The "Shut Up, Graham" Trifecta

Note: The "Shut Up, Graham" Trifecta is not actually included in this post, but one day I will needlepoint it, and you will understand.

I've been tagged by Miss April, and so, here goes!

Four jobs I have had:

• Research Assistant to Dominique Arel, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa
  
• Assistant Co-ordinator, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa
  
• Project Officer, Outreach, Social Development Canada
  
• Child Labourer, Park's Variety

Four movies I could watch over and over:

• I (Heart) Huckabees
  
• Monsoon Wedding
  
• A Very Long Engagement (or anything directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, really)
  
• Igby Goes Down

Four books I could read over and over:

• Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers
  
• Robert Cormier's The Chocolate Wars
  
• Sherri S. Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country
  
• Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden

Places I have lived:

• London
  
• Ottawa

Four places I have been on vacation:
I've only really been on vacation once, in Chicago, but some of this might count.

• Pakistan (Islamabad, Lahore, Wazeerabad, Karachi)
  
• Chicago
  
• Montréal
  
• Toronto

Four websites I visit daily:
Are you kidding me? The only thing I do on a daily basis is brush my teeth! If I did have any sort of regular internet habits, the following would be included therein.

• Feria Films
  
• Environment Canada
  
• The Globe and Mail
  
• Girls Are Pretty

Four favourite foods:

• Palaak (Spinach), especially with paneer (a very, very mild, unripened cheese)
  
• Samosain
  
• Daal Chawal (Lentils and Rice)
  
• Spaghetti al Pomodoro

Four favourite non-alcoholic drinks:

• Water, bitches!
  
• Limeade
  
• Grape Juice
  
• Orange Juice, with pulp

Four favourite musicians:
Yeah, some of them are bands, I know. My favourite music often comes from bands, so you'll just have to accept it.

• Paul Simon
  
• Ella Fitzgerald
  
• Coldplay
  
• The Kaiser Chiefs

Four places I would like to be right now:

• The Amazon Rainforest, without the constant conflict and threat of deforestation
  
• Roma!
  
• Buenos Aires
  
• London

Last four books I read:
Thank you, Children's Lit.

• Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
  
• J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan
  
• E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
  
• C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Last four movies I have seen:

• Proof
  
• Shaun of the Dead
  
• Elizabethtown
  
• Matchpoint

What's on my desk right now:
I'm at my parent's house, but I think what's on my desk at home is far more entertaining, so that's what you're getting!

• Rubber ducky bubble dispenser (affectionately refered to as "Bubble Duck") from Canada's Wonderland
  
• Plastic ostrich figurine from Chels
  
• Popple's Mug that I've had since infancy, containing an assortment of pens, highlighters, scissors, etc, as well as several floppy pencils from Ruth
  
• Painted tile from Cuba, via Emily
  
• Bowie, the cat, most likely
  
• A whole lot of stationery and documents for work and school
  
• A stack of books that I haven't read and don't really want to, beneath a glass vase, containing a pink silk scarf, unless I put the scarf away, in which case, just a glass vase
  
• Several photos of friends and family from London
  
• Assorted computer equipment
  
• A CD containing footage from Darfur, which I've never watched
  
• An "Out, Out, Damned Spot!" eraser, which Chels brought back from a trip to Stratford

Tagging: Chelsea, Ciara, Ben (who I don't think reads here, but what the hell)

Two in One Month? Too Soon!

Never!
I couldn't decide what I wanted to do now that I have finished mi composición de español. So what did I decide to do? I decided to post, that's what. Of course, I don't really have anything of interest to say today. Nope. Nada. I don't so much as have one of those inane philosophical ramblings in which I say a lot of things that no one can decipher and never quite come across the point that I set out to make and subsequently stimulate no reflection or desire to comment, indeed, nothing but a little WTF?ing, in my readers.

I do, however, have a very important recommendation for all of you. Go find Beck's Satan Gave Me a Taco, and listen to it. Listen to it well, my friends, for you will be amused.

Maybe it's the Sunshine

WHEEEEEEEEE!!!

I seem to be in an almost interminably good mood these days. Note: I emphasize almost in the preceding sentence, as my mood has turned to crabbish a few times this week, and I seem particularly to be taking it out on poor Miss Andrea. Even the election of that Neanderthalic excuse for a political party has not got me down.

Maybe it's the longer days. Maybe it's the good many people whom I enjoy but have not seen in far too long surrounding me again. Maybe it's the incrementally increasing control I have over my education. Maybe it's the courses I enjoy governing my education. Maybe it's me finally learning to insist on my own sanity.

Whatever it is, there's always a little inkling, a nagging fear that it's about to come crashing down again. I'm trying to be more careful, more diligent, more responsible this time. It would be nice to keep coasting this way, but I know that's not in the cards for Sarah. We'll just have to take it at a trotting pace and hope there's no need for sprints, but be ready for them if they come.

Good little turtle.

Confused enough now?