I never post here anymore, but that doesn't mean I'm not around. I'm a part of/ lurk around at least a dozen comms on lj, so I may be invisible but I am here :)

If (for whatever reason) You want to get in touch with me, check my dA page. I spend an unreasonable amount of time over there, so that's where you're most likely to get a hold of me.

All in all my internet usage has decreased since starting college. Emotional stressors, academic stressors, working two jobs and trying to balance a decidedly unbalanced check book are keeping me more occupied than I'd like. I love you lot though, so don't think my absence has anything to do with you guys! Anyway I'd best get back to research. I'll see many of you in person soon I'm sure. Have a lovely holiday season! <3

-Erin

The concert was bloody amazing.

I'm just going to say, read my sister's blog if you want a full summary, because she did it great justice and has many sweet pictures. I just want to say it was, in the words of Marco 'fucking amazing'. Even the band was blown away about how good the show went. It was a thing of beauty, it really was.

... ow. And now I have whiplash...

OKAY! If any of you have this Monday, Next Monday, or the Monday after that free, please come to

Sorry I didn't respond to like, anything anyone posted like ever for the past two weeks. I loose.

I really loose because I just discovered that one of my top two favourite groups (it and Nightwish are always jostling for first) just lost their drummer. The site said that Steve Hewitt split for 'personal and musical differences', but everything the front man Brian Molko said was very sweet albeit sad seeing as They lost their drummer of eleven years! I think Steve just moved on... and I'll have to get over it. But I think I deserve a few minutes of sadness.


DR. WHO was fantastic last night. The Doctor is such an amazing character; he's so wonderful and so pure hearted that everyone loves him, but he's so different and so far removed from everyone else that he can't ever seem to love anyone back (romantically that is). Martha Jones (who replaced the character of Rose just this year), left last night much to my dismay. She was more intelligent than Rose, more interesting, and the character realized last night that she had to get out of her life traveling with the doctor lest she too waste away loving a man who couldn't look at her twice.
I want to give the Doctor a hug; I know he's a fictional character, but god, my heart goes out to him.


Keep Burma Myanmar in your hearts you guys! Sorry for being so sporadically present around here ^^;

I'm... irritated. Every time I pick up a book now, I'm picking through the tiny details and looking for subtext and subplot and interpretation and metaphor and hidden agenda and I can't enjoy my books the way I used to.

It's just frustrating, seeing as I know some books should be read like that, but others shouldn't, and I'm finding it difficult to enjoy either anymore.

... I need to devolve in my reading style, just for a little bit. Maybe I can fall back into love with literature.

(PS, please read 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' by Oscar Wilde. Elenbarathi unwittingly made me go and read it, and it is beautiful and tortured and poetic and epic and almost everything I could ever want out of a poem.)

... but that wasn't the impressive part. No, while the bicycle was rather antiquated and thus very unique and nice to look at, the fact that it was being ridden was not the interesting bit. The man who was riding it was a very nice looking man of about sixty with a nice white beard and smiling brown eyes who called out from behind me that he was coming up on my left, and thus I danced out of the way and off the sidewalk. However, while curious, none of that was the really impressive bit.

No, that bit was the fact that this nice looking older man was riding perfectly well and at a fairly good speed while holding a full mug of coffee in his right hand. Not a travel mug either, but a rather well-loved ceramic mug with a nice picture of Tony the Tiger on it. I thought for sure he was going to spill, but he rode along as if it were the most normal thing in the world, cruising down the sidewalk while enjoying a steaming mug of (black) coffee.

How? How, I ask myself, is such a thing accomplished? I, who can barely stay upright with both hands on the handles, am in awe of this man. If I meet him again, I will shake his hand, ask for his autograph, and tell him just how wonderful he is.

I mean, HOW? He must be a holy man; that's the only conclusion I can draw, and I've been thinking about it ever since I passed him whilst walking home about five hours ago.

I'm not joking either; it really floored me. It was something that made me stand back and think a great many deep thoughts that one tends to think when one has a life changing experience.

Whenever I see a cup of coffee from now on, or a nice old man on a bike, I will think of this smiling old man on his bike with his coffee. My life has honestly changed, even if it is in a very small way.

I'm grateful to have met him, even if 'met' only means I twirled (yes, I did twirl) off the sidewalk to get out of the way of his shiny bicycle and his steaming cup of coffee.

I have gone on a liver eating spree.

so...

Protect yours!!!q!!!!!!!!!!Q!


EDit (five minutes later)

I hate successful people. They make me feel useless.

Successful people just killed my sugar-high.

...I will eat their livers instead.

(To the MITY ones...) Guess who I saw walking down the street? Hmm...

VANORSOW!!! (not vanorsaw, nor vanniedanwasaw, VanOOOOOORsow.) He looks fantastic, sounds fantastic, and is almost a foot taller than me (no lie!), and yes, he has at least one new set of clothes for that wardrobe of his!

APPARENTLY he was back-packing for MITY-07. pish, lame! I told him he better get his butt to class next year or we would storm his school and eat his liver.

And on to other big things?

Fall production is going to be a musical! Yay! Guess which one? hmm?

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS! Whee! I'm psyched; I want to do make up for this one, even though I also would love to act... I think I'll go with make up though...

The world is amazing. I had an amazing day. Hell yeah, Mmmmm-azing!

Lol, I promised to share this video with Sally when I saw her in the street the other day. Lol. Minnesota rocks \nn/,

Heh, quiz...

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Lol. I have walked a quarter mile with a bright white lap top in my arm and all its various life support systems (my lap top would have been disconnected long ago it were human) to a small couch and an outlet in the middle of the woods where I can get a flittering internet connection so I can join you with a howdy northern hello.

It is raining, it smells like fall, and I'm loving the hell out of it.

I will say more when my internet is less of a floosey. Toodles!

Oh no! Guess who's iPod broke? Guess who had to go the apple store to get it fixed? Guess who now has a shiney new iPod because she had a problem no one at the genius bar had ever seen before?

If you answered 'you' to any one of those questions, congratulations and here's a virtual cookie!
(btw, what kind of snotty company calls their help desk the 'genius bar'? It's kind of funny, and kind of really obnoxious.)


SPAMalot was SPAMtacular! I actually saw Mr. REC there (with I believe his wife...? Mr. REC with a wife is just an odd concept for me. Maybe it wasn't his wife, maybe it was his sister or something. Or maybe it was a hologram...) Anyways It was a shock to see him there by a good sort of shock. We chatted during intermission, and then we watched the 'gay gay gay' Lancelot thing and it was one of the most hysterical things I've seen in a long time.

Any musical with cod pieces like that gets an A+ in my book.

Lol, and they even got the fish slapping dance in there. The fish slapping dance! this thing--->


Buckets yo, that the best Monty Python sketch of all time (in my humble oppinion) and it has NOTHING to do with the Holy Grail movie, and yet, They got it in there! I almost died I laughed so hard when the fish were whipped out, and it was only in the first five minutes!

You have to see it. It's boats of fun. Big boats of fun!

Now for something completely different; it was Alena's birthday on saturday!
We went to the Picasso and American art exhibit at the Walker and had truckloads of fun trying to decipher plastic chairs with tissue boxes and multiplying 16 by 46 + some odd remainder in our heads. Really, it was totally awesome. I'm not even a big picasso fan, but there was Pollock and Bruce Connor and lots of awesome pieces I hadn't expected. It was wonderful.

And being the frightening little products of Mike and Kevin we all were (we being myself, my sister, and Alena) We all brought along notebooks thinking along the lines of "Well, we did it at MIA..."

Anyways, yes. Having a decent summer, I hope you all are too. Love you all!

Placebo; they're nuts. I've been listening to them quite a bit lately.
They hail from the UK, and for me that's always interesting (in a good sort-of way)...

---> http://www.placeboworld.co.uk/

... I guess that's all.

HI!

Ugh, I'm becoming disgustingly sporadic and unreliable on this site, aren't I? Sorry y'all (well, it's not like my life is all that enthralling anyway, eh?)

Well, big news on the Holt/Hill front however:
I HAVE A SNAKE!

He's a lovely little bugger at just under two feet. He's a Ball Python who's almost 1/2 a year old, and was christianed on the first of July, SPOCK ROMEO CORLEONE.

I have half a mind to print off a blank birth certificate form and make him a mock document...

Anyways with the name... don't ask. It's better that you don't I think. It's oddly suiting for the little guy though...

He'll grow to be about five feet long in a few years and will live till he's between thirty and fifty (long winded little bastard).

So everyone, come to my house and we can play with the snake!



...

Anyways, call me late on the update, but MITY's been over for a couple weeks and I'm still feeling a bit of a let down. I think I'll go visit Mike in the next couple of days (we have to exchange Stargate seasons anyways).

...

Alack everyone, take care of yourselves everyone! I love you all (despite my dwindling presence here). Be good to yourselves!

Hello my dearest amigos and distantest acquaintences ^^ School is out and thank the heavens for it. Too bad it's straight into two mind-numbing weeks of drivers ed *faints*

Ah well, could be far worse, eh?

Alright, my most amusing stories:

1) I saw a random guy who decided to direct traffic in a kilt for no apparent reason. Then I watched a profanity saturated argument between him and a swearing undercover cop. Now tell me the last time that that's happened to you :?

2) I saw a lost looking guy in full bike rider's gear standing on one foot in a Barnes and Noble surrounded by a small pile of maps he'd pulled off a shelf.

3) I stood in a pile of school supplies/ clothes/ old food up to my knees.

4) I found Pirate!Metal that includes a song Nancy the Barwench and a Wizard!Rock song entitled 'Harry and Draco secretely want to snog'.

5) I recieved student of the month twice in one moneth (and subsequently became the speech team captain).

6) I got followed by herd of Dinosaurs.

(all of these are true btw. I'm not making any of this up!)

7) I realized I'd fallen in love
(7b) and subsequently felt very awkward for it

8) I accidentally became the stalker for a guy I thought looked like Emppu from Nightwish. I saw him once and he looked at me funny because I was staring and thought 'well that was embarassing. Thank heaven's I'll never see him again!' and a week later saw him (in the same outfit) walk out of his house and into the bar I was at. He caught sight of me again and I thought 'I'm not following you! Really! And it's not actually creepy that I know where you live now!'

9) I went to my first genuine comic book store.

10) I decided to tell all of you this and here I am now, listening to pirate metal and writing nonsense ^^

I hate spring.


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Okay, Oedipus is messed up. That man had more issues that all of America combined, and I had to play him for our english class reading. Wow. Yelling (yes, yelling) about how you slept with your mom is odd, especially in a class where half the people are going 'whaaaaat? I still don't geeeeet it.'

Oh yes, the humor, it fills me.

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LEWIS! I was told you were playing Hamlet. Are you playing Hamlet? Someone else told me it was not hamlet, but Shakespeare. Are you playing Shakespeare?! And if you are playing anybody at all, can I get a copy of that production!?

That is all.

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It was MITY spring session yesterday at Sally's house. There as a small group of us and we frolicked and gossiped and hugged because it was wonderful and we love each other like the neo-hippies we are.

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Hugs are awkward. Not with everybody, but with a lot of people; you don't know when to let go and when to hold tighter and when to back off...
I realized that as i was hugging a former teacher.

Hugs are VERY awkward. Someone must make a hug rule book, and then hugs will be i controled, regulated, manner that leaves the awkwardness aside.
...
but then again, the awkwardness is what makes it fun ;)

Guess what y'all?  I got my first trophy  for speechiness!  That's right crazies, I got first place at the McGregor Invitational tournament in the Original Oratory category!  I have my speech on the ancient Hebrew demoness Lilith, not only the firstwoman to walk the earth, even beefore Eve, but also the first Feminist.

I got  a 1-99 you guys, a 1-99!  That's the best you can get!  I also got a 2-97 and 1-98 and I was supremely happy about it all.

My sister did really well too, but she was in one of the largest categoriesand ended up getting screwed over for her actual score.

My team overall got third place in the entire tournament, and we only had seven people competing (to give you a frame of reference, the second and first place teams had between twenty and twenty five competitors) !

It was a great weekend; we got a hotel room, we swam, we ate Pizza, we did tarrot and we talked politics.  It was very cool.  Not to mention hours of David Sedaris on the three hour drive there and the three hour drive back. 

absolutely wicked you guys.  Absolutely wicked.

... just... WOW.


It's totally wicked on so many levels.  Pan is so awesome, and the pale man is creepy beyond comparison.

I don't want to say much, because I want people to see it for themselves, but it's really cool.  It's not the best movie I've ever scene (unlike how a lot of reviewers have been billing it)  but is most definitely brilliant. 

It's all in subtitles, so I really want to see it again because I think you miss things when you're constantly reading and not so much actually looking at what's going on, but it's still nice that it was in Spanish because it gave be a chance to work on my comprehension ;)  I got most of  the words actually, I was kind of proud of myself!

Anyways, there is some semi-graphic torture that's really difficult to watch, and there's quite a bit of blood, so basically, if you're particularly squeemish, not a good movie for you;)

Otherwise, high tail it over to your local indie film theatre (I saw it at the uptown) and get in line early, becuase (at least where I was)  the wait was massive. 

See ya!

I GOT MY MITY FORM!

It's a party at the Holt household because guess what? The twins have their MITY forms!!! w0000000000t!!!!! Oh yeah, I'm über happy ^^
I talked with Mike and Kevin about it and they're all like 'yeah! Rock on.' and it's totally groovy.

I have a couple of friends who have decided to try and do it also... the Mity group may get the additions of another Twin (Kaia) and miss Man-Onion (Laura) and the lovely Kate. Then again, people are always telling me their going to do MITY and then they don't... who knows? I'm going to have funeither way!

Heh, I'm seeing Pan's Labyrinth today too. I am so excited about it. It's playing at the Landmark and I've never been so happy about a movie before in my life! (except maybe the second and third LoTR movies and the fourth Harr Potter... and AVP... Okay, maybe not the most excited I've ever been, but I'm pretty damned excited ;) )


I'm working on a new story too... I may end up posting drabble about it here, but I'm still trying to figure that out. I'm having fun with it really, it's one of my favourite ideas yet.

Omg... my backgrounds pink. When did that happen?

meh, I will fix it later!

heh, sorry for the complete and absolute sucky emoness of my last to posts... by this point in winter I pine for Winter Break which has passed to quickly and wish it were Christmas and lazy again. I get a little depressed with the lack of light too (although the snow that we finally got is awesome) and I start to rant to anyone I can...

unfortunately for you all, you are my vent bunnies! Mwuaha! FEEL MY WRATH!


bleh, will write more later when I can find time...

BAH!
love you all ^^