• Wired for War - P.W. Singer

• reading
• writing
• baking
• graphic design
• talking to people
• watching movies
• making things
• writing letters
• making mix tapes
• cutting up magazines
• dreaming
• sleeping
• awk dawg dancing
• going to concerts

• SlashFilm
• Cinematical
• indieWIRE
• Jezebel
• Desert Candy
• Stereogum
• Galactica Sitrep
• io9
• Said the Gramophone
• Music for Robots

• Starting Sunday off with six hours of sleep.
• Missing archery because I was so so so tired.
• Not having any sort of writing utensil in EALC 110 discussion on Monday.
• Sleeping through LING 275 on Tuesday.
• James canceling dinner that night.
• Seeing him when I really, really didn't need to.
• Talking to him, failing at explaining why we're not really friends anymore and why that breaks my heart.
• Losing my ID Wednesday morning and missing lab in my quest to find it.
• Finding it as soon as I ordered a new one.
• Missing the only SigDelt rush event I could really go to because I didn't know when it was.
• Slamming my right hand ring finger in the...

• The Runaway Robot by Lester del Ray
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
• Who Can Save Us Now? edited by Owen King and John McNally
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

• biting my nails.
• doing my homework the night before it's due when it has been assigned for weeks.
• writing every day.
• explaining myself more clearly.
• knitting again.
• having horrible dreams.
• feeling so much.
• staying up so late.
• sleeping.
• being unhappy with my vague sense of incompleteness.
• listening to Christmas music.

• Learn how to whistle.
• Get a tattoo.
• Go on a road trip down the East Coast.
• Go on a road trip up the West Coast.
• Own a bakery.
• Get married.
• Have a family.
• Visit Iceland.
• Write a novel.

• 500 Days of Summer
• Paper Heart
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
• Watchmen
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Mystery Team
• Moon
• The Great Buck Howard
• Adventureland
• Big Fan
• Coraline
• World's Greatest Dad
• The Missing Person
• An Education
• The Cove
• Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
• Cold Souls
• In the Loop
• It Might Get Loud
• My Suicide

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Zooey Deschanel
• Kevin Rose
• Seth Rogan

• Leonard Cohen
• Silversun Pickups
• Ghostland Observatory
• The Airborne Toxic Event
• N.A.S.A.
• The Presets
• The Hold Steady
• A Place to Bury Strangers
• Bajofondo
• Peanut Butter Wolf
• White Lies
• The Bug
• People Under the Stairs
• Cage the Elephant
• Dear and the Headlights
• Atmosphere
• Mastodon
• Calexico
• Liars
• Blitzen Trapper
• The Cure

• Franz Ferdinand
• Leonard Cohen
• Beirut
• The Black Keys
• Girl Talk
• The Ting Tings
• Crystal Castles
• M. Ward
• The Hold Steady
• Noah and the Whale
• Los Campesinos!
• Gui Boratto
• TV on the Radio
• Band of Horses
• Fleet Foxes
• MSTRKRFT
• Hercules & Love Affair
• Dr. Dog
• The Bloody Beatroots
• Calexico
• Liars

• Make a mixtape for Alex (music is lovely, everyone should listen to it)
• Come up with a delicious banana shake (banana, coconut, white chocolate)
• Finish reading Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg (there are so many other books I need to read)
• Purchase a copy of Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (pick out tattoo!)
• finish checked scarf for Ana (Christmas was over a month ago)
• finish skull scarf (excuses are needed)
• clean laptop (screen, keys, undercase)
• start taking snapshots again (because I want to remember these faces, these places)
• figure out life (this might take a while)

• African mammals.
• weaving.
• the geography of Iceland.
• intergalactic space travel.
• architecture.
• hedgehogs.
• color.
• light.

• Dan Deacon - "Bromst"
• Red Red Meant - "Bunny Gets Paid"
• Fever Ray - "Fever Ray"
• Swan Lake - "Enemy Mine"
• Bon Iver - "Blood Bank"
• Dirty Projectors - "Bitte Orca"
• Bishop Allen - "Grrr..."

• The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
• Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)
• Pretty In Pink (1986)
• Milk (2008)
• Burn After Reading (2008)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
• My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
• Spirited Away (2001)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• Wall-E (2008)
• Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

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• Watchmen (2009)
• The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
• The Two Towers (2002)
• The Return of the King (2003)
• The House Bunny (2008)
• Time Bandits
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

• Eat bananas.
• Re-read Harry Potter.
• Watch Transformers G1.
• Breathe.
• Talk to James.
• Make a Coachella playlist.
• Finish more things on my "to do" list.

DO NOT:

• listen to Christian Bale go off on that guy who was just trying to fix the lights.
• bite my nails.

• Hands: those belonging to Professor Hayden, Haley Johnson, chubby little children and babies
• Professor Hayden's busy eyebrows and the bags under his eyes.
• Anna Baird's tears of joy, laughter, and sorrow.
• Logan Smith's glasses.
• Smiles: those belonging to Steph Chow, my father.
• Noses: my mother's (how I do not have it)
• Beards: The lumberjack quality of Luke Watkins's and the scruffy scruff of Stephen Shocket's.
• Hair: all the shades of blond belonging to that one kid who's in all of my classes.

Voices: Katie Meyer, James Ward, Leah R....

• alabaster
• bones
• castle
• cotton
• dilapidated
• dust
• feral
• fiend
• galactic
• halcyon
• ivory
• lace
• lexicon
• lilting
• linen
• marrow
• marvel
• moonbow
• moor
• particle
• rivered