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Name: Erin
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Birthday: 11/10/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: I love singing, playing guitar and piano and writing songs, drawing, reading, frying my brains over anime and video games, and spending time with my boyfriend Zack. My major is Communication Arts with a writing concentration. Writing is my life, and yet the bane of my existence. As Hemingway said, "Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it."
Expertise: Alas, I am a jack of all trades and master to none. For now, I'll say all things artsy and musical. I also excel at rolling my "R's."
Occupation: Student
Industry: Media
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  AerisFantasy07
Member Since:
1/13/2005
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| Wow. Um, it's been a while. Such a profound beginning to this entry, no? Anyway, much has changed in the past four months or so...
In May, I attended Gordon College's commencement. I got to walk with my class, though technically I haven't graduated. I'm taking two summer courses and will have my degree in September. Ah, the pains of being a transfer student... but it will all be over soon.
In the meantime, I'm applying for newspaper jobs and writing a ridiculous amount of songs. Ever since March, I've been writing songs like crazy. It's great because I'm building up a performance repetoire; the one major drawback is that songwriting takes away from my story writing. It's as if when I put my feelings in lyric form, I no longer have to express certain subjects or emotions in my stories because everything's already been said. It's a tad frustrating, because my plan was to spend the summer working on my novel.
The novel which, by the way, I submitted for publication in June. I sent it to only one publishing house and got my first rejection, but I expected that. Nobody gets a "yes" on their first try. My academic adviser/writing guru, Jo Kadlecek, wants me to submit my book to several more publishers. Keep trying. All summer long. I'm flattered she believes in my work, but at this point I'm not eager to publish this particular story... Mostly because I think it's stupid. It's a young adult fiction novel based on my real high school experiences and romances, etc., and honestly, I think it's pretty lame. But lame stuff gets published all the time, so why not try to get mine out there?
Well, that's my lengthy update. I don't know if anyone reads this, but if you do... I love you! :)
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| My car died in Salem today. I asked for help from strangers. The first two were male and were unable to jump my car. Jess said it was probably because one of them looked like he'd rather jump me. Gross. Then a lady tried to help us, but to no avail. So she called Triple A and pretended my '94 Dodge Spirit was hers. Sweet. Triple A came and saved the day. Jess missed her class, but what do we care? Tomorrow's spring break.
And we're flying to Philadelphia. :) Before that, the first chapter of my novel is being critiqued in Advanced Fiction tonight. ^_^ Oh, what a day.
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v a n i t i e s
prick, tug, pluck
chasms of
the heart
ba-bump
sodden, suddenly bereft
pummeled beyond recognition
is visage so important?
a foreigner intrudes
emerging through flesh
tearing face to pieces
it was simpler when we were young
and everybody felt that way
didn’t you?
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| I read this on Andrea's page, who said that, by reading it, I myself have been tagged (that goes for you, too, anonymous reader person... whoever you are!).
Jobs I've had: Office aide/secretary, Highland Community College, Freeport, IL; receptionist, Battelle Ocean Sciences, Duxbury, MA; news editor/staff reporter, the Gordon College Tartan; news intern, The Salem News
Movies I can watch repeatedly:Zoolander, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Notebook, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mel Brooks' The Twelve Chairs, Roman Holiday
Places I've lived: Peekskill, NY; Capac, MI; Berlin; NY; Freeport, IL; Kingston, MA
Books I've read: Um... ever, or recently? I'll assume the latter... In the last month or so, I've read Twilight and New Moon by Stephenie Meyers and Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. I'm currently reading Ralph Keyes' The Courage to Write and some random H.P. Lovecraft flash fiction; I'm about to dive into the collected works of Flannery O'Connor, Marianne Robinson's Gilead, and a substantial amount of Anton Chekov shorts... for fun! 
Foods I love : Mac and cheese, turkey wraps, Mexican food, basically anything that makes me gain weight. I'm happy to report that, in the past year, I've successfully added the ten pounds my doctor told me to.  Yay for carbs and yummy bad food!
Sites I visit daily: Gmail, Live Journal, the "GO Site" (student news and email, for those of you non-Gordonites)
Places I'd rather be: I'd like to go to Boston more often, and am itching to make trips to NYC, Seattle, Chicago, California, London, Tokyo... anywhere more exciting than here.
Random items in my purse: Dr. Pepper lip gloss, student i.d., my ginormous pink Fossil wallet, car/apartment keys, Orbit gum
Things most people do not know about me:
I'm ambidextrous. I was born with jet-black hair. When I was seventeen, I broke my foot in a wave pool. Ooh, also when I was seventeen, I was "engaged." I am not engaged now, though I pretend to be to satisfy pathetic dreams of domestic bliss. Sometimes, I write anime fan fiction... still. I also draw comics. And play video games. And read comics about playing video games. I am a nerd, but I was once a cheerleader. Because of all this, my roommates think I'm psycho.  They're probably right.
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| News flash: Dropped my Illustration class; down to 17 (soon to be 18) credits. Feel much more psychologically adjusted; still have mental issues, though. ;)
Been thinking about grad school... went to a meeting thing... have decided to aim high, apply somewhere prestigious for next spring... and go for that prestigious internship, even though I'm terrified... At least all of this will lead me to the writer's city. Someday...
Now, I'm obsessed with three major things: coffee (as usual), Death Cab for Cutie, and my latest story, which is my senior thesis/fiction project/publication proposal. o_O In other words, it's my most important manuscript ever, and it's my family, my baby, my husband, my life right now. I think it's killing me, but I must write it. I'm taking Chekov literally, writing till my fingers break.
Sorry about all of the above fragments... I was just reading Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death and keep thinking about the "Now...this" phenomenon on TV news. Love that.
Now, this... I have to go do some comm. theories homework. But tomorrow is Friday and I'm going to see a horror flick with my girlfriends.  There's nothing like enjoying female bonding over blood and guts. Ahh... I've been reading too much H.P. Lovecraft stuff lately. I recently went to Exeter, RI, which has a creeping "haunting" he refers to in "The Shunned House." I wanted to write about Mercy Brown, aka "Rhode Island's Vampire," in a story I was working on over break that I have since abandoned in favor of my larger project. Maybe after graduation, I can revisit it... But oh, that's right, I won't be graduating until September now because of my stupid lack of credits.
Grrr.
That's okay; I have time to find a journalism job, get some more field experience, take the GRE and hopefully get into my choice school for January 2008. It's all good. In the hood. Unless that hood is in Exeter.... *shudder*
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