the answer is Nothing

Nothing that needs reporting

Nature vs. Nurture

It can be both. Why not?

Pictured (poorly):
helices
the sea
a steppes-style flower
Ireland
1965 mustang
height
tomes
tattoo ft. aquatic life
eyes
music
magic

I Still Feel Guilty About My Ex

For reals.
When do I get to stop considering his feelings?

Ace

Am I winning?

what do you think youre doing

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The Boy Who Doles Out The Good Times

The boy who doles out the good times
The peripheral nighttime vision
The perennial closing-time decision

I know his silhouette
wears a smoking halo
And I know this type of glittering,
gaudy, gypsy love.
Love which cannot see the day
Love which sunlight
does not acknowledge

And in this way I take him in
take him home
Wash his wounds with whiskey
Paint his body
in lipstick and blood
Paint him darker than
the omnipotent night

I give his body crescent moons
to light my own way
Carve my own radiance
on his form
I extract my joy from his veins

Is this just one more way
to be drunk?
One more escape?
Is this just one more type
of good time
he gives?

Uncertainty Principle

Mother, are you listening?
I'm very alone
and a little scared.

Mother, I don't know,
but I think I'm scared of
my heart.

Mother, do you understand
what I mean?
Could you have taught me
the lesson
that perfect love exists?

Mother, would you have
taught me
Never to settle
no matter what
the cost?

Mother, I have learned
about the uncertainty
of the world
on my own.

But, Mother, would you have
taught your daughter
that love is a constant?

Mother, oh, Mother,
are you listening?
I'm very alone
and more than a little scared.

read/watch/listen

Books I've Read This Year:
January:
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Harriet Spies Again - Helen Ericson
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Galápagos - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket
February:
The Carnivorous Carnival - Lemony Snicket
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
March:
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr
April:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
The Secret Garden - Francis Hodgson Burnett
The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddor
Disappearing Moon Cafe - Sky Lee
May:
The Magician and His Nephew - CS Lewis
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Horse and His Boy - CS Lewis
Price Caspian - CS Lewis
June:
Voyage of the Dawn Treader - CS Lewis
The Silver Chair - CS Lewis
Spyderwick (1) - Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi
The Last Battle - CS Lewis
August:
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan


Movies I've Watched This Year:
January:
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
February:
Mermaids
Back to the Future III
Hitch
Coraline
March:
Amelie
Pieces
Young Frankenstein
Labyrinth
April:
Logan's Run
June:
Tropic Thunder
Anchorman
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Old School
July:
House Bunny
August:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Books I've Listened To:
February:
Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire
March:
The Odyssey - Homer
June:
Drowned Wednesday - Garth Nix
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
1984 - George Orwell
July:
Wuthering Heights - Bronte

2008 Uberlist

Last year's Master To-Do List:

1. take donation to goodwill
2. do atlanta photo essay
3. get 35mm camera
4. wash car
5. vacuum car
6. keep gymbership current
7. make cat-toys for christmas (crocheted mice?)
8. clean out closet. with a seriousness. and a hard heart.
9. frog old ugly sweaters for yarn-harvest [this didnt work. but i did it]
10. send once piece of personal correspondence a month
11. photograph angels for christmas cards
12. make christmas cards in july
13. load dad's mp3 player [ringing success]
14. buy computer/laptop [done if you read "buy" as "aquire." and i do]
15. reorder cheques
16. knit ONE item from domiknitrix
17. send stacie a crafty care-package
18. make thom's gift
19. make spice jars
20. make pillow shams
21. get a sheet for bedskirt
22. finish alphaquilt
23. finish christian's quilt
24. see the shy side of 150 [so close, dammit!]
25. make and hang entry curtain
26. hang curtain-curtains
27. take trip to nyc
28. take trip to boston
29. move
30. get new (fabulous?) job
31. make stockings for grandmother [before feb 10]
32. make jams or something
33. compose/keep current craft tute book
34. write something on craft vs. consume
35. buy *con ticket early, ho!
36. see dentist
37. put photos in albums
38. grow strawberries..... jam?
39. finish picnic rug, dammit
40. take GRE, slacker! you think youre so smart -> prove it!
41. paint mini tattoo canvases
42. start a blog dont tell anyone
43. sell unusual black shoes on ebay
44. clean photos out of camera
45. photograph progress and print photos for craftbook
46. transcribe poems into blank journal (highschool!!!)
47. make jenn's pj shorts
48. go to hexxt with tom
49. go to see rai at bcb
50. learn to play tom's guitar [he smashed it. still a no, though]
51. come up with draft-stopper plan for windows [woot, dad!]
52. buy vermouth
53. make olivetinis
54. clean out cupboard
55. clean out "living room"
56. go to the high
57. get oil changed
58. be happy
59. do allergy-shot research
60. finish christian costa rica painting [i did hang it though. it's, um, abstract?]
61. recaulk tub
62. sand/putty holes in bathroom
63. get sandpaper back from alex
64. call instyle and fixit!
65. make dress from long-flowerdy dress
66. spend less money on eating out
67. visit ginny and linda
68. learn about presidential candidates
69. vote [what what]
70. get new rug
71. take old rug to goodwill
72. flip mattress [thats a good idea]
73. put money in savings each month
74. clean out fridge with tom
75. finish t-shirt quilt [is this on here twice?]
76. go to ben's gamenight at least once
77. go draw with lauren at least 2/3 of times she asks
78. clean out bottom drawer/move cardboard dresser stuff in there
79. clean out wardrobe
80. get proofs back from lauren
81. get cuter casual tops
82. pull and toss dead plants [ha! more are just gonna die!]
83. evaluate and store (if neccesary) dried chives
84. have a craft night with jenn
85. pay back jimmie and sarah
86. transfer patches to new black hoodie
87. fix yellowfoam sculpture
88. finish yellowfoam sculpture
89. finish cat painting
90. mail (or something) cat painting
91. paint winged love on green jacket

ok. 44/91= 48%
so on the 90210 scale, that would make me a Kelly. Allow me to define:
Kelly: you accomplish a fair amount without much effort, then feel very impressed with yourself. It's annoying. Also, you're dull and nobody cares what you think.

Thank you, Nikol, for all the awesome dayplanners which include funny things like 90210-scales.
I'm sorry I got an iphone and didnt buy a planner this year. It's not cuz I don't love you... I've just moved on. I'm sure you'll understand.