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Elan School / stand ups and VRs
« on: February 27, 2005, 11:12:00 AM »
I blew a home visit for "wood working", not doing my job with enough gusto I guess. I was going home for easter and as I hadn't made any memories for like a year before that I don't remember the last time I got to see them, probably more than a year. I'd gotten so depressed I could hardly remember what i'd said 5 minutes ago and would go through days in a trance. I guess that made it hard for me to put that extra 10% they were looking for for me to "earn" my visit. Maybe i deserved it by their system,  but I got put there for being depressed and I come out with a "displacement" coping mechanism that I still deal with (things happen like I get lost on the way to school, objects like my keys will dissapear and end up in strange places, I have entire conversations without knowing what i'm talking about -- its getting hard to go through graduate school like this). I'm not saying I wouldn't have become like this if I hadn't gone to Elan, but there are a few alternate options that actually help the thing i'm talking about (I'm going through very expensive therapy right now, hope it works).  I'm glad they took my visit overall because when my parents did get to see me 6 months later they realized I didn't need to be there,  elan was total bs and they took my visit away just because they could. (I did not say any of this to them I just went out with them and had a good time).  they wanted to take me home with them then, but elan insisted I stay another month in order for my parents to "think things over". I'm glad I didn't know I was leaving until 3 days before it happened, I dont' think I could have handled the excitement.

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Elan School / movie I mean it
« on: February 20, 2005, 06:06:00 PM »
hey this is Susan from e3 i'm wondering if there's still any interest in doing a video about elan alumni? I'm taking a videography course right now (actually TAing it, but have to learn it as I go) and I want to do a project over spring break dealing with people's stories before, in, and after Elan. The interest is as much personal as professional, I went to elan 3 from 1996-1998 and never stopped to think much about the experience or kept in contact with anyone but wish I had. I'm hoping some people out there can help me remember, or give me perspectives that are different from my own, or just get on the camera and say how they're doing or whatever.I'm not soliciting a particular "type" of story from people, you can get on camera and praise elan, bash elan, or just tell me about yourself and what you ate for breakfast. If there are several people in the same area and you all want to meet up that would be great. I'm available to travel from march 18th to the 28th of 2005 thats spring break for U of I and its coming up soon. If you want to get your stories on tape please  contact me by email [email protected]. [ This Message was edited by: aiiro on 2005-02-20 15:10 ]

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Elan School / Hey does anyone here know me
« on: January 31, 2005, 03:36:00 PM »
they should, but I just sent you an email so if it goes through you can hit reply to that. The server for unicomedia.com was down for a day so that might have been the problem (fixed now).

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Elan School / elan movie
« on: January 29, 2005, 12:04:00 PM »
I'm not a "filmmaker" per se but I know my way around a camera and teach the final cut pro class at U of I. Does anyone here want to take a shot at making a movie with my assistance? I've been wanting to go out and get some of my own and other people's stories on tape, not about elan being good or bad for "teenagers", but about us as individuals and people, connected by a place and an event . Sounds broad but thats why I think just start filming now and the movie will structure itself. Plese email me if you're interested,  [email protected]. My name is Susan and I went to E3 from 1996-1998.

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Elan School / do you remember?
« on: January 29, 2005, 11:12:00 AM »
Melanie if you ever come to these places I miss you too. I know you tried to call me a year ago but when I listened tro yoru message the cell phone erased it and I was heartbroken. I remember being on the post counting heads, you were having a bad dream or something and I accidentally passed the light right over your eyes and it woke you up. You were a little startled from being woken up, and i'm always high strung but especially from being up all night pulling on the post, each of us let out a little scream of surprise that startled the other more and before we knew it we were screaming in fright at the top of our lungs like two fools! Everyone woke up and thought someone was being murdered or something, but I got everyone back into bed and then we laughed until I thought I was going to puke, probably to burn off some of that adrenaline but still it felt good to release some tension with laughing instead of yelling. I also remember being briefed one time before pulling that a carpenter working on the house had lost a large carpet knife, not sure if that was before or after the screaming incident but I was always half expecting to get stabbed in the back.

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Elan School / do you remember?
« on: January 29, 2005, 10:58:00 AM »
Yeah, she was. I don't remember Jamie's last name but she was also heavy, had short hair and an upturned nose, wore a lot of stuff from Old Navy (which i'd never heard of before so thats why it sticks out I guess). Jim was staff there, maybe Collins was his last name? Were you from e3? Vanessa was funny as hell, she added humor to a lot of tedious and absurd experiences.

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Elan School / do you remember?
« on: January 28, 2005, 11:59:00 PM »
thanks i've been regretting that I don't play any musical instruments anymore. Maybe this will make me do something about it.

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Elan School / do you remember?
« on: January 28, 2005, 11:58:00 PM »
Are you from e8? We used to go over there for school. I'm still in Illinois, I go to the U of I at Urbana-Champaign.

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Elan School / Hey does anyone here know me
« on: January 28, 2005, 11:53:00 PM »
wow its nice to hear that people remember me playing violin:) I stopped playing after I finished with high school and I didn't go to college in music. I ended up majoring in photography and am now in an MFA program for "new media" (whatever that means, the program has identity issues).  For anyone who wants to email me its [email protected].

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Elan School / do you remember?
« on: January 28, 2005, 07:14:00 PM »
No body is going to remember this probably except for me, Vanessa F. and Jamie, and probably Jim too, b/c when he came down he was like "oh my f###ing god vanessa you broke the bed!" That girl had mind power! But anyway, so what happened was, the three of us were in a dorm together, and Vanessa was shot down so, even though she posessed infinite seniority over everyone else, she was on the top bunk and Jamie (another shotdown/ramrod riccocheter at the time) had the bottom bunk. I think I was recently demoted also, but thats neither here nor there. Actually it is, because that would mean that we were basically a dorm full of non-strength, and we couldn't "relate" to each other.  We had to find other ways to amuse ourselves, and so the two of them were doing a great job of amusing me with increasingly humerous attempts to annoy the hell out of one another. Vanessa, not to be outdone by anyone playing a game like this,  starts to do fake yoga poses in her bunk along with an exaggerated "ommmmm" and Jamie starts hissing like it won't count as talking without strength if she hisses "sssssstapit!!!" under her breath! Vanessa ignores this and keeps ommming and Jamie is calling for the post person and geting all flustered. On the third omm, as if on cue, three corners of the metal frame holding the top bunk up detach, and Vanessa spills out of bed with this look of bemused surprise that I will never forget! Jamie almost laid an egg thinking she was going to be smooshed by the top bunk coming down on her, but that one corner stayed up so she didn't get flattened just scared real bad. Then Jim came down and was so shocked I wont' forget his face either when he came down and saw Vanessa out of bed and Jamie trapped in a cage of broken bunk bed!

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Elan School / Hey does anyone here know me
« on: January 28, 2005, 02:36:00 PM »
Yeah Mike L right? You drew the fingers. I was into art. This is Susan, back then I would have been 14 years old, short pale dark hair (which is still what I look like, but i'm 23). I didn't end up graduating but i've managed to do alright in spite of that. What are you up to?

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Elan School / Hey does anyone here know me
« on: January 23, 2005, 01:06:00 PM »
Yeah we met my first day there and I bit your arm. I've calmed down a bit since then. With an introduction like that its no surprise that we didn't like each other, but you get my respect now. [ This Message was edited by: aiiro on 2005-01-23 10:30 ]

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