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Erin

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.-Dr. Seuss

About Me

I enjoy dancing to really bad music bare foot on the kitchen floor, riding my bike through the street of Eugene at night, drinking beer on a Monday afternoon, writing letters to old friends, crying over babies, eating yellow peppers, falling in love, reading really nerdy psychology books, getting lost in cities I am visiting for the first time, and pretending I'm too good for these sort of things.

My Interests

Activism, changing the world, living in the woods, listening to poetry, modern art

I'd like to meet:

I pray to the sunbeam from the window - It is pale, thin, straight. Since morning I have been silent, And my heart - is split. The copper on my washstand Has turned green, But the sunbeam plays on it So charmingly. How innocent it is, and simple, In the evening calm, But to me in this deserted temple It's like a golden celebration, And a consolation. ~Anna Akhmatova

Music:

Dar williams, Ani, Tori, Bright Eyes, Indigo girls, Nanci Griffith, Le tigre, Bikini Kill, Tracy Chapman, Bitch, Mirah, the Faint

Movies:

When Harry Met Sally, The Joy Luck Club, Fried Green Tomatoes, Movies in Russia,

Heroes:

The Russian people.

My Blog

Leaving russia in the words of Anna Akhmatova

Departure Although this land is not my own, I will remember its inland sea and the waters that are so cold the sand as white as old bones, the pine trees strangely red where the sun comes down. I cann...
Posted by Erin on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:30:00 PST

I havn't seen the sun in over two weeks!!!!!

Where am I? I live in a city where the sun doesn't come up until 10 and goes down around 3:30. And it gets darker every day.Even when the sun is "up" the city is covered in the thinkist glay fog I hav...
Posted by Erin on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:15:00 PST

The Russian postal service

So... I finally found one, a post office that is. I waited in line for twenty minutes and had two people cut in front of me before the line moved one person. As I waited a babuska yelled at another wo...
Posted by Erin on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:58:00 PST

Russia part 1

Russia.... well I have been here over a week but I still can't put this place into words. I'm living with a russian family of a five. They don't speak any english and I don't speak any russian. We com...
Posted by Erin on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:47:00 PST

I would get more action if I was from canada

The subject line pretty much says it all.
Posted by Erin on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:42:00 PST

babushkas and a 89 toyota tercel

So I just finished driving a car almost as old as I am halfway across the country ( and yes it made it all the way without breaking down). The trip was an adventure to say the least. Some of the ...
Posted by Erin on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:38:00 PST