Baby Names

Lately while I've been driving all I can do is make lists. I don't know when I became someone who makes lists, but... here I am, on the other side of this change... more than a little confused at this point.

Names I Like...
1. Wendy
2. Talulah
3. Peter
4. James
5. Emma
6. Katelyn
7. Harry
8. Braille

Names I Like But Would Never Name My Child Due to Nicknames...
1. Franklin --> Frank. Ulk. Sorry, Dad.
2. Anthony--> Tony. Sorry, Mom's side of family.
3. Charles--> Charlie

Another Reason I Would Never Name a Child Charles...

I don't believe in cruelty to children.










CDs I've Bought...
1. Stay Positive, The Hold Steady
2. Boys and Girls in America, The Hold Steady
3. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
4. Partie Traumatic, The Black Kids

Peace.
Kate

Top 25 Most Played on iTunes since getting my laptop in March:
1. Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me for Me), Blessid Union of Souls
2. Walking in Memphis, Marc Cohn
3. Still Sixteen, Old Springs Pike
4. Snails, The Format
5. Nobody's Cool, The Arrogants
6. Paper Planes, M.I.A.
7. Technicolor Eyes, Backseat Goodbye
8. Stuck Between Stations, The Hold Steady
9. The Guy That Says Goodbye To You Is Out of His Mind, Griffin House
10. Complicated, Ben Gibbard
11. Knock 'Em Out, Lily Allen
12. Jackson Square, Mason Jennings
13. Cotton, The Mountain Goats
14. If You Could Only See, Tonic
15. Always Be, Jimmy Eat World
16. Japanese Gum, Her Space Holiday
17. See You Again, Miley Cyrus
18. We Get On, Kate Nash
19. Time to Pretend, MGMT
20. Reno Dakota, The Magnetic Fields
21. You, You, You, You, You, The 6ths
22. The Dress Looks Nice On You, Sufjan Stevens
23. Impossible Germany, Wilco
24. Birds, Kate Nash
25. Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex, CSS

...Now you know? I don't feel like it's a very good list of stuff that I really like and want to listen to. Look at yours? What do you think?
Kate

Homehomehome!
I find myself stretched a little thin. I need to figure out how to compartmentalize and still do what I want/need to do. And enjoy myself. Which shouldn't be a problem.
I'm thinking of getting a twitter.
I seem to be irate about things I have no business being irate about. I have a bad habit I really need to get out of.
I tried to make an awesome spectrum of hair colors, but then my downloaded freeware and I had a disagreement...
I really enjoy being home. :)
Kate

Feeling Listy

It seems that lists have taken over the facebook, be it lists of movie quotes, song lyrics, or interesting tidbits.
Antha even wrote a list where she talked about how much she likes writing lists...
I too have that passion, although I only seem to do it internally, or if I'm really bored. A blog list moment seems to be in order here. Just to maintain my in Vogue status...
To Do:
1. write my essay for Crossing Borders
2. French flash cards until my eyes fall out
3. look over the reading we have done this semester for Ireland
4. start packing to go home
5. laundry
6. figure out when I'm babysitting when I'm home
7. take the old nail polish off of my fingers
8. wrap the Christmas gifts I've already bought
9. bake a cake
10. clean my room

To Make Over Break:
1. the cheesecake my grandma made last year for Thanksgiving "Chocolate Eruption Cheesecake"
2. snicker doodles
3. sugar cookies
4. hummus
5. my mom's chocolate chip cookies
6. cup cakes
7. cake with beer in it
8. pot stickers
9. pesto
10. various kinds of pasta, most with mushrooms

Favorite Things:
1. frosted mint mochas from Whispers
2. Ally McBeal
3. blogs
4. hot chocolate
5. Urban Outfitters
6. upbeat music
7. Advent hymns
8. Circus
9. conditioner
10. how awesome Brook and I

Least Favorite Things:
1. essays
2. knowing that I really like essays
3. French
4. the way my mouth tastes after eating dark chocolate
5. how high Jeanie's voice goes when she laughs
6. the fact that we won't have water when I want to shower tomorrow
7. finals
8. split ends
9. how much my hair colour has faded
10. that my cords are wet

I will be home by 2pm December 17th and I am beyond excited. Let's hang out.
Kate

Thanksgiving

Things I am thankful for: the opportunity to sleep more than five hours tonight, my family, Southern accents, the fact that I do not have a Southern accent, long walks around my neighborhood, puppies (even just online photos of them), babies, small children, silly words, long words, words I don't know, that people around me are willing to teach me words I don't know, books, the ability to look at my book shelves and suddenly be transported back to the time when I read and loved each of those books, nick nacks, hugs, that moment when a book hits you just right, books that are so over read they break, the various things that make up the personality of a person in a room, my mom and the look on her face when I came home for the first time, how my dad and my brother are obviously excited to see me but hide it so well, my dad's goofy waves, familial inside jokes, my home church, laughter, different view points, pictures of friends where they are laughing, ridiculous quotes, best friends and the places we always go to eat, the idea that when I told Kelly "noon" she knew I meant "noon thirty" and that it's ok, driving, public transit, my school, learning (even though my brain is about to explode and all I want is to sleep for the next month), French, Ireland, tenured teachers, crosswords, having Someone to rely on, Brett, and all those who I know I could rely on if I ever asked.

My life seems to be a whirl wind these days. I'm so glad to be home. So glad. I have so much to tell everyone. I have started this nasty habit of collecting pieces of minor drama in my life so that when I go home I will have epic stories to tell. so... Be prepared.

Kate

P.S. I'm also thankful that I have people who will tell me when to shut up when I need to and will call me out if my brutal honesty dips into douche baggery.

My geekiness, explained.

So, I feel if I keep the origins of the name of my blog a secret I will be lying to you all.
But, I also feel if I tell you I will seem like a pretentious douche. This seems to be a problem I have a lot.
I shall explain anyway, I suppose. I took the name from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce. I mostly chose it because I like the idea of a blog as explaining "the scholastic quidditas, the whatness of a thing." (I can't help feeling like I need a parenthetical citation after that. This worries me.)
That's not the whole story though. Joyce has introduced to me a new category of novels: those that I hate so much, but love so much as well. My copy has all of these handwritten notes in them and highlights, so it feels a little like a stressful kind of home. I know that when I reread it later on and actually understand all the things I'm missing now and it will be even better.
So, in closing, I'm like... a huge mega geek.
And that's part of my quidditas.
Kate