• a nice walk
• some hot tea
• a reason to laugh

• St. Matthews (kindergarten)
• Our Lady of Refuge (2nd-5th)
• Hardy Oak Elementary (5th)
• Barbara Bush Middle School (6th-8th)
• Clovis West High School (9th-12th)

• she's extremely good with numbers
• she is the second of four kids, first daughter
• she's outspoken
• she is always preoccupied having her outfit match
• she owns a lot of black
• she is indecisive
• she is hardly ever embarrassed
• she doesn't know how to whisper or use discretion
• she hates it when i walk with bare feet around our tiled-floor house
• she hates clutter
• she's a germ freak
• she has never been traveling alone....

• he watches fox news
• he is the first of four boys
• he likes the o'reilly factor
• he has been a subscriber of national geographic for over half his life.
• he has a lot of plaid and hawaiian shirts
• he'll drive with the empty tank light on for days
• he'd win a lot of money if he was on cash cab or who wants to be a millionaire
• when he was a kid, he performed "operations" on lizards and then stitched them up and ...

• columbia, sc
• san antonio, tx
• eagle pass, tx
• fresno, ca
• santa cruz, ca

• vacuuming and emptying the collection canister afterwards
• meticulously organizing my itunes music
• finding goofs in movies, especially those dealing with continuity
• sore muscles
• recognizing taste/smell of herbs
• cleaning the filter after using the dryer
• peeling carrots, potatoes, etc.
• changing my desktop wallpaper daily
• the smell of gasoline
• freshly cut fingernails

that i recall

• the lion king classic-- probably my first obsession.
• mulan i watched this movie at least 4 times in the first 48 i hours i owned it. got it for valentines day.
• anastasia i never owned this, but i loved the soundtrack and had the barbie.
• how the west was fun thank you to whoever bought me this for my birthday one year, it did not go to waste.
• cool runnings i thought this was the funniest m...

• Inside (À l'intérieur) by Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury
• Half Nelson by Ryan Fleck

• learn to crochet (well)
• be more active
• procrastinate less
• read 20 new books
• learn all about teas, flowers and birds

unfortunately.

• aaron carter
• shane west
• william beckett

• Wicked begins in SF JAN 27!
• Avenue Q in SJ in March
• tickets on sale JAN 8!
• RENT IN LA IN MARCH!!!!!

• sleeping bag
• rain boots
• tickets (RENT! Coachella! Wicked! Avenue Q!)
• books: Alex and Me

• ENVS 80A-- the future of rainforests (s)
• ENVS 15-- natural history of the UCSC campus (s)
• ENVS 91F-- PICA
• ANTH 3-- intro to archeology (w)
• SOCY 15-- world society (f, w)
• EART 20-- environmental geology (w?)
• SPAN 2
• FREN 1
• Justice on Earth (w)
• Garden Internship

• mankala
• life
• pictionary
• scattergories
• scrabble
• trivial pursuit

• pumpkin soup
• toast
• cereal
• mashed potatoes
• sweet potatoes
• mushrooms+carrot+cucumber+raisin+sunflower kernels+spinach+jicama+garbanzo bean salad
• kettle corn
• papaya
• odwala (superfood)

i have a bad habit of not finishing books i start.

Fiction

• Atonement (Ian McEwan)
• Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
• The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis)
• The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
• Crime and Punishment (F. Dostoevsky)
• Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
• The Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling)
• Anthropology of an American Girl (H. T. Hamann)
• The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum...

• A Clockwork Orange
• Amandla!
• Awakenings
• Big Nothing
• Blue State
• Chalk
• Ciao! Manhattan
• December Boys
• dummy
• El Maquinista
• God Grew Tired of Us
• Guy-X
• I am the Cheese
• Igby Goes Down
• Mostly Martha
• Moving McAllister
• My Kid Could Paint That
• Paradise Now
• Silk
• Spiderman 3
• The Hottest State
• The Price of Milk
• The United States of Leland
• Va Savoir
• Winter Passing

sites i can't get enough of (apart from listography)

• youtube
• postsecret
• swaptree
• i'm in like with you
• facebook
• current
• wordpress
• last.fm
• etsy
• good reads
• threadbanger
• ecorazzi
• twitter
• jason mraz's journal
• burda style
• truth out
• brotherhood 2.0
• flickr
• free rice
• viropop
• grist
• threadless tshirts

• 5awesomegays
• BenLoka
• Charlieissocoollike
• corporalcadet
• disneykid1
• elevatorshow
• fiveawesomeguys
• fiveawesomegirls
• frezned
• hayleyghoover
• jaaaaaaa
• mememolly
• nanalew
• nerimon
• sxephil
• tyleroakley
• vlogbrothers
• whatthebuckshow

• Micheal Cera
• Dominic Monaghan
• Louis Garrel
• Bret McKenzie
• Jemaine Clement
• Rupert Grint
• Freddie Highmore
• Johnny Depp
• Anthony Rapp
• Jim Sturgess
• Simon Pegg
• John Krasinski
• Rainn Wilson
• Alan Rickman
• Jason Bateman
• Michael Douglas
• Adrien Brody
• Dustin Hoffman
• Robin Williams
• Morgan Freeman
• Patrick Fugit
• Topher Grace
• Viggo Mortensen
• Paul Dano
• Dennis Quaid
• James McAvoy

a random list of words i like

• zombify
• plethora
• composure
• multitude
• vegetation
• gander
• paragon
• vagabond
• fragrance
• audacity

• Go backpacking in a different country
• Meet all the people in a full room at any given time
• Make a quilt out of all my clothes
• Spend an entire day being completely honest
• Spend an entire day sitting in a public spot
• Witness coral reef in nature
• Attend a Secret Garden Party
• Attend a funeral of somebody I never knew
• Attend a church of each religion once
• Participate in Ramadan
• Climb a mountain
• Make a formal dres...