Author Archives: Erica Martinez

I have food poisoning so naturally, I think I am dying. I leave everything to my cat Isa. Someone will have to teach her how to drive an automatic. My Mother has to care for Isa.

Just some thoughts while I sit through my second Mandatory meeting this week. It is 20° outside, I have a 15-page first draft paper due tomorrow, and I am hearing the exact same thing I heard in yesterday’s mandatory meeting, except yesterday it came straight from the source. Uggghhhh shoot me now. If I wasContinue reading “Another Meeting that Should Have Been an Email”

Stella Gibson and Paul Spector come face-to-face. He opens up and confesses to the murders. Stella asks Paul about his desire to strangle women. Paul responds and asks about her sexual desires. In a previous episode he broke into her hotel room and took photos of her diary. Is she obsessed with sex? She likesContinue reading “The Fall, Season 2: Episode 6”

In this episode there is a school trip to Paris and the girls (plus James, the only boy in the all-girls school) want to go but realize they are poor. Hands down one of the best lines in this episode and entire show is Michelle saying, “Look, no one is going to just hand usContinue reading “Derry Girls: Season 1, episode 2”

Some of you have requested to be added to my email list. Here’s the thing…I don’t have one. I don’t send out emails but I will hang onto your info in case I do put something together in the future.

Before the Fifty Shades of Grey films, Jamie Dornan was an Irish model just trying to get his big break in television and film. Fun fact: he did a Calvin Klein ad with Korean model turned actress Shin Min Ah. At one point Jamie auditioned to play a cop on The Fall, a show aboutContinue reading “The Fall, season 2: episode 1”

When you need a film to show women empowered and in charge of their destiny you might look around Hollywood and think there is next to nothing available. You just have to know where to look and you might be surprised–Horror and Sci-Fi. Look at Jamie Lee Curtis in the Halloween franchise. Babysitter fighting forContinue reading “Empowered Women in Film”

Fall semester: the discussion section of your memo is worth 60%. If you let any part of the assignment be shit, don’t let it be that. The professors are not going to tell you what they want until after the assignment is turned in. Outline because they make you. Midterms are important but also aContinue reading “My advice to the 1Ls”

After living in South Dakota for over a year I can confidently call myself a weather expert. On the drive back to Vermillion from Portland I could look at clouds touching the horizon and could confidently say, “I don’t like those clouds.”

My study-abroad trip to Iceland did not happen so I had to scramble to fill my time in Portland. Here is what I got: Collecting signatures for IP-17, a gun safety measure that we are going to have on the ballot this November in Oregon. It requires a background check and a safety course toContinue reading “Petitions and Pies”