• graduating with a diploma in physics
• quitting a job that was bad for my mental health and enjoying a few months of funemployment
• getting a distinction/85% in my first humanities module
• spending three weeks in london for my new job
  • visiting highgate cemetery & lots of art galleries
• started reading the bible for the first time and accepted that i believe
• decided on a career path that suits me (rather than forcing myself to suit a career)
• becoming a vegetarian
• moving into the intermediate level for my independent french studies
• read thirty-eight books
• finished therapy

• black dresses
• patterned & lace tights
• mary janes
• flared leggings & trousers
• ballet flats

• turn 30
• move to a new city
• read 35 books
• write a novel
• lose 40lb
• read a book in French
• start going to church
• make a new friend

• the count of monte cristo
• tender is the night
• pale fire
• we have always lived in the castle
• anna karenina
• the book of margery kempe
• the gilded butterfly effect
• uncharmed
• katabasis
• god didn't make us to hate us
• short stories in french for beginners
• the glimpses of the moon
• the secret dreamworld of a shopaholic
• from new york, with love
• a tomb with a view - the stories & glories of graveyards
• the private lives of saints
• when women ran fifth avenue
• the goldfinch
• rouge
• my cousin rachel

• write a novel
• become fluent in French
• see an opera at the Met
• make a living from writing
• study art history
• read the Bible
• move to Oxford or London
• work as an academic librarian
• get a master's degree
• rescue a pet
• study at Oxford or Cambridge
• publish my writing
• read a book in a second language

• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Guilty by Definition by Susie Dent
• Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
• My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck

• books

the secret history • the great gatsby • the master and margarita • hangsaman • rebecca • revelations • lolita • anna karenina • my year of rest and relaxation • a series of unfortunate events • bunny

• television

pretty little liars • gilmore girls • gossip girl • the good place • bones • schitt's creek • the x files • how i met your mother

• film

romeo + juliet • midnight in paris • dead poet's society • legally blonde • letters to juliet • bride wars • the godfather • kiki's delivery service • twilight

• a garden full of black flowers and homegrown roses
• a secluded balcony with a black iron bistro table and fairy lights
• a small kitchen
• the sweet spot between minimalism and maximalism
• dark wood furniture
• black lace voiles behind velvet curtains
• dark coloured walls
• stained glass windows
• william morris wallpaper
• prints of my favourite artworks in ornate frames
• wine bottles repurposed as candlestick holders
• tiffany lamps
• persian rugs
• a little room with a good view and a small desk for writing