• 10 years ago:
  I was 6 years old, first grade, sat next to a girl with no thumb nail. Lived with my grandmother, smothered my noodles with hot pepper, got locked in the bathroom, danced the can-can with my cousin, stoopid childhood wars with my cousins, started to become cynical about politics
• 5 years ago:
  Loomis elementary, the golden years, with my BFFS@!!!!!. soccer goalie with sam eaton, quartet with sam, elaine, kate, and mere, dressed up for our interactive colonial america, wrote crazy short stories, soccer and tennis with dad, got hooked on cartoons, chinese school, got mixed up with the wrong crowd during the summer .
• 1 year ago:
  debate, more debate, rugby, got more involved with clubs, learned how to cook for myself, running with Sammy, library, read a lot, started liking school a bit less, i don't know...10th grade is a blur.
• Yesterday:
  Sat around, feeling very sad that I couldn't shower, ate food and watched tv, waiting til my aunt woke up from being on call. Read some Dostoevsky, realized that I don't like analyzing books at all. walked in the rain (with the Shins blaring), got dripping wet in my fluorescent orange Marple Newtown gym uniform, got strange looks from the people on the train, some lady noticed my sketches and liked them (at which point, I miss Marla, Debra and Andy a whole lot). got home, went thorough my gov school pictures, talked to govies, went to bed, but spent a few hours listening to the rain.
• Today:
  Got up too early, donuts during lab meeting, cleaned out -20, did this quiz, waited for Cathy, train, home, dinner, can't predict what wild adventures I'll have tonight.
• 5 snacks I enjoy:
  real food (rice + something...or just rice), oranges, cheerios, whatever's lying around usually there's nothing lying around, so in that case...hw, sleep, walk it off, or if i'm desperate...vending machine food
• 5 bands that I know the lyrics of most of their songs:
  
• coldplay
• the shins
• flaming lips
• elliott smith
• disney soundtracks?
• 5 things I’d do with $100 million:
1. living/retirement arrangements for my parents
2. pay off college/grad school/etc debts
3. buy some forest/coast land in Maine
4. start some kind of scholarship or school (think cooper union) for higher education
5. buy art, start/support gov school type things
• 5 locations I’d like to run away to:
  • MAINE
  • Arcadia National Park (...maine) :)
  • Mercyhurst
  • stratford park
  • Evansburg state park
• 5 bad habits I have:
  • procrastinating
  • "thinking too much" 
  • "being quiet"
  • contentious (when in the right company)
  • (sometimes) emo
• 5 things I like doing:
  • painting, sketching (staring at strangers in public places and scribbling in a little black book..suspicious eh?) 
  • listening to music
  • walking (rain, or cool if not chilly weather preferable)
  • talking to people that I can talk to (including debate)
  • learning (includes a lot of things)
• 5 things I would never wear:
  • tights (never again)
  • uncomfortable clothing
  • nothing
  • earrings (can't be certain I will NEVER cave, but it looks likely)
  • dodo
• 5 TV shows I like:
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brian
  • Gray's Anatomy
  • Scrubs
  • Simpsons
  • House MD
• 5 movies I like:
  • Life is Beautiful
  • Garden State
  • Hero (the chinese one)
  • The Pianist
  • Lord of the Rings
• 5 famous people I’d like to meet:
• Louise Gluck
• CS Lewis
• Amy Tan
• Andy Goldsworthy
• Ivan Eland

5 biggest joys at the moment:

• knowing people care
• knowing that the people I care about exist
• knowing that wherever I end up, things will be as they are supposed to be
• the story of Ester and knowing that the Lord is with me, even though I may not be with him
• feeling ok with who I am

• 5 favorite toys:
  • paint
  • sketchbook, GOOD pen (hard to come by)
  • internet
  • anything outside (Andy Goldsworthy BABY)
  • my garden
• 5 People I'm tagging to do this too:
  • Any and all govies :) <3
  • James (either or preferably, both :D) 
  • Supe :)
  • Wei
  • Serena