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Subject: Re: left on my desk.

> and All) and she hasn't given it back and while i generally won't do the
> re-re-re-reading thing, i still like to have and hold and look at my books!
> dammit.

hahahha, yes. i know exactly what you mean.

> anna and i were just talking about how we need to live in houses where
> there are no walls, just bookcases as far as the eye can see. do you know
> how STRESSFUL it is to always have to choose which books to keep and which
> to box up?!!!
> (of COURSE you know.)

i actually don't keep very many books. i keep them if there is even a CHANCE that i will refer to it later. so all religion and philosophy books, plus my top 50 favorite books.

all the rest, i give away or sell.

this is because, after moving back and forth from school so many times, i looked at my stuff and i was like, "okay. 3/4 of my total belongings are books i will never ever read again. this is silly."

> also, i liked when you wrote about how you and someone were going to go to
> jeff's mom's house to get your books back and how you were going to wear
> paper bags over your heads that said "FUCK JEFF" or something like that.
> very funny.

i think that's just because sara and i come up with the BEST plans! we take a regular plan and make it hysterical and warped!

(what actually happened was that i took the books, i left the ring he'd given me on his bed, i drove the entire way home shaking and trying to sing along to the music, and i called stefan the minute i set foot in the apartment, and then paced the apartment while he told me i'd done the right thing.)

> caroline and i were trying to make a list of non-dumb, non-short boys, and
> we came up with four:
> - pete gilchrist
> - joel anderson (the dean at wash u who helped caroline deal with her seven
> incompletes)
> - eddie vedder
> - the dalai lama (he might be short, but we made an exception)

mine would include patrick. and stefan. and adam duritz, who is a GIANT. i think he's taller than either of them. but they're all smart, tall boys.