from the desk of stinkpot

it’s funny how unimportant things suddenly become pressing when you’re having trouble doing homework. for example, rather than triumph over my be.482 programming assignment, i thought it’d be much more prudent to perpetuate this blog chain letter i received some time back. so here’re my pieces of four:

four jobs i’ve had:
1. tennis pro. by far, the high point of my employment history. each summer in high school, i’d get paid $20 an hour to enjoy some fresh air and teach kids a sport that i love dearly.
2. programmer/lab rat. the polar opposite of the aforementioned job. most of these lab positions involved working in rooms that lacked windows and getting paid half what i was making on the tennis court.

that’s about it … i don’t think i’ve ever held a real job (and by real job, i mean do work that wasn’t fun).

four movies i can watch over and over:
1. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
2. any of the lord of the rings movies
3. office space
4. any mindless action movie. i’m enthralled by movies like bloodsport, rambo first blood – part 2, and the entire die hard trilogy.

four places i’ve lived:
1. morningside, manhattan.
2. dundalk, maryland. go ahead, laugh if you’re from baltimore
3. brighton, mass.
4. sleepy hollow, new york. this place is damn scary when you’re walking by yourself at night. fog banks roll down hillsides and there’re forests and cemetaries all over the place. much creepier than morningside.

four tv shows i like:
1. the price is right. who knew that guessing whether toothpaste or baking soda is more expensive could be so exciting?
2. the simpsons (the first dozen seasons).
3. family guy.
4. south park. it’s taken me a while to understand south park, but now that i do, i find the show to be hilarious.

four places i’ve vacationed:
1. palawan, philippines
2. st. lucia.
3. barcelona.
4. a bunch of france. christina and i spent a month in 2005 following the tour de france in an eentsy-little car.

four of my favorite dishes:
1. rice + canned meats like spam and vienna sausage. i’m a canned food junkie.
2. paella
3. mcdonalds chicken nuggets in sweet and sour sauce. sooo good.
4. sushi

four sites i visit daily:
1) digg.com
2) nytimes.com
3) boingboing.net
4) macdailynews.com. resistance is futile; zealotry is unavoidable.

four places i’d rather be right now:
1) on the beach.
2) on the tennis court.
3) on a hike.
4) away from bostonians. between their dumping of lawn furniture in winter parking spots and their maniacal red sox idolatry (even in the dead of winter, nightly news shows here have a sox update segment), i’ve just about had my fill of boston folk. not a good sign, given that i’ve only lived here for 6 months and the phd looks like it could take 5 to god-help-me-7 years to complete.

four books/series i like:
1. borges’ collected fictions. my favorite slice of “magical realism.”
2. jared diamond’s guns, germs + steel.
3. salman rushdie’s haroun + the sea of stories. so delightful.
4. merck manual. because so much can go wrong with your body.

four games i can play over and over again:
1. chess (especially bughouse with good friends)
2. poker, even though i’m terrible at it
3. word racer
4. stratego.

four bloggers i’m tagging:
1. christina cruz
2. andrew louie
3. powen shiah
4. jennie lin

i don’t know any other people silly enough to keep blogs.

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