named for Gordon Ramsay and Ramesses II

• Ram
• Rams
• Ramby
• Rammy
• Chicken
• Mr. Cat
• Kitten
• Tuna Face
• Ramazon Prime
• Ramzan

• mix together 2 puzzles
• finally put old photos and documents in archival boxes
• suminagashi
• paper marbling in general
• explore the memoir ideas
• learn ancient Greek
• read a textbook on linguistics
• start a book club
• Isabel Allende master class
• cook through my cookbooks
• visit Winterthur
• visit Wagner
• create an ex libris
• create an ex libris for d
• latch needle pillow
• needlepoint luggage tags
• self-finishing things

• Joan FitzGerald, The Pretender
• Mildred Bevel, Trust
• Agnes, Rapture
• Ingrid Yang, Disorientation

• roasted veggies with lemon and rice (+ rotisserie chicken or eggs)
• gochujang-butter-braised tofu with rice and roasted kale or broccoli
• tacos with roasted cumin broccoli or walking taco salad
• merguez and kale pasta
• sesame noodles with 6-min egg and julienned veg
• tofu with butter and soy sauce
• pesto pasta with broccoli and sausage
• pizzas with homemade sauce
• roasted chicken thighs with pesto potato and arugula salad
• chicken nugs and fries
• crispy rice satay bowls
• soy and scallion tofu bowl with stir fried greenbeans
• sesame tofu and broccoli

2021

• alcoholic drink: negroni or milk punch
• ancient civilization: Minoan
• animal: black cat
• artist: Sandro Botticelli
• beach: Achlia-Galini
• cheese: blue
• chocolate: dark
• classical song: Moonlight Sonata
• coffee: iced salted honey latte
• color: emerald
• dish to make: short rib ragu
• dessert: chocolate pot de crème
• element: water
• flower: peony
• food: fatteh
• fruit: pear
• gemstone: emerald or ruby
• gelato: stracciatella
• Greek food: tiropita
• holiday: Christmas Eve

named for Nadja from What We Do in the Shadows

• Nadj
• Nadjy
• Nacho
• Nut
• Nut Baby / Baby Nut
• Baby Sweets

• Underlake by Erin McCoy
• Brawler by Lauren Groff
• Poetry Says It Better by Ellen Burstyn
• Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli
• Country People by Daniel Mason
• Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
• Go Gentle by Maria Semple
• Vigil by George Saunders
• Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez

• ✔ bird: Intemperence by Sonora Jha
• ✔ door: Wives Like Us by Plum Sikes
• ✔ food: Persephone's Curse by Katrina Leno
• ✔ flower: The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake by Rachel Linden
• ✔ leaf: Bog Queen by Anna North
• tree:
• sky:
• ✔ heart: The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd Robinson
• sunglasses or glasses:
• ✔ star: One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan al-Shaykh
• sun or moon:
• ✔ book: Diavola by Jennifer Thorne
• animal:
• building:
• ✔ drink: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
• ✔ face: Heart the Lover by Lily King
• ✔ silhouette or shadow: The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
• pattern:
• water:
• something hot:
• ✔ something fluffy: The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

i can't put it into words or fully understand why, but i find my mind returning to them and i find myself feeling them

• Primavera by Sandro Botticelli
• Pulaski at Night by Andrew Bird
• babbling brook sounds
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The New Pope season 1
• Bratislava, Hungary
• cacio e pepe and riesling in Brno
• Late Spring by Yasujirō Ozu
• being underwater
• Fleabag
• mountains

• literary fiction :
• historical fiction :
• fantasy :
• science fiction :
• horror :
• romance :
• classic :
• nonfiction history :
• nonfiction science :
• memoir/biography :
• play :
• graphic novel :
• anthology/short story collection :
• translated book :
• book with an LGBTQIAP+ main character :
• book with disability rep :
• book by an author not from North America :
• book by a Black author who is alive :
• book by an Indigenous author :
• book by a SWANA author :
• book by a Latinx author :

I'm not a bucket list person. In the past I've made one, but I always felt pressure to make it "long enough" (whatever that means) and add things that I'd like to do but aren't dreams of mine. Here are some dreams.

• visit Vilnius and attend the Kaziukas mugė
• experience the summer solstice in Lithuania
• explore an Egyptian tomb
• attend a live No Such Thing as a Fish recording in London

— to ask d

• length
• goals
• driving, train, flying preferences

— thoughts

• fly straight into Bergen? or drive from Oslo to Bergen and back
  • drive Oslo --> Bergen is 7.5–8 hrs
• stay in Bergen area? Lots of fjords and shit
• top: rock climbing, hiking, stave churches, food

— destinations

• Bergen
  • Bryggen (old section)
  • Vestveggen (Magnus Mitbø's gym, just out...

• read 100 books
• complete the 52 books 2026 challenge
• complete the Book Riot 2026 Read Harder challenge
• try the 75 Book challenge
• book cover scavenger hunt
• do the Anti-Brain Rot Reading Challenge created by @thisstoryaintove
• read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
• read more classics
• read more non-fiction
• keep up with my reading journal
• read scholarly articles/get back in the game
• do a buddy read with:
  • Leah
  • Dillion
  • Kelsey
  • Mom
  • Elyse
• purchase books that have been on my list for a while

• ✔ Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• ✔ The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
• ✔ Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
• ✔ Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• ✔ Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• ✔ A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Lavinia by Ursula K LeGuin
• Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• Invitation to a Banquet by Fuchsia Dunlop
• ✔ My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Elephant Rocks by Kay Ryan
• ✔ Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara
• The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş