• "the lady of shalott" by alfred, lord tennyson
• "soda crackers" by raymond carver
• "things" by lisel mueller
• "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by e.e. cummings
• "!blac" by e.e. cummings
• "stopping by woods on a snowy evening" by robert frost
• "the sciences sing a lullabye" by albert goldbarth
• "the forgotten dialect of the heart" by jack gilbert
• "beethoven" by shane koyczan
• "sometimes i am alive because with" by e.e. cummings
• "love after love" by derek walcott
• "so you want to be a writer?" by charles bukowski
• "textbook statistics" by arkaye kierulf
• "failing and flying" by jack gilbert

• 2 Days in Paris
• A Chorus Line
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• A Time for Dancing
• Amazing Grace
• Amelia
• Amélie
• Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
• Avatar
• Becoming Jane
• Before Sunset
  • Before Midnight
• Bend It Like Beckham
• Bride Wars
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
• Bright Star
• Casanova
• Chocolat
• Dead Poets Society

in chronological order

• ✔ captain america: the first avenger (2011)
• ✔ iron man (2008)
• ✔ iron man 2 (2010)
• the incredible hulk (2008)
• ✔ thor (2011)
• ✔ the avengers (2012)
• iron man 3 (2013)
• thor: the dark world (2013)
• ✔ captain america: the winter soldier (2014)
• guardians of the galaxy (2014)
• guardians of the galaxy vol. 2 (2017)
• ✔ avengers: age of ultron (2015)
• ✔ ant-man (2015)
• ✔ captain america: civil war (2016)
• ✔ black panther (2018)
• doctor strange (2016)
• ✔ spider-man: homecoming (2017)
• ✔ thor: ragnarok (2017)

seen: 11

• Comedies
  • All's Well That Ends Well
  • As You Like It
  • The Comedy of Errors
  • Cymbeline
  • ✔ Love's Labours Lost
  • ✔ Measure for Measure
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
  • The Merchant of Venice
  • ✔ A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • ✔ Much Ado About Nothing
  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  • ✔ Taming of the Shrew
  • ✔ The Tempest
  • Troilus and Cressida
  • ✔ Twelfth Night
  • Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • Winter's Tale
• Histories

list idea from sugarplum

• amber
• basil
• ✔ beeswax
• beet root
• black ginger
• black pepper
• bulgarian rose
• cardamom
• chai tea
• christmas in ny
• chrysanthemum
• condensed milk
• earl grey tea
• fig leaf
• flower show
• fresh ginger
• funeral home
• gardenia
• gingerale
• ginseng root

• The Joke (Žert) (1967)
• The Farewell Waltz (Valčík na rozloučenou) (Original translation title: The Farewell Party) (1972)
• Life Is Elsewhere (Život je jinde) (1973)
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) (1978)
  • reading
• ✔ The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) (1984)
• Immortality (Nesmrtelnost) (1990)
• Slowness (La Lenteur) (1995)
• Identity (L'Identité) (1998)
• ✔ Ignorance (L'Ignorance) (2000)
• La fête de l'insignifiance (Festival of Insignificance) (late 2014)

link [http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/20...]

• Go to bed thirty minutes earlier than usual.
• Get up twenty minutes earlier than usual.
• Before you go to sleep, prepare for the morning.
• Bring a hat and an umbrella.
• Don’t wear tight clothes or uncomfortable shoes.
• Make a list.
• Listen to a favorite song.
• Keep extra cash and stamps in the house.
• Be polite and be fair.
• Laugh out loud.
• Have a good book to read.
• Keep an extra set of keys.
• Exercise.
• Always keep your passport in the same place.
• Throw something away.

inspired by, but mostly from, Gala's 50 Things Every Girl Should Do In Her Li...

• Date someone who has visible tattoos
• Buy a toolkit & learn how to use the things in it
• ✔ Travel alone
• Spend a day at the best spa you can afford
• Date someone older than you
• Date someone younger than you
• ✔ Live in a foreign country
• Have a romance with someone who doesn’t speak English
• ✔ Meet one of your idols
  • Just to realise that they're human, too.
• Do something of which your friends don’t approve
• Delve into your personal psychology
• Be proud of your smile & your laugh
• ✔ Live by yourself
• Learn to say no