Sunday, September 25, 2005

7 things list

I was tagged by my friend Roberta from Yalla to answer this list. It was hard, but here it is:

7 THINGS I HATE DOING OR SCARE ME:
- phoning people
- driving too fast
- skinning, cleaning raw chicken (yuk)
- snakes
- discrimination (nothing bothers me more)
- dance clubs
- play ball games

7 THINGS I LIKE:
- hubby
- food (nothing like a gourmet meal to cheer me up)
- red wines & dark ales
- travel
- cheese (the smelliest the better)
- chatting with friends in a bar
- learning languages

7 IMPORTANT THINGS IN MY ROOM:
- hubby
- books
- radio alarm clock
- bed
- nice sheets
- air conditioning
- hmmm.... don't really need anything else in my room

7 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME:
- my feet are the only part of my body that really sweat
- I'm very patient with others but impatient with myself
- I have perfectionist tendencies
- I'm too messy to be a total perfectionist
- I've hated cigarretes ever since I tried smoking a lit cigarrete but when I was 5 yrs old
- I cannot develop habits or routines that last more than 2 months ( believe me, I've tried!)
- I don't understand people who hate their jobs, their lifestyles, etc and don't do anything about it

7 THINGS I PLAN TO DO BEFORE I DIE:
- get my PhD
- live in Europe
- write a book
- learn Hebrew, Arabic, German & Italian
- walk the Camino de Compostella (from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostella)
- hike in New Zealand
- win a dragon boat race

7 THINGS I CAN DO:
- speak french, english, portuguese and spanish
- read all of the above plus Catalan and Latin
- say no to a boss/supervisor
- cook
- paddle a racing kayak
- set the stroke rate for a dragon boat team
- fix a computer

7 THINGS I CAN'T OR WILL NOT DO:
- Live in the US (have to agree with Roberta on that one)
- eat peanut butter (yuk)
- drive a car
- swim butterfly
- do whitewater kayaking
- do something I don't believe in just because everybody else does it
- get ahead by keeping other people behind

7 things I say the most:
- I'm hungry
- I told you so!
- No, you don't want that... (substitute that for any junk food my hubby might be interested in eating; he says that when I'm feeling generous I say "Are you sure you want that?" instead – I attribute it to strong maternal instincts)
- Don't do that! (natural propensity to nag or maternal instinct, you name it)
- I'm hungry
- I'm NEVER going to finish this paper on time!! I'm going to FAIL!!! (and when my hubby or my best friend tell me I said the same thing last time I say "But this time is DIFFERENT!!")
- Did I say "I'm hungry"?

7 celeb crushes:
- Colin Firth ( I LOVE Mr. Darcy!!!)
- Antonio Banderas
- Johnny Depp
- Zack Wilde
- Kenneth Brannagh
- Hugh Grant
- Christian Slater

7 people that have to do this now:
- landismom
- Christian
- Alan
- Gen
- Janine
- Irina
- Debora

Saturday, September 17, 2005

Historian of the Future

Who said historians are only concerned with the past? Alex Pang, originally an historian of Victorian science, is a researcher for the Institute for the Future in Sillicon Valley. Check out his blog Relevant History. Very interesting if you are into new technology like I am. Btw, I saw the new iPod nano today - AMAZING. The future of the ipod, no doubt. I want to get rid of my ipod mini now. Check it out: ipodnano

Monday, September 12, 2005

Third Law

Second Law

Friday, September 09, 2005

Laws of graduation