All Books, All The Time

i have no idea what the criteria were for this list, but it reminds me how much there is out there, from the last century alone, that i've been wanting to read... now if only i had a year off grad school to actually read post-1900 stuff!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien []
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling []
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
6 The Bible []
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte []
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell []
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman []
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x]
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller []
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare []
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier []
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x] (it counts as an x even though i didn't finish it, because the book was horrendous and i made a conscious decision to stop!)
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger []
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot []
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell []
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald []
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy []
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams []
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh []
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky []
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck []
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame []
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy []
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (the complete series) []
34 Emma - Jane Austen []
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen []
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis []
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [x]
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres []
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne []
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell []
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [x]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving []
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins []
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery []
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy []
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood []
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding []
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan []
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [x]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert []
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons []
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen []
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [x]
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon []
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley []
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon [x]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck []
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [x]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold []
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas []
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac []
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [x]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [x]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville []
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens []
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker []
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett []
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses - James Joyce []
76 The Inferno – Dante [x]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome []
78 Germinal - Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray []
80 Possession - AS Byatt []
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens []
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell []
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker []
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro []
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert []
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry []
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White [x]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom []
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle []
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x]
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x]
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks []
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams []
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole []
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute []
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas []
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo []

Request For Communal Expertise

if anyone's out there reading, i'd be grateful for:

(a) tips on what to do on a week-long trip to rome
(b) that-hallmark-holiday-in-february gift ideas for a gregarious, sporty, itinerant, preppy boy, from a girl who thinks the usual array of store-bought stuff (pens, ties, even hiking gear) for guys is totally boring. (if the boy in question is reading, and feels so inclined, he can make suggestions, too!)
(c) suggestions on how to file away stacks and stacks of printed-out articles/readings in an aesthetic yet useful fashion. i'd like to avoid filing cabinets, if at all possible, which is to say that hanging folders on a frame, magazine boxes, and the like would be much more up my alley.

email [simphonatic at gmail dot com] or leave comments.

In...

. . . the closet: my imac box, an air mattress that doesn't inflate, and laundry that needs to be folded (stat).
. . . my travels: a trip to new castle, a trip to new york, a trip to old boston, and a wending of my way home.
. . . my piggy bank: numerous quarters, a couple of stray nickels and pennies, and three checks, each for a significant amount of money, from rare book school that (due to complications and logistical irresponsibility) i haven't banked yet.
. . . my bad books: mousies.
. . . my head: derri-damn-he-just-won't-go-away! (and barbara johnson, the "flippin' genius" who clarified some of his key terms for me in her brilliant introduction to dissemination.) god help me if i become a deconstructionist instead of a formal literary historian.
. . . my heart: sandy, my awesome cohort (raf, ash, tekla, dave, rachel, chris, kara, claire, katie, jon, phil, beth, lucia), and my brother.
. . . my bag: library books, wallet, ipod, water bottle, pens/pencils, readings, and part of one of the tines of the plastic fork with which i ate lunch today.
. . . bigtime trouble: if i don't get the reading done for tomorrow.

(expanded from koo's meme, at <http://chapatikid.blogspot.com/2007/10/in.html>)

PersonalDNA

first there was visual dna (see mine here <http://simran.nomadlife.org/2007/03/visual-dna.aspx>).

now there's personaldna:

About You: You are a Visionary

• Your imagination, self-assuredness, and knowledge of the world combine to make you a VISIONARY.
• You have clear notions of how things could be, and the confidence to try to make them that way.
• You enjoy having a routine, and prefer comfort and familiarity to risk and adventure.
• Not needing others' approval to forge ahead, you are confident in your designs for the future.
• Your imagination allows you to envision the world as a better place.
• You're better at thinking of the big picture than you are with details, and you can see wonder in abstract things.
• Style and appearances are important to you, and you have a good eye for beauty.
• You are somewhat rigid in your beliefs, which comes from both confidence and an aversion to change.
• You are good at creating works of art in forms with which you're familiar.
• Your independent streak allows you to make decisions efficiently and to trust your instincts
• You much prefer to have time to plan for things, feeling better with a schedule than with keeping plans up in the air until the last minute. Your decisions are well thought out, and you're not the least bit impulsive.
• Generally, you believe that you control your life, and that external forces only play a limited role in determining what happens to you.
  

If you want to be different:

• Appreciate the earthly, functional elements of things.
• Your clarity of vision sometimes prevents you from being open to new ideas. Try expanding your horizon of experiences, and experimenting with novel ways of doing things.

How You Relate To Others: You are Free-Wheeling

• Your charismatic nature, liveliness, and independence make you FREE-WHEELING.
• You don't mind being in the spotlight, preferring social gatherings to quiet nights at home.
• You take a practical approach to people, not getting too involved in their feelings—or their business.
• At the same time, your acceptance of others leads you to be understanding of their life circumstances, even if you don't quite understand their emotional reactions to some things.
• Although you have a wide circle of friends, you're very discerning as to whom you can trust.
• You're not rigid in your beliefs about the world, and you don't want to impose your perspective on others, but at the same time, you know that plenty of people don't always act responsibly.
• Engaging with others is a large part of how you live in the world, and most importantly, it plays a role in how you see yourself—you tend to learn a lot about yourself in situations where you are with other people.
• You have an understanding of the complexities of situations, and you don't judge others too hastily.

If you want to be different:

• Your open-mindedness about the world gives you a great perspective on things, but your lack of trust in others limits how close you can get with them. Try opening up to people a bit more without losing your healthy skepticism.
• While being the life of the party will occasionally come naturally to you, be sure to reserve time for yourself—see what you can learn by spending some time observing the world rather than just by diving in.

Pieces Of Eight

the "eight random things about you" meme has been floating around for the last little while... and it makes sense that this round seems to be the province of book people, too; only librarians and other varieties of bibliophiles could conceivably concern themselves with digging up and digesting this degree of personal trivia.

well, here goes.

1. i've been a calligrapher for about 12 years now -- half my life. if you asked me what hand i most preferred, i'd vacillate between italic and gothic, but my heart really belongs to copperplate, for which my pumpkin nib is perfect but at which i'm not as proficient as i'd like to be.
2. my favourite kind of flower is the gerbera daisy.
3. countries i currently want to travel to: egypt, greece, turkey, italy, peru, australia, the maldives.
4. i have 10 piercings (7 in my right ear, 1 in my left, nose, navel). next up: a tattoo.
5. i am obsessed with the new york times's real estate and weddings sections. what can i say; all those heart-warming stories about people finding beautiful rent-controlled apartments (and equivalent soulmates) make for addictive reading! (i can't remember where i found the following website, but this couple's story, although not narrated in as much detail as i would have liked, mixes the two genres, and therefore takes the cake: <http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/9-month-cure/index>)
6. one of my guiltiest shopping pleasures (which i think proves that i am not really that high maintenance) is buying fruity-smelling shampoo. my sense of self depends on few things more than it depends on the way my hair smells when i randomly get whiffs of it on the wind while whipping busily around at work. for years i used generic crap by revlon (oh, right, it was called flex. ugh.) but then i finally invested in some orange-scented stuff by suave. i can't remember what came after that (it was junior/senior year of college, which is a total sensory haze)... until i discovered herbal essences. fruity goodness in all colours of the rainbow! w00t! and then, a few months ago, courtesy of royal chemists near liberty cinema, camellia, chamomile and hot tea. not so much fruity as... clean and classy, but clairol and therefore damn good. last week, though, came the pièce de résistance: i was poking around at the local on my way to my daily swim, and saw the curviest, prettiest pink snap-top bottles -- body envy volumizing shampoo and conditioner, with a fusion of white nectarine and pink coral flower. "do i want to feel uplifted?" hell yeah! (my only disappointment? yellow liquid in pink bottles. what the bleep is that?) (yes, i am a cross between a ditzy teenager and a stern anti-blatant-false-advertising biznatch. deal.) but whatevs, all is forgiven, for the glorious smell, and since they even come with trivia on the bottles for when i'm shampooing away earnestly and need on-the-fly reading material! yummy.
7. i prefer silver/platinum/titanium jewellery to gold/diamond bling.
8. i could totally subsist on noodles (maggi/ramen, flat rice noodles, udon, soba, glass noodles... not to mention dishes like mee goreng, hakka, pad thai...) and veggies. basically, if it has a slurp factor, and mushrooms, i can eat it.

i like how this list randomly ended up being all about the good things in life. i must be happy.

(last time it was five rather more intense things -- see <http://simran.nomadlife.org/2007/01/five-things-you-dont-know-about-me.aspx> for a total of 13 factoids!)

The New "It" Meme

everyone on facebook for some reason suddenly seems to be involved in finding out how, if he or she were a word, he or she would be defined in the dictionary.

so i, dutiful facebooker that i am, went to the quiz, at <http://www.quizgalaxy.com/quiz_83.html>, typed in my full name, and pressed the enticing, rather excited little "find out!" button.

it told me i am "a dance involving little to no clothing".

which sounded great, until i decided to experiment with the sanctity of the definition by pressing the back button and clicking "find out!" again.

this time i was "a person who falls into an outhouse and dies".

not so hot, because one of my friends has already been defined like that. it makes me sad to think that memes have finite sets of possible answers. i want a unique unnecessarily-sexed-up self-definition, thank you very much.

Lunar Clips

You are The Moon

Hope, expectation, Bright promises.The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.

The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.

What Tarot Card are You?

Take the Test to Find Out.

Where Would You Go?

or where would you guess i would go?

(i ask because so many people, when i tell them i'm picking between grad programs, respond in ways that lead me to believe that they think my decision should be based entirely on aesthetics. and because polls are fun -- when people respond to them!)

pick(s)@flick(r):

<http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlfish1303/446726442/>

<http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlfish1303/446726440/>

<http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlfish1303/446726438/>

i have to know by april 15, but even if you read this after that, feel free to leave comments on architectural appeal in the comments section.

Visual DNA

finally, a classy, elegant and meaningful meme.

Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™

CityLurve: New York (Redux)

you know, i already did a citylurve on new york (at <http://simran.nomadlife.org/2006/09/citylurve-new-york.aspx>), but somehow i can't imagine this sort of list -- courtesy weekend in new york and the NYT -- making sense if created with any other city in mind. so you'll have to forgive me the duplication.

anyone care to go on this hunt when i'm in nyc at the end of the month?

Point and Shoot for Bonus Points

ONE reason people visit New York is to catch a glimpse of things they’d never see in the average American city. Some such sights are mystifying, some charming, some jaw-dropping — and some are even legal.

Did you find the worst bagel spread combination? A bad parallel parking job? We want to see what you caught on film.

This week, Weekend in New York offers a photo scavenger hunt, in which you (working alone or in a group) seek out scenes and objects intrinsically New York and capture them with your camera. The hunt could be the centerpiece of your weekend, but also could serve as just a way to enhance your downtime as you wander from restaurant to park to museum, observing the natives in their natural habitat.

If competing against others, award two points to the team that does the best in each category, and one point to anyone coming in a reasonably close second. Or, if you’re playing alone, just award a whole bunch of points to your own team and declare yourself the winner.

FOOD

Biggest crowd waiting for a brunch table: Sociologists are unable to explain it, so why should you even try? New Yorkers like to wait — arms crossed and toes tapping, of course — as long as possible for their first meal on Sunday. To qualify, those waiting must be huddled on the sidewalk.

Worst bagel/cream cheese or spread combo: Blueberry bagel with olive tofu spread? You can do better (worse) than that. Either a photo of the offending sandwich or, if you don’t dare order it, separate photos of the elements qualify.

Most expensive pizza slice — cheese only: The price of a slice of plain old cheese pizza is always creeping up. What’s the highest you can find? (Hint: $2 probably won’t win.)

Most expensive slice, no toppings barred: Add chicken or basil or bacon or artichokes or gold leaf, and watch the price take off like a pickpocket being chased in the subway.

Most unusual-looking fruit or vegetable for sale: If it can get through customs, it’s somewhere in this city.

BUSINESS

The A.T.M. charging you the most outrageous amount for a withdrawal: $2 minimum.

Most newspaper/magazine dispensers on one street corner: They’re often chained together, and the ones with things you’d actually want to read are empty or require your pockets to be jingle-jangle-jingling with quarters.

Most out-of-town and/or foreign language newspapers at one newsstand: In some parts of town, you’d think fans of Le Monde and La Gazzetta dello Sport and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung had never heard of the Internet.

Cheesiest Statue of Liberty-related tourist souvenir.

Multiple Starbucks in one picture: Two, certainly; three is a challenge.

TRANSPORTATION

Best parallel parking job: The city’s drivers know that if a parking space is an inch longer than their car, they can ooze in. Be sure to photograph both the front and back ends.

Vehicle with multiple parking tickets: The easy-to-spot orange envelopes should be on the windshield or clearly visible inside the car. Old tickets that truck drivers place to avoid reticketing are valid, as are tickets ripped apart in rage.

Most yellow cabs in one photo: No fair taking an aerial shot from the top of the Empire State Building.

LIVING CREATURES

Most unlikely companions: Some New York restaurants specialize in unusual wine and food pairings, but the entire city specializes in unusual people pairings. Is that fashionable babe really dating that pitiful slob? Is that silver-haired guy about three times that woman’s age? Is that a rabbi necking with a Senegalese hair stylist? (100 points for the last one.)

Best-dressed dog: And by that, we mean worst-dressed dog.

Most dogs with one human: In New York, money buys anything, including the guy or gal who comes to your house, picks up your dog and drags it and a bunch of others to the park. Absolute minimum: four dogs.

Pedestrian triple-tasking: Someone doing at least three things at once, one of which is walking down the street — plus eating and talking on cellphone; listening to iPod and reading magazine; or knitting and screaming at friend.

Pedestrian stupid-tasking. Someone who is text-messaging while crossing a hyper-busy street, something that could soon be illegal in New York City.

Picture of a celebrity on the street: Trick question! In New York you’re supposed to ignore celebrities. Minus 20 points.

Someone using a pay phone: Not too common these days; even less common, two people using adjacent pay phones (double points).

A traffic police officer smiling: It’s a tough life giving out tickets to the roughly seven million cars that are breaking parking laws at any one time. Subjected to nasty looks and verbal lashings, these officers don’t have much to smile about.

Anyone wearing George W. Bush paraphernalia (hat, T-shirt, full body tattoo): Manhattan voted 82 percent to 17 percent for John Kerry over Mr. Bush in 2004. The word on the street is that the president’s popularity has not increased.

NONEDIBLE INANIMATE OBJECTS

Public advertisements or notices in languages other than English: one point for each language. Spanish is a freebie, kind of like the space in the middle of a bingo card. (Starting clue: Check out the signs about being in one of the first five cars on the No. 1 train to South Ferry.)

Most amusing spelling or translation error: Combine immigrant store owners with immigrant sign makers and what do you get? An entrepreneurial spirit that keeps the city’s economic engine humming? Yeah, sure, but also errors terrible enough to drive language sticklers insane.

Most monstrous baby stroller: It’s not that strollers aren’t monstrous everywhere, but here the sidewalks, store aisles and bystander tolerance are narrower.

Most unusual piece of refuse: A city that collects the strangest things also discards the strangest things, and they don’t all fit in a trash bag.

Most intellectual book being read in public: O.K., or perhaps just used as a prop to attract a Ms. or Mr. Right prone to lugging around a copy of “Gravity’s Rainbow.” If you hear someone say, “Oh, you’re into Kierkegaard” — whirl, point and shoot.

Five Things You Don't Know About Me

a meme by way of librarygrrrl (blog at <http://www.librarygrrrl.net>):

(if you’re not interested in me -- and no reason why you should be -- move on now!)

1. i first started reading at age 3. the first word i ever read was "there". by age 4ish i was on noddy and mr. men; i had special library privileges at school and my classmates called me the dictionary. seems i took pride in my nerd status even back in the day.

2. i fixate on my eyebrows. they are a constant source of annoyance, chagrin, and dismay to me. sometimes i think i don't care what they look like, other times i pluck them silly. they've gone from arched to curved to practically non-existent (always asymmetrical) -- no wonder i used to call them caterpillars. if i had one wish in the world, it would be for all varieties of facial hair to be non-issues in my life.

3. i can fake signatures and handwriting quite easily. (watch your checkbooks, people.)

4. i will only wear levi's jeans.

5. i'm obsessive-compulsive about planning and documentation: lists, ratings, memories, calendars, hours i've worked... my netflix account contained about 600 movie ratings (because i couldn't just let movies i'd watched sit unrated, could i now); my filofaxes always held extra post-it pads so that i could write out lists and then joyfully check things off them; my first widget on the personalized google homepage was a to-do list applet; i'd print out and highlight and categorize credit card and bank statements; i collected years' worth of movie stubs back in the US. when i first moved to boston in august 2001 -- and then again in august 2005 -- i'd make daily expense lists down to the cent. years before that i went through a phase where i wrote down what clothes i wore every day so that i wouldn't repeat too often. i have lists of books i've read, lists of people i've made out with, a list of imdb's top 250 with how many i've watched plus when i watched them and with whom... applications for college and grad school involved thirty-column colour-coded excel files. when i went off to college, i borrowed and edited a friend's detailed packing list so that i would have documentation of exactly how many pairs of socks/shoes/jeans/whatevers i was carrying (ditto for packing up my stuff after year 1 -- every item in my 4 boxes was put on a list, in case -- i don't know in case what). my diaries, until i started blogging, used to have to be daily so that i would remember everything. these phases don't last long, but when they're on, they're very involved. i figure out what i'm going to wear to events weeks, sometimes months, in advance. yeah, like i said: involved. and exhausting. i'm currently in a state of great privation because i don't have any to-do lists going. i make do by using google calendar to tabulate my hours such that all events and tasks are documented. it'll do until i go off to grad school.

ok, i realize that i sound like a psycho, but i'm not. really. and anyway, that's an intense enough blog post for jan 1 :P i tag no-one, again, although anyone who feels particularly inspired by this list can go right ahead and put one on his or her own blog.

What Is It To You?

what would you do with rs. 830 (approximately $18.54)?

leave your response(s) in the comments section.

CityLurve: Paris

some of you who've been following my blog for a while might recognize that my citylurve posts tend to eulogize cities i already know.

i only wish i could say i knew paris at all... i've never been, and if my current state of vacation-related disorganization is anything to go by, i'll probably never end up there, long-term UK visa notwithstanding :-/

but i had to use up the title, because i just did this quiz (<http://ynr.blogthings.com/whatcitydoyoubelonginquiz>) at blogthings -- full disclosure: this is the home of such insightful masterpieces as "who's your celebrity boob twin?", "what john cusack movie are you?", "what colour is your aura?" and "what kind of redhead should you be?", but who cares? -- and it tells me that i belong in

Paris

Stylish and a little sassy, you were meant for Paris. The art, the fashion, the wine, the men! Whether you're enjoying the cafe life or a beautiful park... You'll love living in the most chic place on earth.

and speaking of hot french men (because all conversations can easily be steered toward that topic!), i gotta confess i had a truly tough time answering this particular question:
What type of men do you love?
a) Romantic, old fashioned guys
b) Aggressive men with a bit of an edge to them
c) Sexy guys who are a bit on the rough side
d) Sophisticated, witty men

can't i say "e) all of the above?" i mean, isn't that how life really is in the city of light and lurrve? :P

Tagged

by the rai boy (blog at <http://karan.nomadlife.org>):

(i was all excited that i hadn't been tagged yet, but the universe works in funny ways so of course i got tagged. and bloggers got to be nice to other bloggers... it's one of the rules. so here goes.)

i am thinking about...
home

i said...
"i'll see you when i see you"/"hasta luego"/"see you soon" to everyone i could remember to say it to; to the rest i said "bye!" and instantly wanted to take it back (karan johar, i blame you)

i want to...
break free (sorry, couldn't resist. it's the result of too much queen during my formative years). ok, let's make that "invent a cure for snoring -- and snore moments."

i wish...
i could have my cake and eat it too (if you don't get it, text ian and ask.)

i miss...
my old apartment. pick(s)@flick(r):
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlfish1303/224410494/>>
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlfish1303/224409776/>>
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlfish1303/224408928/>>
(also, lying on bed head on shoulder staring at ceiling)
and doing the sudoku

i hear...
the sound of the rain on wood, tar, metal. it's so comforting!

i wonder...
what the future will dish out next

i regret...
stressing myself out excessively

i am...
sleepy (but i'll sleep when i'm dead)
type A
multifaceted

i sing...
frou frou, bryan adams, the corrs, and diva songs (whitney, mariah, lauryn et al, holla!) -- mostly in my head though

i cry...
as much as i want. and it feels good. and don't you tell me not to.

i am not always...
impenetrable, inscrutable, complex, unbending, heartless, or incorrigible. i am also not always perfect, but i try to ignore that ineluctable fact.

i write...
fluidly but sporadically. there will however be much more writing in the near future. personal statements, here i come.

i need...
constant reassurance
more 50 cent words (leave me a comment with a fancypants english word and its meaning :))
less sugar
to be better at chess

i should try...
to let it drop. (but i can never let it drop.)
oh, and to stay in touch more.

i finish...
everything and get an A.

i will not tag anyone because i don't believe in torture.

You Wanted Soul Insights...

you get them. from random quizzes that might or might not be true.

What Your Soul Really Looks Like

You are very passionate and quite temperamental. While you can be moody, you always crave comfort. You are a grounded person, but you also leave room for imagination and dreams. You feet may be on the ground, but your head is in the clouds. You believe that people see you as larger than life and important. While this is true, they also think you're a bit full of yourself. Your near future is still unknown, and a little scary. You'll get through wild times - and you'll textually enjoy it. For you, falling in love has never been easy. You can only fall for someone who is very patient and persistent.

Inside the Room of Your Soul