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erin

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About Me

none of you really care.

My Interests

constellations, the theatre, shiney things, gardening, riding my bicycle, playing on playgrounds, petting my animals.

Music:

the flaming lips, blondie, the zombies, neutral milk hotel, bright eyes, built to spill, the features, mates of state, the shins, bjork, the lighning seeds, the cure, the pixies, makeup, tilly and the wall, the coed cotillion club, lots more.

Movies:

kicking and screaming, barcelona, metropolitan, the last days of disco, band of outsiders, all wes anderson movies, the butcher boy, amelie, pootie tang, my own home movies, sleeper, and all woody allen movies really, lots and lots of movies

Television:

twin peaks, all in the family, the simpsons, aquateen hunger force, conan, days of our lives.

Books:

the complete adventures of olga da polga.

Heroes:

let's see if this works...

My Blog

holy moly!

it's so beautiful outside!!!  and i'm stuck in a cubicle.  i can't wait to get out of here in seventeen minutes and ride my bike and go to sultan's and have sidewalk patio falafel!  Spr...
Posted by erin on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:45:00 PST

Microsoft Outlook and Other Dimensions

i like it that when you click on a meeting in your Outlook Calendar that has started or is already over, it warns you that "this appointment occurs in the past".   Like this appointment is o...
Posted by erin on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:25:00 PST

qatari safari

so here i am in doha. i haven’t been able to use the internet until now because a lot of the connections are stupid. i am sitting in some guys office at northwestern’s headquarters, pass...
Posted by erin on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:47:00 PST

the wild blue yonder

well, in a few hours i’ll be off on my arabian adventure.  my phone won’t work for a week, so the best way to get in touch with me will probably be right here on myspace.  i&rsqu...
Posted by erin on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:40:00 PST

camel racing.

here is something i bet you didn't know about camel racing: Robot Jockeys Replacing the children are robot jockeys. These are controlled by the camels' owners who are following in the four wheel drive...
Posted by erin on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:25:00 PST

a story i told andrew or brian cagle vs. the takeout lady

Last night I ordered Chinese food from China Fast Wok, and brian picked it up on his way back from Evanston.  We got entirely too much food, and only one little container of rice.  Brian sai...
Posted by erin on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:59:00 PST

the risk you take when you wear a wrap skirt.

never trust a wrap skirt.  never get too comfortable wearing one.  you never know when that little bow is going to come untied on your way to the copy room leaving your ass in plain view of ...
Posted by erin on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:02:00 PST

i’ve started eating oatmeal again.

after twenty years of not eating oatmeal.  i just blew some up in the microwave at work.  it felt like old times.  i thought of you, kristin.
Posted by erin on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:39:00 PST

guess what i saw yesterday.

a chicken.  walking down the sidewalk on kedzie.  what was he doing there?  where did he come from?  we stood looking at each other for a while.  i said, bakbakbakbakbak, and ...
Posted by erin on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:24:00 PST

first, second, third, military bird turd.

my sisters and i used to say this sometimes when we needed to make a decision about something, much like eanie, meanie, meinie, mo.  did anyone else?  is this a universal phrase, or did we m...
Posted by erin on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:19:00 PST