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I am here for Friends

About Me

I like starting big projects but I don't like to finish them. I believe in checking facts for yourself, red wine, liberalism, God, true love, piano lessons, Firefox, and charity. I think America can still be saved through small measures like voting with pens and using water filters. I know plenty of jokes but I'm horrible at telling them. I love to play board, card, and video games- especially when good people and liquor are involved.

My Interests

Getting through school, planning a fun wedding, playing the ukulele, cooking at home more often, reading magazines without pictures, and trying to beat my grandfather at cards just once in my life.

I'd like to meet:

"Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want." -Anna Lappe

"Religion and science are opposed . . . but only in the same sense as that in which my thumb and forefinger are opposed - and between the two, one can grasp everything." -Sir William Bragg

Music:

While sober: Johnny Cash, Electric Six, Tom Petty, The Cure, Ella Fitzgerald, and The Damned. While drunk: Ol' Dirty Bastard and Ludacris.

Movies:

Kung fu films and movies about the starship Enterprise.

Television:

Mythbusters, MacGyver, ST:TNG, and Bridezillas.

Books:

"1984"
"Crime and Punishment"
"The Maltese Falcon"
"A Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
"Moby Dick"
"Republic"
"The Catcher in the Rye"
Collected Poems of Pablo Neruda
"The Bell Jar"
"House of the Spirits"
The Book of Job
"Welcome to the Monkey House"
"Cat's Cradle"
"Slaughterhouse-Five"
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
The Just-so Stories
"Don Quixote"
"The Canterbury Tales"
"Huckleberry Finn"
"The Adventures of Oliver Twist"
Sherlock Holmes Stories
"Ethics (Nicomachean)"
"Pride and Prejudice"
"Emma"
"Fahrenheit 451"
"The Awakening"
"Waiting for Godot"
"The Bhagavad Gita"
"Jane Eyre"
"A Clockwork Orange"
"Heart of Darkness"
"Red Badge of Courage"
"Catch-22"
"Animal Farm"
"Divine Comedy"
"The Origin of Species"
"The Brothers Karamazov"
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"
"The Count of Monte Cristo"
"Invisible Man"
"Hipplolytus"
"The Hobbit"
"The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy
"The Sound and the Fury"
"Fast Food Nation"
"The Great Gatsby"
"Madame Bovary"
"One Hundred Years of Solitude"
"The Motorcycle Diaries"
"Ender's Game"
"Red Harvest"
"The Sun Also Rises"
"Old Man and the Sea"
"Steppenwolf"
"Leviathan"
"The Iliad"
"The Odyssey"
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
American State Papers
"Critique of Pure Reason"
"Hamlet"
"The Trial"
"Being and Nothingness"
"Metamorphosis"
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
"Sons and Lovers"
"Of the Nature of Things"
"The Prince"
"The Magic Mountain"
"The Communist Manifesto"
"Billy Budd"
"Paradise Lost"
"Lolita"
"Thus Spake Zarathustra"
"The Rights of Man"
"Thoughts"
"Atlas Shrugged"
"Pygmalion"
"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"
"Oedipus Rex"
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
King Arthur Stories
"The Adventures of Robin Hood"
"Gulliver's Travels"
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
"Native Son"
"The Aeneid"
"Candide"
"The Time Machine"
"Journey to the Center of the Earth"
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
"Death of a Salesman"
"To the Lighthouse"
"A People's History of the United States"
and more...

Heroes:

My grandfather. Good tippers. Garbagemen. Honest historians. People who still write thank-you notes for occasions besides their wedding. Any Democrat that votes left of center.

My Blog

Slightly More Upbeat

Here are a couple of web-sites you can visit to help out evacuees:The American Red CrossThe Salvation ArmySo, the air quality is still "unhealthy," fourteen people have died, 1500 homes have been lost...
Posted by ]+ Erin +[ on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:59:00 PST

I think theyre calling it "Firestorm 2007"

Over one thousand homes have been lost.  I wasn't doing so well a few days ago, but all that is irrelevant now and my thoughts are with everyone else in the county.  There's so much damage.....
Posted by ]+ Erin +[ on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:13:00 PST

40% of Americans Hate Math

At 2pm today I will be taking a test on drug calculations WITHOUT A CALCULATOR.  Like Samson without his hair or a pimp without his cane, I am absolutely crippled if I'm not allowed a calculator...
Posted by ]+ Erin +[ on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:39:00 PST

Big Academic Pimpin

Well, someone at San Diego State is probably going to be fired, because they let me in to their nursing program.  I received a call on Thursday that I was expecting but not prepared for:Me: "Hell...
Posted by ]+ Erin +[ on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:55:00 PST

A is for Apple.... and Adultery

For the past few months, I have been having an affair.  As torturous as it is to admit, for weeks now I have been getting boned hard by Art's Laundry Service, Incorporated.  It is a sordid, ...
Posted by ]+ Erin +[ on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:01:00 PST

Learning is Fun!

I wrote this poem awhile ago during a particularly harsh finals week, and I believe it is still applicable today.  ~Ahem~"Joy is not... studying. Joy is... not studying."Thank you, thank you...
Posted by ]+ Erin +[ on Thu, 31 May 2007 05:44:00 PST

No TV and No Beer Make Erin Something Something...

I've been a little sick lately, and when I get sick I experience a level of delirium that directly correlates to how bad I'm feeling.  Cancer = Furious spiral to insanity.  Common cold = Mil...
Posted by ]+ Erin +[ on Sun, 06 May 2007 10:57:00 PST

The Landlord

Thanks Laurel! ...
Posted by ]+ Erin +[ on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PST

BOOOOOOOYAAAAAAAAHAHA!!!

The first page of my first O Chem test.  Fuck yeah.
Posted by ]+ Erin +[ on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:19:00 PST

Another Rant

This was passed along to me with the words, "This is pure gold.  I wish I could invest in it."  Yessiree... ...
Posted by ]+ Erin +[ on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:51:00 PST