About This Website

KillerJewels.com was purchased from Holdfire on March 18, 2010. It is a writing portfolio. The writing here used to be housed on previous websites, including LoveChem.net (2008-2010) and Slant Rhyme (erin.letters-to-you.com, 2007-2008; erin.falling-dreams.ca, 2006-2007).

Special thanks to the following websites and the people behind them, as well as the creators of various WordPress plugins that I use: props to Holdfire, WordPress, and Adobe Photoshop CS3, for this website would not be possible without them.

About the Name

The thing about Killer Jewels is that it sounds like “kilojoules,” which is a unit of energy. I thought of the term in 2007, when I used it in my poem, a feeling you can’t even, which might only make sense to me.

About Me

Twenty-one years ago, I was born, and my parents called me Erin. They wanted a good Irish name for me. Although others don’t typically call me anything else, I will also respond to the abbreviation people have created: Er. I grew up in southern New Jersey, more inland than coastal, and I lived with my parents and two older brothers. I think my primary goal in life was to excel academically because there really wasn’t much else to do. I seriously didn’t live a very exciting childhood, and any story I could tell, except perhaps the one about why I chose to drop out out of preschool, would ultimately be pretty mundane.

I am now a third-year undergraduate student in chemistry. It is feasible for me to obtain a Bachelor of Science in chemistry by May 2011, but I am holding out for the typical fourth year because I honestly don’t really know what to do with myself afterward. I entered university with every intention to become a high school chemistry teacher. That goal came crashing down when I suddenly realized during my second year that thinking about teaching high school made me angry and unhappy. Now, the plan is to go to graduate school and figure out what it means to be a physical chemist. Hopefully I’ll earn a Ph.D. and become a professor, I guess, and teach and do research. Unfortunately, I’m not sure I’m actually cut out to do science, and I’m kind of convinced that in the process, everyone would realize I’m a moron.

If the whole grad school thing doesn’t work out, I think I’ll go be a hermit in the mountains instead.

I’m getting the hell out of here. Moving West, perhaps.

What I would really like to do is write a novel composed of good-quality literature. It would be my only novel. As a result of my one novel, I would be a reputable writer, and I could convince someone to publish my poetry. However, this will probably never happen, and as such, all of my mediocre poetry gets shared in this online format. It is probably neither beautiful nor innovative, but at least it’s honest. It’s something I love. Writing is unquestionably my first love.

I guess chemistry is my second. I only went into chemistry because my hairdresser asked me what I wanted to teach, and I found myself saying, “Chemistry,” and at that moment, I knew it was right. I was a little caught off-guard.

This happens to me a lot.

Some of the thanks for my current career goals should also go to my high school chemistry teacher, I guess, because he put up with my nonsense and insanity. There’s a fair bit written about him on here.

I really like Kurt Vonnegut, by the way, and that’s probably all there is to know about me.

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