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From Lisa:

Four jobs I have had:
1. Secretary at a gravel and concrete plant
2. Massage therapist’s receptionist
3. bus “girl” at a German restaurant
4. Researcher for a headhunter

Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Dirty Dancing
2. Office Space
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Elf

Four places I have lived:
1. Johnson city, TX
2. Denton, TX
3. Austin, TX
4. Menlo Park, CA

Four TV shows I love:
1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Veronica Mars
3. Arrested Development
4. The Office
(so many to choose from: Project Runway, ANTM, My Name is Earl, )

Four places I have vacationed
1. Japan
2. France
3. Mexico
4. Canada

Four of my favorite dishes
1. Chicken tikka masala + naan
2. breakfast tacos
3. stuffed pork loin
4. Salmon and chips (as in fish n’chips)

Five sites I visit daily
1. www.televisionwithoutpity.com
2. www.fark.com
3. www.gofugyourself.com
4. Lisa’s blog
5. SFGate.com

Four places I would rather be right now
1. home with Danny and kitties
2. Kyoto
3. Austin
4. New Zealand

I just added Sara Sanctuary to my permanent link list. I’ve plugged it before, but now it is up there with the rest of my favorite/weirdest sites.

….c’mon, my name’s in the title! I have to add it!

I get the feeling that I’m the only one who’s excited about the upcoming winter olympics. When I was a kid, watching the olympics each night was a huge, huge deal. My parents would record hours of coverage during the day and then we’d all sit in our back room in front of our big, wooden TV cabinet and watch the figure skaters glide across the screen. We watched Debbie Thomas and Katarina Witt (Mrs. MacGyver) battle it out. I secretly yearned for sexually questionable male skaters. I was ten. I couldn’t tell. I thought this was hot.

But who cares? They’re fun to watch - the women more so than the men, but still. I was cheering and gasping and holding my breath like everyone else….and I will again next weekend.

Here’s a sobering thought. After reviewing my tax documents for 2005, tuition for my two college courses plus books roughly equals the amount I paid in tuition for my first 15-credit-hour semester of college. Granted, the courses I took/dropped are 9 hours in total, but damn! One is at Berkeley extension and the other one is from a community college. Damn!

Just in case you were wondering, here are my latest book updates. Damn. I’ve read a lot in the last month. Actually, the only mega-book was Timetraveler. The rest were fairly short.

Deeply moving:
None

Brain candy:
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffeneggerrreggerr- brain candy soap opera. I liked it.

Fun read:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon - told from the POV of an autistic 15 year old

Yawn:
Angels and Insects by A.S. Byatt: I’ve only read the first half of this book, Morpho Eugenia, which is a novella. This was the selection for my book club. The ending almost made up for the pages of pain, but not quite. Skip it and read Pride and Prejudice instead.

Currently reading:

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel- This was better than expected although I can’t help but view the narrator as a pretentious loser. Okay, loser is too harsh. He is just annoying.

She’s Not There by Jennifer Boylan - biography of a transgendered man and his quest to accept that he is really a woman. This is darn funny and not depressing, at least not yet.

I didn’t go to work today. I’m fine, but the train right before mine hit someone so all trains stopped. I hear about fatalities, but it’s usually from someone in a car trying to beat the train, not someone on foot. Apparently, it happened when a southbound train hit someone in a busy area. There are safety gates and the trains blast their horns repeatedly when they come through.

So why didn’t I go to work? Since the trains weren’t running, the train company decided to reverse the direction of my train and drop people off along the way. I could have ridden it down two more stops and taken a bus to the city, but that sounded like a huge pain in the ass. The bay area is notorious for bad traffic, especially at rush hour, so I wouldn’t have arrived at work until noon anyway. Plus, I didn’t want to be one of the hundreds of people competing for a space on the bus.

I called my boss and just said I was going to take the day off. She was cool with it. I mean, there wasn’t really anything I could do to get to SF and I couldn’t work from home. Danny took today off too so we’ve had a really nice lazy day. Even though it had nothing to do with me, I still feel really bad for the person who got hit, the engine driver, and the people nearby. It’s just so stupid and tragic.