I am Erin Ellis, JET participant and all around nice person. Well, at least I'm in JET... I'm beginning my first year of teaching English to (soon to be misguided) Japanese middle schoolers in town of Ibaraki; about an hour and a half from Tokyo. I enjoy music (vocal), art (specifically drawing), wasting time online (making websites and looking at others), and anime (Japanese animation).
I'm a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (class of 2001), and for the past year, I worked for their Office of Undergraduate Admissions, where I spent time wandering around the state, touting the joys of Carolina... so I've already got practice misinforming students. ;) (but really, if you have any questions about college admissions or Carolina, let me know... it's a great school, if a bit difficult to get in out-of-state. Here's a picture of me in action, looking round.) Other places I've worked include Acme Markets, Modern Plastics magazine, Business Week Online, U.S. 1 Newspaper, and UNC's School of Education. Too bad no one seemed to employ me for more than a year (except Acme, which I could have stayed at forever... though eleven months was more than enough.)
A while back, I got into anime fan-fiction, a hobby that has grown to take over way too much of my time. It's not that I don't like to read, and it's certainly not that I write all the time (though I do write more than this site shows), it's that there is just so many different types of fan-fiction (much of it bad though still strangely alluring), that it has begun to destroy me. It's like an addiction. I'm not proud of this. Despite everything, I'm not too shabby a writer, if others say so theirselves -- I won an award (AnimeFEST '99 best WAFF) for 'Kimi o...', and 'Let's Get Serious' was nominated for best comedy in the RK Readers' Choice awards. I also wrote about a third of the last twenty-five chapters of the Improfanfic Arcana... which has nothing to do with merit, but -does- mean that I can write 30K of text within a week. Wai.
At UNC, I was involved in the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, and, of course, my Very Own club, Carolina Otaku UPrising, the Japanese Animation Club for UNC-CH. I say 'my own' because I more-or-less started it up back in 1997, and they haven't destroyed it yet... It's a nice club, come visit if you're in Carolina.
Now you know a lot more about me than you probably ever cared to. This page will change as more stuff happens, and I decide to edit this. However, it's all pretty much true, and you probably can guess at how often I update things... ^_^;;
23.july.2002