• iPod Classic 120 GB $249.00
• Amazon Kindle DX $489.00
• Nooka ZOO AL NT Watch $225.00
• Fjallraven Kanken Bag $75.00
• Complex Geometries Clothing $10000000000.00
• Dr. Martens 1460 Black Boot $115.00
• Black HiTops $?

• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• The Book of Daniel by E.K. Doctorow
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• On The Beach by Neville Shute
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• How The Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

• Lykke Li- Youth Novels
• Architecture in Helsinki- Places Like This
• Bjork- Volta
• Bjork- Debut
• Beirut- The Flying Club Cup
• Beirut- Gulag Orkestar
• Kanye West- Graduation
• Alphabeat- This is Alphabeat
• The Ting Tings- We Started Nothing
• Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs- It's Blitz!
• Pet Shop Boys- Yes
• Camille- Le fil
• N.A.S.A.- The Spirit of Apollo
• Patrick Wolf- The Conqueror
• Patrick Wolf- Lycantrophy
• Patrick Wolf- The Wind in Wires
• Cansei De Ser Sexy- Donkey
• Cut Copy- In Ghost Colors
• Moby- Last Night
• Ratatat- LP3

• Air Pollution
• Water Use and Management
• Water Pollution
• Solid, Toxic, and Hazardous Waste
• Ecological Economics
• Conventional Energy
• Sustainable Energy

• shower
• math homework
• study for chemistry
• fresh dance performance
• gym
• read Heat
• clean room
• dinner
• update ap euro wiki

Huge sigh of relief. No more AP euro index cards! HOORAY!

• CHEMISTRY: 100
• APES: 95
• AP EURO ORAL: 103
• AP EURO WRITTEN: 76
• AP EURO TOTAL: 90
• MATH: 97
• SCIENCE RESEARCH: 93
• SPANISH: 98
• ENGLISH: 100

• dinner- fondue!
• read and finish I Had Seen Castles
• read more of the Jungle
• start Desert Solitaire
• double check answers for AP euro test
• do two chemistry reviews on castlelearning.com

IONIC:

• loss or gain of electrons
• dissolves in water
• crystalline solids
• ionizes in water
• metal bonded to nonmetal
• END is 1.7 or higher
• has electrolytes (conducts electricity)
• high melting/boiling point
• strong bonds, attraction between positive and negative

COVALENT:

• END of 0-1.6
• no electrolytes
• molecular solids, amorphous
• does not ionize
• solubility depends on polarity
• all nonmetals bonded
• sharing of electrons
• low melting/boiling point

SCIENCE RESEARCH AND APES FREAK OUT AHHHH!! DAY

• decide on topic
  • Does verbal language have an effect on intelligence? The effect of cochlear implantation on previously deaf individuals on intelligence.
• gym
• study for spanish quiz
• make massage appointment
• shower
• dinner at Hokkaido
• if there's time... start reading Desert Solitaire
• make gigantic APES quizlet for midterm
• make huge wall planner from now to the midterms
• do make up math work
• actual math homework
• one AP euro midterm card

• The Mission:
  • Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
• The Criteria:
  • Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
• Why 1001 Days?
  • Many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple goals such as New Year’s resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to...

• Unknown: Beowulf
• Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart
• Agee, James: A Death in the Family
• Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice
• Baldwin, James: Go Tell It on the Mountain
• Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot
• Bellow, Saul: The Adventures of Augie March
• Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre
• Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights
• Camus, Albert: The Stranger
• Cather, Willa: Death Comes for the Archbishop
• Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales
• Chekhov, Anton: The Cherry Orchard
• Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
• Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
• Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans
• Crane, Stephen: The Red Badge of Courage

• GRANDMA ROSIE: 20 dollars cash
• GRANDMA YVONNE: 20 dollar gift certificate to Barnes and Noble which I used to buy The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker and The Year in Review by Time Magazine
• NAJA, NATE, & FREJA: ABBA Gold Greatest Hits CD, Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, A Christmas Story DVD, a guava coconut candle, chocolate covered sunflower seeds, book plates, toothpaste squeezer, tattoo pen, scratch and solve hangman
• MOM & DAD: Land of Plenty Sichuan Cookbook by Fuchsia Dunlop, Anthon Berg Danish Marzipan Bars, 20 dollar gift certificate to H&M, 2 pairs of H&M socks, one hour professional therapeutic massage certificate, magazine subscription to La Cucina Italiana, return address stickers, 100 page recycled paper notebook, contacts carrying case, hairbrush, lindt white chocolate

• AP euro take home test packet chapter 21 questions
• AP euro midterm index cards
• APES project
• study for the APES practice midterm test
• study for spanish quiz
• spanish workbook pg 40
• science research stuff

I only have eight cards. Who are the lucky eight people?!

• 1. Ira, Kathy, Claire, and Evan
• 2. Naja, Nate, and Freja
• 3. Mary and Norman
• 4. Ronnie and Brooke
• 5. Rosie
• 6. Jeffrey, Joanne, and Jamie
• 7. Edith, Ed, and Jonathan
• 8.

Naja

• sorten muld CD mark II
• sorten muld CD iii
• olive oil and chamomile soap
• decorative metal leaf to hang in a window
• white chocolate

Nate

• wallet
• socks
• 70 percent dark chocolate

Dad

• donovan CD
• really nice wood chopsticks
• 85 percent dark chocolate

Mom

• yoga journal magazine subscription
• really nice wood chopsticks

JANUARY 22:

• FIRST BLOCK: Chemistry
• THIRD BLOCK: Science Research
• FOURTH BLOCK: AP Euro multiple choice section

JANUARY 23:

• AFTER SCHOOL: AP Euro oral exam section

JANUARY 27:

• MORNING: Algebra 2/Trigonometry
• AFTERNOON: Free!

JANUARY 28:

• MORNING: Free!
• AFTERNOON: Spanish 3

JANUARY 29:

I am looking forward to:

• no school
• the AP Euro trip to the Met CANCELED DUE TO SNOW
• all the parties and dinner affairs that come with the holidays
• the holidays
  • getting presents
  • seeing naja, nate, and freja
  • making and eating aeblerskiven
  • lighting the candles on the tree- scandinavian style
• going to naja's house for a few days
• woodstock and the bear café
• going to albany

I am not looking forward to:

• putting my cochlear implant back on after a week of not wearing it
• doing the homework that has built up afte...

• Brazil
• USA
• Italy
• Denmark

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• 105 + bus dinner at Daniel
• 275 + bus dinner at Per Se
• 225 + air dinner at Alinea
• 240 + air dinner at French Laundry

Expensive

• Alinea- Chicago, IL- $225
• Per Se- New York, NY- $275
• French Laundry- Yountville, CA- $240
• Daniel- New York, NY- $105
• Momofuku Noodle Bar- New York, NY
• Babbo- New York, NY
• Matsugen- New York, NY
• Nobu 57- New York, NY

More here: [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/...]

• neon green toy watch
• black rayban wayfarer sunglasses
• dr. martens boots
• fake fur hat
• white hi-top converse
• gold hi-top converse
• big leather bag/purse thing
• colorful skinny jeans
• big oversized beanie
• suspenders in multiple colors (besides black)
• norwegian knitted sweaters
• fake black leather jacket/leather jacket bought secondhand
• silver metallic jacket
• acne blue montreal parka
• see though plastic bag
• evergreen lightweight nylon jacket
• flat navy polyester jacket
• skagen black watch

• doctor
• gym
• 3 pages of APES notes on air, climate, and weather
• math textbook work
• take notes on the revolutions of 1848 in austria, germany, and france for AP euro essay (write the essay tomorrow)
• AP Euro textbook notes on Otto Von Bismarck presentation
• shower
• finish reading Heat
• get ridiculously prepared for science research one on one
• dinner
• watch y tu mama tambien

It's a snow day. Time to be productive!

• clean bathroom
• make room presentable for exchange student interview
• chemistry lab
• watch Skins
• estudiar for APES and english midterms
• start reading Heat

Note to self: DO ALL THESE OR DIE.

• freja's second birthday party
• vassar hospital work
• gym
• sharma
• take out the garbage
• watch the inauguration
• get to page 300 of the jungle
• straighten up room
• finish watching Fast Food Nation
• clean up other room for exchange student interview
• laundry
• all AP Euro cards. Just do them and get them over with or else your past self will hate your future self.
• study for AP Euro midterm
• third page of APES agriculture notes
• english journal entry
• make list of colleges i want to visit
• chemistry midterm review packet

Majors that I like:

• Asian studies
  • Asian language 1,2
  • Religions of India
  • Buddhist thought and values
  • Introduction to Asian art
  • Classical Asian civilizations: China and Japan
  • Asian politics and economic development
  • Masterpieces of Asian literature
  • Political philosophy in Southeast Asia
  • Japanese art and culture
  • Chinese calligraphy
  • Modern Japan
  • The Chinese-American experience
  • Political power in contemporary China
  • Premodern Japanese literature
  • Music of Asia
  • Tibetan civilization
• Near and Middle Eastern studies

Snow day!

• straighten up room/laundry
• AP euro index cards (as many as possible)
• study for APES tests tomorrow
• attempt to do APES survivorship curve lab
• dinner
• shower
• study for spanish
• spanish workbook page 41
• study for math quiz
• finish botany of desire

• do spanish workbook pg 40
• study for spanish quiz
• straighten up room/unpack bag
• go to the library to pick up books
• make malai kofta and baigan ka bharta
• eat dinner with naja, nate, and freja
• make berry cobbler
• write down some resolutions
• read, read, read!
• watch city of men, maybe?
• stay up until past midnight
• watch the ball drop (turn on the TV at 11:57pm)
• shower
• work on 101 things in 1001 days list
• eat lunch
• make massage appointment
• write email to mexican host family
• babysit freja/make sweet potato quesadillas
• bananagrams!

• get another brand of shampoo (chamomile?) and alternate with other brand
• 22853000061115
• bn.com/classics

• 9 wake up
• 10 gym
• 1230 lunch
• 1 plan out local and inseason food year
• 4 make challah dough
• 430 wash dishes
• 7 dinner at the bear café
• 9 concert at the bearsville theatre

I want to read five books over break. That's 3.2 days per book. Can it be done?

• What is the What by Dave Eggers
• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

Dear God: Please let it snow! Please cancel APES test study session! YESS!! SNOW!!

• shower
• APES study session at ms. law's house CANCELED
• cookie party at jamie, joanne, and jeff's
• latke party at the synagogue CANCELED
• party at tova and howies
• study for AP euro test on the french revolution and napoleon!!
• take out the garbage

So, I woke up with a really sore throat and thought I might be getting sick again so I didn't go volunteer at the hospital.

• dinner at artie and sharon's
• all chapter 21 questions from ap euro winter break assignment
• read 100 pages of What is the What
• buy stocking gifts for everyone
• attempt to do chemistry lab from when i was sick
• write and address holiday cards
• wrap all the stocking gifts

• Italian Renaissance
• More Renaissance
• Exploration: why, who, where, what they found, brought, brought back
• Reformation: motivations and actions
• Counter Reformation: goals and actions
• Wars of Religion and their consequences
• Phillip II: motivations, actions, legacy
• Elizabethan England
• Absolute Monarchies: France and Russia, political theory, methods, consequences
• Enlightened Despots: Russia, Austria, Prussia, goals, enemies, actions, consequences
• Scientific Revolution: circumstances of and impacts of their work
• Philosophes and Emerging Views
• Revolutionary Women and their works
• The Nature of Women and their rights
• Rise of Nation States: Great Britain
• Rise of Nation States: France

• Arabic
• Spanish
• ASL
• Danish
• Mandarin Chinese
• Swahili

• wash the dishes
• straighten up room
• wrap xmas presents
• estudio for el examen de AP euro on napoleonic europe and the french revolution
• finish The Things They Carried for english
• shower
• dinner
• do something spontaneous
  • disastrous attempt to make an "AP euro study spot" in my room with my papasan chair. there was absolutely no room whatsoever and in event of a fire i would have been trapped and burned to death.
• read What is the What (maybe?)
• help mamaí with the xmas lights

• AP US article
• shower
• chapter 6-7 SSQ
• chapter 8-11 SSQ
• chapter 12-16 SSQ
• chapter 8 packet
• ACT Math Test 1
• schedule
• dinner
• ACT Math Test 2
• AP lit sirens comparison essay

Avec, Bristol, North Pond, Sepia, Hot Doug's.

• New Young Pony Club
• Mallu Magalhães
• Bo$$ in Drama
• Vive la Fête
• Crystal Castles
• Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
• Peaches
• Uffie
• Hyper
• Le Tigre
• Edu K
• Bonde do Tigrão
• Móveis Coloniais de Acaju
• Jumbo Elektro
• Digitaria
• Luisa mandou um beijo
• Mylo
• Autoramas

• Today, I was going to have sex with my hispanic boyfriend. I wanted to turn him on, so I asked my friend how to say "fuck me" in Spanish. She claimed it was "pollo frito". I then proceeded to have sex, constantly screaming pollo frito for an hour. I later realized I was screaming "fried chicken." FML
• Today, I awoke to the sound of my dad knocking on my dorm room door for a surprise visit. He's barely outside the door and I pull the door open and say hey, when my roommate strips naked pulls the door open, kisses me on the cheek, says in an uber-gay voice, "Thanks for last night", and leaves. FML
• Today, I asked my girlfriend when she would give me a blowjob. She replied, "you know that won't happen, I'm a vegetarian." FML
• Today, my husband of 9 years announced he...

• AP euro essay on Freud
• AP euro essay on the Indian National Congress/Muslim League
• math project on fractals
• study for APES quiz on Air, Weather, and Climate
• 3 pages of chapter notes on Air Pollution
• study for AP euro test on the 2nd industrial revolution
• 3 pages of chapter notes on Water Use and Management
• 10 cited sources for English research project on sex reassignment surgery

• hebrew school
• exchange student interview
• read more Heat
• laundry
• shower
• gym
• babysit freja

AHH WORK WORK WORK

• science research midterm
• prepare for english essay
• four AP euro index cards
• study for chemistry midterm
• study for AP euro midterm

• gym 1
• gym 2
• ten AP euro index cards
• science research midterm
• math textbook work
• spanish page 41
• write letter to AG bell
• take out garbage
• read the jungle
• make sichuan hotpot
• write a letter to claire

• school
• stay after to take APES quiz on human population
• gym
• go to barnes and noble and buy "the jungle" by upton sinclair
• memorize differences between polar and non polar, and covalent and ionic
• research upton sinclair for AP euro
• review The Things They Carried notes for english quiz
• study PEARS
• dinner
• read Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
• start looking at college Major book

• The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie and Ina Rilke
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
• The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
• A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb
• A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
• Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
• Second Nature by Michael Pollan
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• My Last Supper by Melanie Dunea
• The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael ...

• Unknown: The Arabian Nights
• Kennedy, John F.: Profiles in Courage
• Unknown: The Bible
• King, Martin Luther, Jr.: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Adams, Henry: The Education of Henry Adams
• Malory, Sir Thomas: Le Morte D'Arthur
• Aesop: Aesop's Fables
• Machiavelli, Niccolò: The Prince
• Andersen, Hans Christian: Andersen's Fairy Tales
• Marx, Karl: The Communist Manifesto
• Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
• Paine, Thomas: Common Sense
• DuBois, W.E.B.: The Souls of Black Folk
• Plato: The Republic
• Franklin, Benjamin: Autobiography
• Tocqueville, Alexis de: Democracy in America

• gym
• hang up danmark stars
• send out claire and evan's presents
• finish audacity of hope
• hang up laundry
• read when you are engulfed in flames
• do spanish workbook pg 40
• study for spanish quiz
• straighten up room/unpack bag
• read magazines
• watch city of men
• make dinner
• order from bestbuy.com
• go to the asian specialty food store for sichuan hot pot ingredients

• 12AM-2AM read the Audacity of Hope
• 2AM-11AM slept
• 11AM-12PM computer, wrapped nate's socks
• 12PM-1PM laundry, ate a spinach feta croissant from walkill farm
• 1PM-2PM vacuumed the kitchen and drank ronnybrook mango yogurt
• 2PM-3PM helped mom groom kazul
• 3PM-4PM gave kazul a bath and blowdried him
• 4PM-5PM went to town with dad and got take out dinner
• 5PM-6PM ate dinner: miso soup, soba noodles-vegetables-broth soup, vegetable tempura from tokyo sushi
• 6PM-7PM got ready for the party, lit the menorah, lit all the candles in the house
• 7PM-10PM PARTY
  • rice pudding and cherry sauce with the wh...

• NIGHT ONE: The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
• NIGHT TWO: Colonial Mexico: A Traveler's Guide to Historic Districts and Towns
• NIGHT THREE: Wall Chart of Human Anatomy
• NIGHT FOUR: A Year in Japan by Kate T. Williamson
• NIGHT FIVE: Festival of Lights by Various Artists, CD
• NIGHT SIX: A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
• NIGHT SEVEN: magazine subscription to TIME
• NIGHT EIGHT: $33.51 gift card to Best Buy

• seeing Freja grow up
• BARACK OBAMA, OH YEAH!
• buying airplane tickets to Mexico
• arguing with hardcore republicans about everything
• all the trips to NYC for my cochlear implant
• maria helena and marcelo visiting from Brazil
• AP environmental science with ms. law
• naja and nate's announcement!

It's a snow day.

• all questions from chapter 20 for AP Euro winter break assignment
• read more of What is the What
• watch a movie
• read Time Out NY
• make kasha varnishkes for dinner- from new york times
• take a walk outside while it's snowing
• figure out claire's present
• plan out the holiday break
• plan out midterm study schedule

• 1. Real macaroni and cheese, made from scratch and baked
• 2. Tabouleh
• 3. Freshly baked bread, straight from the oven
• 4. Fresh figs
• 5. Fresh pomegranate
• 6. Indian dal of any sort
• 7. Imam bayildi
• 8. Pressed spiced Chinese tofu
• 9. Freshly made hummus
• 10. Tahini
• 11. Kimchi
• 12. Miso
• 13. Falafel
• 14. Potato and pea filled samosas
• 15. Homemade yogurt
• 16. Muhammara
• 17. Brie en croute
• 18. Spanikopita
• 19. Fresh, vine-ripened heirloom tomatoes...

• pneumococcal meningitis/bilateral profound hearing loss
• completely snapped in half humerus bone
• cochlear implant surgery
• having an allergic reaction to something (possibly bacteria in yogurt?) and getting hives all over my arms
• having an allergic reaction to an allergy shot and sleeping for 2 days straight after being shot with epinephrine and a very large amount of benadryl
• solar dermatitis in cape may, nj every single year