A List (Or more!)

• Stories about teachers inspired by the youthful energy of their students
• stories about students inspired by teachers
• Biographies of people I find somnolent, i.e., Thomas Edison
• Stories blatantly intended to persuade one to the author's viewpoint with that sort of arrogant, "well, I told you" endings
• Editorials concerning teenage driving laws
• Melodrama about issues that don't really matter
• Apathy towards those that do
• Parent's plans for my future
• Religious right
• Religious left
• Religious center
• Religious apoliticals
• Discussions of abortion
• Those who feel the need to be politically correct
• Ditto, politically incorrect
• Those who feel the need to whine loudly about it
• Politics in general
• Relationship/life advice, even when its prompted
• Mainstream music
• "The Wood Carver"
• Lack of classroom control
• Sonic disturbances
• Doughnuts that are supposed to be filled with delicious creme, but aren't
• Fish pills
• Tuesday mornings
• mainstream music

THESE ARE ALL THINGS THAT

• Make me angry/are annoying
• I have little desire to tlak about
• Well be mentioned in my upcoming novel, destined to be the definitive piece of American literature(more on this at a later date)

ANOTHER LIST

• Ulysses (and James Joyce in general)
• The Odyssey (though I do not consider it the best story ever told)
• Greek literature and philosophy in general
• Modernism
• Vladmir Nabokov
• Samuel Beckett
• Pseudo-Italian/French accents
• The prefix pseudo
• European cuisine
• The heroic archetype
• Why I'm not permitted into Plato's Republic
• The meaning of certain poems
• Psychology
• Dreams
• Creative Writing
• Family Guy
• Kidney Stones and Muddy Waters
• Strega Nona
• Christmas christmas, Salted cod salted cod, the mystery of the broomstick, witchcraft and it's relationship to the aforementioned
• The word aforementioned
• Driveways, beating up Ophelia
• Naming my car after a character from Hamlet
• Why I shouldn't have been liscened to drive
• The indie rock
• Farmhouses like the one i drew in my journal a year ago and then found
• That girl I know with both hair AND eyes

THESE ARE ALL THINGS THAT...

• I find interesting
• I enjoy talking and/or thinking about and/or to
• Will influence my novel (destined to become the definitive piece of American Lit, discussed in classrooms far and wide after it's initial utter, dismal rejection) will be the driving force behind it, but, baring a certain few exceptions, won't actually be involved.