Chicago pros

• Great location
• Close to home
• Lots of internship possibilities
• Not a college town atmosphere

Chicago cons

• Columbia College is large, and often given mixed reviews
• No study abroad
• Not as informational/in touch with students
• Mostly known for photography/performing arts
• Rent expensive

Savannah Pros

• Great college, explained in detail
• In a beautiful city
• Career officers/ 88% job placement rate
• Study abroad options

• Go to India. Meet a guru. Learn about life
• Live in a shitty old apartment with a bunch of friends
• Be a nomad for a year
• Start my own company selling clothes
• Adopt an animal
• Learn a new a language
• Live on a houseboat

• Stop eating so much
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• fatass
• Don't fear hunger.

• Longboarding (skate)
• Surfing
• Roller Derby
• Dance classes
• Kayaking

• Searching for le fantasme de la réalité
• Being a realist but a Surrealist
• Finding balance but overturning it

I say I am these things but I rarely take chances. I am a static person with static results. What I get is what I deserve. It's difficult to push your boundaries when you don't even know how to begin.

• DSLR camera.(Preferably the Canon Rebel models or anything Nikon)
• Used student violin
• Easel and canvases
• The absolutely perfect pair of boots
• The prefect boy....har har har yeah right.

I am going to:

• Go to college and meet some awesome new people
• We will go on adventures together and take pictures of everything and make beauty
• I will move to the city
• I will purchase a ramshackle apartment and make the most of it
• I will fill my home with beautiful homemade things
• I will travel often to many places
• I will dress up, every day
• I will have a black cat with a beautiful name(A fennec fox would also be acceptable)
• I will have a studio for art in my house
• I will go to as many concerts and events as possible
• I will give back to the community often
• I will fall in love, but also be a vixen
• If I get sick of living in the USA, I'll ...

• New glasses
• Haircut
• Green tea for school
• New backpack
• Keds or Vans or everyday shoes
• Two new pairs of jeans
• Cheese sticks
• Face wash
• An extension of summer vacation

• Spanish Moss Vintage Blog
• Oracle Fox
• Nasty Gal Blog
• I LOVE WILDFOX Blog
• Studded Hearts
• VICIOUSLY/CYD
• hardtoexplain
• ...look closer
• 10th Muse
• The Trashed Fashion
• Grungegypsy
• LightsDriveMySoul
• Native Fox
• Spell & The Gypsy
• Deciphering Dreams

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• Make own t-shirt design/edit t-shirt
• Feather earrings or other accessories
• Henna tattoos
• Put studs onto converse
• Destroy mom jeans to make into cutoffs

• Art Director for a magazine
• Making music videos
• Fashion designer for a line like American Gold ect.
• Reporter/columnist
• Photographer for National Geographic
• Curator at a modern art Museum
• Illustrator

• Drive to the beach
• Go longboarding
• Venture to Chicago
• Music festivals (Lolla & Pitchfork)
• 6 Flags
• Maybe get tan?
• Jog
• Hang out with awesome people
• Have a picture scavenger hunt

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• visit rock city (Lagrange & 107th)
• Be cool/visit vintage shop in Wicker Park
• Find chill couch in woods off of 159th & Wolf
• Explore abandoned houses
• Ashbury's coffee house
• Go to the Art Institute
• Lincoln Park zoo
• Nature walks

• Make videos and edit them accordingly
• Photograph lots of things
• Start up a t-shirt and vintage clothing company
• Get a new job
• Move somewhere inspiring
• Write, draw,learn to play the ukulele (maybe)

• Sick of being lonely
• I need somebody

Day 1

• The Black Keys
• Swedish House Mafia
• Explosions in the Sky
• M83
• Cat Power
• GIRLS
• Neon Indian
• WU LYF

Day 2

• Bon Iver
• The Shins
• Kaskade
• Miike Snow
• Feist
• St. Vincent
• Laura Marling
• Grouplove

Day 3

• Fix voice (well this is reoccurring)
• Work out (Also, this)
• Start a new hobby, like music or something
• Be more friendly towards people, open up a little

• Download new music
• Remake all my awesome playlists that I had
• Draw
• Buy things for people for Christmas
• Go to concerts
• Get a decent amount of sleep

• No confidence whenever I meet someone new
• New people slight me or think I have a lower intelligence
• Have to be forced to nod and grimace and accept the name "leannon" because I can't fucking correct myself
• Angered by my parents because they don't give one damn
• Hate introductions because they are always awkward and nobody helps me when I struggle with my own fucking name
• Emotionally I'm constantly anxious when I have to speak around people I'm not comfortable with, and then when I fail I think about how pitiful it is I can't even get the basics of speech down
• People never take me seriously
• The worst first impressions happen, all the time
• No guys like me because I sound like a da...

Lollapalooza

• Fence hopping with 40 other people
• Flogging Molly moshpit/kick line
• Best Coast in the rain
• Front row for explosions
• Skrillex

The rest

• Harry Potter midnight premiere
• Pitchfork festival
• Sleepover week with Nora and Carlyn
• Befriending people at the mall and using their pool
• Camping at my dad's rec club
• Gay Pride Parade
• Fourth of July with John Wong & friends
• Getting 18 stitches on vacation

• she's so pretty
• And I'm not
• 1000 doubts bubbling on my mind
• Will you even win?
• I never use this to literally make useful lists, it is good for blurting out thoughts though.

• New Delhi, India
• Venice, Italy
• Papeete, Tahiti
• Sydney, Australia
• Athens, Greece
• Phuket, Thailand
• Tokyo, Japan
• Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
• Los Angles, United States
• Kruger National Park, South Africa
• Mexico City, Mexico
• Angkor Wat, Cambodia
• Langkawi, Malaysia
• Auckland, New Zealand
• Madrid, Spain

• Stop touching my face, especially my chin. Damn acne
• Stop snacking when you get home
• Stop obsessing over my voice
• Stop looking at the big picture all the time
• Stop being lazy with homework
• Stop saying I'm going to work out "the next day"

• Warm breezes on skin
• The sweat on your back that makes your shirt stick to your shirt
• Not wearing shoes
• Staying up late
• Crickets chirping
• Beautiful hazy moons
• Walking everywhere with friends
• Staring at the night skies
• The relief of a refreshing pool
• Slushies on a sweltering day
• Sunsets that don't start until 7:30
• Lazy bugs
• Green leaves and the aroma of flowers
• Just sitting outside, listening to good music
• Wearing sunglasses everywhere you go
• Summer storms and lightning
• Freckled skin
• The smells of barbecue
• Summer carnivals and festivals

• Working on rough draft for Vonnegut research paper
• Studying for AP Government exam
• Studying for AP Micro final
• Get tie-dying shit together
• Maybe look up debate cases

• Macbook Pro 15" for school
• DSLR camera
• Drawing board with clips
• New shoes (vans or whatever)

That's it really, in terms of material goods.

Whenever I "hook up" with some either

• I'm not sober
• They're not sober

Romantic, eh?

• Clean sheets
• Watching the sun rise on the 0 hour bus
• Full moons
• Trees with leaves
• The smell of new paper
• The smell of old paper
• Long car rides to nowhere in particular
• Steam coming off a cold drink on a hot day
• Sun on skin
• Lights in the city
• Understood glances
• Laying in the grass
• Shared Silences
• Driving to CCR
• The art department
• Finishing a book
• Freshly picked cherries

• Juliet, Naked
• The Fuck-Up
• Lolita

Ah, fuck. There were a lot more. I just forgot the titles.

• Not talking enough
• Not being open enough
• Not showing the right reactions
• Not reacting at all even
• Not having the confidence
• Not acting quickly
• Looks like now I've realized my error, and it is a bad one.
• I never thought I would be this person
• But sadly I am

• It's been one of those days where you feel mediocre and nothing more
• I'm afraid that there's going to be a ton of plans and ideas in my head and most of them won't work out. (So far this seems the general pattern of things.) I don't want it to stay that way.
• I feel like I need to get more involved, mostly with school. There's not that many clubs of interest though. (Maybe I'll contemplate lacrosse)
• I'm afraid I'm never going to amount to anything.
• Fuck criterias, I'll never be in the top percentile.

• Read novels and articles of intellectual merit
• Finish homework earlier
• Enjoy time by myself at Barnes & Noble
• Work out
• Sleep earlier
• Draw and be inspired

• School
• Come home, go on computer
• Sleep
• School
• Come home, go on computer
• School
• Sleep
• Come home, go on computer
• School
• Come home, go on computer
• Sleep
• School
• Come home, go on computer
• School
• Sleep
• Come home, go on computer
• School
• Come home, go on computer
• Sleep
• School
• Come home, go on computer

• Take multivitamin everyday
• Eat healthy foods from now on

-no more fried foods -Only trace amounts of sweets (dark chocolate is OK) -Use the right serving size

• Stop touching/tugging/popping trouble areas on face
• Once a week do pore cleanse with boiling water and apply baking soda to face
• Drink daily 8 glasses of water
• Do some form of exercise at least 5 days a week
• Attend yoga sessions; even if you have to go alone
• When snacking, eat fruit, string cheese or nuts, nothing packaged and unhealthy
• Drink green tea often

-only drink water or tea, sometimes juices

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• Cherry Garcia ice cream
• Chik'n Patties
• Strawberries
• Pomegranate Green Tea
• Deep fried pickles
• Cheese stuffed poblano peppers
• Pad Thai
• Granny Smith Apples

• I'm stupid
• I'm stupid
• I'm stupid
• I'm oh so stupid
• But then again so is everybody else