About me

I love having a blog. It’s like making a little scrapbook of the things that I like and the things that matter to me, and sharing it with people all over the world. It’s truly an amazing thing.

I remember a conversation I had with my brother regarding our impending move to Pakistan, and my feelings about it. I said I had no worries about moving to a foreign country, because my inner life would always sustain me. This blog is certainly part of that, and writing about my life makes me reflect and meditate about how I want to live it.

Since this page is entitled About Me, here is something about me. I am in my mid-thirties, I am the mother of two children, a four-year-old girl and a baby son born in July 2008. I am an American who was born in Honduras, and I moved to Pakistan, my husband’s birthplace, with my family in 2006 .

I can’t remember where I saw this meme, or I would give credit. It seems I forgot to write the source, or, more than likely, I was interrupted while writing it down!

Meme of four

Four jobs I have had:

1) Customer Service Specialist for a mail-order catalogue. I took phone calls from people whose orders never arrived, in English and Spanish. It was my first job.

2) Photo development technician for a 1-hour photo lab. My dead-end job right after college graduation.

3) Student Assistant at my university’s international admissions office. I sent applications to prospective students in foreign countries. My school had people from 79 different countries.

4) Marketing Representative for a collection agency. I called timeshare resorts begging to have a crack at their deadbeat file. It was the worst job I ever had. My first day, I was asked to sign a memo scolding employees for smoking pot in the back of the building. And there was a dirty old man who sat in front of me, staring the whole time.

Four movies I can watch over and over

1) Pride & Prejudice, BBC 1995. Or P&P2, for those who know. Need I say more? ;-)

2) Sliding Doors. London at its best and a charming leading man. Great humour and great hair.

3) An Ideal Husband. Sharp wit and good acting.

4) A League of their Own. I don’t like baseball, but I love this movie.  

 Four places I’ve lived

1) Blue Point, Long Island, New York, USA

2) Island Park, Long Island, New York, USA

3) Mobile, Alabama, USA

4) Lahore, Pakistan

Four t.v. shows I like

1) Are you being Served?

2) MasterChef

3) House, M.D.

4) Poirot

Four places I’ve visited on vacation

1) The western rim of the Grand Canyon. Impressive beyond belief.

2) England. Hampshire, Derbyshire, London.

3) Cape Cod, Massachussets, USA

4) Cancun, Mexico. Not really a vacation, as I went for my afore-mentioned job with the creepy old man, but the trips were the reward for the mediocrity, boredom and vexation attached to the job.

Four favorite dishes

1) Any pasta with home-made tomato sauce

2) Fried plantains, with anything really, but especially with sour cream and refried beans. A scrambled egg won’t be amiss.

3) Potatoes. It’s my favorite vegetable, and one on which I could easily survive.

4) Dessert. I can easily skip a meal just to eat the sweet.

Four sites I visit daily

1) Time Magazine

2) The Republic of Pemberley

3) Yahoo

4) BBC News Telegraph Newspaper Online The New York Times

Four places I’d like to visit:

1) Paris. I was supposed to study there for a semester, but fear of the resulting debt made me drop out.

2) Mauritius. My husband stopped there on the way to Madagascar in 2006.

3) Africa. We have a plan to start our trip in Egypt, go to Kenya and Tanzania and end in South Africa.

4) Machu Pichu, Peru

 These are my own additions to the meme:

 Four More places I’d like to visit:

1) Australia

2) Malaysia

3) Italy

4) Vienna

 Four serious movies I like:

1) The Mission

2) The Motorcycle Diaries

3) Saving Private Ryan. Like is the wrong word, but it certainly made an impression on me. I despise war and violence, and the horrifying battle scenes made me cry like a child. I will never watch it again.

4) The Remains of the Day. It has beautiful imagery and it’s faithful to the book.

 Four songs I like:

1) I am the Walrus, by The Beatles.

2) Gracias a la vida, by Mercedes Sosa

3) Ojala, by Silvio Rodriguez

4) Rondo a la Turca, from Piano Sonata No. 11 by W.A. Mozart

 Four random things about me:

1) Pride & Prejudice is my favorite book of all time.

2) I am left-handed.

3) I would love to know how to swim.

4) I am the youngest of three children.