repeat

i believe in the sand beneath my toes
the beach gives a feeling
an earthy feeling
i believe in the faith that grows
and the four right chords can make me cry

when i'm with you i feel like i could die
and that would be all right

[third eye blind, semi-charmed life]

a little broken hearted

i keep imagining this time when i'll just pack up and move away. a job offer in a faraway city, surrounded by nothing familiar and nobody i know. to be with him. or an impulse. a romantic idea of fall on the east coast. something i read in a book.

i heard somewhere
"there are no denouements in dreams."

but i don't do lonely well.

oh yeahh

Puppy Chow

3/4 cup peanut butter
1 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup butter
8 cups Crispix cereal
2 cups powdered sugar

Melt the peanut butter, chocolate chips, and butter together. Pour over the cereal in a large kettle or bowl and stir well. Pour the powdered sugar into a large brown paper bag and add the cereal. Fold the bag to seal and shake well to coat evenly.

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