Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
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10:56 pm - The best advice I ever received (from my drunk driver's ed teacher):
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
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10:54 am - When I started using the Internet...
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I started using the Internet on a daily basis in 1992. Relative early-adopter. I had a 2400 baud, dial-up Prodigy account which I used to talk about banal 8th-grader business with other big losers. None of whom I knew in real life. 
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(why don't you say that to my face?)
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
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4:51 pm - Why I always say no when people try to round up a Cruise Posse.
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The Geneva-On-The-Lake Disaster
My boat phobia is fairly recent, actually. Though I grew up in two Ohio River towns and am a strong swimmer, I had only been on a boat a few times in my life before THE INCIDENT (intrigued?). At my cousin's wedding three years ago, my mom and I went out onto Lake Erie with a friend of my dad's and almost capsized when a crazy storm rolled in. The cap'n juuuuust caught himself before falling overboard (his hat didn't make it). Since then I'm super skittish on any boat grander than the Sankuru Sadie. After we docked, cappy wanted us to hang out and watch the storm, but I was TRAUMATIZED and needed to drink very much local wine while sitting on lawn chairs. 
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(why don't you say that to my face?)
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
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12:27 pm - i'm trying out plinky...
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I recommend checking out people surfing at the mouth of the Eisbach stream on an artificial standing wave created by the pump used to direct the stream into Englischer Garten when you're in Munich, Germany.
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(why don't you say that to my face?)
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
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6:59 pm - well, yes. between love and hate, we know...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
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3:50 pm - lost in the blinding whiteness of the tundra
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For my bored homeskillets:
The Mighty Boosh ugh... NEVERMIND, i guess.
you're welcome.
(ps. the only reason I'm endorsing the online viewing of this program is because it does not air in the US and the DVDs are PAL-only. And its too fantastic for that. And pretty much no one is as tenacious as Sam.)
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(1 reply | why don't you say that to my face?)
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
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10:01 pm - scary?
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
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3:06 pm - could've survived my life without having heard depp sing for real
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every time i see the trailer for Sweeney Todd, i can't help but wish it was more appropriately titled... something like: Tim Burton's Muse-Off 2007.
because Johnny Depp is practically his other wife.
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(why don't you say that to my face?)
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
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11:22 pm - whew.
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
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5:57 pm - guh.
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summertime can suck it. seriously, summer, you're a first-class bitch and i hate you.
it's SO HOT, you guys. like... unreasonably hot. there's no way this is normal. we're hurtling toward the sun. no doubt.
current music: #338: The Spokesman // This American Life by Chicago Public Radio
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
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1:48 am - last dream post ever. i swear.
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ugh... i know it's totes boring when people tell you about their ohmygodtotallyweird dreams, but this story is less about the dream and more about my WHACKJOB real-life response to said dream.
ok: i dreamed that i had a boyfriend. not a toolbag boyfriend like you get in real life, but a movie-style boyfriend that is major funny and cute, but also shares his feelings and does nice things without having to be asked (and who, consequently, none of your friends hate... and is ideally british).
insanity.
anyway so he was great and the dream was long and very vivid. when i woke up, i was sad. and get this: i stayed sad all day, because i would never see him again and it felt like we BROKE UP! whaaaaaaat is wrong with me?
i was very obviously exposed to lead or somesuch neurotoxin as a child, because what the fuck.
current music: This Machine // A Brief Smile
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
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10:13 am - a little more info about my phone conversation with joss whedon:
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my pal-of-pals michael is out at SD comic-con right now and the other day i was (of course) pestering him to go to the whedon panel for me. he didn't. but i guess yesterday he was wandering around near the marvel booth and there stood joss whedon, miraculously only surrounded by scant few nerds. so michael called me, naturally, and was all "do you want to talk to him?" and i yelled "michael, no!", but it was too late: i was on the phone with joss whedon.
it was brief, obviously, as i was at work and he was entertaining said nerds.
it went something (exactly) like this:
joss: hi, erin? this is joss whedon.
me: wow, hi. i'm a huge fan.
joss: thank you. how are you? what are you doing right now?
me: heh. i'm okay. i'm at work.
joss: you work on sundays? that sucks.
me: yeah, no kidding. how are you?
joss: i'm good. we miss you here.
me: i wish i could be there. i'm sure you're so busy. i'll let you go.
joss: oh, yeah. but, it was nice talking to you.
me: uh, heh heh. yeah, it was nice talking with you, too. holy crap.
joss: [laughs] talk to you later.
me: yeah, have fun out there.
joss: you have fun at work.
yeah, i know... i'll try to be funnier next time i talk to a hero on the phone, thankyouverymuch.
current music: #337: Man vs. History // This American Life by Chicago Public Radio
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007
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6:06 pm - uh... woah.
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
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2:27 pm - I play my bongos, listen to Odetta, and then I iron my hair, dig?
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last night i saw hairspray with two friends who had never seen the original movie... the musical version was still good, but i was left trying to explain to them that the parts they cut out of the film to make room for musical numbers were less disposible to me than to the producers of the show-cum-moviethesecond.
while i was describing the parts left behind, it felt like i was talking about the most bizarre, violent, sexual, subversive film; a completely different thing from what we'd just watched. but i first saw it when i was, what... 9? 10? it wasn't, i argued, really that extreme. it was a mainstream movie. IT WAS RATED PG! they found that dubious.
which made me love john waters even more.
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
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2:22 pm - explains a lot.
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this morning i had the first all-brain headache of my life. brutal. it was mercifully short, though, thanks to the powerful pain-relieving forces of the excedrin i stole from my roommate.
ryan reynolds (super hot + funny = eternal forgiveness for his unendingly terrible film choices. and his kris kristofferson beard.) has begun blogging at the ole HuffPo. his contributions thus far, though both kind of gross, are really very funny and impressively verbose and have solidified his place as the perfect specimen. i think i might have actually wished him into existence.
ps. i met melissa joan hart last week. every once-in-a-while i have contact with people with varying degrees of celebrity at work, but i was full-on starstruck when i met her. like, i was shaking while we spoke. she couldn't see it, but it was embarrassing. oh, clarissa. i feel like i'd react the same way if i met candice cameron. or anyone that the 12-year-old version of me would be impressed with.
current music: Relief Next to Me // Tegan and Sara
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
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12:49 am - notes
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1. okay, my theory goes as follows: i think promises rehab clinic or whateverthefuck is a place for people to learn how to hide the fact that they're drunk/high. for real.
2. my roommate's boyfriend or whateverthefuck is totally cute and sweet. wtf. why is everyone gay?
3. new fake plants at the Hall.
4. wait, wait... who owns a homemade boba fett costume? for serious? AND YET! (this may be my darkest hour.)
5. ASK. ME. OUT.
current music: Disconnect the Dots // Of Montreal
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Thursday, May 24th, 2007
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11:23 pm - woah...
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
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6:02 pm - hunger-induced hysteria
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me (on the phone): tim, chase says he will totally take down all 6 feet of you.
taller-than-6-feet tim h.: tell him "don't forget about my other five inches".
(beat)
taller-than-6-feet tim h.: uh. no, wait. don't tell him that.
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
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12:53 am
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most of the time i'm utterly content with being Nerdly McReadsalot. really. too much stimulation can be damaging to my delicate sensibilities, don't you know? so, in general, i surround myself with bunches of brainiacs with similar needs, excitement-wise...
but what of those nights when i look cute and feel like raising hell (pfffft!)?
what indeed! it's time like these when i think... 'jeez, book readin' rarely gets me made-out-with.'
bummer.
current music: This Will Be Our Year // The Zombies
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
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7:16 am
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
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11:52 pm - gah!
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there are only about 20 more minutes left in my birthday, and i'm going to spend those moments typing about how enormously frustrating it is to be me right now.
a) i have this wildly depressing crush that i can't shake, and that is looking more and more hopeless and ridiculous as the days wear on.
b) i'm pretty sure that i was clued-in, today, on the fact that my most recent (read: not too terribly recent at all, in fact) ex-notboyfriend is seeing someone else and that they're going out of the country on vacation together.
c) my car hates my guts and i don't know THING ONE about buying cars or whatever.
d) i was pretty sure, yesterday, that i would be purchasing my new computer this week, but those dreams are dashed due to the fact that, apparently, this is the birthday when the money-filled cards go the way of the dodo.
boooo. bad birthday.
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
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3:58 pm - barfin'
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my mom came to visit yesterday and we had all this cool stuff planned... we're even staying in a sweet suite at the damned-fancy gaylord palms. all i had to do was take maura to the airport this morning. no problem, except that i was TOTALLY PUKING IN A BAG IN THE DEPARTURES LANE! for no reason whatsoever, my stomach and sinus cavaties decided that today was a good day for some punishment. it feels like a hangover but without the benefit of having had any booze last night. which is a rip-off.
anyway, i'm inching ever-closer to having enough money for a new computer. factoring in my birthday, it could be as little as three months before i'm ignoring my livejournal for some entirely different reason!
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
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11:54 pm - spoketoosoon
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so, i have a nasty rugburn on my knee from gracefully falling UP the stairs at the Hall, the following day i broke my toe, and there have been no further texts from mr. fantastic.
eh... weirdest year yet.
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
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8:48 pm
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
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5:21 pm
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my computer died. so now i'm, like, 99.9% sure i'm going to switch to a mac when i eventually get the funds to do so. which, at this rate, will officially be the 12th of never.
of course, this means that my posting ability will continue to be limited to moments when i have access to a computer at work and there aren't any guests asking for directions to the closest restroom. lame.
anyway HAPPY HALLOWEEN! they put up christmas decorations here at work this morning. christmas has become a bigger bummer every year that i've been alive, so i found this development QUITE annoying. not only do i have to celebrate christmas for two solid months, but its overshadowing things that i actually look forward to, like halloween and autumn in general.
my friends and i were newsies this year.
current music: No Wait Wait - Beaches of the World
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
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10:04 pm
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friendly advice: do not drive two groups of sick brazilian tourists anywhere. no matter how much they beg in portuguese. they will strike you down with their JUNGLE SICKNESS!
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Thursday, July 6th, 2006
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12:27 pm - capt. jack
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006
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3:23 pm - everest at night
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
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2:55 am
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Thursday, June 1st, 2006
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2:20 pm - National Spelling Bee
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