I hate starting these things. Do I tell you anyting? Do I tell you the standard facts? Fun facts? Hard statistics? How much information do you actually care about?

First, I love knowing about people, so I will tell you things. Also, since this is my site, I get to tell you whatever I deem interesting or important. That's the beauty of websites. I basically just ramble, you pick and choose what you read.

The Boring Parts

Name: Erin
Age: 20
Born: in Michigan (middle o' nowhere)
Live: mostly in Virginia
Hair: short
Eyes: tri-colored (seriously! well, if you look closely.)
Height: short
Weight: nothing to be concerned about

Backstory

Born and raised in middle o' nowhere Michigan by two music majors, which should tell you something right away. When I was two years old, my younger sister was born, though news of her arrival was overshadowed by my grandparent's posession of a tape recorder (there is hard evidence of this, which comes out when my family wants to embarass me). Went to a tiny, public elementary school, then to a small public middle school, and finally graduated from a equally small public high school in 1999 with 4 years of band (flute, hold the band camp jokes) of some sort, 2 of choir in mulitple forms, 5 of cross country and track, 3 of volleyball, and 3 of cheerleading (sideline and competetive) under my belt.

And now?

I am currently in my third year at Hollins University, where I am majoring in Child Psychology (in other words, my kids will hate me) and minoring in Vocal Music (really, I'm a music major in denail). I sing in the chapel choir (and am also the treasurer. heh.) and HollinSingers, am active with the volleyball team on various levels, participate in the local symphony's education division by singing in elementary schools with some fellow students and am generally just enjoying college.

So, what do you want to do with your life?

Um, not be a teacher? It's off to grad school with me after next year, so hopefully I'll have an answer for you by the time I'm done there. As of now, I just know that I a) want to work closely with kids and b) want to use music in some way.

Lists (or, anything that doesn't fit above)

Movies (of the moment)

Contact
The Sixth Sense
Erin Brockovich
Good Will Hunting
Moulin Rouge
A.I.
Return of the Jedi
The American President
The Lion King
The Shawshank Redemption (Shut up, Josh. ::g::)

Books (If I had to choose . . .)

His Dark Materials series, Phillip Pullman
The Masterharper of Pern, Anne McCaffrey
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Contact, Carl Sagan
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
Q-Squared, Peter David
The Once and Future King, T. H. White
Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
Sophie's Choice, William Styron
Walking on Water, Madeline L'Engle
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
(I evidently can't . . .)