I’ve had several different jobs. I’ve been a hostess, a senior-project manager, an antiques store clerk, an office manager, an executive assistant, a software trainer, a website designer, an Operations Liaison to the Sales Department, and a remote secretary. I think the jobs that I liked the most were as a senior project manager and a software trainer. The project management position was fun, and I got to interact with clients and employees a lot, a sort of management without pressure position. Software training can also be very rewarding, as it tends to be a different job with each client. You never know what their strengths and weaknesses as a company are until you get there.

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I would travel to Turkey. I would love to see Istanbul & Ankara. There is such an awesome mix of Western & Eastern history there, I think it would be amazing. I’m huge Roma-phile, as well as fascinated with Islamic history, so I think Turkey would be pretty much amazing for me as a vacation. Being able to see the Hippodrome in Istanbul and some of the mosques is such an exciting thought. Not to mention, it’s a beautiful country with beautiful beaches and countrysides. Finally, I’m a huge fan of Turkish food, so honestly, it’s probably the first international destination on my list.

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Do I even have one? I’m not sure. I guess most people don’t know anything about me though. But something even a lot of friends don’t know would probably be my bottlecap collection. I don’t show it to people very often because I realize that it’s not very interesting, or even deadly boring to anybody but me, but I enjoy sorting trough my caps, remembering where I got them and what that day was like. It’s really just a box full of bottle caps, not a fancy display or anything. I’m thinking of covering a table with them at some point, so they get to good use eventually.

I’m friendly. This doesn’t sound like much, but it’s very important to me. I would never swear at a waiter or something. I guess it’s important for me because my default facial expression is somewhat grumpy – since I was a child, people constantly have been asking me what I’m angry about, even if I was just thinking about happily dancing butterflies or something of the sort. So I go out of my way to prove that I’m seriously not evil! Physically, the best thing about me is that I’m tall – I can always get to the top shelf.

Dinner. I love food and think a lot about what I’m going to eat in the near future. I don’t care if it’s sweet or spicy, hearty or light – I love it all and enjoy a good meal more than anything. Well, almost anything. So writing my shopping list, coming up with what I want to eat, buying the ingredients…that’s all fun to me. And cooking, I love cooking and coming up with new recipes, or at least adding a twist to an existing one…I don’t care, I love it all. And then the eating, of course.  The washing up though…well, I’ll leave that to tomorrow.

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Boardgame day! We invited over a bunch of friends, got drunk, and played a ton of board games. Also we ordered sushi. Perfect weekend. We started out with “Battlestar Galactica”, and actually won against the Cylons for once. Sweet Victory. Then “Jungle Speed”, a game where you have to remember complicated shares and grab a wooden peg quicker than your friends. Great fun, lots of injury potential. Later, when the friends were gone, I watched a movie and played with my cats. They always feel neglected after a day full of people who don’t care about them all that much. Afterwards, hot bath, audio book, chocolate. The perfect end for a very good day indeed.

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I would get rid of spiders. I know, I know, they’re part of the ecosystems, and they eat bugs that would otherwise fill our apartments, but seriously? They’re just too icky. I don’t mind them outside, so maybe I wouldn’t just wish them away, but make them keep a distance of 5 meters of humans at all times. There could be some kind of invisible forcefield that keeps them away. Maybe they also could be invisible to human eyes, expect in nature documentaries, because those are fascinating.

Honestly, music you can sing along to. There is no place in the world I’d rather listen to music, than on the passanger seat of a car, with the landscape floating by. I don’t care if it’s good music, I just want to know the lyrics and bob my head to it, and sing along with it with my friend in the driver’s seat. I want to open the window if a favorite – like bohemian rhapsody comes up – and scream the lyrics at the world outside. This is what music is about to me. I don’t even care about concerts or owning CDs, I just want a car, a radio, and the lyrics. Nickelback is an instant channel switcher though.

I’m very embarrassed about this, but I was once marketed as a powerful psychic by a friend of mine who is involved with a spiritualist church and various other paranormal activities.  I, of course, have never believed in such things, but according to her testing I was extremely proficient, and weak-willed as I am I agreed to attend meetings and give readings to members of the public if only to prove to her that I was not gifted in the way that she believed.  Oddly though, my level of accuracy was very high, and I quit before we started making any serious money because I felt guilty for exploiting the silliness of others.

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I wish that all countries were self sufficient, at least to some degree.  I am not unmoved by the plight that other human beings are in, I simply wish that they had the means to rectify some of their predicaments more independently.  The constant flow of money that our government devotes to other countries is staggering.  It seems like the priority should be to take care of our own first and foremost, then assist where able.  The United States has plenty of homeless, jobless, starving citizens of its own.  Why are they overlooked so easily?  They deserve the attention and resources that our government provides to foreigners.  They are entitled to it much more; it should not even be a question.  We allow many of them to make America their home and assist them greatly in getting started too.  I don’t approve of that either.