (Acoustic)- Jens Lekman
• Mumford & Sons
• Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
  

• Visual Concepts & Design MW 2-3:30pm w/Risak
• History of Renaissance Art TR 4-5:40 w/Leuthold
• Intro to Digital Photography TR 6:30-9 w/Jarvi

• get accepted
• fill out fafsa
• get fafsa results back & make a decision on loans, etc.
• Wildcat weekend- march 20th!
• find an apartment
• find a job
• save a butt ton of money
• sign up for orientation
• maybe take a walking tour?
• figure out how to get there with the jeep & the raider...& how to move all our shit there
• I'm hereeeee!

• wax museum (st. ignace)
• bike around mackinac island
• take the boat at tahquamenon
• underground mine
• shipwreck boat tour
• valley camp
• abandoned houses on that road between kalkasa and TC
• munising (abandoned building)
• ohio- abandoned amusement park
• wisconsin? illinois? indiana? maine is probably too far. lame.
• dinosaur gardens in ossineke
• watch the sunset, stay up until sunrise
• Chippewa county fair

• may 15, 2009: live music at the big bear with richard. $5 to get in, half the proceeds go to the animal shelter. hand stamped with 'it's a boy!' haha. mike libertoski acoustic, then the-pick-me-ups like white noise, like a string of foreign words; the lead singer a tall gangly thing in a band tee. then some random band singing about 'she'll take me anywhere,' the lead singer reminded me of joseph from king of the hill- yellow duct tape on his ripped jeans & converse. me in my green gap banker button up shirt, my dark aero jeans, my oversized bag sticking out like a sore thumb, richard too. everyone was punk. it was fun though, & completely relevant after reading the perks of being a wallflower. it was exactly what i needed that night.
• July 31/Aug 1, 2009: trip to drummond island with richard. feeling happycalm for ...

• "Well then I'll go get the vacuum cleaner and i'll suck it right off." -Julie
• "Yeah...that movie, Get Hard or Die Tryin." -Julie
• "Well for starters I don't have two mommies." -Julie
• "Julie: "Do you get a lot of bears around here in the winter time?"
  • Sam: (Just Stares) Julie, what do bears do in the winter?"
  • Julie: "How the hell should I know. I'm not a bear.
  • Sam: "They Hibernate"
• Julie: "Amanda, where is Las Vegas?"
  • Me: "in North Dakota."
• "I'm feeling too lazy to be deviant." -Clint
• "At least my soul's not ugly!" -Clint
• "I still have that video of you shaking t...

• Mumford & Sons- Sigh No More
• Skins <3
• Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
• Marianas Trench- Cross My Heart
• Sid (Mike Bailey)- Wild World
• Tom Petty- You Don't Know How It Feels
• Pink Mountaintops- Vampire

• going home
• thinking about summer
• drive-by truckers
• fiona apple
• my january playlist haha
• Lie to Me
• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Kelli Williams
• that stupid S&M song by Rihanna
• Zombie- The Cranberries

• skins season 3
• bookworm
• forever 21 <3
• Farewell to Arms- Hemingway
• IL trip!
• On The Road- Jack Kerouac
• Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over The Sea

• one of the original Polly Pockets
• those russian dolls- the doll within a doll within a doll...matroshka!
• ouija board
• tarot cards
• furbie
• clear umbrella

• in the forest at night in a dress with curled hair and red lips and a lantern
• tarot cards
• bonfire
• little blue building at pt. iroquois lighthouse in the summertime
• the field/woods behind my old house
• laundromat
• abandoned house
• grandma's abandoned cabin in brimley
• fort!
• sugar island abandoned house/trailers
• hotel room
• buy old suitcases from goodwill
• i need to find a forest that is close but nobody goes in
• body language/boy-girl pictures
• gazebo at night all lit up in pellston
• find that place Kirsten mentioned over by Sherman Park in the woods with the stones/building/window thing.

• driving around
• country roads
• cows
• mosquito bites
• sunglasses
• sunshine
• abandoned houses
• beaches
• forests
• long, winding roads & the trees overhead
• skin

• shark in the water- vv brown
• rabbit heart (raise it up)- florence & the machine
• starstruck- lady gaga
• i want you to want me- letters to cleo
• fixin to thrill- dragonette
• colourless colour- la roux
• always where i need to be- the kooks
• tik tok- keisha
• that's not my name- the ting tings
• meet me halfway- black eyed peas
• dancehall- sean bones
• when they fight, they fight- the generationals
• tony the beat- the sounds
• nothing better- the postal service
• superhuman touch- athlete
• also the whole third eye blind self titled album
• and the bon iver album- for emma, forever ago

• Oshkosh, Wisconsin
• Chicago, Illinois & Carpentersville & Rockford & Dekalb
• Beaver Creek/Kettering, Ohio
• Gary, Indiana
• Michigan
  • the Sault obvs.
  • St. Ignace
  • Petoskey
  • Traverse City
  • Lansing
  • Detroit
  • Marquette/Gwinn
  • Sugar Island
  • Drummond Island
  • Houghton/Calumet/Lake Linden
  • Flint
• Sault, Cananda

a

• the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by douglas adams
• watership down by richard adams
• ✔ the handmaid's tale by margaret atwood

b

• illusions: the adventures of a reluctant messiah by richard bach
• the sheltering sky by paul bowles
• ✔ fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury
• ✔ something wicked this way comes by ray bradbury
• ✔ a clockwork orange by anthony burgess
• naked lunch by william s. burroughs

c

• ender's game by orson scott card
• my antonia by willa cather
• the hunt for red octobr by tom clancy
• ✔ heart of darkness by joseph conrad

• swing life away: rise against
• casimir pulaski day: sufjan stevens
• chicago: fob
• folkin around: p!atd
• pink bullets: the shins
• when you were young: the killers
• fast as you can: fiona apple
• that time: regina spektor
• delta dawn: tanya tucker
• just what i needed: the cars
• superstar: spice girls
• the whole self titled third eye blind album

• Leann Rimes (again, casino w/beth & ellen)
• Miranda Lambert (at the casino with Beth & Ellen)
• Angry Salad + Uncle Kracker (at the norris center with mom & Clint & Julie)
• Vertical Horizon + Nine Days + Finger Eleven (at the casino with Letitia)
• John Michael Montgomery (st. ignace with Beth)
• Lonestar (st. ignace with Beth)
• Leann Rimes (at the casino with Beth)
• Jessica Andrews + Shannon Brown + Chris Young (at the casino with Beth)
• Train (st. ignace with Beth)
• Blackstone Cherry + Staind (at the casino with Beth)
• Diamond Rio (st. ignace with Beth)
• Everclear (sucked at the casino with Beth)
• Keith Urban (outdoors at the casino with ...

• gretchen wilson
• sunshinesunshinesunshine
• back to work! [freighter's]
• the band perry
• country music <3

• my birthday!
• cold mountain
• adele
• carnival <3
• circus

• channel surfing
• sleeping in
• songs about cemeteries
• Adele<3

• ihop
• starbucks
• tim horton's
• target
• good shopping
• lots of abandonment, but is not too ghetto
• somewhere i can find a decent, full time job with benefits
• warmer than michigan
• borders

• skinny love- bon iver
• the melody of a fallen tree- windsor for the derby
• wild nothing- golden haze

• get a tattoo
• Illinois to chill with lost girls <3 {february}
• lay down on a merri go round while spinning & listening to amazing songs (yeah i stole this from one of the Above the Influence ads, u mad?)
• stay up until sunrise
• i want braces & prettyperfect straight teeth

• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• ✔ Lisey's Story by Stephen King (Jamie)
• Great Expectations
• Health at Every Size (Jamie)
• Taste of Cherry by Kara Candito
• Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech

• a big flat screen to watch movies on
• a sleigh bed
• a kitty
• a wall mural from UO, preferably the forest one or the map one
• clawfoot tub
• at least one really big piece of amazing art, like 'the kiss' by gustav klimt or something
• a library
• double sinks in the bathroom
• lots of windows/natural light

• The Killers- Sawdust
• The Morning Benders
• Leeann Womack- Call Me Crazy
• Cute is What We Aim For- Rotation
• Muse- Black Holes & Revelations
• The Shins- Wincing the Night Away
• Jimmy Eat World- Bleed American

• more of those really comfy underwear from VS
• computer chair
• new bedset
• picture frames
• new showerhead
• new camera
• ipod
• new computer
• incense burner
• ipod charger dock
• holga camera
• johnny glasses from fred flare http://www1.fredflare.com/customer/produ...
• Nikon D40 :D
• laptop
• 55 mm Nikon lens
• different kinds of film for helga
• a new purse
• tights!
• new shoes

• cut my own hair
• get published
• write a book
• get my license
• buy a car
• learn to cook
• more importantly, learn how to bake...like martha stewart or that hot italian chick on the food network
• travel around the U.S.
• Go to europe!
• go back to school
• tell people what i really think
• pay off my loans
• be an extra in a movie
• go to chicago
• Sear's Tower