May

1: a vegan spin on chicken noodle soup
2: vegan chocolate mousse
3: picking through Legos in rubber gloves
4: Mom's intro to vegan baking (and cookie deliciousness)
5: makeshift suspenders
6: vegan shepherd's pie for breakfast
7: building my third tiny house model
8: crafting the little kitchen unit
9: when Jane meets Mr. Rochester
10: when you're reading a book and your friend comes up and asks you what part you're at
11: popsicle-stick lap siding
12: joining the first and original Team Edward
13: painting Peachy, the tinny tiny house
14: friendly chats with neighbors you haven't talked to in years
15: laughing and joking about the polygon with the baez
16: the final scene of the Michael Fassbender and Mia Wasikowska Jane Eyre
17: hitting my knee on the corner of my bed and getting a serpentine, S-shaped scar
18: meandering around in the chilly, overcast afternoon with a recuperating friend
19: a quiet, secluded daisy patch behind the library
20: Bernie Sanders rally
21: visiting, critiquing, and judging a for-sale tiny house
22: confidences, and walking in the desert
23: family time and moments with friends on my birthday
24: birthday-gift suspenders
25: audible-collision, body-slam, charge-across-the-room-and-knock-you-down hugs
26: slideshow covering seven years (from sixth grade onward)
27: tablet-flip Envy laptop
28: my family adorning me with leis after the graduation ceremony
29: making graduation gifts
30: typing up an old manuscript
31: bosque bushwhacking with your bestie

April

1: improvising breakfast of Orange Pekoe and a Luna bar
2: "Bunny and Hamster Love Video Compilation 2016"
3: analyzing the sexual tension and all the inter-tangled relationships in a short film
4: putting together a cinematic representation of a sonnet for a class project
5: writing a fanfic-style backstory scene for my short film character
6: rants and raves and obsession about a fanfic
7: ponderings about my racial place in society
8: tux fitting
9: Trainwreck
10: music that matches your emotional confusion
11: dreaming about not being able to fall asleep
12: reading old diary entries and being reminded of things you didn't even remember
13: little bro's writing evolution
14: "Phosphor"
15: when your friend makes you wear the flowered headband from the first day of school then steals it back from you right as you've gotten to enjoy it
16: pre-prom hangouts
17: the buttoned blue blouse that accidentally showed up in my laundry
18: interactions with other prospies at Middlebury
19: poetry slams and chats with students at the center for diversity and inclusivity
20: hiding under the sleeping bag to Kik your friend in the middle of the night
21: giddy excitement on my first day of projects
22: when your best friend shares his poetry with you
23: solar cookers and rainwater purification systems (and types of heating and cooking)
24: walking around barefoot and eating food at your friend's house like you live there
25: sketching tiny house interiors
26: marveling at compact fridges and mini microwaves
27: clomping around the house with one boot on
28: pinning up my college flag
29: a pre-model tiny tiny house
30: shed scouting

March

1: letting Stanley free-range on the bed
2: filming for Dimension
3: the postmodern music presentation
4: "Immer Kleiner"
5: reading creepypasta for short story inspiration
6: chilling with the cast/crew between scenes and takes
7: a rekindling of best-friend intimacy through reminiscing and laughter
8: laughing my ass off at The Babadook
9: top 10 horror flicks and movies never to watch alone lists
10: filling up the beast for $26.26
11: silliness in our music club
12: method acting to experience the fear factor of a short story
13: excitement over filming a character's death scene
14: the happy, lilting, melodic middle passages of Concertino Op. 26 by Weber
15: "El hijo" and "The Evening and the Morning and the Night"
16: unexpected positive feedback on my short film
17: hanging out with your friends at the secret society
18: dragging in extras for the movie
19: watching roleplay videos with Reborn dolls
20: setting up his memorial by moonlight
21: commemoration and condolences
22: a communal veggie-Pop Chip obsession
23: kidnapping a friend and bringing him to class with you
24: finally getting the chance to sit and read a book
25: spring break brunch with the crew and hanging at a friend's house
26: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List and Cheatin'
27: hours in a stupor watching rabbit, dog, and rat videos
28: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
29: buying a chair and minor room renovations
30: when a stranger accurately identifies and compliments Patch
31: busy admitted-student campus visit day

February

1: top-secret planning for our Valentine's Day vegan cooking party
2: listening to star songs by David Bowie for Imbolc 2016
3: nicknaming all the fish in the aquariums
4: Just for Laughs comedy skits from different comedians
5: playing with the "mini Pep Band" at the basketball game
6: August: Osage County
7: online window-shopping for vegan shoes
8: apologizing to a teacher you've wronged
9: my own personal pajama day
10: "all mountains are volcanoes"
11: playing Fire Boy and Water Girl with my bro for #ThrowbackThursday
12: visiting a college in winter
13: hotel room for one on the night before Valentine's Day
14: vegan food party with your bestie for Valentine's Day
15: vegan cake for breakfast
16: the devil's fruit
17: friends not letting friends go hungry at lunch
18: Stanley acting more like his normal self
19: Yann Tiersen's "Comptine d'un autre été"
20: finally getting to the main plot point of a book
21: dreaming of a future in Cape Breton (safe from Donald Trump and conservative America)
22: coming home to Mom-made vegan muffins after a longer-than-usual school day
23: NPR playing Balmorhea... twice in a row
24: one lunch before class and another lunch after class
25: being the homework messenger
26: when Senior Ditch Day is on opening night
27: the inscription on the Statue of Liberty
28: solving the NPR puzzle... twelve hours later
29: friends sneakily taking my camera (and figuring out how to work it)

January

1: all my stuffed animals having a name and a story
2: reading through the YouTube comments section
3: the cashier saying you're beautiful and then winking at you
4: not failing my first Russian listening comp
5: vegan provolone-style slices on crackers
6: "Pig Powder"
7: pondering line astigmatism as a college research project
8: Stephan Pastis
9: timing a show on Netflix perfectly with the same show broadcasting on TV
10: low-key interview with a college alumna
11: David Bowie music marathon
12: ranting (in French) at the archaic questions in your 1983 French textbook
13: speaking French in a dream
14: Bo Burnham's "What."
15: when your teacher is curious about your being vegan
16: a random Saturday hang-out-be-weird-and-eat-food party
17: shopping spree for vegan stuff
18: reading a corny book about a single people's relationship makeover retreat
19: eyes newly open to sunrises, sunsets, and mountain majesty
20: my heart going out to a kid suffering playing-test anxiety
21: "Put on a Happy Face"
22: waking up at 3 am with one numb arm and shaking the feeling back into it
23: reclining movie theater seats
24: Stanley's suspicion of my Saturday night whereabouts
25: playing a wooden clarinet the band director got off Craigslist for cheap
26: when your friend makes vegan cookies for the crew
27: talking for two hours on the phone with your friend and coming up with a weird new language
28: the Crew going to Chipotle for lunch
29: ditching class to go see the devil fish
30: baking vegan cookies for the first time
31: Sunday lunch with Dad at Thai Vegan

December

1: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
2: meatless BBQ pulled "pork" sliders
3: The Wiz Live on NBC
4: student directs 2015 (& flashbacks to previous shows)
5: hamster explorations in the great wide living room and kitchen
6: working on my architecture project
7: seeing everyone's house ideas
8: watching Nowhere Boy for the first time in many years as a tribute to John
9: kind of helping Maria with her car
10: when you spread out writing your final paper over a week instead of cramming it the night before
11: writing 'bits in class and around school
12: waking up to rain on a Saturday morning
13: the hilarity of Crimson Peak
14: coordinating and putting together little gift boxes
15: Nick getting everybody Boba Tea
16: listening to some Gregorian chants as I come to terms with the undeniable reality that I will probably fail my calc exam (#prayawaythepain)
17: study party for one
18: when your stomach's so full your lungs shrink to accommodate it
19: getting sucked into a book and absorbed by it
20: the puzzle mystery of the Escape Room
21: Pariah
22: listening to This Patch of Sky on Spotify
23: cooking up some broccoli soup
24: WarZ with my bro
25: The Fever Tree audiobook
26: NutriNinja breakfast smoothies for everyone
27: the quiet and stillness of a snowy suburb at 11 pm
28: Tasty Bite Vegetable Tikka Masala with rice
29: pompom-tassel hats and snow photography
30: the absolute final college applications
31: the artful TPing of a neighbor's house

November

1: tiny house video tours
2: when you're interpretive dancing and turn to see your hamster staring at you
3: full car, full squad, off-campus lunch
4: Frankenstein's monster
5: just lying down and falling asleep...
6: Rules of Engagement and Undateable
7: writing explosions and their aftermath
8: Zekrom the guinea pig
9: my new Stand Up For Pits hoodie
10: "All There Is" by Gregory Alan Isakov
11: participating (for the first time) in humanities
12: Frankenstein, the novel
13: when your friend brings you food her mom made
14: the Democratic Debate trio
15: real-life elements + current obsessions making it into your NaNoWriMo
16: writing conference with your teacher
17: going to Chipotle to pick up a burrito for your brother
18: the monster in The Young Frankenstein
19: creating an adult-version parody of the Magic Tree House series
20: wishing to have sung in hindsight
21: getting out your frustrations with a lint roller
22: slight, unprecedented detours in your novel
23: NaNo nitro boost 'til 2:30 am
24: our little club playing at the basketball game
25: when your hamster plays the climb-up game while you're at the vet
26: Home and The Box Trolls
27: hamster licking his lips after eating soup
28: typing my page quota and then some
29: counting words using an abacus
30:  55,251 give or take a few thousand