because.

2011-03-04T20:25:00.000-08:00

Once upon a time, Sydney was having a little problem with bullies at church. So, instead of talking to her about her problems, I take pictures. I don't wanna talk about that drama shiz. Luckily, she's vain enough to love it.

winter.

2011-02-05T18:43:00.000-08:00

see that little '81'? that's where i am.

Woo

2011-01-21T22:25:00.000-08:00

Updates:

I'm going to the Washington D.C. North Mission. I'll be spending either morning or afternoon shifts in the Visitors' Center, and the other time proselyting. Yeah, my mission is that cool.

Bam.

I'm related to Money Man:

i read this:

short update. i'm tired.

The Art of The Lion King.

2011-01-04T21:00:00.000-08:00

Dear Joey, I am blogging. So there.

Look what I got for Christmas!

kinda freaking out here.

2010-11-29T11:35:00.000-08:00

Guys!

I'm kinda freekin out here.

Today, in an hour I have a meeting with Val Brinkerhoff to go over my portfolio. Help me choose the ten I should send in: here.

Tomorrow, I have to submit said portfolio, but only with ten pictures.

Tomorrow Night, I have my stake president's interview.

(From here on, is hopeful)

Wednesday Morning, my papers will be sent in.

Thursday, I will be assigned.

Next Week, I will have my call.

BAHHHHHHHHH!!!

sistah mishunreez.

2010-11-16T09:49:00.000-08:00

So, here's Tamarra's blog. She's currently serving in the Temple Square mission. I love her.

Her sister (i think) posts her emails once a week.

This is Niecie. She's going to the mtc tomorrow then on to Brazil! Her blog is awesome. Especially her farewell talk. She's very truthful about her preparation and waiting period.

If you have any other recommendations, let me know!

things for today.

2010-11-15T13:44:00.000-08:00

I want this.

And here's my mission picture.

Music!

2010-11-07T20:48:00.000-08:00

Meet Radical Face:

Love the lost boy feel.

Watch it to 1:30 at least.

i got de germs

2010-11-01T23:44:00.000-07:00

sickness + hibernation + crazy cough syrup = me not being able to sleep well

so, due to this movie:

(srsly, reyna you were looking for something spooky and magical, well this is it. i will watch it 1,000 times over)

i want these journals:

i think the whole set would be good for my mission, no?

Hair.

2010-06-08T16:16:00.000-07:00

Yes, I do live on the moon.

Do I look more like:

or this:

Curses, I think I know the answer.

Because I am in lurve with these.

2010-05-27T09:56:00.000-07:00

Hamlet?

Juliet?

Wendy?

Othello?

Thumbelina? ...

These are all guesses.

2010-04-21T18:13:00.000-07:00

I've been told 3 times by strangers that I look like the girl from pomplamoose. I show my little sister this picture and ask if I look like her. Sydney says, "yes. but your face is rounder."

Maybe I need to lose weight.

happy birfday!

2010-04-21T00:43:00.000-07:00

okay guys, tonight was my second shot at skinny dipping. and it was cold! it was more of a, run into the water, splash around a little, and then run out. someday, i will have a good experience with swimming neked.

also, we celebrated the end of american heritage (in reality it was jess's birthday) at sammy's!

also, i'm sorry for copping out and just sticking these in black and white. but i can't figure how to get my iphoto pics to lightroom. bah.

Happy Birthday Puffer! Love you!

today.

2010-04-01T10:40:00.000-07:00

You know those days when you get the mean reds?

The mean reds. You mean like the blues?

No. The blues are because you're getting fat, and maybe it's been raining too long.
You're just sad, that's all.
The mean reds are horrible.
Suddenly you're afraid, and you don't know what you're afraid of.

Do you ever get that feeling?

orem library!

2010-03-30T19:37:00.000-07:00

why i love the orem public library:

okay, the gorgeous and HUGE puppet theater.

i feel like this *might* be hercules. reyna, help me out here.

something from arabian nights, i'm sure.

obvious.

and the creepy guy on the bus. buhh...

now, my favorite part of the stained glass is on the other blog.

discovery!

2010-03-28T21:21:00.000-07:00

Talana!!!

I found that list of goals I made over the summer!

it's funny to see how my views change.

read patriarchal blessing once a month
buy books from the library
finish season 4 of x-files
review my hebrew vocabulary
sort though clothes & get rid of old junk
go to bed before 11 pm
wake up before 8 am
volunteer once a week
attend the temple once a week
finish my homework the day it's assigned
apply to byu jerusalem center
go to salt lake once a month
study spanish an hour every day
read el libro de mormon
weekend bagel runs
do all of my visiting teaching
go to general conference
help alexia
ride my bike more
go jogging
keep up my blog
travel once a year
study five languages
take kids to the library every weekend
sunday picnics
family home evening
express love and gratitude daily
have a family book club
take daily pictures
learn how to fix a car
learn a musical instrument (i'd even settle for the harmonica)
regular family temple trips
talk things out
hug
adopt a child
lockers
family council
sundays are holy
take art classes
have a library
index my books and keep a record of when i last read each book
live in a foreign country for a year
be a missionary
meet all of the living apostles
open a shop
keep my tumbling skills
go raw for a month
cut off technology for a month
swim great barrier reef
create my own charity
run a marathon
raise kids to be bilingual
build an igloo
ride a camel
see aurora borealis
go skinny dipping
get some henna
own a motorcycle
attend a temple dedication
see nessie

Day 18 1/2.

2010-03-27T18:59:00.000-07:00

I really just like my shoes.

Volume Two!

2010-03-24T11:39:00.000-07:00

Lurve, Love, Amor, Al-Hubb, Ahav, and any other way you want to say it.

I am so in love with Zooey Deschanel. She & Him Volume Two = obsession.

A review: "Though Ward is a master instrumentalist, Deschanel's vocal affects and childlike rhymes sometimes veer into twee overload; she can seem too in love with her own adorability."

Who cares? I'm in love with her adorability.

If you can't sleep:

If the world is cold, but the sun shines the same
Shut your eyes, there are bluer skies
For you're embraced in my heart
Goodbye shadows

Thieves:

I'm not a prophet, old love is in me.
New love just seeps right in
And it makes me guilty
Why do you look like this?
Not all that bad.
I'll see you sometime
Sometimes lonely isn't sad.

Don't Look Back:

Orpheus melted the heart of Persephone
But I never had yours.

Ridin' In My Car:

And I can't find no true love
Oh baby, it's so hard
And I still think about you
Every time I'm riding in my car

Lingering Still:

I like to mean what I say
But it doesn't always come through
Cause if I say it all again again again again it doesn't make it more true.

And the world's like a science
And I'm like a secret.
And I saw you lingering still
I saw you lingering still.

- More to come!

love.

2010-03-23T23:50:00.000-07:00

I just watched Penelope, and it was love.

remember how i love him? and he has an accent? and he loves penelope even with her piggy nose?

tat. pt. 1

2010-03-18T22:59:00.000-07:00

look how real that seems!

who doesn't want a finger light saber?

ow. ow. ow. ow. but creative.

i love it.

i just really love that picture.

get this. this is really a blank polaroid tattoo. you get to draw in whatever you want!

favorite:

i lied. new favorite:

bah.

Paris.

2010-03-14T17:54:00.000-07:00

Calvin, that's for you.

dreams.

2010-03-12T12:00:00.000-08:00

okay guys. how do i get rid of these weird dreams? they're fun, but throwing off my sleep schedule. yesterday i had a nap nightmare of this woman with a beautiful victorian home. it had my dream library. i was sold. she showed me her favorite book. it was a fairytale with the most amazing pictures. however, one of the gremlins in the book came to life and started pulling me into the book. i slipped from his grasp and started running. i got to the end of the street, but his super extending arms grabbed me and pulled me in. i tried holding on grass, cement, anything and everything around me. but it was no use.

and last night was just odd. horses do not belong at the dinner table.

march is going by so quickly!

2010-03-11T14:16:00.000-08:00

In twenty days, I will no longer be a teenager. Weird. How's that list coming? My twenty before twenty in twenty (cool!). Let's check!

Here's the original list. In bold is my progress.

1. keep up a 365 project. - this one's actually going strong. whoo!
2. run a 5k. - eh... i can walk a 5k. but my lungs aren't letting my exercise regimin continue as planned.
3. go to a concert. - if i were in texas, i would be able to be inducted to the concert world by the queen, zooey, herself. but i'm not.
4. go raw for at least a month. - i think i'll be able to do it. i'm actually starting in april after my percy jackson blue food birthday.
5. make a skirt. - i've got the fabric. be excited guys.
6. create a painting/drawing that i'm proud enough of to frame. - not happening.
7. become proficient enough in a language for natives to understand me. - spanish is progressing. so is arabic, but it's just so disheartening.
8. get another stamp in my passport. - definitely not happening before i'm 20.
9. go on a non-family road trip. - did my class trip to moab count?
10. go without any make up for a week. - i actually did this last week. it was great. but i don't think # 12 will be successful if i keep it up.
11. bake a loaf of bread from scratch. - reyna says she'll help me with this one.
12. ask a boy out. - attractive, available, awesome boys, where are you?
13. wear nothing but skirts and dresses for a month. - i'll probably do this one in florida.
14. look good in a leotard again. - bahahahahaha!
15. get paid for photography. - we'll see how this goes.
16. learn how to whistle. - i'm still challenged in this area.
17. take an art class. - this is happening over the summer.
18. finish memorizing the Living Christ. - i gotta go find my copy.
19. stay up for 100 hours straight. - i don't dare try this till school is out. i don't do so well when i don't sleep.
20. ~~get married~~ a real goal... hm... let's see... own a pair of skinny jeans.

There. Done.

Aladdin.

2010-03-11T08:05:00.000-08:00

Seriously guys. My dreams have been so good lately! Last night it started out as me being a dog. Then I was eating this chocolate. (It was a white chocolate reese's peanut butter egg. So Good!)

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And then! It suddenly transformed into this wicked awesome remake of Aladdin! So cool. I need to talk to Disney, for reals.

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I was a Genie. It was great. Now I need to go back and finish that series that Reyna introduced me to, Children of the Lamp, I believe?

-I'll do some real blogging later.

march music.

2010-03-10T12:17:00.000-08:00

my dream about andrew bird was possibly because i was listening to this song.

he whistles (i can't), plays the violin (can't do that either), takes artsy pictures, and he sings. basically, it's love.

oh, and listen to this song. because i said so.

True Affection - The Blow

happy march!

2010-03-09T20:37:00.000-08:00

10 things that make ME happy.

credz

finding music that connects. or, adding another to my list of soul songs.
showers. hot, steamy, carefree, long showers. time cannot touch me when i'm showering.
webcomics. here here here and here.
photography. especially when pictures turn out how i want them to. or when i get a surprise shot.
feeling pretty solid in a language. i was buying fabric today, and overheard a conversation in spanish. i understood every word. it was great. having four different ways to say "no" run through your head is not so fun. especially when you forgot how to say it in spanish. (hint: it's the same as english) silly semitic languages.
having epic dreams. last night i dreamt that andrew bird was staying with us. awesome! two nights ago, i was the captain of an army that was gathering in the hubble (hbll). we were preparing for this awesome real/pretend battle (with swords!) between us and the U. let me tell you, i slaughtered them. i got all crafty and motivational. and i only attacked guys for some reason. but i beat every one. if we were in battle, you'd definitely want me as your leader. i'm better than william wallace.
president hinckley. listened to a talk from him last night. and he just makes me happy.
movies about animals. or giant robots that are meant to kill humans, but learn to be good instead. i'm lookin' at you spirit: stallion of the cimarron and the iron giant.
the smell of lake water/mud. i kept walking past the rb today, and i couldn't peg the earthy smell till a few hours ago. always good times playing in the dark, muddy sand.
hummus. i have gone through an entire bowl that i bought at target in 2 days. so so so good.

whoop whoop!

2010-03-08T14:29:00.000-08:00

BAM! that's right suckas. 95% on my Arabic midterm.

Oh, and I went on a photography/camping trip to moab last week. Kinda boring, really cold, but overall good.

oh, and i love silhouettes.

flower child.

2010-03-07T16:41:00.000-08:00

i <3 rockie.

is it bad that i can't wait to start lactating?

why? check this out. it makes me feel good about people.

also, this guy is cool. here's his project.

i'm going raw next time i go grocery shopping. found some nifty websites.

and a co-op!?!?

this should make it easier!

random things i've found

2010-03-02T01:33:00.000-08:00

because my lungs won't let me sleep.

a blog all about an asian girl eating random food. Here!

most bloggers are mormon and think that everyone wants to know that their kid started eating bananas.

people need more pictures. without them, i'm not going to read your blog. the end.

Daria is coming to DVD!!! Whoop Whoop!

a blog that reinforces the idea that my children will NEVER play World of Warcraft.

some awesome monster sketch sculpture things.

(a picture, so i'm not being hypocritical)

time to eat cereal and head back to bed.

happy march!

2010-03-01T00:01:00.000-08:00

So, I decided to make Mondays in March a way to share happy (yes. i'm using it as a noun.) with other people and to remind myself that life is good.

Joey will be first. Here's his longer than ten, but shorter than twenty list of things that make him happy.

waking up rested.
cream soda.
drawing.
friends.
family.
friends that are family.
a good story.
a story so bad that it's hilarious.
natural reciprocity.
feeling the spirit.
laughing.
a new outfit.
oatmeal creme pies.
a compliment from someone i admire.
being forced to count my blessings. :)
phone calls from loved ones.
jones soda.
good music.

Well, that's Joey.

March!!!

2010-02-28T19:59:00.000-08:00

so, this is my birthday month. it has to be a good one. if not, i'm gonna kick a puppy.

i've decided that i'm going to kick out songs that described february, {change is hard, by she & him}

and

to bring in fresh start happy songs! {serenade, by emiliana torrini}

oh! wait! how about this???

A Good Day (Morning Song) - Pr...

February 26th.

2010-02-27T22:45:00.000-08:00

In response to Reyna's question, here is what I did with big, macho-man, Mr. The-26th.

We woke up late because I got home late from work last night. Exhausted. With a sore sore throat and burning lungs.

Then, after admiring my pajamas (note: just the pj's, not the face, and maybe the hair), I ate a bowl of Life, and began studying for my amazing English test that was mainly about History and works of Philosophy (who does Levinas think he is?!). Yeah, great class.

Took the test in the music room, did better than expected, but that's not really saying much.

Went to work. Cleaned up after the basketball game that we lost. Found nachos that hadn't been touched, consecrated oil, a nice pen, 3 unopened water bottles, an All Sports Pass, 45 cents, Red Vines, a cougar tail, 2 berets, new Burt's Bees, and Transformers fruit snacks. Pretty good haul if I do say so myself.

I also got to know some awesome freshmen kids. I'm still not sure what their names are, might be Felix, Karl, and Cooper, but I feel like they were making that up. Who have you ever met that's named Felix?

Got off of work, went to the remnants of the Purim party. Then decided to watch Pan's Labyrinth with a Hebrew friend.

However, apparently my body's not okay with having just a cough. After getting off the phone with my Dad and him telling me I should get a blessing, I feel like I need to throw up. Instead, once I reach the hallway, my head starts buzzing really loudly, my vision becomes really dark, and my body can't resist gravity any longer. I end up on the floor. This didn't happen just once, but four different times. And all that my friend Cheekie could do was remark, "Wow! You're really pale! Really, I haven't seen anyone look so pasty as you." I glanced at myself, and sure enough, my lips were the same color as everything else. -pallid.

Kinda like him:

(definitely a character from the movie, fyi)

Yeah, so amazing Jess came to get me, took me to my hometeachers', I got a blessing, and now here we are. I'm just waiting to put in my ear plugs and go to sleep.

Goodnight February 26th, it's been ... fun.

20 New Things.

2010-02-26T11:19:00.000-08:00

Yes, I'm copying her. Hopefully I can do these before my 20th birthday, but seeing as how that's only in a month or so, probably not. So, I have to do these before my 21st birthday.

1. keep up a 365 project.
2. run a 5k.
3. go to a concert.
4. go raw for at least a month.
5. make a skirt.
6. create a painting/drawing that i'm proud enough of to frame.
7. become proficient enough in a language for natives to understand me.
8. get another stamp in my passport.
9. go on a non-family road trip.
10. go without any make up for a week.
11. bake a loaf of bread from scratch.
12. ask a boy out.
13. wear nothing but skirts and dresses for a month. -i'll probably do this one in florida.
14. look good in a leotard again.
15. get paid for photography.
16. learn how to whistle.
17. take an art class.
18. finish memorizing the Living Christ.
19. stay up for 100 hours straight.
20. get married.

... totally kidding. i just can't think of a good number 20. how about... i take suggestions? it's really stumping me.

Eric Fortune

2010-02-25T17:59:00.000-08:00

How do I do this? I am just so in love with the first one.

the love - the drugs.

2010-02-24T13:33:00.000-08:00

Dear everyone,

It does not make you cool to talk about curling.

Dear blog friends,

I want to become an animal loving, tree hugging, hippie granola. For reals.

It has now become my dream to work for National Geographic, travelling the world with only a backpack and my camera.

I will grow out my hair if necessary. I'll switch to all organic. Heck, I might even be willing to give up meat. Reyna, can I go raw with you as well?

I've always been an earth-lover. I'll stand up for the little critters. Catch the crickets so my mom won't kill them with an airborne shoe. I love outside. I love going barefoot in grass. Well, barefoot anywhere actually. It's all about texture, people. Which is why I am so into these shoes. I love movies and books that are about taking care of the earth we live on and cultivating the free spirit. Hence, Spirit (yes, the one about horses), Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Ferngully, and Avatar (I want to be a blue person, and I love love love the idea of connecting to nature, also the idea of the "sacred feminine". I believe that the power that women have is incredible and sacred and should be respected, not degraded as it is so often.) One of my most favorite books, People of the Whale, basically discusses the disregard that humans now have for the animals they live with and the environment they live in, how we used to be so connected and in sync with God's creations. I love music with earthy tones, such as:

The Avett Brothers

(They're making beards seem more attractive)

Fleet Foxes

First Aid Kit

Enough of my weird music tastes. If you want more, check out Devendra Banhart, Jose Gonzalez, Ben Gibbard's Home, The Tallest Man On Earth, Bowerbirds, Josh Ritter and GOASTT.

Because of living with the wonderful earth conscious Erin and James, I have learned about home birthing, breastfeeding, co-sleeping, and family strengthening ideas in general. They've also helped teach me how to be more culturally conscious and that focusing on others should always be one of my priorities.

If school gets any more overwhelming, I might just layer up and go live in the mountains. You're free to join me.

If A Day Could Talk.

2010-02-23T08:36:00.000-08:00

Remember how I have Spanish class in Salt Lake City?

Well, yesterday the other girl didn't show, so mi profesor and myself ended up just talking for an hour and a half.

Mostly about the Gospel, which was good, and I needed, but he also talked about making the most of our days.

Pretend that you're hosting a reunion, a get together for all the days of your life. What do you thing some of the conversations would be?

"February 22, 2010, I'd like you to meet February 5, 2010."

"Hullo the 22nd, what did Tiffany do with you?"

"Oh, we went to work, made new friends, went to class, then we had an awesome workout and we discovered that she can still do her awesome handstands and splits. After, we rode the bus to Salt Lake and went to class, but it wasn't the class she was expecting, we learned a lot about life from her teacher, and then we missed the bus. By four minutes. It ended up alright though, we decided to go to Temple Square, follow up on her referral, visit with the sisters, and then had a wonderful conclusion to the night by watching the Joseph Smith movie. Oh! And her amazing friend Reyna found her phone for her. Basically, it was great!" ... "What did she do with you?"

"Nothing. Really, nothing. She sat around and moped for a while, and we saw that same Reyna for a short period of time, but overall, it was quite a depressing time."

"I'm sorry, I mean, you'd only waited for like, what? eternity for your one chance with her. I'm sorry she couldn't appreciate you."

If a day out of your life could talk, what would it say?

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2010-02-21T20:52:00.000-08:00

"Ye cannot behold with your natural eyes, for the present time, the design of your God concerning those things which shall come hereafter, and the glory which shall follow after much tribulation. For after much tribulation come the blessings. Wherefore the day cometh that ye shall be crowned with much glory; the hour is not yet, but is nigh at hand. Remember this, which I tell you before, that you may lay it to heart, and receive that which is to follow. Behold, verily I say unto you, for this cause I have sent you --- that you might be obedient, and that your hearts might be prepared to bear testimony of the things which are to come;"

2010-02-18T17:32:00.000-08:00

So... I think I'm going to the museum on Saturday.

Who's in?

For some reason I feel like I have to clarify. I don't need you guys to come, it would just make it more enjoyable. So, please come.

It's free from 1-4!!!

And check out this:

AGENDA

1:30 • Dragon Dance performance • Great Hall

1:30 • Highlights of the General Collection Tour • Meet in the lobby

2:00 • Utah Chinese Folk Orchestra performance • Great Hall

2:30 • Highlights of the UMFA’s Chinese Art by Dr. Noelle Lechner • Boardroom, 2nd Floor

3:00 • Salt Lake Chinese Dance Arts performance • Great Hall

3:30 • Highlights of the UMFA’s Chinese Art by Dr. Noelle Lechner • Boardroom, 2nd Floor

Oh, and BYU is hosting a Harry Potter dance. And there's a costume contest. Done son.

Behold!

2010-02-12T19:13:00.000-08:00

The Mormon Castle!

Slightly crooked, but I'll fix it laterz.

it glows.

bah. these looked better on the little screen on my camera.

2010-02-12T08:27:00.000-08:00

Anyway, basically I'm bored. Loving playradioplay!. Oh, and my brother.

I talked to Rochelle today for the first time in... over 2 years? It was nice. Our conversation starter: whether G in the pilot's alphabet was Golf or Georgia.

Last week I talked to Destiny for the first time in 3 years. That was nice as well. She's very understanding and if I ever need to vent I know who to go to.

No school Monday!!! In the predicament of deciding what to do once again.

Also, today while "working", I was having a "conversation" with "John". Basically I kept trying to listen to my music while cleaning, and he kept asking me questions about myself. One of these questions was, "what do you like to do with your free time?" My answer?

"I ride buses."

(I'm an idiot by the way, because this is the first, and only thing that came to mind.)

He was very confused in response, and for the next ten minutes I tried to make myself sound cooler and possibly redeem myself.

Basically all I could come up with was, sometimes it was nice to talk to people on the bus for many reasons, but the most helpful one is to make myself feel better. When I'm feeling all mopey and I'm pitying myself, talking to these people make me realize that my problems really aren't that big. I'm not trying to overcome alcoholism. I'm not pregnant with the 2nd child of my husband who's currently in Honduras and happens to be cheating on me. I didn't have to make the decision to divorce said husband. I don't have to deal with his reaction of coming home to an empty house, possessions and family gone.

Basically, I'm selfish, an idiot, and need to work on handing my problems over to the Lord and trusting in His decisions.

ana areed axerj.

2010-02-07T17:53:00.000-08:00

bah!

I'm starting to feel trapped inside myself again.

What to do?

2010-02-05T10:16:00.000-08:00

For obvious reasons, I've been thinking a lot.

Here are some things that I've noticed:

I really do blame everything on myself.
I need music.
I have this thing where I can't let people see me cry.
99% of the time, I just want a hug. But then hugging leads to crying. And that's not acceptable. Nor will I ever be the one to initiate the hug.
I can't put my thoughts into words very easily.
My urban dictionary name amuses me. slightly. weird that this is the first entry.

Tiffany's are usually very loyal and intellegant people whom usually doesn't trust many guys. She usually has many acquintances, but very few best friends. They are always opened minded and always have to be entertained or be having a good time. Most of time Tiffany's stay single and flirt around.

... bye.

primero

2010-02-04T19:05:00.000-08:00

I finally did it! Today was definitely one of firsts.

1. I beat teh computerz on chess!

2. I froze time.

3. I got broken up with. yaay!

4. I had a cannoli.

5. I sparkled toilets and witnessed the use of a "thirsty camel".

boo.

2010-02-03T22:55:00.001-08:00

not a fan of 6 a.m. work.

little letters (yeah, i'm copying. whatevs)

2010-01-28T20:39:00.000-08:00

dear weekend,

get here already. for reals.

dear antoine de saint-exupery,

i love you so much. you are a genius.

dear bagels,

i'm sorry for not being patient with you. i've possibly eaten 7 in the last 24 hours. my poor tummy.

dear english gods,

please grant me the strength to write this paper before i go to bed tonight.

dear 6 a.m. shift of work,

you are killing me. these gloves aren't protecting my hands from the chemicals that burn through plastic. and these early morning bosses are kinda mean.

dear byu women's basketball team,

i hate you.

how are you 500 times more disgusting than the men? 90% of the time, they get the pee into the toilet. whereas, everyday i have to wipe the urine from the girls' seats! yeah, that crap that you left on the floor last night, i "put it away" so i could vacuum up your pizza mess and toe nail clippings. meaning, if it was by one cubby, i threw it in the cubby completely opposite yours. have fun with that. also, how does a pepperoni get stuck on the wall?.... bah! i'm glad you lost last night.

dear pack of colored paper i bought earlier this month,

why do you not have grey?

dear wall,

thanks for letting me get all color-me-katie on you. it's fun.

dear mom,

happy birthday on sunday, i won't tell anyone you're turning forty.

dear boy,

is it okay if we carve watermelons instead? it might be hard to find pumpkins this time of year.

dear taxes,

i'm so excited to get money back from the government. whoop whoop!

dear paper,

fine. i'm coming.

art in the future home part... ?

2010-01-28T18:40:00.000-08:00

So, instead of cleaning out the freezer like I'm supposed to be doing, I've been looking up cool ideas for art. Here are the results:

here.

... meaning, I really only found one. But hey, at least I got a lot of good quality scheming done.

hehehe...

because i'm not original.

2010-01-26T13:24:00.000-08:00

my bucket list:

create my own non-profit organization
become good enough to get paid for my photography
to create all the art that will be hung in my house
to learn enough sign language to be able to communicate with my family without speaking

Sia | Soon We'll Be Found from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

be able to carve a carousel horse or dragon for each of my children
to visit every continent at least once
to adopt a child
to start one of those stores where everything is free
to learn to play the violin, or cello, or mandolin, or any instrument really
to bike across the country
to go scuba diving
to grow an apple tree

to have an immaculate library that competes with the one from beauty and the beast
to read all of the harvard classics
to drive a bull dozer
to go swimming with whales
to have a food fight
to go swimming in jell-o
for some reason everything else just seems so cliché

So that's all you get for now. ha!

good food.

2010-01-26T10:32:00.001-08:00

There's a real post coming. I promise.

bubble.

2010-01-25T09:26:00.001-08:00

happy snow.

2010-01-25T09:22:00.000-08:00

homework.

2010-01-22T07:46:00.000-08:00

So, apparently I exhausted my ability to type what I'm thinking.

Instead, I'll just show you some pictures from my homework for my photography class.

Nothing great really, but I do love this tree.

We were just supposed to explore different settings on our cameras. So... yeah.

So...

2010-01-17T21:27:00.001-08:00

I just really like cuddling.

different.

2010-01-16T00:46:00.000-08:00

So, I want to try writing. It's been a long time (maybe never) since a post contained my voice. So I'm going to let my mind wander. Maybe I'll throw in a picture later. Also, there is nothing that requires you to read this. I realize that my blog is mostly for me.

Wow. Knowing that I'm going to post this one, I tried to type a sentence and just got really scared. I guess I'll have to start with lighter matters.

Such as socks.

I love my socks today. They are mismatched but still coordinated. One has little whales on it, the other is argyle, but both are purple (which happens to be MY favorite color).

I really don't like it when socks are too tight or on for too long. They leave that awful red mark and indentions where the elastic was. And for some reason, they tend to itch. Although, it is kinda cool to run my fingers over the ridges. I'm all about texture people.

I think I've found my soul mate. Not really, but this chick is still incredibly awesome. I met her after ward prayer on Sunday. While being a recluse and reading my book on the couch, she sits down next to me and introduces herself. We got to talking, and it was good. Before we knew it, a different ward's prayer was starting. We both decided to stay for the experience. And boy am I glad we did. First of all, this ward is amazing. Anytime someone is introduced or stands up in the front, every single person cheers and screams for the individual. It might be sacrilegious, but I don't care. We've already had three spiritual hours on Sunday. And you know that there are some people who have never been cheered for in their life. And it was nice to pretend to be in such an enthusiastic ward. Also, this girl named Cecile/Rose just invited me to go llama attack people! How cool is she?

Anyway, just got back from our little escapade. Ees good. Well, weird actually. Why is it so much easier to talk to certain people than to others? Is it the subject matter? Is it some imaginary connection, like a life line, or a soul string? Whoa. What if it is? Or what if I'm just really tired and trippy? Anyway, again, why is it that with some people you just seem to click? Whereas with others, it's a burden trying to carry on a normal conversation? I apologize to those that feel it is/was a beast to get to know me.

Also, I really like my hair. I also happen to like that the gender confusion comments have decreased. I'm considering a jedi braid next (meaning I'm prolly gonna do it, but possibly just for a week). Thoughts?

Reyna, if you read this, I'm grateful for our sexfiles night. It was needed.

One of my resolutions was to either paint or draw one piece of art a month. That need is back. If only I had the materials or the time. Also, I really do love Calvin and Hobbes. So much wisdom from those two.

I love lists. Happy lists, to-do lists, accomplished lists, pros & cons lists, book lists, and especially grateful lists.

Also, yay for languages! And fun colored nails. And for being a girl. And pajama pants.

I discovered this week that I can't be patient at all for things that I really really want. Good thing there are other virtues aside from patience. Can't think of any right now, but it'll come to me.

Apparently I have a one track mind right now and can't think of anything interesting to say. I'm tired. Sorry.

I blame him:

Also, I might really like this boy (in the sixth grade sense of the word of course). :)

For he is good.

grateful for:

2010-01-13T22:26:00.000-08:00

flights getting delayed.
seeing old friends from over 2 years ago.
friends that don't succumb to my tendencies to avoid hanging out.
teachers that are willing to keep a class of 2 students going.
$1 sundaes at mcdonald's.
realizing how small the mormon world is.
my awesome ability of memorizing arabic in a really short amount of time.
snow that keeps dead birds frozen.
sexfiles.
all nighters for reasons other than homework.
a public transit system in utah.
sleep.
books.
new music.
brycen's impersonations.
thought provoking conversations/individuals.
friend ladders.
avoiding buying textbooks.
roommates that laugh at all of my jokes.
the fact that metapod evolves into a buterfree.

i hate:

2010-01-05T22:15:00.000-08:00

trying to talk myself out of something.
friends that leave.
not having my ipod.
the cold.
being in a bad mood.
realizing that all of my food requires me to cook.
hate lists.
how dry utah makes my skin.
the slush that won't go away.
not having a job.
realizing that there aren't enough hours in the day.
runny noses.
feeling behind in a class that just started.
a lot of things right now.

-thanks dani brubaker

w00t.

2010-01-03T17:32:00.000-08:00

Today is a happy post.

i started a flickr account. gimme time to put stuff up there.

i leave for provo tomorrow. pretty excited for my classes.

found my temporary tattoos.

watched a movie with sydney and spencer and kicked their butts during a pillow fight.

fit some of my books into my carry-on bag. unfortunately it might be too heavy for me to get in the overhead bin.

watched matilda last night.

i get to wake up before four a.m. tomorrow

... wait. that wasn't a good one.

calvin leaves for london on thursday.

...that's not one either. gimme a sec.

uhh....

science montage.

2010-01-02T16:07:00.000-08:00

The rat's perturbed; it must sense nanobots! Code grey! We have a Helvetica scenario!

10th grade.

2010-01-02T11:26:00.000-08:00

Bwahaha. Look what I found. This just makes me laugh.

When we leave this world and give up the ghost, the friends we surround ourselves with won't be what is remembered. How we treated our friends will be recalled. The books one writes, not the books one reads. The painting created, not the paintings bought. The music composed, not the music heard shall continue on and represent the true identity within an individual, separating one from another. These are the tools one uses to carve their name forever among the great mortals in history.

Slightly hypocritical of me. Just sayin.

i think it runs in the family

2010-01-01T20:58:00.000-08:00

yeah. it's easier to put it on facebook. sorry reyna.

farewell christmas.

2010-01-01T18:11:00.000-08:00

this was supposed to be a picture of dennis catching the house on fire, but since my camera hasn't learned how to properly focus yet, i get this.

happy i'm-not-going-to-say-it!!!

2010-01-01T17:44:00.000-08:00

Hi! [In your voice reyna]

This is ninja bunny.

he's good.

his trainer: sam

I, however, am apparently really bad at ninja photography.

really bad.

this is reyna telling a story.

for some reason it looks like he's wearing a glove.

scully and mulder.

oh. and dennis was there too. =P

pokemon.

2009-12-28T00:37:00.000-08:00

yeah. i still play it. what about it?

anyway, i'd just like to say that when starting a new game all of the introductory stuff is so annoying.

really? are you going to spend five minutes teaching me how to catch a pokemon? playa please. i've been catching them all since i was nine.

anyway, if you don't know, i'm a nerd. and i love emulators. and the fact that it's necessary to teach your pokemon FLASH to get past the first fifth of the game is annoying.

also, remember to save your game before you turn it off.

*bangs head on wall*

title unknown

2009-12-22T18:07:00.001-08:00

There is a community of the spirit.

Join it, and feel the delight

of walking in the noisy street,

and being the noise.

Drink all your passion,

and be a disgrace.

Close both eyes

to see with the other eye.

Open your hands,

if you want to be held.

Sit down in this circle.

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel

the shepherd's love filling you.

At night, your beloved wanders.

Don't accept consolations.

Close your mouth against food.

Taste the lover's mouth in yours.

You moan, "She left me." "He left me."

Twenty more will come.

Be empty of worrying.

Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison

when the door is so wide open?

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.

Live in silence.

Flow down and down in always

widening rings of being.

-Rumi

excerpts from songs that i'm diggin right now:

I have lost myself again

Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found,

Yeah I think that I might break

Lost myself again and I feel unsafe

Be my friend

Hold me, wrap me up

Unfold me

I am small

and needy

I fell in love again
all things go, all things go
drove to Chicago
all things know, all things know
we sold our clothes to the state
I don't mind, I don't mind
I made a lot of mistakes
in my mind, in my mind

if I was crying
in the van, with my friend
it was for freedom
from myself and from the land
I made a lot of mistakes

Its 16 miles, to the promise land

and I promise you, I'm doing the best I can

now don't fool yourself

in thinking you're more than a man

cause you'll probably end up dead

so i came inside to be with you
and we talked all night,
about everything we could imagine
cause come the morning i'll be gone
and as our eyes start to close,
i turn to you and i let you know,
that i love you

and me i ran,
i couldnt even look at him,
for fear i'd have to say goodbye
and as i start to leave he grabs me by the shoulder and he tells me,

whats left to lose,
you've done enough
and if you fail well then you fail,
but not to us
cause these last three years,
i know they've been hard
but now it's time to get out of the desert and into the sun
even if it's alone

Then you hang up the phone and feel badly for upsetting things

Crawl back into bed to dream of a time

When your heart was open wide and you love things just because

Like the sick and dying

I can't help but remember James Dean
See we are part of the few who agree
that hey, he lived life fast
but he died.
he died.
he died.

Me, I'm gonna live forever.

Now all the barlights are blinking in time
to Mexican music, it's taunting the pavement
and for the first time,
in a long time,
I feel alive.

thoughtful thursday.

2009-12-17T10:23:00.000-08:00

help.
i have done it again.
i have been here many times before.
hurt myself again today.
and the worst part is there's no one else to blame.

be my friend.
hold me.
wrap me up.
unfold me.
i am small.
and needy.
warm me up.
and breathe me.

ouch. i have lost myself again.
lost myself and i am nowhere to be found.
yeah. i think that i might break.
lost myself again.
and i feel unsafe.

be my friend.
hold me.
wrap me up.
unfold me.
i am small.
and needy.
warm me up.
and breathe me.

be my friend.

hold me.

wrap me up.

unfold me.

i am small.

and needy.

warm me up.

and breathe me.

sia. breathe me.

quotes of the week

2009-12-14T21:48:00.000-08:00

while sitting on the counter in the bathroom, jutting his chin out towards the mirror, 7 year old gaebriel states, very seriously,

"hm. i think i'm growing a beard."

earlier in the day, after splashing a full cup of water on his younger sister, he explains,

"but mom, i didn't do it on purpose. i just flung my cup at her, and all of a sudden there was a big wave of water coming out."

magical monday

2009-12-14T09:19:00.000-08:00

i was talking with a friend about art and creation, and i realized that i don't really ever make anything that is mine. and i want to.

i wish i could make beautiful calligraphy.

That's how you came here, like a star

without a name. Move across the night sky

with those anonymous lights.

i wish i could write books, poetry, music, anything.

i wish i could paint.

but i cannot. this is my goal for next year.

to create.

spotlight sunday

2009-12-13T22:43:00.000-08:00

music spotlight:

imogen heap

art spotlight:

denis dailleux

thoughtful thursday

2009-12-10T22:22:00.000-08:00

so this is what's on my mind. in the form of mini letters. yes, i did copy other blogs, but whatever.

dear american heritage,

please die. 8 am labs. what was i thinking? thank heaven for the GRE.

dear ucky snow mush,

please disappear. you're ruining my shoes, pants, and my knees.

dear five week cough,

i'm sick of you. you make it hard for me to go to school in the mornings. really, who likes to cough so hard they throw up? not i. and yes, i have busted blood vessels in my throat because of you.

dear fall semester,

i've actually loved you the entire time. i've been productive, learned so much, and enjoyed myself the most out of all the other semesters (except for the class previously mentioned). i feel like i'm slowly forming a direction with my life.

dear hair,

there still hasn't been one moment where i've regretted cutting you. even though that little girl in the airport turned to her mom, and while pointing to me said, "mommy, that boy likes to dress like a girl." or when i was in line to get my hot bread from the cougar eat, and the man serving me looks me straight in the eyes and says, "and what can i get for you today, sir?" and despite his reaction of complete shock and disbelief when i corrected him, i still love you. in my opinion, you make me look more feminine. sure, you may be poofy at times, and you might love to get all gnarly when i wake up, but overall, you are my favorite haircut so far. thanks for the good times. (no worries, the parents will learn to love you).

dear arabic,

i am sad our first semester together is over. also, your alphabet is exceptionally beautiful, and i love writing and writing and writing. you have taught me much in the ways of studying. even though you require so much time, i feel right about you. for some reason, i feel so drawn to the middle east. it interests me so much. maybe because it was so much of the past, and will be so much of the future. maybe because of this story:

A cabinet minister in Egypt, aware of the common ground shared by Muslims and Latter-day Saints, once remarked to Elder Howard W. Hunter of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles that “if a bridge is ever built between Christianity and Islam it must be built by the Mormon Church.” - link

maybe because i want to be a bridge builder. our class became so much like a family. (of course, because of my faux hawk, i was labelled the family rebel.) i learned about loving.

dear brother merrill,

you are my favorite religion teacher, and possibly the best (i've had 5, so i feel this is a valid statement.) thank you for not making everything all nice and fluffy for your students. thank you for telling us straight up, the first day of every semester that, "liars go to hell." it just sets the standard for your class the rest of the semester. thank you for teaching in such a way that i not only feel the spirit in class, but when i'm studying at home as well. some of my favorite quotes:

"moral relativism requires no sacrifice at all, and you can't be saved without sacrifice." (in response to korihor's argument.)

"everything in the universe obeys the laws given unto it, so far as i know of, except man."

"it's more blessed to marry a peacemaker than a model. but it's pretty good if you can get both."

"it's okay to let your light shine, just don't toot your own horn."

"if you don't forgive, you just assumed the role of christ."

"he chose to be alienated from the world, rather than isolated from God." - referring to moroni

"a coincidence is a miracle in which God remains anonymous."

"big miracles are internal, not external."

"The miracle wasn't that the Lehi saw a burning bush, it was that he saw a bush."

anyway, thanks again.

dear sleep,

i'm coming.

wednesday wishes

2009-12-08T23:09:00.000-08:00

so, i found a book list of a friend of mine. now i feel very unread.

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- Abbey, Edward - Desert Solitaire
- Abe, Kobo - The Woman in the Dunes
- Achebe, Chinua - Things Fall Apart
- Adams, Henry - The Education of Henry Adams
- Addams, Jane - Twenty Years at Hull House
- Aeschylus - The Oresteia; Prometheus Bound
- Agee, James - A Death in the Family
- Agee, James and Walker Evans - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- Albee, Edward - Three Tall Women; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women
- Alger, Horatio - Ragged Dick, or Street Life in New York
- Alighiere, Dante - The Divine Comedy
- Allende, Isabel - The House of the Spirits; Paula
- Allison, Dorothy -Bastard Out of Carolina
- Alvarez, Julia - In the Time of Butterflies
- Alvarez, Walter - T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
- Ambrose, Stephen E. - Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
- Anderson, Sherwood - Winesburg, Ohio
- Angelou, Maya - All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Ansay, Manette A. - Sister
- Aquinas, Thomas - Summa Theologica
- Aristophanes - The Birds; The Clouds; Lysistrata
- Aristotle - Ethics (Ethica Nicomahcea) ; Poetics; Politics
- Arnim, Elizabeth von - Enchanted April
- Aronson, Marc - Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde
- Asinof, Eliot - Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
- Atkin, S. Beth - Voices from the Streets: Young Former Gang Members Tell Their Stories
- Atwood, Margaret - Alias Grace; Handmaid's Tale
- Auden, W.H. - Collected Poems; "Musee des Beaux Arts "
- St. Augustine - The Confessions
- Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations
- Austen, Jane - Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility
- Baker, Russell - Growing Up
- Baldwin, James - Go Tell It on the Mountain; The Fire Next Time
- Balzac, Honore de - Cousin Bette; Eugene Grandet; Pere Goriot
- Barrie, James M. - Peter Pan
- Barth, John - The Sot-Weed Factor
- Barton, Bruce - The Man Nobody Knows
- Basho, Matsuo - The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Baudelaire, Charles - The Flowers of Evil
- Beard, Charles A. - An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
- Beaumont, William - Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion
- Beck, Martha - Expecting Adam
- Becker, Ernest - Denial of Death
- Beckett, Samuel - Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape; Waiting for Godot
- Bellamy, Edward-Looking Backward
- Bellow, Saul - The Adventures of Augie March; Herzog; Humboldt's Gift; Seize the Day
- Bernstein, Leonard - Joy of Music; West Side Story
- Bierce, Ambrose - "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
- Blackstone, Harry, Jr. - Blackstone Book of Magic and Illusion
- Blais, Madeleine - In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle
- Blake, William - Selected Works; Songs of Innocence and Experience
- Boccaccio, Giovanni - The Decameron
- Bodanis, David - Secret Family
- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus - The Consolation of Philosophy
- ten Boom, Corrie - The Hiding Place
- Boorstin, Jon - Making Movies Work: Thinking Like a Filmmaker
- Borges, Jorge Luis - Dreamtigers; Ficciones; Labyrinths
- Boswell, James - Boswell's London Journal: 1762-1763; The Life of Samuel Johnson
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan - Tortilla Curtain
- Bradbury, Ray - Dandelion Wine; Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles
- Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
- Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
- Brown, Dee - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Browning, Elisabeth Barrett - Sonnets from the Portuguese
- Browning, Robert - The Ring and the Book
- Brumberg, Joan - Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
- Bunyan, John - Pilgrim's Progress
- Butler, Octavia - Parable of the Sower
- Butler, Robert N. - Why Survive Being Old in America
- Butler, Robert Olen - Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
- Butler, Samuel - The Way of All Flesh
- Byatt, A.S. - Babel Tower
- Cain, James M. - The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro - Life is a Dream
- Camus, Albert - The Fall; The Plague; The Rebel; The Stranger
- Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game
- Cardozo, Benjamin - The Nature of the Judicial Process
- Carnegie, Dale - How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Carson, Rachel - Silent Spring
- Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass
- Cash, Wilbur J. - The Mind of the South
- Cather, Willa - Death Comes for the Archbishop; My Antonia; O Pioneers!; "Paul's Case"
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de - Don Quixote de la Mancha
- Chang, Iris - Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
- Chang, Jung - Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
- Chaucer, Geoffrey - The Canterbury Tales
- Cheever, John - "The Enormous Radio"; "The Five-Forty-Eight"; "The Swimmer"
- Chekhov, Anton - The Cherry Orchard; "The Kiss"; The Seagull; The Three Sisters; Uncle Vanya
- Cheng, Nien - Life and Death in Shanghai
- Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
- Christie, Agatha - Mousetrap
- Cisneros, Sandra - House on Mango Street
- Claiborne, Craig - The New York Times Cook Book
- Clark, Kenneth - Civilization
- Cleary, Beverly - My Own Two Feet: A Memoir
- Cohen, Leah Hager - Heat Lightning
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Biographia Literaria; Christabel; "Kubla Khan"; "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; Writings on Shakespeare
- Coles, Robert - Children of Crisis
- Collins, Wilkie - The Moonstone
- Conroy, Pat - Beach Music
- Cook, Blanch Wiesen - Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1
- Cooke, Mervyn - Chronicle of Jazz
- Copland, Aaron - What to Listen for in Music
- Coward, Noel - Blithe Spirit; Private Lives
- Confucius - The Analects
- Congreve, William - The Way of the World
- Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness; Lord Jim; Nostromo; "The Secret Sharer"
- Cooper, James F. - The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans
- Corneille, Pierre - The Cid
- Crane, Stephen - "The Blue Hotel"; "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky"; Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; "The Open Boat"; The Red Badge of Courage
- Cumming, Robert - Annotated Art
- Cunningham, Michael - Hours
- Curie, Eve - Madame Curie: A Biography
- Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. - Two Years Before the Mast
- Danticat, Edwidge - Breath, Eyes, Memory
- Darwin, Charles - The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex; The Origin of Species; The Voyage of the Beagle
- Davis, David Brion - Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
- Davies, Roberston - What's Bred in the Bone
- Day, David - Search for King Arthur
- Defoe, Daniel - Moll Flanders; Robinson Crusoe
- Descartes, Rene - Discourse on Method
- Dexter, Pete - Paper boy
- Diamond, Jared - Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- Dickens, Charles - Bleak House; "A Christmas Carol"; David Copperfield; Great Expectations; Hard Times; Little Dorrit; Nicholas Nickleby; The Old Curiosity Shop; Oliver Twist; Our Mutual Friend; Pickwick Papers; A Tale of Two Cities
- Dickinson, Emily - Collected Poems
- Dillard, Annie - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Dineson, Isak - Seven Gothic Tales; Out of Africa
- Dixon, Thomas - The Clansman
- Donne, John - "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"; Selected Works
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich - The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; Notes from the Underground; The Possessed
- Dorris, Michael - Broken Cord
- Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
- Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie
- Dryden, John - Absalom and Achitophel
- DuBois, W.E.B.-The Souls of Black Folk
- Dubos, Rene Jules - So Human an Animal
- Durant, Will - Rousseau and Revolution
- Durrell, Lawrence - The Alexandria Quartet
- Edelman, Bernard - Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
- Edelman, Marion W. - Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours
- Eliot, George - Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Middlemarch; Silas Marner
- Eliot, T.S. - Collected Plays; "Ash Wednesday"; "Four Quartets"; "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; "The Waste Land"
- Elkin, Stanley - Mrs. Ted Bliss
- Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
- Emecheta, Buchi - Bride Price
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Selected Works
- Epictetus and Sharon Labell - Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
- Erasmus, Desiderius - The Praise of Folly
- Erikson, Erik H. - Gandhi's Truth
- Euripides - Alcestis; Andromache; The Bacchae; Electra; Hippolytus; Medea; The Trojan Women;
- Faludi, Susan - Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women
- Farmer, Fannie - The Boston Cooking School Cookbook
- Farrell, James T. - Studs Lonigan
- Fast, Howard - April Morning
- Faulkner, William - Absalom, Absalom; As I Lay Dying; Bear; Light in August; Reivers; "A Rose for Emily"; Sanctuary; The Sound and the Fury
- Feynman, Richard - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
- Fielding, Henry - Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
- Finn, David - How to Look at Sculpture
- Finney, Jack - Time and Again
- Firdausi - Shah Nameh
- Fitzgerald, Edward - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
- Fitzgerald, Francis - Fire in the Lake
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - ~~The Great Gatsby~~; Tender is the Night
- Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education; "A Simple Heart"
- Flexner, Abraham - Medical Education in the United States and Canada
- Ford, Ford Madox - "The Celestial Omnibus"; The Good Soldier
- Ford, Michael Thomas - Voices of AIDS
- Ford, Richard - Independence Day
- Forster, E. M. - "The Eternal Moment"; A Passage to India
- Fouts, Roger - Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me about Who We Are
- Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant's Woman; The Magus
~~- Frank, Anne - The Diary of Anne Frank~~
- Frankl, Viktor E. - Man's Search for Meaning
- Frazier, Charles - Cold Mountain
- Freedman, Samuel G. - Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School
- Fremon, Celeste - Father Greg & the Homeboys
- Friedan, Betty - The Feminine Mystique
- Frost, Robert - Collected Poems
- Fugard, Athol - Master Harold and the Boys
- Gage, Nicholas - Eleni
- Gaines, Ernest - Gathering of Old Men; Lesson before Dying
- Galbraith, John K. - The Affluent Society
- Galilei, Galileo - Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Galsworth, John - The Forsythe Saga
- Galvin, James - Meadow
- Gardner, John - Grendel
- Garfunkel, Trudy - On Wings of Joy: the Story of Ballet
- Gay, John - The Beggar's Opera
- Gibbons, Kaye - Charms for the Easy Life; Ellen Foster
- Gide, Andre - The Counterfeiters
- Gilmore, Mikal - Shot in the Heart
- Ginzburg, Eugenia - Within the Whirlwind
- Glasgow, Ellen - Barren Ground
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Faust; The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich - Dead Souls; "The Diary of a Madman"; "The Overcoat"
- Golberg, Vicki - Power of Photographs: How Photography Changed Our Lives
~~- Golding, William - Lord of the Flies~~
-Goldsmith, Oliver - She Stoops to Conquer; The Vicar of Wakefield
- Gombrich, E.H. - Story of Art
- Gould, Stephen Jay - Mismeasure of a Man
- Grahame, Kenneth - The Wind in the Willows
- Grass, Gunter - The Tin Drum
- Grau, Shirley Ann - Keepers of the House
- Green, Bill - Water, Ice, and Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes
- Greene, Melissa - Praying for Sheetrock
- Guterson, David - East of hte Mountains; Snow Falling on Cedars
- Hafner, Katie - Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
- Haley, Alex - Roots
- Hamilton, Madison and Jay - The Federalist Papers
- Hamilton, Edith - Mythology
- Hamilton, Jane - Book of Ruth
- Hammett, Dashiell - The Maltese Falcon
- Hamsun, Knut - Growth of the Soil, Hunger
- Hanff, Helene - 84 Charring Cross Road
- Hansberry, Lorraine - A Raisin in the Sun
- Hardy, Thomas - Far from the Madding Crowd; Jude the Obscure; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Return of the Native; Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Harrison, Kathryn - Poison
- Harte, Bret - "The Luck of Roaring Camp"; "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
- Hawking, Stephen - Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter; Selected Tales
- Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
- Hellman, Lillian - Little Foxes
- Helprin, Mark - Memoir from Antproof Case
- Hemingway, Ernest - "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"; A Farewell to Arms; ~~The Old Man and the Sea~~; In Our Time; The Sun Also Rises; For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Henry, O. - "The Gift of the Magi"
- Herbert, Frank - Dune
- Herodotus - The Histories
- Hersey, John - Hiroshima
- Hesse, Hermann - Demian; Siddartha; Steppenwolf
- Hijuelos, Oscar - Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Hobbes, Thomas - Leviathan
- Hochschild, Adam - King Leopold's Ghost
- Hockenberry, John - Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
- Hofstadter, Douglas - Godel, Escher, Bach
- Hofstadter, Richard - Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- Holldobler, Bert - Ants
- Holmes, Oliver W. - The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever
- Homer - The Illiad; The Odyssey
- Howells, William Dean - The Rise of Silas Lapham
- Hsun, Lu - Collected Short Stories
- Hubbell, Sue - Country Year: Living the Questions
- Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Les Miserables
- Hui-neng - The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
- Hume, David - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Humes, Edward - No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
- ~~Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World~~
- Ibsen, Henrick - A Doll's House; An Enemy of the People; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; Peer Gynt
- Irving, Washington - "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"; "Rip Van Winkle"
- Isherwood, Christopher - The Berlin Stories
- Jackson, Shirley - "The Lottery"
- Jacobs, Jane - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- James, Henry - The Ambassadors; The Bostonians; Daisy Miller; The Turn of the Screw; Washington Square
- James, William - four essays from the Meaning of Truth; Pragmatism; The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Jefferson, Thomas et al. - Basic Documents in American History
- Jewett, Sarah Orne - The Country of the Pointed Firs
- Jiang, Ji-Li - Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
- Johnson, Charles - Middle Passage
- Johnson, Samuel - Lives of the Poets; Rasselas
- Jonas, Gerald - Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement
- Jones, K. Maurice - Say It Loud! The Story of Rap Music
- Jones, Howard M. - O Strange New World
- Jonson, Ben - The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair; Volpone
- Joyce, James - Dubliners; Finnegans Wake; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses
- Junichiro, Tanizaki - The Makioka Sisters
- Junger, Sebastian - Perfect Storm
- Kafka, Franz - The Castle; The Metamorphosis; The Trial
- Kalidasa - The Cloud Messenger and Sakuntala
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason
- Karnos, David D. - Falling in Love with Wisdom: Philosophers Talk about Their Calling
- Karr, Mary - Liars' Club
- Kawabata, Yasunari - The Old Capital
- Kazantzakis, Nikos - The Last Temptation of Christ, Zorba the Greek
- Keats, John - "The Eve of St. Agnes"; "Hyperion"; "Ode on a Grecian Urn"; "Ode to a Nightingale"
- Keller, Helen - Story of My Life
- Kendall, Elizabeth - Where She Danced
- Keneally, Thomas - Schindler's List
- Kennedy, William - Ironweed
- Kerner, Mary - Barefoot to Balanchine: How to Watch Dance
- Kerouac, Jack - On the Road
- Kesey, Ken - One Flew over the Cukoo's Nest
- Khanga, Yelena - Soul to Soul: A Black Russian-American Family, 1865-1992
- Khayyam, Omar - The Rubaiyat
- Kidder, Tracy - Soul of a New Machine
- Kierkegaard, Soren - Fear and Trembling; The Sickness unto Death
- King, Laurie R. - Beekeeper's Apprentice, or, on the Segregation of the Queen
- Kingsolver, Barbara - Poisonwood Bible
- Kipling, Rudyard - Captains Courageous; Kim; The Jungle Book
- Kluger, Richard - Ashes to Ashes
- Knowles, John - A Separate Peace
- Kolb, Rocky - Blind Watchers of the Sky: The People and Ideas that Shaped Our View of the Universe
- Kosinski, Jerzy - Painted Bird
- Kotlowitz, Alex - Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
- Kozol, Jonathan - Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
- Krakauer, Jon - Into Thin Air
- Kuan-chung, Luo - The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Kuhn, Thomas - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Kushner, Tony - Angels in America; Perestroika
- Kyd, Thomas - The Spanish Tragedy
- Lagerkvist, Par - Barabbas
- Lampedusa, Guiseppe di - The Leopard
- Lao-tzu - Tao Te Ching
- Larson, Jonathan - Rent
- Lawrence, D.H. - Lady Chatterly's Lover; "The Prussian Officer"; "The Rocking-Horse Winner"; Sons and Lovers; Women in Love
- ~~Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird~~
- LeGuin, Ursula - Left Hand of Darkness
- L'Engle, Madeleine - Two Part Invention
- Lessing, Doris - The Golden Notebook; The Good Terrorist
- Levi, Primo - Periodic Table
- Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark - History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark
- Lewis, Sinclair - Arrowsmith; Babbitt, Main Street
- Locke, John - Second Treatise on Government
- London, Jack - The Call of the Wild; The Sea Wolf
- Longfellow, Henry W. - The Song of Hiawatha
- Lord Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; Don Juan; Manfred
- Lowell, Robert - For the Union Dead
- Lowry, Malcolm - Under the Volcano
- Lucas, J. Anthony - Common Ground
- Lucretius - On the Nature of Things
- Lurie, Alison - Foreign Affairs
- Lynd, Robert - Middletown
- McBride, James - Color of Water: A Black man's Tribute to His White Mother
- McCarthy, Cormac - All the Pretty Horses; Blood Meridian
- McCloud, Scott - Understanding Comics
- McCourt, Frank - Angela's Ashes
- McCullers, Carson - The Ballad of the Sad Café; The Member of the Wedding
- McCullough, David G. - Truman
- Machiavelli, Niccolo - The Prince
- McKinley, Robin - Beauty
- McMurtry, Larry - Lonesome Dove
- McPhee, John - Annals of the Former World; In Suspect Terrain
- McPherson, James - Elbow Room
- Mahan, Alfred T. - The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783
- Maharidge, Dale - And Their Children after Them
- Mailer, Norman - Armies of the Night; Executioner's Song
- Malamud, Bernard - The Assistant; The Fixer; The Natural
- Malan, Rian - My Traitor's Heart
- Malcolm X - Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Mallon, Thomas - Henry and Clara
- Malory, Thomas, Sir - Le Morte d'Arthur
- Malraux, Andre - Man's Fate
- Manchester, William - Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill
- Mann, Horace - Reports
- Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice; The Magic Mountain
- Markandaya, Kamala - Nectar in a Sieve
- Marlowe, Christopher - Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto
- Mason, Bobbi Ann - In Country
- Massie, Robert K. - Nicholas and Alexandra
- Mathabane, Mark - Kaffir Boy
- Matthiessen, Peter - Killing Mr. Watson
- Maugham, W. Somerset - Of Human Bondage
- Maurier, Daphne du - Rebecca
- Mehta, Ved - Sound-Shadows of the New World
- Melville, Herman - "Bartelby the Scrivener"; Billy Budd, Foretopman; Mobey Dick
- Mencius - The Book of Mencius
- Mencken, H.L. - Prejudices
- Metalious, Grace - Peyton Place
- Mill, John Stuart - On Liberty; The Subjection of Women
- Miller, Arthur - The Crucible; Death of a Salesman
- Miller, Henry - Tropic of Capricorn
- Millhauser, Stephen - Martin Dressler
- Milton, John - Areopagitica; Lycidas; On the Morning of Christ's Nativity; Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes; Sonnets
- Mishima, Yukio - Spring Snow
- Moliere - The Misanthrope; Tartuffe
- Momaday, N. Scott - House Made of Dawn
- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de - Essays
- Moody, Ann - Coming of Age in Missisippi
- Mora, Pat - House of Houses
- More, Thomas, Sir - Utopia
- Mori, Kyoko - Shizuko's Daughter
- Morrison, Toni - Beloved
- Muhammad - The Koran
- Murasaki, Lady - The Tale of Genji
- Murray, Albert - Stomping the Blues
- Myrdal, Gunnar - An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita; Memory; Pale Fire; Pnin; "Signs and Symbols"; Speak
- Narayan, R.K. - The English Teacher; The Vendor of Sweets
- Nietsche, Friedrich Wilhelm - Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; Thus Spake Zarathustra; other works
- Nordstrom, Ursula - Dear Genius
- O'Brien, Tim - Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction
- O'Conner, Flannery - "A Good Man is Hard to Find" "Everything that Rises Must Converge"
- O'Connor - Edge of Sadness
- O'Gorman, James F. - ABC of Architecture
- O'Hara, John - Appointment in Samarra
- O'Neill, Eugene - Anna Christie; Desire Under the Elms; The Iceman Cometh; Long Day's Journey into Night; Mourning Becomes Electra; Strange Interlude
- O'Toole, John K. - Confederacy of Dunces
- Oats, Joyce Carol - We Were the Mulvaney's
- Occiogrosso, Peter - Joy of Sects: A Spirit Guide to the World's Religious Traditions
- Orwell, George - 1984; Animal Farm; Burmese Days
- Ovid - The Metamorphoses
- Paine, Thomas - Common Sense, Addressed to the Inhabitants of America; Rights of Man
- Pascal, Blaise - Pensees
- Passos, John Dos - U.S.A.
- Pasternak, Boris - Doctor Zhivago
- Paton, Alan - Cry, the Beloved Country
- Paulos, John Allen - Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
- Penn, W.S. - Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art
- Petroski, Henry - Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
- Phillips, Jayne Anne - Shelter
- Pipher, Mary - Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolsecent Girls
- Pirandello, Luigi - Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar
- Plato - The Dialogues of Plato; The Republic
- Plutarch - The Lives of the Noble Romans
- Poe, Edgar Allan - "The Cask of Amontillado"; "The Fall of the House of Usher"; "Ligeia"; "The Masque of the Red Death"; "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"; "~~The Pit and the Pendulum~~"; "The Purloined Letter"; "~~The Tell-Tale Heart~~"
- Pope, Alexander - "The Dunciad"; "Essay on Man"; "The Rape of the Lock"
- Porter, Katherine Anne - Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; Ship of fools
- Post, Emily - Etiquette: the Blue Book of Social Usage
- Potok, Chaim - Chosen
- Pound, Ezra - The Cantos
- Power, Susan - Grass Dancer
- Proulx, E. Annie - Accordion Crimes; Shipping News
- Proust, Marcel - Remembrance of Things Past
- Pushkin, Alexander - Eugene Onegin
- Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49; Gravity's Rainbow; Mason & Dixon
- Quindlen, Anna - One True Thing
- Rabelais, Francois - Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Racine, Jean Baptiste - Andromahce; Phedra
- Radcliffe, Ann, Mrs. - The Mysteries of Udolpho
- Rand, Ayn - Atlas Shrugged
- Ratushinskaya, Irina - Grey is the Color of Hope
- Rawlings, Marjorie - Cross Creek
- Real, Terrence - I Don't Want to Talk about It
- Reed, John - Ten Days that Shook the World
- Regis, Ed - Virus Ground Zero: Stalking the Killer Viruses with the Centers for Disease Control
- Remarque, Reich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front
- Remnick, David - Lenin's Tomb
- Rhodes, Richard - Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Richardson, Samuel - Clarissa; Pamela
- Riesman, David - The Lonely Crowd
- Rilke, Ranier Maria - Sonnets to Orpheus
- Robertson, James I. - Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend
- Robinson, Marilynne - Housekeeping
- Rodriguez, Luis - Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.
- Rodriguez, Richard - Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
- Rosenberg, Tina - Haunted Land
- Rostand, Edmond - Cyrano de Bergerac
- Roth, Philip - American Pastoral
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - The Confessions
- Rushdie, Salman - Moor's Last Sigh
- Rybczynski, Witold - Most Beautiful House in the World
- Sacks, Oliver - A Leg to Stand on; The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Sagan, Carl - Dragons of Eden
- Saki-"The Open Window"
- Salinger, J.D. - ~~Catcher in the Rye~~; "For Esme-With Love and Squalor"; Franny and Zooey; "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
- Sappho-"Ode to Aphrodite"
- Saroyan, William - "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"
- Sartre, Jean-Paul - Nausea; No Exit; "The Wall"
- Schorske, Carl E. - Fin de Siecle Vienna
- Schumacher, Julie - Body is Water
- SeiShonagon - The Pillow-Book
- Shaara, Michael - Killer Angels
- Shaffer, Peter - Equus
- Shakespeare, William - All's Well that Ends Well; Antony and Cleopatra; As You Like It; The Comedy of Errors; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Henry the Fourth, Part One; Henry the Fourth, Par Two; Henry the Fifth; Julius Caesar; King Lear; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; The Merchant of Venice; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Much Ado about Nothing; Othello; Richard The Second; Richard the Third; Romeo and Juliet; Sonnets; The Taming of the Shrew; the Tempest; Twelfth Night; The Winter's Tale
- Shaw, George Bernard - Candida; Major Barbara; Man and Superman; Pygmalion; Saint Joan
- Shaw, Irwin - "The Eighty-Yard Run"
- Sheehan, Neil - Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- Sheehan, Susan - Is There No Place on Earth for Me
- Shelley, Mary Godwin - Frankenstein
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe - "Adonais"; "Ozymandias"; "Prometheus Unbound"
- Sherman, Robert - Complete Idiot's Guide to Music
- Shields, Carol - Stone Diaries
- Shipler, David K. - Arab and Jew
- Sholokov, Mikhail - The Silent Don
- Simon, David - Comer: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- Sinclair, April - Coffee Will Make You Black
- Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
- Singer, Chirstopher - African Exodus
- Singh, Simon - Fermat's Enigma
- Smiley, Jane - Thousand Acres
- ~~Smith, Joseph - The Book of Mormon~~
- Smith, Scott B. - Simple Plan
- Sobel, Dava - Longitude
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander - Cancer Ward; The First Circle; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Sophocles - Antigone; Oedipus at Colonus; Oedipus Rex (Oedipus Tyrannus)
- Soseki, Natsume - Kokoro
- Spark, Muriel - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Spenser, Edmund - The Faerie Queene
- Spiegelman, Art - Maus and Maus II
- Spinoza, Benedictus de - Ethics
- Spock, Benjamin, M.D. - The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
- Stafford, Jean - Collected Stories
- Starr, Paul - Social Transformation of American Medicine
- Steele, Shelby - Content of Our Character
- Steffens, Lincoln - The Shame of the Cities
- Stegner, Wallace - Angle of Repose
- Steinbeck, John - East of Eden; The Grapes of Wrath; ~~Of Mice and Men~~; The Red Pony
- Stendhal-The Charterhouse of Parma; The Red and the Black
- Sterne, Laurence - Tristram Shandy
- Stevenson, Robert L. - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Kidnapped; Treasure Island
- Stoker, Bram - Dracula
- Stoppard, Tom - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Strickland, Carol - Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History
- Strindberg, August - Miss Julie
- Styron, William - Confessions of Nat Turner; Sophie's Choice
- Su-ma Ch'ien - Records of the Grand Historian
- Sun-tzu - The Art of War
- Swanwick, Michael - Jack Faust
- ~~Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's Travels; "A Modest Proposal"~~
- Synge, John Millington - The Playboy of the Western World
- Tannen, Deborah - You Just Don't Understand
- Taylor, Frederick W. - The Principles of Scientific Management
- Taylor, Peter - Summons to Memphis
- Teale, Edwin Way - Wandering Through Winter
- Tennyson, Alfred, Lord - The Idylls of the King; "In Memoriam"
- Terkel, Studs - Good War: An Oral History of World War II
- Thackeray, William Makepeace - Vanity Fair
- Thomas, Dylan - Under Milk Wood
- Thomas, Lewis - Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
- Thoreau, Henry David - Civil Disobedience; Walden
- Thornton, Yvonne - Ditchdigger's Daughter
- Thucydides - The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Tocqueville, Alexis de - Democracy in America
- Toland, John - Rising Sun
- Tolkein, J.R.R. - The Lord of the Rings
- Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich - Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich; War and Peace
- Troloppe, Anthony - Autobiography; Barchester Towers; The Eustace Diamonds; The Last Chronocle of Barset; The Warden; The Way We Live Now
- Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in - The Dream of the Red Chamber
- Tuchman, Barbara - Guns of August; Sitwell and the American Experience in China
- Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich - Fathers and Sons
- Turner, Frederick J. - The Significance of the Frontier in American History
- Twain, Mark - ~~The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn~~; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; The Prince and the Pauper
- Tyler, Anne - Breathing Lessons; Ladder of Years
- Uchida, Yoshiko - Picture Bride
- Undset, Sigrid - Kristin Lavransdatter
- Updike, John - The Centaur; Rabbit at Rest; Rabbit is Rich
- Valmiki (attr.) - The Ramayana
- Veblen, Thorstein - The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Verne, Jules - Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
- Virgil - The Aeneid
- Voltaire - Candide
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. - Cat's Cradle; Slaughterhouse Five
- Vyasa (attr.) - The Mahabharata
- Walker, Alice - The Color Purple
- Warner, William W. - Beautiful Swimmers
- Warren, Robert Penn - All the King's Men
- Watson, James D. - Double Helix
- Watson, Larry - Montana 1948
- Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited; A Handful of Dust
- Webb, Mary - Precious Bane
- Weems, Mason L. - The Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington
- Weiner, Jonathan - Beak of the Finch
- Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine; The War of the Worlds
- Welty, Eudora - Optimist's Daughter
- Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence; The Custom of the Country; Ethan Frome; The House of Mirth
- White, Bailey - Mama makes Up Her Mind, and Other Dangers of Southern Living
- ~~White, T.H. - The Once and Future King~~
- White, Theodore H. - Making of the President 1960
- Whiteley, Opal - Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow
- Whitman, Walt - A Backward Glance O'er Travelled Roads; Democratic Vistas; Leaves of Grass; Preface to the First Issue of Leaves of Grass; Selected Poems
- ~~Wiesel, Elie - Night~~
- Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermere's Fan; The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Wilder, Thornton - Our Town
- Williams, Brooke - Halflives: Reconciling Work and Wildness
- Williams, Juan - Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
- Williams, Tennessee - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire
- Williams, Terry T. - Refuge
- Williams, William C. - "In the American Grain"; "Paterson"; "Pictures from the Breughel"
- Wills, Garry - Lincoln at Gettysburg
- Wilson, August - Fences
- Wilson, Colin - The Outsider
- Wilson, Edward O. - On Human nature
- Wolfe, Thomas - Look Homeward Angel; You Can't Go Home Again
- Wolff, Tobias - This Boy's Life
- Wolstonecraft, Mary - A Vindication of the Rights of Women
- Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse; Mrs. Dalloway; Orlando; The Waves
- Wordsworth, William - "Lines: Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"; "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"; Preface to Lyrical Ballads; The Prelude;
- Wright, Richard - Black Boy; Native Son
- Wu Ch'eng-em (attr.) - Journey to the West
- Wycherley, William - The Country Wife
- Yasunari, Kawabata - Beauty and Sadness
- Yeats, W.B. - Autobiography; Collected Plays; "Easter 1916"; "Leda and the Swan"; "Sailing to Byzantium"; "The Wild Swans at Coole"
- Yergen, Daniel - Prize
- Yolen, Jane - Briar Rose; Favorite Folktales from around the World
- Yukio, Mishima - Confessions of a Mask; The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
- Zinsser, Hans - Rats, Lice and History
- Zola, Emile - Germinal
- Anonymous/Unknown - ~~Beowulf~~; The Bhagavad Gita; The Bible; The Epic of Gilgamesh; Everyman; Pearl; The Plum in the Golden Vase; The Thousand and One Nights; The Wanderer

what i've read, i've crossed off.....

.....

yeah. i have a long way to go.

troublesome tuesday

2009-12-08T20:26:00.000-08:00

Make the snow go away.

Please?

I'm not coordinated enough.

magical monday

2009-12-07T11:00:00.000-08:00

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I love wish/sky lanterns.

sunday spotlight

2009-12-06T20:12:00.000-08:00

This year I discovered Gustav Klimt.

I want this picture.

Flash Dance.

2009-12-01T23:09:00.000-08:00

I possibly love this and want the remix. Also, it's worth watching in HD.

Floor.

2009-11-30T12:09:00.000-08:00

So, I don't know why blogger kills the quality on these, but the Florida ones are pretty, so click on em.

Say goodbye to Florida.

Hello moon.

I really like the ghost legs on this.

Yeah, I was creepin around on the floor taking pictures of people sleeping.

I was bored okay!?

D: Duffins

2009-11-27T20:30:00.000-08:00

Look who came to stay!

Joshua.

Abigail.

Keith.

Gators.

Thanksgiving.

2009-11-24T18:38:00.000-08:00

Yay for spirit week! 1

art in my future home part 2.

2009-11-23T19:47:00.000-08:00

isn't cade martin amazing?

فن = art

2009-11-22T13:59:00.000-08:00

What I hope to have in my future home:

C: Cat

2009-11-19T07:41:00.000-08:00

Meet Abacus:

Wednesday

2009-11-18T09:25:00.000-08:00

Wow. Yeah, I think I'm going to school like this. Hello BYU!

In other news: I'm poor! Yay!

Oh, and best movie ever: الحب في الثلاجة (Love in the fridge)

Just look at that poster! Trash bags, ET, and the horn from a gramophone. What more do you need for a good movie?

New Favorite

2009-11-09T12:13:00.000-08:00

Anne-Julie Aubry inspired by the text of Snow-White and Rose-Red, Brothers Grimm

2009-11-09T08:57:00.000-08:00

I know sunspots are supposed to be bad, but I like them.

Also, my hair is gone, and I love it.

J: Josh Ritter

2009-11-05T07:13:00.000-08:00

T: T.H. White

2009-10-29T23:35:00.000-07:00

The Sword In the Stone

By T. H. White

Ultra-Condensed by Sean Worle and Samuel Stoddard

Merlyn

Wart, I will teach you about life by turning you into all kinds of animals.

Wart

Neat. Now I can single-handedly invent civilization.

(Wart pulls a SWORD from a STONE. Everybody thinks he should be KING because they are SUPERSTITIOUS.)

THE END

L: Lookbook

2009-10-28T00:27:00.000-07:00

My favorite lookbooker: Rockie Nolan

Other favorites:

Rhiannon

Frida

Chelsey

Have fun!

R: Reyna

2009-10-27T23:38:00.000-07:00

Dear Reyna,

Last week I was texting while walking home. It was quite a humorous conversation, and Calvin can be very entertaining. However, a stupid tree decided to block my path and run into me. The idiot. So after my face made the abrupt acquaintance of said tree, I hurried on my way. The next day I had a second run-in with the same tree, but departed by giving him a nice, firm kick.

So, last night I went upstairs in the complete dark looking for my computer charger. I remembered having left it by the kitchen table. Not wanting to wake up the kids, I left the lights off. I felt around with my foot in the dark. Having located my charger, I bent down to pick it up. Instead of reaching my goal, I encountered a loud BANG and a bright flash of white light. Immediately I put my hands to the source of screaming pain and feel a sort of dampness. I run to the light switch, flip it on, and find my hands covered in tears and blood. Wonderful. Turns out a wooden chair had jumped out from under the table and bit my eye. I couldn't see out of it for an hour. Thought I was blind. For reals. Stupid karma for kicking that tree.

Also, just now, I forgot that I had a nice gash on my eyelid, had an itch, and mindlessly brought back the sharp pain.

Basically, I'm an idiot.

M: Mustache

2009-10-27T20:34:00.000-07:00

All mustaches should burn.

F: Fire and Ice

2009-10-27T00:01:00.000-07:00

I: Injuring Myself

2009-10-26T23:50:00.000-07:00

'Cause it's what I do.

F: Friends.

2009-10-25T21:01:00.000-07:00

Yep, this is who I hang out with.

Meet the Puffer:

C: Clouds

2009-10-24T20:21:00.001-07:00

All of these were unedited. Also, I need a tripod. I'm not very good and standing still.

C: Colors

2009-10-23T23:27:00.000-07:00

Super Hebrew!

And more trees!

I really like these colors.

B: Bon Iver

2009-10-22T21:03:00.000-07:00

I love trees.

I love the big leaves found on campus!

And the clouds this morning.

And the color of this plant!

H: Hot Rod.

2009-10-21T21:03:00.000-07:00

This guy is basically my hero.

S: Scenic Route

2009-10-20T07:55:00.000-07:00

Wonder what my walk home from school looks like? I love it.

Nice little temple/Provo view.

Have I ever told you that I love clouds?

Oh look! Berries!

Pretty pretty.

Bam. (Still isn't a very pretty temple though.)

A: Autumn

2009-10-19T09:40:00.001-07:00

Colors change.

Leaves fall.

Piles are made.

Walking becomes much more fun.

Happy Autumn!

p.s. I need a cheap/easy photo editing program.

nowhere.

2009-10-17T15:30:00.000-07:00

R: Rocket-Powered Unicorns

2009-10-04T20:16:00.000-07:00

I have a new favorite book. And yes, I did just jump ahead.

Dallas Clayton, you are my hero.

Enjoy.