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I’m a journalist, a designer, a novice programmer … and I eat M&Ms in Roy G Biv order.

I am addicted to the news. Twenty-four-hour-news-channel addicted. Breaking-news-e-mail-alerts addicted. Text-message-alerts addicted. It’s a sickness — a well-informed sickness.

Occupation: Journalist • Newspaper and multimedia designer • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
E-mail: erica [at] graphicdesignr [dot] net
AIM: esmithPD
Digital business card: Text ESMITH to 41411
Hometown: St. Louis, Mo.
Astrological sign: Sagittarius
Chinese zodiac: Year of the Dragon
Lucky number: 13

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A few of my favorite things

(In no particular order)

  • Journalism
  • Design
  • News
  • Laughing
  • Randomness
  • Breaking news alerts
  • Being challenged … and succeeding
  • Creative people
  • Movies
  • Mac and cheese
  • Driving without a destination
  • London
  • Red
  • Gerbera daisies
  • Music
  • History
  • Mashed potatoes
  • Traveling
  • Mint chocolate chip ice cream
  • Pepsi
  • Honesty
  • Comb honey
  • Thunderstorms
  • Paris (Not Hilton, although I’m sure the Hilton in Paris is fabulous.)
  • Timelines
  • Chocolate
  • Baseball
  • Blogs
  • People-watching
  • Jeans
  • Macs
  • Reading
  • Wine
  • Maps
  • Old-fashioned fruit and luggage labels
  • Friday the 13th
  • Strawberries
  • Blue
  • Night
  • The Internet
  • Text messages, instant messages, e-mails and phone calls
  • Winter’s first real snowfall
  • New crayons
  • Vanilla
  • Candles
  • Sleeping late
  • Spring days
  • Deep purple
  • Champagne

What’s on my iPod

  • All Time Low
  • The All-American Rejects
  • Amy Winehouse
  • Arcade Fire
  • Athlete
  • Augustana
  • Beautiful South
  • Ben Folds
  • Billy Miles
  • Bing Crosby
  • Blondie
  • Blue October
  • Bobby Pinson
  • Boys Like Girls
  • Brad Paisley
  • Breaking Benjamin
  • Brooks & Dunn
  • Bruce Springsteen
  • Chris Cagle
  • Chris LeDoux
  • Christina Aguilera
  • The Click Five
  • Colbie Caillat
  • Colin Hay
  • Corinne Bailey Rae
  • Cute is What We Aim For
  • Cyndi Lauper
  • Daughtry
  • David Lee Murphy
  • Dido
  • Disturbed
  • Dolly Parton
  • Drowning Pool
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • The Eagles
  • Fall Out Boy
  • Fiona Apple
  • Five for Fighting
  • Flipsyde
  • Frank Sinatra
  • The Fray
  • Garth Brooks
  • Gary Allan
  • George Strait
  • Good Charlotte
  • Imogen Heap
  • Ingrid Michaelson
  • Jay Brannan
  • Joe Nichols
  • John Michael Montgomery
  • Johnny Cash
  • Josh Turner
  • Joshua Radin
  • Joss Stone
  • Keane
  • The Killers
  • KT Tunstall
  • Linkin Park
  • Little Big Town
  • Maroon 5
  • Mat Kearney
  • Mika
  • Miranda Lambert
  • Montgomery Gentry
  • My Chemical Romance
  • Nickelback
  • Pearl Jam
  • Plain White T’s
  • Puddle of Mudd
  • Reba McEntire
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Rufus Wainwright
  • Schuyler Fisk
  • Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
  • Shooter Jennings
  • Snow Patrol
  • The Streets
  • Three Days Grace
  • The Used
  • Vega4
  • White Rabbits
  • The Wrights

Movies

TV shows

News

  • CNN
  • MSNBC
 Now showing

  • “Burn Notice”
  • “Chuck”
  • “The Colbert Report”
  • “The Daily Show”
  • “Heroes”
  • “Psych”
  • “Scrubs”
 Series on DVD

  • “Alias”
  • “Angel”
  • “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
  • “Firefly”
  • “Friends”
  • “Heroes”
  • “Lost”
  • “Mad About You”
  • “Veronica Mars”

Books

Currently reading: “News, Improved: How America’s Newsrooms are Learning to Change”
Favorite authors: Dave Barry • Carol Higgins Clark • Fannie Flag • Winston Groom • Carl Hiaasen • Elaine Kagan • Lorna Landvik • Leon Uris • Bill Walsh

For the record

Opinions expressed are mine — all mine.

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