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About Me

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My Interests

I love to scuba dive when i am near a body of water. I like to play mah jong with Mrs. Klein. I like painting rooms in my house over and over partly because i am indecisive and partly because i love to paint things. I love chocolate and tea and sweet wines. I collect old books and can't seem to stop. I love my family in all the forms they take. I could be mistaken for a book nerd or a daydreamer. My favorite time of the day is early early morning or late in the evening when the air starts to chill. I hate disloyalty and black licorice. I love expensive shoes and cheap sunglasses. I love to sit at my dining room table text and cool new Alcalay and Zilberman Hebrew dictionaries in hand and translate. Again 'cause I'm so hip.

I'd like to meet:

Wislawa Szymborska, I.B. Singer, Theodore Herzl, Norman Mailer, Leo Hirschfield- the guy who invented the tootsie roll, Ayn Rand, and Edna Reynolds. It would be pretty cool to meet Jerry Garcia to if he was sober. Yes, I am aware with the exception of one, they are all dead. Just my luck.

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff


"You complain that your tree is not valuable as lumber. But you make use of the shade it provides, rest under its sheltering branches, and stroll beneath it, admiring its character and appearance. Since it would not be endangered by an axe, what could threaten its existence? It is useless to you only because you want to make it into something else and do not use it in its proper way."

Music:

Peggy Lee, Violent Femmes, White Stripes, Frank Sinatra, Evyatar Banay, Thievery Corporation, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Ray Charles, Adnan Sami, Hansraj Hans,Ofra Haza, Renata Tebaldi, Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Simon, Ehud Banay, Agam Kumar Nigam, Indigo Girls, Aviv Geffen, Sergei Gainsbourg, Cat Stevens- before he went bananas, Coldplay, Elton John- mom used to put him on whenever i was "fussy" you can blame her for the weird auditory thing I have for men, Cantor Moshe Stern- he can really belt one out. Plus he's a real cutie pie him and his Mrs. Oh it makes the choir worth it. Well, kind of. Middle eastern and punjabi are my favorites.

Movies:

The Life Aquatic.... so so freaking funny or the Royal Tennanbaums. Gaslight. Oooh I had such a crush on Charles Boyer. That voice.... A voice does it EVERY time.

Books:

View with a grain of sand- by my girl Wislawa, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fire in the Blood, The Tao of Pooh, Harlot's Ghost, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead- I fell in love with Gail Wynand. That ALWAYS happens to me... Passions by I.B. Singer and no it's not one of those cheesy romance novels don't let the title fool you. Collected Stories of I.B. Singer, Crown of Feathers, A Day of Pleasure, Auntie Mame, The Executioner's Song, Catcher in the Rye, The Milk of a Lioness, Stranger in a Strange Land, G'Dee, Stupidity by Avital Ronell, Alonzo Purr the Sea Going Cat- A classic!

Heroes:

my mom. Hannah Platt. Oh and Brocha Wolf.

My Blog

Chicago

I'm going home.
Posted by erin on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:27:00 PST

little white flakes...

It started snowing up on Hood which means two things. First, I've been in Portland a year and it's time to go. Second and more to the point... It's time to hit the Mt.! Yes, Oscar get Betty ready...
Posted by erin on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:36:00 PST

lost dog wait no hes found.

Shabbous morning. Miriam + I were studying up on some Torah and drinking some tea w/cream you know, no big thing. Max + Cocoa + Zindel were in the backyard w/Josie. Suddenly Zindel was gone....
Posted by erin on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:10:00 PST

what happened to it?

I had so much of it then, it was all around the way the sunlight puddles about and now it's gone. Where did it go? i really need it back now
Posted by erin on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:28:00 PST