• jealousy
• regret

or: this blog sometimes hits too close to home.

• #112 Hummus
• #111 Pea Coats
• #108 Appearing to Enjoy Classical Music (except I actually DO enjoy it!)
• #106 Facebook
• #104 Girls with Bangs
• #103 Sweaters
• #99 Grammar
• #97 Scarves
• #94 Free Healthcare
• #93 Music Piracy
• #91 San Francisco
• #88 Having Gay Friends
• #82 Hating Corporations
• #76 Bottles of Water
• #72 Study Abroad
• #61 Bicycles
• #59 Natural Medicine
• #54 Kitchen Gadgets
• #51 Living by the Water

• the lakes of canada the innocence mission
• amsterdam peter, bjorn, and john
• river flows in you yiruma
• sleep don't weep damien rice
• the saltwater room owl city
• existentialism on prom night straylight run
• for you coldplay
• rhubarb aphex twin
• liz on top of the world dario marianelli
• navy taxi kate nash
• bandits by midlake
• beautiful by moby

• the library
• grocery stores
• pike place market
• the zoo
• bookstores
• ferry rides
• all kinds of cafes and coffee shops
• the ocean
• park benches
• art museums
• the arboretum
• graveyards
• train {tracks, rides, stations}
• empty theatres

• Amelie
• Once
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Little Women
• Garden State
• The Lord of the Rings
• Juno
• Into the Wild
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
• Goodbye, Lenin!
• Peter Pan
• Girl With a Pearl Earring
• Shopgirl
• Marie Antoinette
• Moulin Rouge
• The Village

While it is inevitable that I have left a few titles out, this list contains the bulk of classic literature I have read up to this point. Note that I have included the texts of plays I find equally culturally significant;

• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
• Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
• Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
• Persuasion, Jane Austen
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
• The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
• 1984, George Orwell
• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• Lord of the Flies, William Golding
• The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
• Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
• Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

• buy christmas presents
• go caroling
• keep up my good grades and don't get lazy in the last few weeks. i always get lazy the last few weeks.
• lose weight for the cruise
• continue job hunting
• reread all my favorite books over break. especially i capture the castle and persuasion.
• start applying to colleges
• decluttler/semi-redecorate my bedroom
• stay healthy

• I love tea and drink it every day
• I'm always cold
• I'm a terrible driver
• I have bad circulation
• I love to wear sweaters, cardigans, silk scarves, and other Grandma clothing
• I don't want to hear your loud music
• I like going to bed early, and waking up early
• I wear slippers around the house
• I prefer a quiet night in to a wild night out
• I'm never not reading a book
• Oatmeal is my favorite food
• I'm repelled by vulgarity
• I hum to myself
• I love Black and White movies, and cry through the sad ones.
• I misplace things that I had in my hands minutes before
• I reference the "good old days" a lot

• liking someone
• spilling my own secrets...every chance I get
• forgetting the gym
• half-doing the things that need to be accomplished
• tossing and turning through the night with too vivid dreams
• eating
• dealing with people all wrong
• keeping how I feel locked inside

• drink apple cider
• bundle in sweaters
• pick a pumpkin
• step on crunchy leaves
• fall in love
• get lost in a cornmaze
• read by the fire
• inhale blustery days
• give thanks

• Irina Lazareanu
• Audrey Hepburn
• Francoise Hardy
• Zooey Deschanel
• Margot Tenenbaum
• Edie Sedgwick
• Penelope
• Pattie Boyd
• Chuck from Pushing Daisies
• Nico

• blog
• twitter
• goodreads
• livejournal
• facebook
• 43 things

favorites bolded;

• My So-Called Life
• Gilmore Girls
• Rick Steves' Travels Through Europe
• Arrested Development
• Project Runway
• Antique Roadshow
• The Office
• Felicity
• Flight of the Conchords
• Pushing Daisies
• Inside the Actors' Studio
• Freaks and Geeks

• Emily Dickinson
• Anne Frank
• Sylvia Plath
• Joan of Arc
• Anne Boleyn
• Jane Austen

• Jim Sturgess
• James McAvoy
• Keith Harkin
• James Franco
• Heath Ledger
• Zack Condon
• John Krasinski
• Lee Pace
• Aaron Marsh
• Andy Samberg
• James Dean
• Christian Bale
• Guy Berryman

• okay by kaisercartel
• winter wooksie by belle & sebastian
• when paula sparks by copeland
• majesty, snowbird by sufjan stevens
• tiger mountain peasant song by fleet foxes
• hoppipolla by sigur ros
• fools gold by katie herzig
• gotta have you by the weepies
• reverie by debussy
• see you soon by coldplay

• solitary breakfasts on foggy mornings
• writing to vivaldi and rachmaninoff
• lady grey tea
• chilly weather and bundling up
• feeling organized
• discovering new favorite literary quotes
• starbucks in the mornings, and again in the afternoons
• reconnecting with lost friends
• my pseudo-vegetarianism
• releasing creative energy
• new episodes of "the office" and "pushing daisies"
• hot chocolate with my mom
• carrying an umbrella

• Cassandra Mortmain, I Capture the Castle
• Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables
• Franny Glass, Franny and Zooey
• Jo March, Little Women
• Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility
• Lady Elaine (The Lady of Shalott), Arthurian myth
• Ophelia, Hamlet

• ferry lane/ferry traffic
• suburban small mindedness
• running into people i don't want to see
• my room has never looked the way i want it to
• steep driveway
• my parents love it
• i never wanted to move in the first place

asterisk if i have been there before;

• Stockholm
• London*
• Amsterdam
• Prague
• Berlin
• NYC*
• Copenhagen
• Paris
• Montreal
• Dublin*
• Sao Paola
• Florence
• Glasgow
• Barcelona
• San Francisco
• Buenos Aires
• Athens
• Lisbon