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Name: Emilia (Emmy)
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Birthday: 10/7/1980
Gender: Female
Interests: cooking, art, singing, listening to music,crafts, reading, writing etc...
Expertise: working with children!
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  EmmyLouG
Member Since:
4/6/2003
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Hello all! I know I don't really post on xanga anymore. I have been very regularly posting on my http://myspace.com/em_mee site. I am reposting my most recent post on myspace to give y'all a flavor of what things I write about. I also have an awesome blog novel going on for everyone's reading pleasure (also on myspace). Hmmm... what's going on with me? I don't work at my Chinatown job anymore, I'm moving on the weekend, and been seeing a lot of the same people (person?) over and over. And now for my repost...
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challenge of humanity is to balance what is right and the deepest
desires of our heart. Sometimes it seems so simple as to choose to act
on only the "right" desires. And what is right? Does that merely mean
what is moral? Some may say so, but I would argue no. We are also
restricted by social norms. One might say "But we live in a free
society." What is freedom? The freedom to go get drunk and start
sleeping with every stranger in sight? Would that be following
someone's deepest desires? How about starving yourself so that a man
will love you? No? How about allowing yourself to be in unhealthy
relationships so that you can follow every girl's deepest desire to be
married? I want to have a long-lasting committed relationship, but I am
not prepared to just "settle" for anything. I feel sad for the one that
feels these are the desires to have. Really, we have just swapped a
moral standard for the complete opposite, just to say we live in a
so-called "free society" I see society pushing its desires on us so we
are convinced they are our own, and take the poison that rids us of any
memory of our true desires.
When I truly act how I really feel I
am, deep down, I am at my happiest. The problem is, only a handful of
people will not find that socially unacceptable. I can't really explain
in detail what this looks like, but it involves being imaginitive and
playful. When I follow through on the deepest desires of my heart, I am
brimming with feelings of love and passion. I can assuredly say, my
heart leaps. Don't you remember the moments when you were a child when
you were purely happy and things didn't matter? Don't you remember when
you had an imagination?
That's why I really have to respect certain
famous people that are also famous for being odd (like Bjork or David
Bowie, for example) I can understand their sensibility. Being how I
want to be wouldn't look like their originality, but I must say I
respect them for just being who they are and not trying out their
personality in the court of public opinion before taking the plunge.
"The one who came from farthest to my lodge, through deepest snows and
most dismal tempests, was a poet. A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a
reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a
poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and
goings?"
H. D. Thoreau from "Walden" | | |
| So last summer/fall completely outshone this summer...I attended some great shows last summer, and thought, it can't get better than this. Upon reflection, I have had some other great times this summer, one of the highlights being playing assassins in the forest with my cousins. I have been to many great Bebelo shows www.myspace.com/bebelo and recently took the commitment plunge and pretty much signed my soul away to Bebelo. I am now not only fan club president, sending out reminders to "the list" of Bebelo's shows, but now i'm merch girl, seller of Bebelo merchandise which consists of t-shirts. Oh also, as an art project Ms. Rebecca Sometimes (lead singer/rhythm guitar) and I started a Bebelo-themed "zine" (homemade magazine to sell/give away at small bookstores like myopic) which is hilarious! (we will be putting out issue 2 soon hopefully!) My summer was not short of events, but I look back on last year with a sense of wonder and awe, and can fully appreciate the quality of live shows! But, the fall still has a chance! My sister got a cd from someone (which happened to be "Sleeping with Ghosts" by Placebo) and I completely fell for Placebo. Around April, I discovered they were releasing a new album ("Meds") and I was really excited. I look at their myspace like all the time, and the Placebo US street team is one of my friends also. (I must credit US street team for giving me the password for presale tix) I ordered the album as soon as it was going to be released in the US (they're basically a UK band). Needless to say, I moved in May and had mail issues for quite some time, and didn't get the album until like a month after ordering it. I was actually feeling quite hopeless that I would never get it, and one day, I see a package for me in the front hall. Woo hoo! It was the CD! So, I would regularly leave comments on Placebo's myspace saying something like: "Come to America! (and by America I mean Chicago!)" By popular demand (which I would like to think I had something to do with), Placebo announced US tour dates. I then discovered that they were playing the Riviera Nov 3!! Not only that, I was able to order my tix a week before the general public! And, I'm going to be seeing the musical Wicked with my aunt and mom Oct 20th. I'm really looking forward to it, because I read the book and couldn't fathom a musical. Just to let u all know, Bebelo has some great shows coming up; (all in Chicago) Sept 21, 10 pm Silvie's 1902 W. Irving Park Road $5 cover Oct 6, 10 pm Red Line Tap 7006 N. Glenwood $5 cover Oct 19, 9 pm? House of Blues Backporch stage 329 N Dearborn $5 cover Dec 2 10 pm Bar Vertigo 835 N. Western (hey, that's 2 blocks from my place!) $5 cover I hope u guys can come and rock out with me and other bebel-ites! | | |
| I know... I've totally pooped out on the xanga thing. I can see I haven't posted since May. Hahaha. I've been really posting blogs but I've been unfaithful to xanga because myspace is really much better. I know my blog is read on myspace. On xanga, it's sort of a mystery. At some point, more people were reading my myspace blog than looking at my profile. hehe. funny. well anyway, click this link if you want to see what's up with me.http://www.myspace.com/em_mee | | |
| So, not to be outdone by the other stresses in my life, of course I'm
sick now. It just seems like just a slight cold, but the throat issues
has made breathing slightly more difficult. Yesterday I went to this J
for J thing and it was a lot of fun! Maybe they'll make me an honorary
Jew for Jesus even though I'm not Jewish. Hey, maybe I do have some
Jewish blood in there somewhere! Hey anyway, I'm an adopted daughter of
Abraham!
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| It's the Case of the Missing Mail!
Yes, that's right. Somehow, my mail has gone missing. I filed my change of address on May 2. I received the confirmation Monday. I received one piece of mail forwarded to me. Where did the rest of my mail go?
I thought it might be at my old apartment. Apparently not. I am expecting 2 packages that I should have received by now. I am quite perplexed about this missing mail. | | |
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