tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350043812024-03-05T09:47:51.617-05:00.falling into place.ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-35873925805260773102009-04-06T12:11:00.002-04:002009-04-06T12:13:09.807-04:00whaddya think?ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-27380137038161140112009-03-09T19:55:00.001-04:002009-03-09T19:56:57.175-04:00my first logothoughts?ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-44928371025942986722009-02-27T16:41:00.004-05:002009-02-27T17:01:25.187-05:00revvvvvvv road"bright visions came to haunt him of a world that could and should have been his, a world of intellect and sensibility that now lay forever mixed in his mind with "the east". in the east, he then believed, a man went to college not for vocational training, but in disciplined search for wisdom and beauty, and nobody over the age of 12 believed that those words were for sissies. in the east, ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-41974978899694278652009-02-19T14:16:00.003-05:002009-02-19T15:07:49.613-05:00facebook made me do it IIFOR PEOPLE READING THIS ON FBOOK-- be sure to click on view original post to get the full text.okay. so i did five of these the other day whilst at work eating my lunch. i'm going to finish them all today as i am currently sitting in a hospital waiting for my boy to finish his neuropsychology exam. consequently, i have an extensive amount of time to "goof off" on the internet (the good natured ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-55545960970348184482009-02-17T12:56:00.005-05:002009-02-17T13:28:37.886-05:00Facebook made me do it.25. It only recently come to my attention that I am not necessarily a good older sister. (well, by two minutes.) This is due to the fact that I spent a large part of my youth controlling my twin sister, Heather. I would torture her to wake up (she likes to sleep in, still does). Would push us to play Barbies, and when we would, well, after we dressed each Barbie for whatever glamorous and ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-67577891114713943392009-02-09T11:30:00.000-05:002009-02-09T11:31:16.655-05:00a letter... <!-- function msoCommentShow(anchor_id, com_id) { if(msoBrowserCheck()) { c = document.all(com_id); a = document.all(anchor_id); if (null != c && null == c.length && null != a && null == a.length) { var cw = c.offsetWidth; var ch = c.offsetHeight; var aw = a.offsetWidth; var ah = a.offsetHeight; var x = a.offsetLeft; var y = a.offsetTop; var el = a; ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-37741984348085659412009-02-09T11:29:00.001-05:002009-02-09T11:29:37.073-05:00Arts Funding UpdateI received an e-mail of this blog post, and I find it terribly fitting:"In these times of economic crisis, it seems only rational that we should look back at our history to review what works if we want to create jobs and secure a strong economic legacy for future generations. When faced with a collapsing economy, President Franklin Roosevelt tried to put Americans in all lines of work back on ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-2124036769752530852009-02-04T11:18:00.003-05:002009-02-04T11:26:02.617-05:00Arts a Prudent Choice for Future Legislation!! CONTACT YOUR STATE POLITICIANS TODAY! Member Name DC Phone DC FAX Electronic Correspondence Senator Richard Burr (R- NC) 202-224-3154 202-228-2981 http://burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm Senator Kay Hagan (D- NC) 202-224-6342 202-228-2563 Senator_Hagan@hagan.senate.gov Representative G. K. Butterfield, Jr. (D - 01) 202-225-3101 ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-15089093191117299942009-02-02T15:01:00.003-05:002009-02-02T15:10:28.242-05:00quick movie reviews...as i know work at an independent theater, i've seen a few good films in the last week. here is my brief take on them:the reader:kate winslet, you have my heart. beautiful, tragic, poetic. oh the power of literacy. sidenote: artful nudity at its best.revolutionary road:high hopes, slightly disappointed. mendes, perhaps you ought to have opted for different subject matter and more varied music fromericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-89679295493465182162009-01-08T11:38:00.001-05:002009-01-08T11:40:52.291-05:00Franny and Zooey"It was a station-platform kiss--spontaneous enough to begin with, but rather inhibited in the follow-through, and with somewhat of a forehead-bumping aspect."If you've never read this book, read it. I'm re-reading it for the zillionth time.Happy New Year. I've much to report, but not the time to do it. Hopefully the weekend will allow it.<3.>ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-90962470985471340462008-12-18T13:07:00.004-05:002008-12-18T13:14:39.243-05:00the boy's first album cover!COPYRIGHT ROUNDER RECORDS, 2008.Visit www.viennateng.com for more information on the artist.ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-77250919212739590462008-12-08T15:26:00.000-05:002008-12-08T15:27:02.859-05:00uh-ohperhaps my parents were right.ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-75007188043568178932008-11-24T22:20:00.004-05:002008-12-18T13:15:21.469-05:00at a point where i can shareso kali (the best friend) and i are going to start a side business where we sell ourselves as writers.we are modeling ourselves after the great deep south entertainment (whose owners printed business cards and starting running up the credit cards wouldn't bush be proud?)well, i just finished designing the bcards tonight, (photoshop skills = novice) AND since kali and i can't incur debt, we ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-67919192094671020882008-10-30T16:49:00.003-04:002008-10-30T16:54:29.346-04:00dushgernit those catchy hipster band songs have done it again....The Airborne Toxic EventSometime Around Midnight Lyrics And it starts, sometime around midnight. Or at least that’s when you lose yourself for a minute or two. As you stand, under the bar lights. And the band plays some song about forgetting yourself for a while.And the piano’s this melancholy soundtrack to her smile.And that white dress she’s wearingyou haven’t seen her for a while. But you ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-20373638083819885972008-10-28T16:28:00.003-04:002008-10-28T16:35:58.936-04:00manchurian candidateguess it means i'm a pretty big tree-hugging liberal if one's mother sends a photo of your town's mccain rally and your feeling is not one of envy for missing being there, but one of disgust at your town's misguided political favoring.i'm not the most educated voter. but i do recognize fear.our country feeds upon it. the same country that feared our greatest president (imo), John F. Kennedy, Jr.,ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-37090078442241846052008-10-21T10:29:00.002-04:002008-10-21T10:31:41.564-04:00Support the Artsericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-38801013020927858982008-10-11T16:58:00.004-04:002008-10-11T17:21:05.814-04:00I'll do my best to keep you sleepy, sleepy as the southso. i started today with the best of intentions.i WAS going to finish dr. pennink's bio today.instead, i cut bangs into my hair (jury is still out), visited boy at work, cleaned house, uploaded and edited photos from the museum's Artastic! event, made mix cd's for some of my favorite people, and looked up hockey game times.i am the best procrastinator in the world. (well, heather MAY have me beatericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-20782631916841521492008-10-07T12:06:00.003-04:002008-10-07T12:19:07.231-04:00debt resolveSo. On October 3, 2006 I entered into a debt management program. As a soon-to-be graduate, my credit card debt was mounting, and I needed to get it under control (especially with those ginormous loan bills-a-looming--a completely different story). I was at about $5,000 from roughly 6 or 7 different creditors. Some of these cards went to pay mechanic bills, and some, I'm ashamed to say, bought ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-25855035374218222932008-10-06T16:22:00.003-04:002008-10-06T16:42:14.291-04:00Let your body sink into me, like a favorite memory, like a line of poetry, or a fucking fit of honestynever have i looked back and felt like i was gloriously emo. i usually look back on it in mild disgust. i do have a nice tattoo from the phase, however.in the past few weeks i've re-hashed my love for sappy, albeit fantastic, emo music. one could argue whether these bands are emo or not. i think you can classify them as such.sad thing is i can't get a hold of this music anymore. two albums i ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-74297733424887781902008-10-02T15:01:00.001-04:002008-10-02T15:01:47.293-04:00It’s Artastic! The Fayetteville Museum of Art is gearing up for its FREE! Children’s Art Festival that is taking place on Saturday, October 3rd, from 10am to 3pm at Festival Park. People have been frantically running around the building, pulling together last minute items like, you know, helium tanks, banners, zip ties, the average every day GIGANTIC CARIBBEAN MASKS, and GINORMOUS ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-2870743204698665052008-09-28T16:31:00.005-04:002008-09-28T16:37:11.714-04:00i've been diligently working on dr. pennink's bio, but was still party shuffling on my ipod and came across this delicately beautiful song by the Sugarplum Fairies. i quite like it and think you should check it out. the lyrics are simple, yet describe adequately the complexity of love:love is a flaw In the logic of war your typewriter's God but he's in self-repair mode and you're not smart at allericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-90614168806230474922008-09-24T12:48:00.003-04:002008-09-24T12:51:00.095-04:00i wanted to take a brief moment to encourage you to visit this link. there are endangered words out there! save them! they are getting rid of these brilliant words to make room for more words like: fanboy. that's all.ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-6568672075673167332008-09-19T21:04:00.004-04:002008-09-19T21:23:19.412-04:00okay. updates are in order, well, at least a little bit, since my only connection to the internet lately has been the five or ten minutes i can steal away at work.so. i've reaquainted myself with the internet. i think i can now go back to referring to the internet by its nicknames- intersnacks and the nerd. i've been sitting in rude awakening for the last three hours uploading the insane amount ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-70899691506631393612008-08-19T12:20:00.000-04:002008-08-19T12:21:31.093-04:00ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35004381.post-67945326595792166412008-08-15T15:44:00.005-04:002008-08-15T16:15:59.752-04:00Stalking your favorite rock star is easy if your favorite rock star is Conor Oberst.Just follow the trail of beer post show to your local watering hole and watch him stumble and tell you all about Christmas lights in June.Priceless.And I like to think the shot I bought him was contributing to art firstly and alcoholism secondly.+= Never having to tell your favorite rock star "You love his music."ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08801032671261718491noreply@blogger.com0