• Nikola Tesla
• John Forbes Nash Jr.
• Grigori Rasputin
• Leonardo da Vinci (even though he's way generic)
• Michel de Nostredame

And Found

• My set of keys: car, new house, old house, grandmother's house; Grandpa's letter weigher I use as a keychain and the weird, cult-like key-chain belonging to my dead aunt.
• Art Project. Left on top of car, found 3 minutes later in parking lot.
• Calculus Book. Left in parking lot. Run over by car but returned to me. =)
• Mirror of Car. Flew off after hitting a mailbox. Returned one week later to r...

• Generic "artists"
• "What's the idea behind this?" "Ummm... I don't know..."
• Pictures copied from magazines.
• Technical drawings with no meaning. Anyone can freaking learn technique. Not just anyone can learn to think originally, which is what ACTUALLY (supposedly) counts in art
• It's too expensive to make for the amount of appreciation it gets.
• People don't understand what being an artist really means.
• Eve...

I should have started this a long time ago. This should be interesting as time goes on...

• I work at the Learning Express. My favorite and most energetic employee is Devon. In my dream she was being too loud and "happy" with a customer. My manager Dede fired her. She went to work at Publix and I went with her shortly after.
• I only remember parts. Alex was talking to a girl he just met. They joked tog...

• Start book quotes list
• EE! GAHHHHHHHHH!
• Sign up for SATs. Again.
• Order Senior Pics.
• Register to vote
• Watch RNC and debates
• Finish college apps. RISD has weird requirements for graphite pieces...
• Do Christmas shopping early, since I have money this year. :O
• Don't forget: Jenna's B-day = Sept. 17th; Alex's B-day = Sept. 23rd
• Coordinate carpooling with Bay and Crys (When she gets her license)

1. Talk to me about my art.
2. Compliment me sincerely. I don't ask for compliments; you should give them anyway.
3. Write me a song. Or a poem, but not a lame one. Or a short story. Or anything creative...
4. Kiss me gently, but like you mean it. Especially on my head if you are holding me.
5. Take me out for icecream. Or give me any type of sweet, sugary food. Especially anything coffee flavored.
6. Listen to every si...

• Grandmother Shirley, in her most serious face, looking straight into my eyes: "All scientists are crazy."
• Abby: "That game?! I have that game!" and that whole night.
• HP5 with Bay; Harry is Dumbledore's bitch. Also rereading the epilogue of HP 7 outloud, with parts, in girly voices.
• Loopin' Loey!
• "Oh, uh uh, uh-uh uh..." Bailey, delirious
• Finding a new missing piece of my car every day...
• "Aw, one two th...

For when I need a confidence boost; I should remember...

• I only need my own approval.
• When I think of people in the entire world, not just my own little IB world, I'm considerably smarter than I often realize.
• I'm conservative enough to be (at least potentially) classy, but not so conservative that I'm a prude.
• I will only judge you on your personality and actions.
• Being quiet is a good thing.
• I'm almos...

• Smoking/Drugs/Alcohol (even when I am of age)
• Raising my hand to share my opinion with a crowded room at school
• Singing in front of people I don't know/acquaintances
• Working fastfood
• Reading books from the Gossip Girls series
• Giving blood
• Piercing any part of my body aside from my ears (I am terrified of needles)
• Dancing like a whore (basically sex with clothes on the dance floor)
• Eating an olive, unless ...

• Platinum Forget-Me-Knot Ring (or silver...) Size 5
• Or necklace
• Or any Kiel Mead jewelry
• Suzuki Motorcycle. Yes.
• 2 ft. Ugly Doll
• Or
• Process Recess
• A cool vintage bike with good brakes
• X-Acto knife kit

• The summer I turned fourteen; my friend Alexa and all the stupid things we did together.
• Our first couple of night "outtings." It felt dangerous and fun, and even though it was stupid I liked him chasing after me.
• My real home. Especially my room (ceramic tile, how I took you for granted), especially at night.
• My grandpa.
• My living room when it had carpet, before I started pre-school, in the mornings....

Pieces (that should be) in-the-making:

• Series
• Altered Book #1
• Altered Book #2
• Altered Book #3
• Altered Book #4
• Fear piece: collage with hand and eyes
• Fiber glass: Surrealism with oil or acrylic and mutant fish
• Luminosity piece: heart, hand, eye; traffic light colors
• Another appendage piece: connection with nature; the fountain, James Jean, Alex Grey, Romanticism
• Layered map piece: plexiglass, human form, map...

Things I need to keep track of over the next year:

• Wire hand/bird nest (burlap)
• Clayboard Self Portrait from Summer 2007
• Inked self portrait
• Insects (moth, butterfly maybe, black insect, two green bugs, wasp, dragonflies...)
• Maria Roosen My Friends
• Wing (Appendage)
• Bags of dead fish (at least have one available)
• Reading Poster project (if I haven't burned it. I'm pretty sure I did) and supporting pictures...

• Believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it.
• Most people are searching for Happiness outside of themselves. That is a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that comes from the way you think.
• Through life the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been ...

• The Grapes of Ralph
• Untrodden Grapes
• *Tales of the Weirrd
• **Process Recess 1 and 2
• Atlas Shrugged
• It's Kind of a Funny Story
• Einstein's Dreams
• A Spot of Bother
• Brave New World
• A Separate Peace
• My Friend Leonard
• The Great Gatsby
• The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

Note to self: Don't let age, popular opinion, an individual opinion, money, time, or routine change ambitions. (Also try really hard to avoid routine wherever possible)

• Fill 100 balloons with helium air. Write notes about everything I regret and tie them to the balloons so I can finally be free. I don't understand how some people don't have regrets. Maybe everyone just isn't this much of a screw up...

• Overheard In New York
• Found Objects
• Old Blogs
• Deviant Art
• A softer World
• Post Secret
• Muggle Net
• JKR Official Site
• Park Ave CDs
• Nina Katchadourian
• ISM Community
• Marla Olmstead
• Get Mortified
• Fred Flare
• Threadless
• Ink Link
• Nucleus Art Gallery
• Areaware