hello, my name is erica.

i don’t call it wednesday. no, i call it weirdnessday

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i passed myself in the mirror, but i forgot to wave hello. how rude of me… did i think it was me in the reflection? i looked so put together. i learned that we are not our bodies, we are our souls somewhere within. sometimes i’ll look into the mirror and ask myself, “where am i? am i in my eyes? my heart? my mind?” we just seem so connected to our bodies. i know when it’s hot, cold, sick, tired, hungry. i used to be angry at science because it told me everything my body does is because of electrical signals to and from my brain. electrical signals, that’s all. i wanted it to be something more… and sometimes i look at myself and say my name, “erica? erica. erica! erica?!” it makes me laugh! is that the name of my soul or my body? how does my name affect me? sometimes i’m afraid of things that i don’t know the name of. what if i had no name? would i be afraid of myself?

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i know it says eve was adams wife, but do you think they ever got married? do you ever wonder if cain and abel were twins? eve didn’t have any children before she ate the forbidden foodstuff, so did she even know what the heck God was talking about when he said giving birth would be painful? did they realize how cool it was that they were the first human beings on the planet? i mean, they were the first of a new species!

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actual conversation:

“do you play any instruments, erica?”

“why yes, yes i do! i play the piano, guitar and harp” (slight, but subtle emphesis)

“NO WAY!!! you can play the… piano?!?!

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my friend bought me a beautiful bracelett from an indian reserve. i was quite touched by this gift, especially because she said when she saw it she thought of me. she thought of me even when i wasn’t with her! how special!

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i like explaining english jokes to brazilians who only speak portuguese. my favorite is: why is 6 afraid of 7? (because 7 ate 9). hahahahaha… i love explaining that “eight” in english is the same as “oito” (eight) and “comeu” (ate)… i love how they don’t understand.

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ok, i’m done for today… but tell me, how are you all???