• Vincent Van Gogh
• Anish Kapoor
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Salvador Dalí
• Sir John Everett Millais
• Banksy
• Edgar Degas

• Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
• The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Shine by Lauren Myracle
• Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
• In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
• Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
• The Lover by Marguerite Duras
• Ms. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
• Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
• Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini

• staring at floor to ceiling oil paintings in tate britain
• warm wraps and chili crisps from pret a manger
• sitting on one of the benches in leicester square with a good book
• waking up in my flat to the sounds of double-deckers passing beneath my window
• feeding the geese and squirrels in hyde park with 50p stale bread from waitrose
• getting caught in the london rain
• four quid tins of food at camden market
• the circle line and how terrible it is
• the piccadilly line and how crowded it is
• wandering the six floors of waterstone's books
• pub food
• tea in covent garden
• grocery shopping in sainsbury's
• getting warned about drinking with kiwis

• "Bird" by Pablo Neruda
• "Tonight I Can Write" by Pablo Neruda
• "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed and Where and Why" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• "Sonnet 81" by William Shakespeare
• "Don't Go Far Off" by Pablo Neruda
• "The Pope's Penis" by Sharon Olds
• "Love Armed" by Aphra Behn

• A Wheatfield With Cypresses by Vincent Van Gogh (National Gallery, London)
• Yellow by Anish Kapoor (Royal Academy of Arts, London)
• How It Is by Miroslaw Balka (Tate Modern, London)
• Shooting into the Corner by Anish Kapoor (Royal Academy of Arts, London)
• Ophelia by Sir John Everett Millais (Tate Britain, London)
• When I Am Pregnant by Anish Kapoor (Royal Academy of Arts, London)

• not being able to put down a good book (it makes me even happier when i have to hide somewhere to finish it)
• moments when i realise that the world is much, much bigger than i am
• london
• rooibos tea on very cold nights or semi-cool mornings
• the music i love so much that i refuse to share it with anyone
• buying new underwear
• running
• wearing high heels in a room full of short(er) people
• the wave pool
• applicable song lyrics
• falling asleep on the tube
• the fifteen minutes of movie trailers before the actual movie
• late-night drives with dear friends and no destination

• Wedding Soup
• Homemade pizza
• Tacos
• Homemade Chili
• Cooked carrots
• Homemade potato soup
• Tuna noodle casserole
• Chicken tortilla soup
• Lasagna
• Teriyaki Salmon
• Chicken in Wine Sauce

• ✔ meatloaf
• ✔ chicken in wine sauce
• ✔ lasagna
• stuffed shells
• ✔ teriyaki salmon
• eggy in a basket
• reuben
• ✔ tuna noodle casserole
• ✔ beer dip
• chicken noodle soup
• ✔ beef vegetable soup
• hamburger soup
• chili
• ✔ honey lemon rosemary chicken

• schadenfreude - pleasure in the misery of others
• sodades - persistent feeling of missing someone (not in the present sense, but the way things used to be; can have for someone you hate now.)
• hyggelig -the warm, fuzzy feeling from being with people that you love
• ficante (ficando as noun) - person in relationship where you have kissed (may or may not have had sex,) are not in a relationship as of yet, and are not exclusive with.

• Alright Still - Lily Allen
• A Weekend in the City - Bloc Party
• Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends - Coldplay
• LeftRightLeftRightLeft - Coldplay
• Made of Bricks - Kate Nash

• Nick Nolte
• Tom Hardy
• Kurt Angle
• Stephen Frears
• Hanif Kureishi
• Gwen Stefani
• Kristen Stewart
• Robert Pattinson
• Taylor Lautner
• Lily Collins
• Alex Pettyfer
• Dianna Agron

• running outside midday: an excellent way to get a tan AND exercise
• eating ramen: it may be a load of sodium, but it's cheap as fuck and let's face it--i sure don't have the money for groceries
• setting your homepage to BBC news: no matter what, you have to see what's going on in the world before you sign into facebook
• V for Vendetta: a new favourite film of mine
• laughing at funeral homes: a) there is a real dead person in the room b) you can't change the fact that the person you love is no longer here and c) crying won't make it any better
• reading critical essays on books you love: it opens you up to entirely new view points (for twilighters, i recommend The Twilight Mystique)

• Snow White and the Huntsman
• Cosmopolis
• The Hunger Games
• The Dark Knight Rises
• 21 Jump Street
• The Five-Year Engagement
• Prometheus
• Lola Versus
• Dark Shadows
• On the Road Again
• The Avengers
• Neighborhood Watch
• Chernobyl Diaries
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
• The Great Gatsby

• Nick Nolte
• Tom Hardy
• Joel Edgerton
• Jennifer Morrison
• Taylor Lautner
• Lily Collins
• Sigourney Weaver
• Alfred Molina
• Jason Isaacs
• Alex Pettyfer
• Diana Agron
• Timothy Olyphant
• Christopher Nolan
• Anne Hathaway
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Tom Cruise
• Rosamind Pike

i'm usually pretty unpatriotic, but the 4th of july weekend is a time to revel in my american-ness.

• overwhelming patriotism
• my hometown
• the size
• the variety of accents
• the flag
• the lyrics to its anthem --what the fuck is a rampart?