The "Bowl" List

Ah, September.  A time of great change. A time of beginnings and endings.  A time to finally have an excuse to buy new pens!  If I haven't already mentioned it, I'm about to enter my senior year of high school.  It's the last chance that my BFF Mckenzie and I will have to spend an obnoxious amount of time together before we head off to university, perhaps on opposite sides of the country. In order to mark this momentous occasion, we have compiled what we call the "Bowl" list - things that we wish to accomplish in the next year.  Instead of a bucket list, which implies dying, we chose something less powerful than a bucket - a bowl.  Mckenzie and I will attempt to complete each of the items on this list, document it, and I will share it with all of you lovely readers (if you're even out there!).  It will be intense.  We'll laugh.  We'll cry.  We'll cry because we're laughing so hard.  But we won't forget it.

So, without further ado, here is our list:

Mckenzie and Emily’s list of stuff they must do before university (The”Bowl” List), in no particular order:

1.     Sell baked goods at a farmer’s market under the name “Ganache with Panache”.

2.     Start a book club.

3.     Do silly things with a slide whistle in public place.

4.     Attend a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in full costume.

5.     Write slam poetry and read it to an appreciative audience.

6.     Learn to play the guitar (me) and bass (her) and start a band.

7.     Write spectacular songs for said band.

8.     Attend each other grad parties. Do the polka and bring a chess board.

9.     Pull an all-nighter.

10. Create a graphic novel or web comic.

11. Paint fancy nail art.

12. Go to Zumba class dressed in 80’s workout gear.

13. Learn a trombone/flute duet and perform it at music festival.

14. Learn a Shakespearean duologue and perform it at musical festival as well.

15. Prepare an elegant five-course meal.

16. Go on a road triop.

17. Go on a bike trip and pack a picnic.

18. Participate in a movie marathon lasting at least twelve hours.

19. Raise money for charity.

20. Create partner Halloween costumes.

21. Make Candy Salad.

22. Compose a rock opera based on Carmen.

23. Write a musical called First World Problems: The Musical.

24. Have several gratuitous photo shoots.

25. Take photos to record the completion of the above items.

26. Compile those photos into an intentional sentimental scrapbook.

27. Just have a helluva year.

Let the games begin.

Emily Untitled

This blog almost didn’t have a name.  Due to my lack of creativity and hesitation, my thoughts were forever doomed to remain within my weird little head.  In fact, coming up with a title was the hardest part of this whole “blogging” thing. 

I’ve always been a writer.  Novels, essays, plays, rock operas – you name it, I write it. The world is full of stories waiting to be told.  At the same time, I also read a lot.  First, book and newspapers, and later, blogs.  Having the ability to not only create my ideas, but to share them with the world fascinated me.   I wanted to start a blog, but I never had the guts to do it.  Until now, that is.  The fact that I am entering my final year of high school combine with a pile of recent life events has convinced me to take more risks.  So, I finally had the resolve to create a blog, but what kind?

There are many different types of blogs.  Food  blogs.  Craft blogs.  Travel blogs.  Snarky book review blogs.  Look-how-cute-my-cats/dogs/shoes/pancakes-are blogs.   For every passion, there’s someone posting about it three times a day.   Nice, neat, little categories.  That’s great, if you fit into a category.  But what if you love them all? What if something can’t be labeled within convenient and understandable terms?

In this respect, blogging can be a lot like life.  People are confined to labels and stereotypes, whether they want to be or not.  We can become marginalized and I never want to do that to my blog.  I want to include recipes and rants and reviews.  Maybe even the occasion gratuitous photo shoot.   I want have the freedom to create whatever I feel like.  Just as I wish to break free from labels within my life, I strive to do that with the work that I do.

Which bring us to the name Emily Untitled. It’s the perfect titled (or anti-title) for this blog.  And for myself.  Two things those are unable to be categorized. 

So what can you, dear Reader, expect to see on these pages?  I don’t even know.  You’ll just have to stick around and find out.   

On another note, check these cool photographs I took for my friend Robin's blog! Her blog is really great, full of art and creative

DIY projects.