I like dresses, tattoos, drumming (I am not good), dance parties, Shirley Temples, nail polish, Archie comics, yearbooks, Andy Warhol, karma, Oprah Winfrey, recycling, Wabi-Sabi, fashion, macaroni, pumpkin flavored things, writing, music, and reading.
People tend to make me turn off my choice in music a few minutes into most road trips. Some of my favorite bands are The Format, Tegan and Sara, The Kings of Leon, and Jefferson Airplane. I have two favorite books. The first is Peter Pan by J. M. Barri, and the second is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I don't like talking about either book because they make me feel weirdly vulnerable.
I love writing. I have worked as a Writing Associate at TCU for the past year and have wanted to work (not necessarily write) for a magazine since I was 12. I still have the magazine article that planted that idea in my mind. People either love what I write (my mother and my freshman year writing professor/boss), or hate what I write (every teacher I have ever had prior to college, and my sophomore and junior year writing professors). My writing style has been described as sassy and haiku-like, which I like to think means I write with rhythm.
I secretly love blogging.
-E
Erin, I think I'm going to like your writing too. I share a love of rhythm in prose. I suspect you'll like Virginia too, since that's one of her strong suits. One of my all time favorite cities is Austin, too. I really became a grown up there, and for years, every time I returned, I wept since I missed it so much: Captain Quackinbush's, Hyde Park Bar and Grill and the changing food on the fork, the free neighborhood pools, and the amazing Barton Springs. I rowed on Town Lake every day, and I still ache for beauty when I'm sweating it out every morning, which -- alas -- is not the case rowing on the Trinity.
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