Tune-age

I have some music for the blog. The only problem is that Playlist is failing me. So I'm turning to Youtube for my playlist. It takes more effort on your part if you choose to listen. Sorry...

 Bon Iver- Beth/Rest: 80's power ballad. Two versions.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlO1DgvLSqA (piano version that doesn't sound like an 80's power ballad. But it does make me love Justin Vernon more than ever before)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UtQe0JOCnM (album version)

 Bon Iver- Perth: YES. Just do it. This was the best concert ever. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo6lKQYVUBU 

Coldplay- Paradise

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ZWlDks0nQ 

Jonsi- Grow Til Tall

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQuz8jmUYDU 

Fleet Foxes- Bedouin Dress

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87TB7GlJ3ZA 

The Fray- Be The One

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJOHNS6ftG4 

Chief- In the Valley

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2T1ozSC8-8 

Ra Ra Riot- The Orchard

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qvk2QabUL0 

Fanfarlo- I'm a Pilot

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt4tj8TtXTc 

Aushua- Hiding Place

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg8bt1o5FZo ENJOY!

A Love Letter That Stings: Erin's Relationship With the Cougars

Cougar Football,

Missing you. I don't like the long distance relationship we have right now. It doesn't sit well with me. But because my love for you is so deep and long lasting, I'm willing to stick it out. We work well together when we both work hard and make this relationship happen. And I feel like I've put a lot of work into this relationship. And you have, too. I know it's been hard this year especially with me out of the picture. You have struggled mightily at times to make me happy and even made some major slip-ups. But I think we can work through this. Let's keep on trekking and I know we can make it. So Cougar Football, I hope that when we have our weekly conversation tonight that it isn't one-sided for me. Because heaven knows I've had enough of those already this season. And I am sorry for my unkind and sometimes even harsh words, but they felt necessary at the time (even now...I still can't talk about that time you...had a run-in with that trashy Utah team and let them take advantage of you). So I'm going to work hard here in Omaha as long as you promise to work hard in Provo. It will pay off one day. And on that day, I will come to visit you in Pasadena, New Orleans, Glendale, or Miami-- really, wherever you may end up when you make it big. I'll be there. Don't you ever doubt it.

Much love,
Erin, The Ever Faithful Fan









It's been a while. Sorry, I've been crazy busy. And cheating on blogspot with tumblr. It you want to check out my tumblr, feel free. It's mostly just me posting pictures and things I think are funny every few days. Basically stuff I like from movies and television...yep, I'm soooper cool!

http://ernbrella.tumblr.com

Nebraska: The Good Life (At least that's what the sign says)

I used to live here:



And here (I kind of really miss this here right now. Boo on BYU for not having a medical school):




But now I live HERE:




And I like Omaha quite a bit. Still struggling with the four general cardinal directions. No mountains and it's noon? I'm totally lost. I don't even know which way is up. I have begun medical school though, and it's still so surreal to me. My white coat is hanging on my desk chair, I have scrubs for Anatomy Lab, I picked up my various packets (more like a tome for Anatomy), and every room I walk into has the words "School of Medicine" on the door. I feel like a total poser, but I'm excited to get started. It's going to be a long road.

Harry's my bestie. Ain't nothing you guys can do about it.

We return again to my most favorite of blog topics. Harry Potter. The final film will be released in just over 26 hours as I begin this blog. I've been with Harry since the beginning, and now I will be with him through to the end.

But, as JK Rowling said at the UK premiere, "Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home." And I will force my children to read Harry so that the Harry Potter legacy will always live on. I do take comfort in the fact that I won't have to force them after the first book, because they will be MY children and they will want to read more than anything.

I dedicate this blog to all the Harry fans out there. And to all the people who can appreciate the goodness of tumblr pictures that are both hilarious and sentimental. I pulled these pictures from multiple tumblr accounts and thus cannot credit them accurately. However, none (except the last one) of them were made/taken by me. Thus, I do not plagiarize. Or at least I try not to.

In other words, IT'S A PICTURE BLOG!









Why yes, Ronald Weasley. I DO love you.

Anatomy Notes by an Anatomy Nerd

As many people know, I am a human anatomy nerd. As in, I took the class in high school, then in college, and then I took dissection and I became a TA so I could teach others about my passion. It's an odd thing to be passionate about and you don't even have to think about it for it to be odd. But I want to dedicate this blog post to WHY I loved my anatomy class and why anatomy essentially changed my entire view of what the human body is and how absolutely magnificent (cheesy word, but true) it is.

I was a little lost soul before I took anatomy. I wasn't sure what in the sam-hill I wanted to do with my life. Did I want to teach history, make movies, or did I want to go to medical school? It was all up in the air and I was so confused. I liked too many things and was indecisive. So, I signed up for what felt like a million different classes to help me decide. I took film, history, and anatomy in the same semester. And though many of the classes I had taken were biology based, anatomy was the first that really allowed me to study the human body in detail. Of course, I found that I wanted to spend all day in lecture, listening to information about how alveoli fill and collapse during breathing or how myosin heads attach to actin filaments during muscle contraction. There were days in lab when I would hold half of a human head in my left hand and a heart in my right, an experience few people ever have.

So here's the part where I gush about how amazing our bodies are. The human body is arguably the most complex thing known to man. We have a limited understanding of how it functions and, if I'm going to be honest, I don't think we will ever understand it. But think about it: though we don't understand a lot of it, what we DO understand is absolutely amazing. The fact that we can breathe, eat and digest, move, speak, and most of all THINK, is absolutely miraculous. Just to breathe, we contract muscles, the pressure changes in our chest cavity, cells use energy, and blood flows to the right places. And that's not even the half of it. On top of that, the molecular mechanisms we use just to breathe are so small and fast, no one even thinks twice about it.

And then I think about the fact that we can do everything at once. We can walk, eat, and even talk at the same time. We breathe and our hearts beat without us even thinking about it. We can even train our bodies to swim, or play soccer, or throw a football 50, 60, 70 yards (distance is one thing, but accuracy...I digress). I guess, to say the least, our bodies are pretty fantastic.



I don't usually post things like this, but this talk by an LDS church leader, Elder Russel M. Nelson, who was once a prominent cardiothoracic surgeon, is amazing. I particularly enjoy the first section entitled The Remarkable Human Body. Elder Nelson is pretty straightforward about the miracle that is the human body and is much more articulate than I am. If you want to, read and enjoy.

http://jesuschrist.lds.org/SonOfGod/eng/faith-in-jesus-christ/articles/faith-in-jesus-christ