• music that makes you feel like you can do anything
• the ability to laugh
• woolly socks
• little kids who giggle at ladybugs
• stars in the night sky
• shooting stars
• grandmommy's scrambled eggs
• people who smile
• scarves and sweaters with really wide stripes
• holding hands
• blowing bubbles
• warm towels
• coloring with crayons
• having nothing to do
• pixie rain
• feeling welcome
• holding babies
• being a part of something amazing
• a good night's sleep

• a - art&apple cider
• b - baking&beauty(in all of it's forms)
• c - crying&cooking
• d - dogs&delicious food
• e - elizabeth&elephants
• f - friends who love each other and me
• g - generosity of strangers&friends alike
• h - holding hands&haircuts
• i - imagination&imagery
• j - john&july
• k - kerouac&(butterfly)kisses
• l - literature&lemonade
• m - music&markers
• n - new music&friends&books
• o - old music&friends&books
• p - painting&pining&photography
• q - questioning&querying
• r - red sweaters&roller skates
• s - smiling&spinning
• t - talking late at night&telephones&teac...

• write a novel
• have things published
• backpack across europe
• open a bakery
• be an editor
• open a publishing house
• become fluent in french
• foster older children and teens
• adopt a child
• get married
• be happy

• permafrost - laurena segura - john, this one is for you
• little black sandals - sia - this song is sent to my father.
• she moves in her own way - the kooks - elizabeth, my dearest, this song is for you.
• kids - mgmt - to kaley, with love and absent hearts.
• do-wah-doo - kate nash - this song is for christine.

• the xx (excellent)
• the 802 tour (excellent)
• clogs (excellent)
• sufjan stevens (<3)
• shara worden (<3)
• aaron dessner (don't remember)
• vampire weekend (<3 ezra)
• joanna newsom (only saw part)
• st. vincent (eep!)
• the caulder quartet (all-right)
• my brightest diamond (swoon)
• the national (<3)
• space for lease (my friends <3)
• the dirty guv'nahs (good)
• passion pit (crowded, but good)
• flogging molly (only thing i remember is mosh pit)
• asher roth (funny)
• the few (excellent)
• no love lost (loud)
• blues traveler (good)

/words i like the sound of

• burrow
• gallop
• scurry
• chortle
• fond
• lull

/words i like the meaning of

• lovely

• i fall in love easily. head/heels.
• i have trust issues, inherited from both my dad and my mom.
• i prefer lowercase, except cursive 'l's.
• i cannot wait for university, though i am frightened i will not do well.
• each summer i visit my father overseas, so i have traveled quite a lot.
• i want to have children of my own. at least one.
• i grew up around adults, so i am terrible with people my age.
  • it doesn't help that i look several years older than my true age.
• i'm going to make a difference in the world, though i have no idea how
• i have a really long list of things i want to do in my life, & i'm terrified that i either won't pick the right things, won...

• my least favourite colour is orange
• my least favourite movie is the break-up
• my least favourite animal is the snake
• my least favourite time is the morning
• my least favourite drink is pepsi
• my least favourite song is (i'm drawing a blank)
• my least favourite musical group is nickleback
• my least favourite food is calamari
• my least favourite age was fourteen
• my least favourite book was the woman warrior
• my least favourite television show is hell's kitchen (but i secretly adore it)
• my least favourite city is pigeon forge, tn
• my least favourite person is alex
• my least favourite item on my wall is my non-covered light switch
• my least favourite item in my room is my ...

• really good music
• eyes
• pretty things
• really, truly kind people
• parents who understand children
• stuffed animal seals
• little kid giggles
• really comfortable sweatshirts
• new book smell
• old book smell
• curling up in an enormous armchair
• being in london
• being in paris
• people who believe in peace
• people who love other people
• when your stomach feels like it's going to jump into your throat because you're that in awe of another human
• meeting new people
• green tea
• reading books closely and thinking hard a...

well, this is a sketch generated list topic.

• elizabeth - your skin. it's the most amazing shade of olive.
• marie - your... everything, pretty much. you're all around beautiful.
• breyon - your eyes. i could honestly stare into them for hours and still be amazed.
• tyler - your cartoon-like movement. everything you do is so happy & bouncy.
• jake - i really like how you walk, especially in the cold. you walk with long strides and a slouched back, relaxed but in a hurry incomprehensible to others.
• john - your eyes are absolutely lovely, and your smile (the real one, not the obliging one) makes me so content. if you would just smile all the time i would be the happiest girl in the world.

• go to the top of the eiffel tower
• dance in the fountains in chelsea
• meet the love of my life
• go to the sundance film festival
• go to bonnaroo
• go to sxsw
• learn to surf
• become fluent in french
• go to burning man
• finish nanowrimo

• noah & the whale
• jenny & Johnny
• kate nash
• sufjan stevens
• fol chen
• the books
• self
• andrew bird
• regina spektor
• the xx
• the national
• vampire weekend
• edward sharpe & the magnetic zeroes
• phoenix
• matt & kim
• los campesinos!
• yeah yeah yeahs
• tegan & sara
• the generationals
• the big pink
• the strokes

• my favourite colours are indigo and scarlet
• my favourite movie is pretty woman
• my favourite animal is the giraffe
• my favourite time is late, late at night
• my favourite drink is diet coca-cola
• my favourite song is white winter hymnal by fleet foxes
• my favourite musical group is noah & the whale
• my favourite food is spaghetti with meatballs
• my favourite age was age two
• my favourite book is the virgin suicides
• my favourite television show is gilmore girls
• my favourite city is london
• my favourite person is elizabeth
• my favourite item on my wall is the drawing louise made of me
• my favourite item in my room is my enormo...

• go to london the millisecond she is old enough to appreciate even part of it
• dance around the house listening to michael jackson & the bangles
• read little house on the prairie to her from the day she's born
• completely encourage her phases
• make sure she knows who i am as a person, not just as her mom
• accept her no matter who she turns out to be.
• save my old clothes for her, because she'll want them one day
• give her a walkman, an analogue camera, & as many notebooks as she could possibly desire
• go on picnics
• teach her the joy of the swings
• sqidge our toes in the sand

• wake up at an impressive hour (9-ish)
• eat breakfast at blushes with him, consisting of: two scrambled eggs, a chocolate chip pancake, toast, honey, & orange/pomegranate juice
• take our puppy for a walk in the park two blocks down
• go to the gelato shop, & walk around the art gallery lawn while eating said gelato
• go to lunch at caramel (veggie burger, chips, coke light)
• pick up a book & go to green park and read it while sitting under comfortable trees
• go to an evening show of a little night music
• stay up all night with popcorn & potato chips & just talk & look at each other

• friends who don't act like friends
• people who think tolerance is an acceptable substitute for equality
• people who act as if earth will be fine if we continue to act in the manner that we are currently
• the idea that who i love makes me less than another human being
• middle school. just... yeah. if you've been through it, you know what i mean.
• dried out markers
• overlapping sets

• harry potter (hufflepuff) scarf
• a typewriter
• this precise copy of inferno
• asylum: inside the closed world of state...

last last year (sophomore):

• honors chemistry - brown
• honors english - heiser
• latin iii - colbert
• creative writing - dean
• algebra ii - ritchie
• honors world religions - hohmann
• ceramics - mann

last year (junior):

• journalism - shellist
• ap us history - banker
• ap history of art - joe
• physics - hondorf
• ap computer science - brother dave
• ap english - robbins
• french i - mlle

this year (senior):

• ap modern euro - rowcliffe
• pre-cal - sisson