Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
The ears are feeding onO'Death - Fire on Peshtigo
goodbye ferret calendar
goodbye completed to-do lists on post-its all over my room
goodbye scallywag
goodbye italian leather organiser i never fully utilised
goodbye extensive travelling
goodbye slightly more excusable immaturity
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after reading Time's top ten lists of 2008, i realise now how much i truly love lists. maybe i'll make up some of my own right now. yes i'm making this blog a little bit more fashionable, but hopefully as unattractive as it has ever been.
Ruth's attempt at small comprehensive lists of 2008:
top 5 regrettable movies i actually paid to watch
5. high school musical 3 - watched this in cape town with candice, dine, and landi. seriously.. the things friends do for each other 4. the hottie and the nottie - i rented this for a dollar... and i don't know what i was thinking. i guess i wasn't. 3. vantage point - downloaded it. it cost money because it required electricity. it had this one particular pretentious american scene in it. enough said 2. mamma mia! - watched this on a plane... weirdest and most pervy musical meant for tweens? 1. the x-files: i want to believe - oh, my soul. a movie explicitly about Romans 1:27
top 5 raddest movies i watched
5. 27 dresses 4. penelope 3. ip man 2. the dark knight 1. iron man
top 10 loveliest music i found 10. international superheroes of hardcore - takin it ova 9. ghost mice/defiance, ohio split 8. the dø - a mouthful 7. anathallo - canopy glow 6. tv on the radio - dear science 5. the mae shi - hlllyh 4. the gaslight anthem - everything! 3. fleet foxes - s/t 2. o'death - broken hymns, limbs and skin and head home 1. noah & the whale - s/t
top 6 books i purchased 6. cambridge advanced learner's dictionary 5. ethics + the cost of discipleship - dietrich bonhoeffer 4. the shock doctrine - naomi klein 3. crazy love - francis chan 2. Jesus wants to save christians - rob bell and don golden 1. Jesus for president - shane claiborne and chris haw
top 6 most signficant occasions 6. realising i have the ability to write little bits of music 5. the tesol diploma - distinction, baybeh! 4. scallywag's peaceful departure 3. meeting a bajillion people in 6 different countries 2. dinner in indonesia after the ltt 1. south africa
