• studied abroad in london
• broken up with joel when i did
• got random roomates in college

in roughly chronological order...

• andy warhol stuff
• bob dylan/elvis costello concert tees
• converse in odd colors
• lesportsac bags
• swatches
• doc martens

• casting director
• archeologist
• anthropologist
• large animal vet
• zoologist
• building houses around the world (there's a job for that I'm sure?)
• interior designer
• travel tv host
• food critic
• health inspector

• draw
• have the ability to estimate
• play the piano
• stay organized
• stretch farther
• smile normally

• people aren't smart just because they're in college
• i won't use most of what i've learned
• the experiences are what makes me smarter
• teachers/professors really make your semester

• george carlin
• philip seymour hoffman
• judi dench
• julie andrews
• wanda sykes
• anne curry
• kristin scott thomas

• a longboard skateboard
• friends/will and grace on dvd
• sewing lessons
• new shoesies
• a functioning iron

• lesportsac
• swatch
• madewell
• cath kidston
• we who see shoes/boots

• macaroni and cheese
• collard greens
• corn bread
• corn in any form
• sweet potatoes
• salmon
• pork tenderloin
• risotto
• barbeque
• donuts
• fun dip
• tootsie rolls
• chocolate in general

• bernard the elf from the santa clause
• harry potter & ron weasley
• and dean thomas

• facebook.com
• livejournal.com
• people.com
• cnn.com
• perez (sadly)
• listography.com, duh
• my.marymount.edu
• hotmail.com
• urbanoutfitters.com

• rosslyn
• peter
• kennedy
• elle
• emma
• eleanor- family name
• charlie
• holt
• oliver
• henry

• i'm stubborn
• i get easily frustrated
• i don't take my own advice
• i see the good in people...well, what i think is good
• i rely completely on the fact that i think theyre good
• i get screwed over because i'm oblivious
• i claim to like change, but it really stresses me out
• i get too stressed about everything
• i'm shy at the wrong times
• i find it hard to forgive
• i never forget
• i am addicted to chocolate

• juno....4 times
• rambo..eh
• jumper...eh
• atonement....great

• love no matter what
• taught me about tolerance, patience, and how to love the person, not the little things that bug me

• massive amounts of homework
• confusion over boys
• thinking about all the classes i have to take in order to graduate
• the stupid stupid future

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• emo hair spiked in back and straight in the front
• side swept bangs
• highlights in hair that look like animal stripes
• hot topic tshirts
• exorbitantly priced mall clothing- particularly aeropostale in high school. cheap looking, yuck.
• millions of ear piercings
• wearing flip flops year round
• personalized/weird belt buckles
• uggs

• damien rice
• devotchka
• arctic monkeys
• ray lamontagne
• mgmt
• lady gaga

• are polite
  • say thank you
  • hold door open
  • cover their mouths when they sneeze/cough
• smile
• do nice things not because they have to
• break the ice for me

• the human body
• time
• science in general
• natural disasters
• very large things- structures, trees, mountains
• life

• give a lot to my mom, cause she deserves it
• pay off college/car/things i owe my parents
• naturally my third response was to get joel out of debt, but since he's made assholic choices that one's not happening
• adopt a bunch of dogs and buy a big place so they could have a sweet place to run around in
• give money to all the homeless people i see instead of just the ones with dogs
• travel more, with my mommy, in first class
• pay for surgerys for certain people- necessary surgerys
• give some of it away, obviouslyyyy
• buy a years supply of vitamin water- balance flavored duh
• treat myself to something nice
• save the rest (from the looks of this lis...

• against me- you look like i need another drink
• against me-sink,florida,sink

• the women
• love and other disasters
• mamma mia
• stand by me
• twilight
• the duchess
• four chirstmases

• thoughtful gifts
• kisses and hugs
• love
• practical gifts
• artful things
• items with meaning

• busch gardens
• water country
• king's dominion

• W
• vanity fair
• teenvogue
• time
• psychology today
• beading ones cause im really pretty cool

• brad, in the public library after we broke up
• joel..........
• james, awk.
• michael, i love you
• patrick at a grad party? it was part magic
• pearson, wonderment.

• finding out things i did not know
• people who lie
• people who are constantly late
• people you cannot trust
• people who are undependable
• ....in general, people.

• takes out the romanticism of conversation
• it's confusing
• it screws up
• you cant tell when youve sent stuff half the time
• it's lame

• tried to read about russia
• shower & brunch
• shopping at pentagon city w/ stina
• a thoughtful call
• unthoughtful texts
• same confusion

• school bus
• at my best friend's church...because he liked her first
• at my then boyfriend's school
• field biology

high school

• sociology w/ mrs. berry: highlights including a visit to jail and singing happy birthday to me at peking
• advanced american studied w/ mrs. miller/berry: best decision of my life
• ap english 12 w/ mrs. miller: easily the coolest woman alive
• law and debate w/ mr. skelly: hate law, hate debating more, but mr. skelley was great. taught some life lessons infinitely more important than debate.

college:

• creative writing, freshman year at AU: humbling, met writers who thought they were awesome, a few who were actually awesome, got to write regularly and loved it.
• social problems w/ kavanaugh: cutest old man in the world. maybe 1 assignment the whole semester, but taught us about life,...

• love
• food
• memories
• shoes
• monies
• sanitizer
• cereal
• books
• magazines
• travel
• water
• experience

(in no particular order)

• going to joel's christmas dance/first love
• late nights at michael's, watching so you wanna be a super hero
  • hiding in the gazebo after being an accessory in illegal homecoming activities
  • dragging an 8 foot giant orange squid across greensprings drive and tying it to the gazebo
• laying out in michael's front yard with someone else, buzzed and warm
• visiting george mason all of those weekends
• standing on the bleachers at football games, watching someone be horribly embarrassed in the band
• bus rides in field biology
• dollar store/la tolteca/random trips with erin

• paul rudd
• adam brody
• mo rocca
• matt damon
• jeff goldblum
• shia lebeouf
• jesse eisenberg
• seth green
• bradley cooper
• michael cera
• ricky gervais
• steve carrell
• bj novak
• topher grace
• jason bateman
• james franco
• john francis daley
• jamie bellllll
• matthew macfadyen
• steve martin
• matthew goodeeee

• getting to spend the night at my mom's work (nursing home) since she had to work through the night doing something- my sister and i got to stay in the lounge with as many movies and as much junk food as we wanted...it was awesome
• playing hangman with one of the nurses at the hospital while my dad had to work- i chose the word Maine and for whatever reason i remember that specifically. a lot of my memories involve health care facilities.
• going to california to visit my mom's best friend on their beautiful mountain with all of their cows
• living in queen's lake and playing with my group of friends, most of whom i went to preschool with
• st. stephen's preschool was essentially the best place ever
• wearing some of my favorite outfits: my b...

• casablanca. or just morocco

• it starts to get cooler outside
• leaves start to change (hopefully)
• it's almost the holidays
• i really don't like september.

• sisterhood of the traveling pants
• the lizzie mcguire movie
• forrest gump
• almost famous
• the oc (really, all of them)

• boyfriend: Brad Davis
• house: I suppose Larchmont, but Queens Lake
• car: 2003 Toyota Echo
• Love: Joel

• sisterhood of the travelling pants- after carmen leaves her dad's place and goes back home, and tibby slides her the phone across the table to call him. the entire call scene.
• harry potter and the goblet of fire- when draco malfoy jumps out of the tree. there are 2 noises he makes that will forever make me laugh.
• princess diaries 2- when one of the guards chases maurice (the dog) who is chasing fat louie (the cat).
• dangerous lives of alter boys- basically ever scence. but specifically the end, when emile hirsch's character reads the William Blake poem.
• when harry met sally- when they meet up again on the airplane, and the end scene when he lists what he loves about her.
• elf- every.single.scene. when buddy finds out that the santa is an imposter, when ...

• mom
• dad
• nana
• erin
• stina
• michael
• pearson
• sister
• harry potter
• mrs. miller
• mrs. berry

• sitting under the stairs at tenley crying and eating animal crackers and drinking ginger ale
• laying in bed with stina and andrew listening to the joshua tree
• holding pearson's hand
• forbidden love
• walking around trying to find his childhood house, and succeeding
• finishing stina's sentences
• playing basketball in the tropical storm
• the snake-chicken incident
• discovering vitamin water
• IM-ing stina from across the room
• making some sense out of the pearson sitch
• nights at joels
• listening to jojo with stina
• going to see third eye blind and having to walk back from the metro
• ben kweller x3

• prague
• el paso
• new orleans
• maine
• vancouver
• the castle where harry potter was filmed
• on that note, daniel radcliffe's bed
• morocco
• south africa
• mauritius
• russia

um, everywhere?

• stress eating
• worrying
• thinking about you
• loving you
• thinking the worst things
• basically everything to do with you

• hawks!
• accipiters!
• falcons!
• thanks field bio!

• damien rice
• kelly clarkson...again
• aqualung
• interpol
• the eels
• jojo
• hilary
• cascada
• anyone i can get lost in