• 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

• "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...

• 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

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:

• 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)

• 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

• laundry
• putting groceries away
• going to bed with dirty feet
• crumbs in the sheets

• boots
• scarf
• glasses (ahhh i can't see anything!)

• 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]

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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?