Yo, I'm not dead

Although work has gotten so insane I forget to sleep some nights.

My brother has decided to do what we've all been thinking about:

people of college - it's people of college, but now all the delta delta girls with leggings on in the snow. Go Scott.

Lunch!

Whew

Taking a breather from stuffs. Go to the music link to see about the death cab concert.

In other news, I've registered my cell phone for blogger posting (WHY DOESN'T GOOGLE HAVE A BLOGGER APP? WTF?). So now there should be very random thoughts posted here.

AND The magic Scott designed a new logo for me. Look for changes soon. I'm going to punk out now.

I <3 Amazon

I love that my amazon gift certificates come with the title "oh goody", when it should really read "thank you for spending so much money with your Chase card, we really appreciate it. The economy may be down, but our sales have tripled. Thanks and keep spending!"

Sheesh.

I'm not even going to get into how long this spring break was and how it went from bad to good to bad to good to "thank god i'm home and can sit on my ass".

Thoughts and Week in Review

First:
I got my kindle in the mail on Wednesday! It's all that it is supposed to be and I love it. YAY. But I have two papers that must get written before spring break, so yuck - I don't get to play with it much til then :(

Second:
The state of the building I work in is ridiculous. It would be better if they blew it up and started over. Today it was so muggy in the room I was teaching in that you could see the condensation in the air. I'm going to stage a protest.

Third:
Writing papers sucks.

Fourth:
Ok, done with the numbers. Generally this week has rocked. Been very busy between yelling at the DVR for not recording anything and getting this paper written. It's at least half way now. Also it's been package city. Got my kindle wednesday, cory sent me a hoodie thursday and today I'm supposed to get my stuff from sephora in. :) I also have to order books for book club. Damn! :)

Something I find disturbing:
The new it thing to do on Facebook is to take "explored" pictures from Flickr and make them into fake album covers and fake band names. I know this whole thing is just for fun, but it kind of frightens me. Photographers already have issues with copyrights and digital use of their pictures. I know plenty of people who have been stolen from. But if you don't put yourself and your pictures out there, you never get better or noticed. Double edged sword. The thing that bothers me the most is that people don't notice that it's 1) illegal with out a common use license on the picture and 2) stealing with out mentioning the photographer. And we spend all of our time talking about plagiarism? This is just as bad.

Whew!

In the span of today:

I've finished a book.
Worked out.
Watched 6 hours of the oscars.
Beaten a ton of the lego batman game (hooray minikit detector!).
Beaten batman to 90 percent.
Written some, but not enough of my paper.
Eaten two lunches and some dinner.
Written a bunch of emails to confused students.
Not slept (boo!).
Looked at sephora.com for wayyy to long.
And finally:

Learned that my Kindle has shipped!!!!

End of story.

Howdy

lalala
greyson is hanging out asleep with me, it's cuteness. I posted more art stuff and more flickr galleries. yay me. other than that we cleaned the house and that's about it today. found a cool new bookstore (used bookstore) that had all kinds of goodness in it. (Including some terry pratchett!!) anyways it's nearly 3 so i should go to bed! no capitals today ! more tomorrow! (i had other news but forgot)...oh parker likes to swim :) it's cute.

art!

art page is up and being updated. it's pretty easy the way i'm doing it, so i think i'm going to continue that theme throughout. click on the art link up top to view the new pageness. It should look really familiar :)

Also, added the "labels" so you can quickly sort posts and only view posts on things you want to see. Check out the textile seahorse girl too, she's incredible.

Loves.

fine fine

I was telling cory today that I usually had to have someone kick me in the ass to work on my website. I've felt out of the loop with it for a while and every time I think about it, it just seems like a daunting thing to start. FINE. I'll work on it today. Plus mom asked about pictures of my cross stitch stuff, so I was going to work on the art section to make that stuff accessible. So click on the art link soon. It's going to be up and working today. :)

Oh and we found a dog. It's name is Kent and it's a basically registered siberian husky. Yeah, that's right we have not one but FOUR superhero named animals.
Bruce Wayne
Dick Greyson
Kara Kent
and now Clark Kent.

This, folks, is getting ridiculous.

OHH EMM GEEE a post

HI

I haven't forgotten about you oh wiley blog and website. But I have rediscovered you and this thing called free time. That's right! erin is done with her dissertation and about done with all things chool work. I have to edit my dissertation as the grad school says so (waiting on that report), post grades for my class (doing that tomorrow), be good (not possible), and finish this paper thing we are trying to get published.

Oh and find a job. No biggie.

I actually finished a book today. I was explaining to Cory on the way home from Austin today (sadness! that we had to leave) that I hate when I can't finish a book. Makes me completely nutty actually. So I set out to finish The Appeal today. And I did. And I still didn't like it. I wrote a review on goodreads (see here). I really hate writing long reviews of things. I read some other people's reviews and they didn't like it as much as I didn't like it. Anyways, trying to finish another half read - Mark Z. Danieleski's Whalestoe letters. I like it, so it shouldn't take long. I'm really putting off the ones I know I'm to whip through - the 3 Chuck Palahnuik's I have, the 2 discworld books I have (oh terry pratchett i <3 your writing), nick hornby (although I can't seem to finish high fidelity).

In other news, the river is wonderful, sunscreen is weird and I'm tired.

laterz.

BRRR

jan 17 07
Originally uploaded by erin is a star.

it's cold here people! i've uploaded a bunch of pictures on flickr (click it above) and i'm still working on linking it on my pictures pages here.

hey i'm a busy girl with this school bs!

anyways freezing weather for more than a week (ugh ugh) and projected 8 inches of snow this weekend? sweet. thank god i live in texas? rightttttt.

newness

So, I've been working on my website. Here's what I've done:

- updated new site map on me pages, art pages, photo pages
- redid the photo section

SO, i'm going to use flickr more to post pictures, but they will have links in the photo section. The photo section is divided into personal pictures, the beginning of my playing with photography, and will have a new section - once I get to editing the pictures I have. I plan on doing that very soon, but my eyes are hurting right now, so I'm going to pay legos :)

OH! I started a thing called 365 days thingy. You are supposed to take a picture of yourself for a year basically one for everyday. I may not be that stringent, but I do want to make a narcissistic set of myself. I have about 4 already, so I'm doing good :P. More on that later. LEGOS.

new computer

You know my dad complains a lot because I haven't been updating my blog very much lately. So tada! Update. I am revamping my site over christmas break - that is if I don't spend the whole time playing lego star wars on my spiffy awesome computer! Check back for updates I really want to redo things and make it a bit less clunky in my opinion.