All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

[walkingshadow]

I made note of people on my friendslist who'd made wishlists while I was out of town over Thanksgiving, and I've been going back and replying to whatever I could, so be on the lookout. Wishlist guidelines are here if you need to see them. Here are some things I would love to have:

1. Cool, geeky, dorky t-shirts. The other day at the bus stop, a boy had on a t-shirt that said "F.O.I.L.: Keepin' Algebra Fresh" with the entire operation worked out beneath it, and I thought that was just the best thing ever. I like shirts with random things, shirts with funny or obscure references, shirts with math or science or literature jokes. If you find something having to do with language or linguistics, I might bear your children in exchange. I probably wear a medium.

2. Lush products. Or at least I think so. As isilya said, their copy is irresistible. I'm way more interested in skincare stuff than fragrance or bath or massage stuff. I have very dry skin, not particularly sensitive; I've been using Curél (Ultra Healing) religiously and my skin is very, very happy about being moisturized. I use Ponds at night on my face, but I'm not absolutely wild about it, and it's definitely too heavy for the daytime. And winter (well, Florida's winter, whatever that means) is just about here, so I'm going to need something on my face during the day. The products that looked good to me were Angels on Bare Skin, Baby Face, Skin Drink, Ultralight Moisturizer, Potion. If you're familiar with their products and know of something better, that'd be wonderful. Or even just recommend me something. I'd like to start somewhere.

3. Jon Stewart (et al.)'s America: The Book

4. Books, fiction and non-fiction, but especially books of essays—or just rec me your favorite authors and essayists. I'm toying with committing myself to something like the 50bookchallenge for next year, and I'm compiling reading lists. I love Annie Dillard, George Orwell, Stephen Jay Gould, Calvin Trillian, E.B. White, Joan Didion, etc., etc. On any and every subject—science, baseball, writing, pop culture, current and past events.

5. Bach's Fugue in A Flat Major from the second book of "The Well-Tempered Clavier" by Davitt Moroney (harpsichord, 1988). Just that one specifically (#17?), though I'm sure all the others are absolutely amazing as well.

6. There's an album of Bach violin concertos—I think that's what they are. One man, one violin, and a whole lot of music; I think it's a double CD. After that? Bach, period; anything on the cello; anything by Yo-Yo Ma.

7. Loose tea, maybe even in a tin: English teas, green teas; other teas I've never tried but would like to; I don't generally care for herbal tea, but if you know something amazing, I'll try that too.

8. A vibrator.

9. I was going to ask for paid lj time and/or extra userpics time, but earlier tonight the anonymous lj fairy stopped off at my inbox and deposited JUST THAT. So thank you anonymous lj fairy! You are much more welcome than the vowel fairy in Scrabble, or the exposition fairy of narrative. If you'd like to decloak yourself here or in email, I'd love to thank you personally. Otherwise, I will exude appreciation and goodwill toward the lj community at large and bask in its beneficence. *basks*

10. An in at McGill or Cambridge or the University of Washington (etc.) to get me into their linguistics program and put off the real world that much longer. Or a linguistics job, something I love getting up in the morning for, in Boston or Seattle or London or Montreal. I hear it's beautiful cold this time of year.

Comments

[ramblinround.livejournal.com]

Oh man! The F.O.I.L. shirt sounds great! My little sister wears one that says, "Algebra is for Lovers." Hee. :-)

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's adorable!

I wondered if the guy had been in a math club in high school, or if he just had a really good t-shirt source. Either way, I was jealous and it made my morning. *g*

[ramblinround.livejournal.com]

I was just looking for a t-shirt to get my brother for xmas when I ran across your F.O.I.L. shirt:

http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=5577&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=163&iSubCat=172&iProductID=5577

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

You're wonderful! Thanks so much for the link. How irritating that the boys get all the goofy t-shirts—not that it'll stop me from getting and wearing them. I did laugh at the one in the women's section that says "I like to get it on with boys who vote." Hee!

[leksa.livejournal.com]

Oh Bach; oh, Bach. I quite approve of your taste in music. :)

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

Oh, I absolutely adore him and his beautiful musical brain. I have a double-CD of, well, his greatest hits, and I used to listen to them on the bus to and from high school (that and Counting Crows and Third Eye Blind and Less Than Jake; it's easy to tell when I went to high school).

I don't know anything about music theory, but every note is just where it should be, even when it's completely surprising when it shows up. Robert Frost said of a poem, "read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went"—and that's just what I feel about Bach. Also, cello music echoes through my entire body when I hear it. If time and money were no object, I would play the cello. So, yes. *g*

[vongroovy.livejournal.com]

I have tea for you. I went to a coffeshop on Saturday just a little while after I'd seen your wish list, and I had some fantastic tea, and they had it for sale, and it seemed perfectly what you might like, so...yes. I have tea for you.

Bach! Fantastic. Also, I adore Yo-Yo Ma. Do you have any of his albums, or is it really anything goes?

Of course I will need your address - you can send it to me at vongroovy at gmail dot com. Thanks!

[walkingshadow.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh, you have tea. That sounds so wonderful!

Bach indeed! Considering how much I love Yo-Yo Ma (the man as well as the music he makes; every testimonial makes him out as the kindest of souls), it's shameful that I don't own any of his albums, but I really don't. So yes, I suppose anything goes, just as long as I can hear really the cello.

And you've got email. :)