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About Me

"....He wil then reach for me in my surplus 737 seat, grab me by one shoulder and place his other hand on top of my head, and then seemingly yank my spirit out of my body through the top of my skull with a great pull, shocking me. He will then say, looking at my body, 'Here you are. You have this meat thing here--your corpse--and then here you have...' he will look at my imaginary spirit, draped from the fingers of his other hand, 'You.'I will feel dizzy. I will feel as though Todd has cut me in two.'What is you, Scout? What is the you of you? What is the link? Where do you begin and end? This you thing--is it an invisible silk woven from your memories? Is it a spirit? Is it electric? What exactly is it?'He will gently, mime-like, place my spirit back into my body and I will be glad."-from Life after God by Douglas Coupland

My Interests

reading, writing, fitness, dancing, education, music, thinking, teaching, Spanish, love, life, faith.... and all that jazz.

I'd like to meet:

teachers. truth. future. balance. health.

Music:

I love rock, especialy older stuff like queen, the police, tom petty, the doobie brothers, the who, led zeppelin, the eagles, CSNY, fleetwood mac, etc. I'm a forever fan of the the Smashing Pumpkins. My favorite rock band of "today" is Coldplay. I also love jazz and big band music. I like native music, world music, out-of-this-world music..... I like classical. Good acoustic sets are always a pleasure to listen to, I like anything that gets me moving, makes me want to sing along, relaxes me, or makes me pull out my perpetual ponytail and headbang.

Movies:

A random selection of favorites: no man's land, man on fire, Lotr, Aladdin, finding nemo, power of one, deliverance, the graduate, citizen kane, love actually, american beauty, princess and the warrior, tombstone, fight club, tommy boy, kill bill movies, hero, princess bride, labyrinth, willow, austin powers, vanilla sky, the exorcism of emily rose, crash, north country, memoirs of a geisha, the incredibles, madagascar....

Television:

Gilmore Girls, House, 24, Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Books:

Here is a random selection of books I love: Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Douglas Coupland's Life After God, Lois Lowry's The Giver, any book in the People series by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, The Narnia series, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Inheritance triology, Siddartha by Herman Hesse, Shakespeare anything, Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins, Stephen R. Donalson's Thomas Covenant series, Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher....

My Blog

myspace and family?

So, many of my siblings and family members and significant others of family members are on myspace. I had no idea. How neat. Hi there. How is everyone?
Posted by Erika on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:40:00 PST

oh, and...

I added some new photos. Some are of the groups I taught dance to this school year, a new Lis graduation one, new pet ones, etc. etc. Weeeeeee.
Posted by Erika on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:56:00 PST

here i am

I have a job. I have an apartment. Real life, here I come!
Posted by Erika on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:59:00 PST

renovation.

I decided that I would renovate my myspace profile with all the extra time I have on my hands these days. Pretty rocks! Not like, pretty is rockin', but like, the rocks are pretty.... righ...
Posted by Erika on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:47:00 PST

a brief visit...

I think I will put some new pictures up. Any suggestions? Anyone know of some dynamite ones that must be included?
Posted by Erika on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 09:27:00 PST

jedi name?

Gather 'round all you Jedi wannabes, this is actually pretty cool and some people turn out with cool ass names: Ok this is a two part name. To get your first name you take the first THREE letters o...
Posted by Erika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

recipe for unsickness

Contents: chamomile flowers, hibiscus flowers, peppermint leaves, spearmint leaves, rose blossoms, cinnamon, orange flowers. Steep 3-5 minutes. R.C. Bigelow, Inc.
Posted by Erika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

unggffnfg

Dear sinuses, What? What's that? I can't hear you because your leakage has inhabited all available orifices in my head. Eff-holes. painfully, me
Posted by Erika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

They just keep coming!

So. What's the difference between a "kudos" and a comment? Pardon me for not being myspace-savy.....
Posted by Erika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i found a $20 bill in the dishwasher at work today.

Strange and interesting things happen to me there.
Posted by Erika on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST