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- begin each item with an asterisk
dec 11 2013 ∞
dec 11 2013 +
- Telegraph Avenue-Michael Chabon
- 1491 & 1493-Charles Mann
- The Towers of Trebizond-Rose Macauley
- ✔ Cloud Atlas
- ✔ The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance-Robert Pirsig
- Close Range & Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories-Annie Proulx
nov 7 2012 ∞
dec 19 2013 +
- Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
jul 25 2012 ∞
jul 25 2012 +
feb 27 2012 ∞
feb 27 2012 +
- green beans with garlic with a fried egg on top & toast
- salad with mesclun greens, avocado, & homemade croutons with rose
jul 18 2011 ∞
jul 18 2011 +
- figuring out "Babes of the Wine Source" calendar
- Pizza Squares
- first version: how do these people know each other?
- second version: is that woman gay?
- Who is the most normal employee at the Wine Source?
- What are the jobs we are least suited for?
- Caitlin: pole dance instructor
may 17 2011 ∞
jun 11 2011 +
- ✔ IUD
- ✔ new dress (to wear to wedding)
- ✔ Americorps NCCC
- applied
- FEMA Corps class 19-B in Denver
mar 16 2011 ∞
feb 18 2013 +
feb 1 2011 ∞
mar 24 2011 +
- 2 trees full of woodpeckers
- 1 tree full of bluejays
- lots of other birds
- little creature that had its head stuck out of its hole and turned and ran when it saw me
- coyote
- 5 people
- 3 dogs
- a beetle
nov 26 2010 ∞
nov 26 2010 +
- treehouse brewery
- teach sustainable living to kids, brewing to grownups
nov 13 2010 ∞
nov 13 2010 +
- saltwater taffy
- dinner with mary wahl
- monday night was great
- dancing with hikmet and ranya
- ripping off hikmet's shirt
- his encouragement
- ranya's booty dance
- ranya carrying me around the room
- dancing a LOT
- beers beforehand with kait and molly
- telling adam (?) i think he's a good lead, he asked me to dance again on the spot
oct 5 2010 ∞
oct 5 2010 +
- swing dancing (every monday)
- zydeco dancing (whenever)
- visit to california
- christmas with lucie
- shakori hills
- lily's visit
- inbal's visit
- new zealand
- montreal?
sep 19 2010 ∞
jun 24 2011 +
- read from "East of Eden"
- the chapter where good triumphs over evil
- watched some Mad Men
- productive facebooking
- made plans with Sam
- sent message to Lydia in Denmark
- sent message asking for pictures to Julie
- went to Belvedere Square with Tati
- didn't have to wait for the bus either way!
- salmon salad sample from Neopol
- sandwiches from Atwater's
- lemon gelato
- got stuff at Daedalus books
sep 2 2010 ∞
sep 2 2010 +
- "down under" by bill bryson
- hours of entertainment
- a beaded belt from south africa
- little bits of wisdom
- nominated me for the Ariel Singer prize
aug 1 2010 ∞
aug 9 2010 +
jun 16 2010 ∞
jul 1 2010 +
- Baltimore
- Oak Park, California
- North Carolina
- Albuquerque
- Canada
- Paris
apr 25 2010 ∞
may 23 2010 +
this list appears to be entirely meat
- tripe
- chocolate covered cricket
- escargot
- frog legs
- ALMOST ate dog
- didn't because sekou never took to us to get dog burgers, not because i chickened out
- sheep head
- alligator
- pigeon
- shark (fin)
dec 25 2009 ∞
feb 7 2011 +
- pho
- spinach lasagna
- all sorts of soup!
- ✔ oatmeal with sunny-side up egg
- ✔ potato gratin dauphinois
oct 16 2009 ∞
dec 25 2009 +
- Bob Marley & the Wailers
- Sublime
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Pepper
jul 31 2009 ∞
aug 2 2009 +
- keep up that bala
- mandolin
- dulcimer
- harmonica
- fiddle
- accordion
mar 2 2009 ∞
oct 16 2009 +
- french
- i'm a french minor, dammit, i should be able to speak french! hopefully there will be vast improvements in mali
- bamanakan
- again, improvements in mali
- isiXhosa
- spanish
- arabic
- hebrew
- so i can talk to inbal's safta and saba when we visit them in israel; so i can talk to inbal in public in another language
- zulu
- though not completely necessary if i lear...
aug 29 2008 ∞
mar 9 2011 +
- the sound of pulling a full glass bottle of milk from a crate of ice in the milk truck (i suppose it is the ice resettling)
- ocean waves breaking
- the sound when i press a button on the college e-suds machine
- thunder
- breeze rustling through trees full of leaves
- fiddle
aug 18 2008 ∞
jul 5 2010 +
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mar 13 2014 ∞
mar 13 2014 +
- New York
- Mali folk
- cousin Karen
- Israel folk
- Ithaca (?)
- Boston (?)
- ✔ Charlottesville
- ✔ Chicago
- Kashmir
- Elise
- other Israel folks
nov 27 2012 ∞
feb 9 2013 +
- motorcycle
- motorboat
- my own two feet
aug 4 2012 ∞
aug 4 2012 +
where i've eaten
- woodberry kitchen
- b bistro (2x)
- chameleon cafe
- clementine (dinner)
- tio pepe
- petit louis
- the helmand (a bunch of times)
- bluegrass (resto week)
still need to eat
- charleston
- ✔ salt
- ✔ clementine (breakfast)
jul 21 2011 ∞
mar 31 2012 +
- ✔ montreal
- ✔ new orleans
- santa fe
- asheville
- savannah
- vancouver
- ✔ wellington
- ✔ dunedin
- melbourne
- geelong, australia
- ✔ tel aviv
- hobart
jun 24 2011 ∞
oct 5 2012 +
mar 22 2011 ∞
apr 13 2011 +
- drive from baltimore to new mexico
- go camping
feb 6 2011 ∞
mar 1 2011 +
- only worked a 6 hour shift!
- got a $5 tip from an old man who called me an elf then winked at me a lot and told me to "buy myself some lunch"
- ate pollo rico for lunch
- hilarious talk in the breakroom about "good hair" with ian, matt, andrew and sarah
- not so intimidated by ian anymore, not at all by matt
- first time using diva cup--awesome and no leaks!
- won't have my period for when val comes
- randomly ran into lucie after work and got a ride home with jabbe
- sevilla brought us cookies at work
- this may be a negative; as she may be trying to kill us
dec 20 2010 ∞
dec 20 2010 +
- caitlin covered my shift, so i had the day off!
- sip n bite with molly
- finally bought new barbell
- bought belt and secret santa present at goodwill
- they charged me $1 less for the belt than it was marked
- beautiful day out
- park in canton/fells
- pyrenees dogs
- hot apple cider
nov 14 2010 ∞
nov 14 2010 +
why haven't these been made yet?
- Pangaea Two (Kenneth's idea)
- Doppelganger Duel (my idea)
- TV show
- "doppelgangers are evil or nefarious twins not narcissistic love companions" -val
- Caitlin and Laura as Good Cop and Bad Cop (Caitlin's idea)
- Babes of the Wine Source
- orange party
- cheese balls, cheez-its, goldfish, cheetos, nacho cheese doritos
oct 15 2010 ∞
mar 16 2011 +
- it was lily's birthday AND effervescent collective won best of baltimore for dance company!
- went to pete's for the first time
- saw sheba and JR there
- sausage, egg and cheese sandwich
- homefries
- mostly uneaten blueberry belgian waffle
- will probably be able to volunteer with ASTT
- helped lily make delicious cupcakes
- hammering almonds on the floor
- party at the copy cat
- found out chuck and amy are dating
- made plans with sasha to find her cowboy boots and eat pancakes
sep 23 2010 ∞
sep 23 2010 +
- 3 dollar tip for gift-wrapping a bottle of vodka
sep 6 2010 ∞
sep 6 2010 +
maura's list idea
putting things down in this format makes my type seem glaringly obvious
- string musicians
- a jazz bassist
- a mandolinist
- a guitarist
- a fiddler
- a cellist
- a metal bassist (is this a real thing?)
- a viola player
- a banjo player
- an accordion player
- a 10th grade english teacher
- some other teacher
- a cross-country coach
aug 26 2010 ∞
feb 18 2013 +
- walking by a window where someone has just shampooed their hair and you can smell the shampoo
- good hugs
- when the bus pulls up right as you get to the stop
- also, when strangers have positive interactions on the bus
- courteous people
- being complimented by strangers
- finishing a really good book
- sunshine coming in through the window in the morning
- unexpected letters
- checking something off a list
- driving in my hometown and looking at the hills and mountains
jul 1 2010 ∞
jul 1 2010 +
- bass
- ukelele
- fiddle
- lydia, lily, spencer, abby
- banjo
- guitar
- max, claire took lessons, jabbe, jeremy, jason, todd, adam
- harmonica
- drums
jun 3 2010 ∞
jan 7 2011 +
- Indiana Bones and the Temple of Groom
- Achy Brakey (it's an auto repair shop)
jan 8 2010 ∞
jun 3 2010 +
- baobab
- oak
- palms
- even though mom says they're useless
- sequoias
nov 8 2009 ∞
nov 8 2009 +
- elizabethtown
- the power of one
aug 22 2009 ∞
oct 17 2009 +
- heteroglossia
- lifeworld
- monozygotic
- intercrural
apr 17 2009 ∞
jul 24 2010 +
- a couch
- several large windowpanes
- 3 full-grown men
- a cow
- 40 chickens
- something the size of a couch and maybe cow combined covered with fabric
- a bicycle
- entire families
dec 6 2008 ∞
dec 6 2008 +
aug 18 2008 ∞
sep 5 2011 +
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GOOD
- fox river socks
- smartwool
- columbia
- patagonia
- marmot
- manduka
- under armour
- vasque (so far)
- north face
BAD
- gregory
- mountainsmith
- merrill (for my feet)
NEUTRAL
mar 22 2014 ∞
mar 22 2014 +
mar 5 2013 ∞
mar 5 2013 +
oct 22 2012 ∞
nov 17 2012 +
- sharpen knives effectively
- break down beasts
- know all my cuts by heart
- faster, stronger, better
- curing!
- don't give up
apr 15 2012 ∞
apr 15 2012 +
- nice chat with lindy & grundy manager
- listening to physical graffiti (disc 2)
- ramen
- chatting with natalia, chef at woodspoon
- must visit!
- shared our ramen and she gave me some gyoza
- gelato & mad men
- run
feb 16 2012 ∞
feb 16 2012 +
- to buy:
- ✔ tent
- ✔ pants
- ✔ more socks
- ✔ underwear?
- whisperlite
- ✔ backpack rain fly
- something to squeeze down my sleeping pad
- return old stuff sack if it's not too late
- ✔ or just shove it in with my sleeping bag
- first aid kit
- ✔ tarp
- velcro straps
- extra tent stakes?
jul 18 2011 ∞
sep 16 2011 +
- perfect avocado for breakfast
- nice run
- chipotle with Michael
- he gets his drain out tomorrow!!! onto stage 2!
- read lots of the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in bed while it was raining
- pleasant chat with Adam
- lovely silver light
- green mountains shrouded in clouds
- saw a big circling hawk that no one else seemed to
- sun shining through the clouds
- "Tupelo Honey" sung by Dusty Springfield
- homemade (Michael-made) pizza and salad picked from the garden for dinner!
- ultimate Yahtzee high score of 609!
mar 24 2011 ∞
mar 24 2011 +
this list accurately defines my current state of mind
- ✔ Baltimore
- to see the people I love & hopefully to work
- ✔ New Zealand
- ✔ to return
- ✔ in time for the World Cup 9/11
- ✔ Wellington
- ✔ Nelson
- Northland
- ✔ to meet new people
- ✔ to WWOOF on Great Barrier Island
- ✔ see Milford Sound
- Arhus, Denmark
mar 1 2011 ∞
jul 25 2012 +
today was a good day for meat
- work was pretty good
- ate a bison burger
- learned how to cut meat
- had a nice talk with bear about his time in new zealand
- "we were drinking beer and watching the sun set over the ocean and then he tried to take advantage of me"
- tried landaff with pate de campagne
- words such as "insipid" "lactic" "rancorous" and "rapaciously savage"
- ate andy nelson's
- balkan dance party
- got drunk, saw lizzy c. and tabitha
- also, lead singer of balti mare is asshole dude in track suits
- swing dancing
jan 22 2011 ∞
jan 22 2011 +
- 3 or 4 hawks
- 2 blue jays
- 1 woodpecker
- various assorted birds
- 1 dog
- 3 people
- percentage of who said hello to me: 100%
- horse poop
- owl poop
nov 23 2010 ∞
nov 23 2010 +
- ✔ alleviate shin splints
- ✔ get new shoes (friday?)
- warm up better
- cool down better
- ice
- get wine bottle to wrap ice packs around
- playlist
- drink more water
- lotion every night
- spandex?
- sign up for 6k
- buy pedometer
oct 27 2010 ∞
mar 5 2012 +
- avocado and gouda for 1st breakfast
- pancakes for second breakfast
- day with dan and sasha and claire
- little bit of sock dancing
- essex thrift store
- bowling
- walk from fells to beyond canton
- sasha and i plan for the future
- sip and bite
- cowboy boots for her
- leather belt for me
- sugar
- holy frijoles
- hanging out at their house
sep 27 2010 ∞
sep 27 2010 +
- it was mom's birthday
- she liked my present
- we laughed over bran muffins
- nice shift at work
- 12-6
- terry gave me some lemon ginger cookies
- i got to bust out my new shoes
- beautiful weather
- dinner at janice's house
- homemade pizza
- watermelon
- tea
- owls
- i did an awesome parallel parking job
- finished East of Eden again
sep 10 2010 ∞
sep 10 2010 +
- Pearls on a String- Ryan Adams
- Cripple Creek
aug 26 2010 ∞
aug 26 2010 +
- yo no se manana
- fever
- pretty much any and all songs by donna the buffalo
jul 21 2010 ∞
jul 21 2010 +
PROS
- i would be in california
- only three hours from inbal
- free room & board (save money)
- close to grandma
- yoga (?)
- hiking
- good food (con: my dad's monotonous cooking)
- i could help garden
- i could WWOOF close to home (malibu, ventura, ojai, catalina?)
- could read mom's sunset magazine
- convince her to get real simple ?
CONS
- i would be living with my parents
jun 4 2010 ∞
jun 8 2010 +
- ✔ balafon
- harmonica
- accordion
- frottoir (washboard)
- bodhran
- triangle
- bones
apr 17 2010 ∞
oct 12 2010 +
- red rockin' chair (mike and ruthy version)
dec 22 2009 ∞
dec 22 2009 +
- peace corps
- VCH
- grad school overseas
- move to Albuquerque
- move to North Carolina
- don't move anywhere and spend time traveling the states
- Americorps NCCC
aug 22 2009 ∞
jun 24 2011 +
- A
- anthropology; amaryllis; accordion; african continent; absinthe; amelie ; avocado; almonds; adobe; architecture; anza borrego;
- B
- bourdieu; books; balafon; black licorice; bogolan; bougainvillea; breezes; basil; bamako; boba; banjo; beau jocque; baobabs; black pepper; bicycles; bats; buses; building up a sweat;
- C
- clover; chai; colorado; california; camping; cape town; creole; curiosity; constellations; carrots; crab feasts; cognitive science; climbing trees; crazy beats; caramelizing onions; clogging;
- D
may 11 2009 ∞
oct 16 2009 +
- Tom Hamilton from East of Eden by John Steinbeck
jan 13 2009 ∞
jan 13 2009 +
- one time with auni awhile ago, maybe on the way back to hampden from DC, in may 2008
- alone going from towson to hampden, the time i got yelled at for trying to buy a student ticket, sometime in july 2008
- with res going to hampden from bwi airport, august 2008
- with tati coming from bwi after the inauguration, january 20, 2009
- with tati coming from the indian festival in the inner harbor to move our stuff, may 30, 2009
aug 26 2008 ∞
jun 5 2009 +
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