I found an old journal from 2004 in my room and I started flipping through the pages, which was a real choice because I am embarrassed and infuriated in equal parts. A quick summary of the the timeline this particular journal encompasses – I was going through the mentally draining and traumatic mediation process with my former employer, I was starting classes at Pitt, I was struggling to find a job, I voted for the first time (and said “I have never cared more about an election as I do this one” – 2016 / 2020 / 2024 Erin has entered the chat), and I was mad that my friends didn’t take my “writing” seriously. Which leads me to the reason for this post –

Apparently, someone wrote about me on LiveJournal and referred to me as a “humorist” which was such a compliment! I was riding high on this when my “friend” Keri called and I excitedly told her this, to which she said, “OKAYYYYYYY. Are you sure she was talking about you?”

I rant about this for a bit, and when I get the indigence out of my system, I go on to write that someday, Henry will make me “my own website” so I can leave LJ and “grow my readership” but that I wasn’t ready yet because I didn’t want to – wait for it – PULL A DAVID CARUSO U KNOW LIKE HOW HE OVERESTIMATED HIS POPULARITY AND LEFT NYPD BLUE TOO EARLY ONLY TO HAVE A DISAPPOINTING FILM CAREER.

DAVID.

FUCKING.

CARUSO.

If I hadn’t included the explanation in my journal I’d have 100% been googling “David Caruso who” right now in the year 2026.

Also, while 2004 was apparently “too soon” for me to “jump the LiveJournal ship,” 2007 wasn’t much better because I lost pretty much 95% of my “readership” which was devastating to me in some past timeline where I still thought I wanted to “write” but is actually so fucking funny to 2026 Erin that I had to “let’s just stop, drop everything” and come here to laugh about it alone to the OHE void.

And, in case you wanted to know, here were my fave bands that I was listening to in 2004/

One more picture:

Apparently, the house on the left was on fire which prompted me to sketch this in case Future Erin was reading this and miraculously didn’t still have the save view from her window as though she escaped this street in an alternate timeline but I do want to add that THAT TREE IS NO LONGER THERE! It was cut down a few years ago and I almost had a heart attack, I was so upset about it.

Felled Trees & Competitive Vaccinations, a/k/a things that have upset me this past week.

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