• drinking a lot of tea - like 10 cups between 9am and 5pm
  • thinking up new lists
  • thinking of regular things in terms of lists
  • missing Goose or playing with Goose
  • driving
  • listening to This American Life
  • talking about rape and domestic violence
  • using my palm pilot so much it almost justifies the purchase of a blackberry/iphone gadget
  • paying too much for my cell phone
nov 15 2007 ∞
nov 15 2007 +
  • "Oh, shit! The rat was not supposed to go in the microwave!" -Allison
  • Holy Shit, It's November! -Owen Wiles, 2003

J(ohn)Lo(ng) Quotes:

  • LOVE your sciatic nerve.
  • It's an organ bath because we're going to put an organ in it. If we were putting a donut in it, we would call it a donut bath.
  • Making fun of people is a bad thing - but we can make fun of meat!
  • I should have said sugar cones instead of southern racist cups.
  • Be the balloon. Or be the ugly bag of water. Just BE the ugly bag.
  • Goddammit, I paid for ice cream! Give me ice cream!
  • You know, the Buddhists say that life is suffereing, and, well...unless you're med...
nov 14 2007 ∞
nov 14 2007 +
  • make lists (duh)
  • get in bed with my socks on and then take them off and notice how funny my feet feel against each other
  • fill out paperwork/online surveys/things that ask me easy questions like name, age, have you ever been sick? listography tells me i'm not the only one!
  • put the dishes away first thing in the morning
  • make things look cleaner
  • make things look cleaner without actually doing much
  • go grocery shopping
nov 14 2007 ∞
nov 14 2007 +

In order of excitement

  • Thursday:

NYTimes' Thursday Styles and House and Home! Also, The Office and Grey's Anatomy. Also, payday!

  • Friday:

duh...but more relief than excitement

  • Tuesday:

I don't remember, but I think it's because Gilmore Girls used to be on Tuesday, and I had good Tuesday classes and QC meetings were on Tuesdays, all of which were enough to get me excited even today. Also, NYT Science Section!

  • Wednesday:

it's almost Thursday!

  • Monday:
nov 14 2007 ∞
nov 14 2007 +
  • when my housemates talk loudly before i've had coffee
  • when the music from the people living above me wakes me up before my alarm goes off
  • when i spent the whole weekend cleaning and then left for a week and came back and it's worse than before
  • the kitchen table cloth
  • how people crank the heat up in teh winter and then walk around in a tanktop (i think this mostly bothers me because I loved doing this until I realized the error of my ways)
nov 14 2007 ∞
nov 14 2007 +
  • the fishtank
  • the name game
  • the christmas book party
  • house dinner
  • appreciation for coffee
  • house hike
  • house home-made holiday gifts
  • having other people over for dinner
  • the thesis-cracked-out weeks
  • bonfire
  • mornings, sometimes (also, NOT mornings, sometimes)
  • umberto
  • the christmas tree whose name i forget
  • jake
  • hank
nov 14 2007 ∞
nov 14 2007 +
  • laundry
  • putting groceries away
  • going to bed with dirty feet
  • crumbs in the sheets
nov 14 2007 ∞
nov 14 2007 +
  • boots
  • scarf
  • glasses (ahhh i can't see anything!)
nov 14 2007 ∞
nov 14 2007 +
  • Songs my ideal lover would dedicate to me
  • Romantic gestures I've received
  • Romantic gestures I've made
  • Romantic gestures I'd like to make
  • What I wish I had known
  • Favorite memories of 5B
  • Things I now say, "that's when I should have known I was gay" about
  • If you know me, you know that I...
  • Things that I want to always remember about [insert person here]
nov 6 2007 ∞
nov 14 2007 +
  • dustbusted me
  • sprayed me in the face with the sink attachment

quotes from my mother in response to this list:

  • i have done other strange things! that were nicer! that made me sound better!
  • disclaimer: i love my mother. she can just be a little unpredictable.
  • uh oh this is starting to sound like a long list!
  • you will be far more amused by this than anybody else.
nov 14 2007 ∞
nov 14 2007 +
  • play with my hair
  • rub my back
  • scratch the spots I can't reach
  • are willing to listen to me talk about work
  • think my rat is cute
nov 14 2007 ∞
nov 14 2007 +
  • She hunts you down on listography.com and suggests lists
  • She insists on calling you her roommate from the opposite coast of the country
  • She follows you to foreign countries
  • She insists on dating people with what sounds like that same name as yours
nov 14 2007 ∞
nov 14 2007 +
  • draw a picture a day, even if it's really bad
  • make lists/read lists
  • make cards for people and send them
  • make mixes for people
  • leave the house/get to know my new home
  • train for this damn triathlon
  • ride my bicycle to and from work at least 3/5 days
  • read good books
  • write letters to people who have been important to me
  • relax about figuring out what to wear
  • have a list of top five things of the day?
nov 14 2007 ∞
nov 14 2007 +