list of things i like and don't like

with very little nuance

i like:

• sparkly nail polish

• taking pictures (i was born to post)

• twitter

• Murakami books (japanese literature in general)

• mango that isn’t super stringy

• buying books and justifying it by saying i’m starting a library

• when i air dry my hair and it gets wavy

• my room in indiana (mostly my bed)

• dancing (rolling on the floor)

• swimming

  

• when someone draws on me

• quitting

• aquaphor

• talking to strangers

• sticking my whole face under the sink faucet

• meditating while brushing my teeth (hugging my knees to my chest while i sit on top of the toilet spacing out)

• the familiarity of my grandparent’s house

• philosophizing

• books about love (not romance novels)

• cultivating a community everywhere

• bikinis

• leaving the city for a break

• big trees

• silences

• being somewhere different

• cool shoes

• being able to say i saw a band in concert (not the act of actually going to the concert)

• black pilot g-2 .38mm pens

• saying yes

• being unemployed

• cameras

• my friends

• reminders that the child in me is still here

• a city that isn’t too big but isn’t too small

• practicing love

• always carrying a deck of cards

• listening to music loud

• black notebooks

• contemplating femininity

• cows

• sailboats

• bajablasts freeze

• getting to the point

• dinner parties

• the process of developing film photos

• asking the world for a sign

• cooking

• being alone

• tote bags and rifling through it to find an object

• petrovo uho:

  

i don’t like:

• romanticizing

• spiders

• consumerism in general

• ziploc bags

• birth control

• sharing too much of my life online

• money

• the government

• trying to understand the fundamentals of our physical world (atoms, elements, frequencies, etc.)

• books that are confusing

• alcohol

• having too many things

• when i party too much

• when my job hires people that are objectively really bad at the job

• minimum wage

• the news

• the whatsapp icon

• not having the right words

• being a student

• scrolling for hours on my phone