i write better when i listen to miles davis.

realizations and confessions as of late:

• i actually do all things better when i listen to miles davis. 
• klondike bars need to be sold individually. sometimes you just need a klondike bar at the end of a long day to remind yourself that life is, in fact, wonderful. but buying a whole package of klondike bars...now that's dangerous.  
• one day my "mom car" will be a renovated volkswagen Bus. 
• toast and sitcoms make my world go round. 
• "dreams" by the cranberries will always be on my running playlist. i know this isn't necessarily a good "running song," but every time it comes up in the middle of a run i get a new burst of energy because it's instantly the fall of 1998 and i'm on my way to the chic bookstore i own in new york city and i'm falling madly in love with tom hanks via email. sigh.
• speaking of online dating: it is the worst. absolute. if you're thinking it might be a good option but you're worried it might be: creepy, awkward, and potentially full of insecure losers who trick you into thinking they are sincere but are actually much worse than spending your evenings alone with netflix and dirty diet cokes indefinitely, you are absolutely correct. stick with real life because it's...real.
• on a slightly more positive note: if you are majoring in psychology, writing a novel that you need some juicy material for, or if you need to crank out some "people watching" but don't have five minutes to get it done this is absolutely the place for you. just don't pay for more than a month. that is adequate time to get all the material you need and so much more. 
• everything, and i mean everything, sounds better on vinyl. 
• taking polaroid pictures and finding pennies heads up belong in the same category in my brain.
• sometimes i get kind of scared when i watch sherlock right before bed, but i still can't help myself. 
• there are crazier people out there than you even have the ability to imagine. 
• in my world slippers can only be worn with socks on too.
• prince george is so adorable i could die. all i want in life is to have a son named jude who is as cute as him. 
• nerdy guys are typically the absolute best, but they can also end up being the meanest jerks of all the mean jerks. i think this is why i have such a love/hate relationship with the idea of peter parker.
• the older i get the more scary long boarding is becoming and the earlier i like to go to bed. (the second half of that is somewhat debatable.)
• charcoals and chalk pastels make my heart sing like a little bird in the springtime. 
• i could dive right into wikipedia and live in there for years on end. 
• last week i was reading about raves on wikipedia. they are completely horrifying. i think if i listed my greatest fears, getting trapped at a never ending rave would be pretty high up on that list. 
• also, at raves a lot of people suck pacifiers so they won't grind their teeth down to nothing as a side effect from the drugs they are on. i think a more enjoyable way to prevent this problem would be eating mass amounts of granola. they could put buckets of granola all over the place. if you are an avid granola eater you will totally understand, or maybe i'm just partial to granola despite the jaw workout it gives me. 
• if i could spend one day with a famous female it would be tina fey no questions asked. i love zooey deschanel but i would just stare at her and all her cuteness and wish i was her the entire time. unless she felt inclined to offer herself as a mentor to help me on my quest of reaching maximum quirky cuteness and allowing me to identify myself has her "redheaded little sister." (we would also play ukulele duets together and she would introduce me to JGL.) otherwise, mindy kaling is a very close second but just not quite the winner. 
• if you have read to the bottom of this ramble-y list, congratulations! i will start writing more frequently. just for you.