I know it's "too early," but here's my Christmas Wish List:

DVD's: Clerks, Dogma, Vieuphoria, The Simpsons: Seasons One and Two
CD's: Pearl Jam "Vs." and Coldplay "A Rush of Blood to the Head"
Any gift certificate for: American Eagle, Wegmans, Wal-Mart, Pier 1, J. Crew, P&C
A membership to BJ's

I remember one wish list I had when I was about 13... it was 2 and a half pages long. Typed.

Adulthood sucks. Practicality blows. I feel guilty asking for anything I haven't wanted for a long long time, but at least I have come to grips with the fact that unless my list is less than 10 items long and each item costs less than $20, there is no way I am getting everything on my list. Boohoo for me.

By reading the above wish list, you have entered into a binding agreement to purchase at least one of the items and mail it to Wendy before 21 December 2002.

Smile maker: "No postage necessary if mailed in the United States." That's $.37 I can keep in my giant (read:not giant) bank account, thankyouverymuch.

I don't know why anyone in their right mind would ever want to be a gynecologist.

It's amazing what a few kind words of encouragement can do. Thank you, Owen. I am now looking into graduate studies at the University of Iowa, in conjunction with the Center for the Book. To apply to grad school, I need to take the GRE. I didn't even know what that meant, so I searched for "GRE Exam" on MSN search. When I reached the GRE website, I began perusing and looked at the page that was encouraging people to take a "parctice" exam. Yes, on the official Graduate Record Examination website, they are encouraging people to parctice for the test.

Earlier this evening I purchased a Mentadent White & Clean toothbrush for $1.97 at Joe's friendly neighborhood Wal-Mart. I'd just like to let you know that I liked the brush head; the bristles felt very massaging and soft against my teeth and gums. However, the toothbrush handle was at a very awkward angle compared to what I'm used to, and I found it difficult to brush comfortably. Out of 10, with 10 being high: 4

Oh yeah, women are so f.ing oppressed. That's why they can show up in public looking like this without getting arrested for indecent exposure or being fed to lions. I'm not saying I want to go back to a time where I have to wear an ankle length dress every day, but I never want to hear a woman talk about how society is suppressing her again. Ever. And for heaven's sake lady, put some clothes on, ya whore!

I am very upset. Since 11:30 this morning I have been frantically scanning, arraging, and printing for my book. The print quality hasn't been great, but I figured it had something to do with the paper. Finally the print quality got so bad that I cleaned the print heads and now the print quality is pretty darn good, but I don't have time to go back through and print the pages I already cut. I am very upset.

I'm working on my book in Photoshop. I was hurrying to save a file, and I meant to name it "booktriple.psd" but accidentally typed "booktripe.psd." My brain was subconsciously giving me a more accurate title. Can't mess with fate, might as well not even try.

Hi. Do you want to kill me? Because I want you to. Right now.

Every freaking time I listen to The Zone I hear "Keep Fishin'." Seriously. Every freaking time.

I highly, HIGHLY recommend Boca's All American Flame Grilled Burgers to anyone and everyone, vegetarian or not. They are so good, and are reminiscent of good ol' fashioned grilled burgers for those of you who are current, used to be or occasional meat eaters. Boca burgers. I say yum.

I just spent my entire day binding a book that I printed back in the spring quarter. And I loved it. I want to do this for the rest of my life. Owen, you're not crazy. You rock.

Here's an article I found while wasting time this morning... It talks about CusackForPresident.com and how there's some movement sweeping the nation's college campuses to nominate John Cusack for a run at the Presidency. Understandably, Mr. Cusack is confused and slightly upset because he claims to have no political aspirations. I know one person who would vote for John Cusack... my infatuated boyfriend Joe. He once admitted that if John Cusack wanted to have a sexual rendezvous, he would willingly go along. (Same goes for David Duchovny)

I do think we need to change something about the way America is going, but I don't think electing a cult favourite celebrity to be our commander in chief is the way to do it.

Do you have any faith in the intelligence of your fellow man? Would you like to quash it? Visit this page. Some of them are predictable, a few are stupid, but you'll see that several of them are just plain funny. You like it. It likes you.

Joe's mom gave us a book called "Money Matters for Newlyweds" (or something like that) and I really do realize that I need to make a budget and stick to it. I don't even make enough at my job to afford rent each month, so I have to rely on my parents completely for all school-related expenses. I try not to buy anything that I don't absolutely need, but it's hard. I just had to spend $149 on new brakes, and I have to buy at least 2 new tires. School's a beotch, and I don't know how I'm going to be able to afford to buy a single thing for anybody for Christmas.

I know my cell phone is a big expense, so I've been looking online for new plans and new services to see if I can find one that is a better deal. At first glance, the Cingular plan looked like an AWESOME deal, but then I found out that a 2-year contract is required and if you cancel early there's some ridiculously expensive termination fee. And I can't commit to something like that for 2 years. I looked at Verizon, T-mobil, etc. Nothing really looked like a better deal. And I've had good luck with Sprint PCS and I like my phone and I don't want to have to change my phone number, and so on (and so forth). So I think I might just switch to the "300 anytime minutes" plan intstead of the 350 minute plan I have now, and agree to another one-year term. I'll save about $15 a month that way I think.

Argh. Where's me cookies?