Jan. 12th, 2009

43 Things.

1. Explore my personal philosophy.

2. Learn more about philosophy.

3. Never stop learning.

4. Get my certification as a medical clerk.

5. Have an excellent semester.

6. Become a better writer.

7. Write every day.

8. Write ten poems.

9. Post 43 of my favourite poems.

10. Own a bookstore.

11. Read 100 books.

12. Read more classics.

13. Be more creative.

14. Learn how to draw.

15. Learn how to paint.

16. Make a collage.

17. Post 43 of my favourite works of art.

18. Learn more about art history.

19. Learn more about music.

20. Listen to more classical music.

21. Post 43 of my favourite song lyrics.

22. Make a short film.

23. Make an indie horror film.

24. Watch more art films.

25. Watch more foreign films.

26. Learn French.

27. Learn Welsh.

28. Learn Japanese.

29. Travel the world.

30. Become a fabulous cook.

31. Try new recipes.

32. Explore new flavours of tea.

33. Lose 55 pounds.

34. Eat healthier.

35. Eat more fruits and vegetables.

36. Exercise daily.

37. Do my yoga and meditation every day.

38. Stop pulling my hair.

39. Stop picking my skin.

40. Cleanse my face every morning and night.

41. Be unapologetically listy.

42. List 43 men I wouldn't kick outta bed.

43. List 43 women I wouldn't kick outta bed.

@ 43things.com

Jul. 30th, 2008

Edutainment.

Jun. 11th, 2008

The more you know.

Signed up for two online courses to keep my brain oiled-- a fiction workshop, because it's definitely my weakest point in writing, and beginner's Welsh.

My Welsh is already off to a great start.

Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn o lyswennod.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn o lyswennod.

Jan. 30th, 2008

Words/phrases that need to be reintroduced to our daily conversation.



  • Egad

  • Gadzooks

  • By jove

  • I say

  • Golly

  • Shucks

  • Old chap

  • Young fellow-me-lad

  • Confusticate and bebother

  • Brobdingnagian

  • Damnable

  • Infernal

  • Gay (as in a gay lark in the meadow)

  • Frolic

  • By jiminy

  • Tarnation

  • Tomfoolery



Note: I am not sure anyone outside a Tolkien novel has ever said "Confusticate and bebother", but it quite obviously belongs on this list.

Jan. 14th, 2008

I have a little hobo bag on a stick. It's got words in.

GJ went down in dramatic flames of flaming drama. Fun. I don't know what I like better- the admin's final solution of "I don't feel like trying to fix it anymore, go to InsaneJournal, go away, there has never been a GJ, GJ is myth, GO AWAY!"; or that the response to this message of doom was a flood of lolcats.

So here I am. Still moving in. Fiddling with settings. Please excuse mess.

On the subject of glas