named for Gordon Ramsay and Ramesses II

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

—poetry

• Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats
• all about line breaks
• rhythm
• Farrokhzad
• A Song on the End of the World
• elegies of Mimnermus
• Auguries of Innocence by Blake
• Cloud by Kay Ryan
• A Cloud in Trousers
• poem by John Brainard
• The bunny gives us a lesson in eternity ...

—food

• Vietnamese rice noodle salad
• oyakodon
• papelón con limón
• pabellon de pollo
• caffe leccese
• coconut-lime refresher
• Kobayashi Seimen gluten-free noodles

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

January–June

• There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• Chlorine by Jade Song
• Boy by Nicole Galland
• Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
• We Used to Live Here by Markus Kliewer
• Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods
• James by Percival Everett
• The Wedding People by Alison Espach
• You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego
• Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

close calls

• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Cheddar Luck Next Time by Beth Cato
• The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
• Devil Is Fine by John Vercher
• Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
• The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

named for Nadja from What We Do in the Shadows

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

• climb @ Café Bloc
• visit Mount Royal Chalet
• walk around Chinatown
• walk around Old Montreal
• visit underground city (enter at square victoria)
• do the view point at the port
• year-round maple taffy : Marché Place Jacques-Cartier/ Cabane à Sucre
• visit Becca's neighborhood
• whisky at Pub L'Île Noire

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

— for us

• spicy kimchi udon
• arepas
• congee
• Japanese cold somen noodles
• mango sticky rice

— for me

• sundubu jjigae
• ✔ vegetarian muffaletta
• eggplant borani

shopping

• dakota twisted leg jeans
• haruharu wonder sunscreen
• classics nerds clothing
• merit 5-minut emorning
• poete wrinkle release spray
• speedy tail cat toy
• custom tshirts
• oversized tapestry
• Peter and June jewelry

arts

• The Banquet by Rene Magritte
• Vivian Maier
• Nadar (photographer)
• Faye Wong
• classics reconstructions
• Frieze magazine
• e-flux
• female photographers to know
• Juno Calypso

• ✔ 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
• The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
• 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