- wishing so badly that I was good at sports every other day in gym class
- my sister poetically rewriting all my papers up until junior year
- walking my dog to the pond everyday after school with Molly Bell
- the first words I read by Ralph Waldo Emerson (oh, to fall in love with words)
- the first words I read by Henry David Thoreau (oh, to fall in love with words, all over again, twenty minutes later)
- a friendship pact to see DMB in concert every summer for the rest of our lives
- public speaking: the only bad grade I ever got in an English class
- PIG project: Methamphetamine Lab Detection in Tioga County. I never knew how poorly we did in that class until report cards came out. Who knew that laughing at drugs while raising awareness would be considered unacceptable? Not me.
- warm keystone beer
- sexing fruit flies in biology lab
- a mid-January camping trip up in the mountains of Candor
- a food coma induced nap that struck every afternoon during Calculus class
I was led to this after I cut my bangs wrong and googled, "I cut my bangs wrong." At first I was really flustered, but then I thought, Do I really care? Since when have I been known for having good hair, anyway?