key themes

i made this list a while ago. middle of august, when the school year felt so far away and i felt unusually optimistic about how things would go. i could mope about all the things that haven't gone my way this month, but there are no excuses for that. i'm 21 now. it's time to get my shit together. so these are meant to be the key themes for 07/08. it's a work in progress, really.

i. eat healthy!
eat breakfast.
pack a lunch.
shop local / organic.
make lots & have leftovers.
make it fun.

ii. save money.
i guess it's not so much saving money as it is to just not spend so much.
i don't expect to come out of the year with a dollar to my name.
$900/month limit, including rent.

iii. kick school butt.
keep the gpa high.
library afternoons.
put the effort in.

iv. make the most of it.
wake up early.
travel the island.
walk everywhere.
surprise people.
surprise myself.
swim in the ocean.

v. love love love :)

summer reading list '07

may

white teeth - zadie smith
the inheritance of loss - kiran desai
kitchen - banana yoshimoto
the memory keeper's daughter - kim edwards
one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
a short history of tractors in ukrainian - marina lewycka
never let me go - kazuo ishiguro
pandemonium: bird flu, mad cow disease, and other biological plagues of the 21st century - andrew nikiforuk
shalimar the clown - salman rushdie

june

the jade peony - wayson choy
mean boy - lynn coady
villa incognito - tom robbins
the god of small things - arundhati roy
fugitive pieces - anne michaels
monkey beach - eden robinson
the wasp factory - iain banks

july

love in the time of cholera - gabriel garcia marquez
their eyes were watching god - zora neale hurston
the facts behind the helsinki roccamatios - yann martel
if on a winter's night a traveler - italo calvino
the unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera
lolita - vladimir nabokov

august

pilgrim at tinker creek - annie dillard
consumption - kevin patterson
eat pray love - elizabeth gilbert
middlesex - jeffrey eugenides
we need to talk about kevin - lionel shriver
the stranger at the palazzo d'oro - paul theroux
a spot of bother - mark haddon

top five.
one hundred years of solitude
a spot of bother
eat pray love
the god of small things
pilgrim at tinker creek

AS IF!

As if I live in a city where a legitimate excuse for being late to work is that you got stuck behind a horse-drawn carriage. Happened today, everyone just nodded. Been there. Nothing you can do about that.

things i'm diggin'

the new bedding. blue and flowers and not quite girly, perfect for tangling up for afternoon naps and wrestling in while we try to get laundry done.

sooke potholes. one of the coolest and most beautiful places i've been to on the island. snakes aside.

my job. say what?! cool people, awesome money, and constant laughter. plus lots of free time for reading and poster making and gossiping.

the new pornographers' new cd. check out "mutiny, i promise you" - classic style, sooo good!

sitting on the balcony with the cat in my lap.

my new haircut. it's exactly the same as my old haircut! for real, charlotte did it up right.

this weather. finally summer has arrived in victoria, and soon i am taking off for a weeklong holiday and i plan to get some serious sun.

waking up early.

chapters.ca. why would anyone ever shop at a bookstore when they can everything so much cheaper online? and free shipping and handling!

mac's. the best coffee ever if you mix it up right. i crave it all day long, even more than tim horton's.

payday. tomorrow!

my new camera. this old school pentax k1000 that is only for experimenting and learning. my first ever ebay win.

exclamation points!!

knowing that in a week pete will be back in town to dig it all with me.

sweat in my

armpits
kneepits
palms
shoes
eyes
hair
bra
ass
elbows


all told, when you have sweat in your kneepits from having your knees bent for more than 30 seconds it is damn hot. and it's after midnight!

hello heatwave, meet me in sherwood park.