Four Things Meme (from senji)

[enismirdal]

Four Jobs You've Had In Your Life

• Babysitter (well, technically minder to a woman with learning difficulties, rather than an actual child)
  
• Research assistant - wood anatomy
  
• Research assistant - bees
  
• That's about it.

Four Movies You Could Watch Over And Over

• Four Weddings and a Funeral
  
• LOTR trilogy
  
• Night Fever - not because I particularly like it, but because I have watched it over and over and over and not stabbed my own brain out
  
• I give up. I HATE rewatching most movies.

Four Places You've Lived

• Sheffield
  
• Leeds
  
• South Manchester
  
• Cambridge

Four TV Shows You Love To Watch

• House, MD
  
• Have I Got News For You
  
• ER
  
• CSI:Miami

Four Places You've Been On Holiday/Vacation

• Estonia
  
• Worcester
  
• Salzburg, Austria
  
• Portugal

Three Blogs You Visit Daily
Why only three? *bogglement*

• My LJ Flist
  
• My Russian LJ Flist
  
• mock_the_stupid
  
• little_details

Four Of Your Favorite Foods

• Yellow pepper (the fruity vegetable thing)
  
• Cadbury's Orange Chips Chocolate
  
• Jaffa Cakes
  
• That Nestlé chocolate with the cocoa bits in
  
• Sainsbury's 69p-for-4 creme caramels

Four Places You'd Rather Be

• Here
  
• Here
  
• Here
  
• Here

Four Albums You Can't Live Without

• Kasmodiah - Deine Lakaien
  
• Once - Nightwish
  
• Nightfall in Middle-earth - Blind Guardian
  
• Through a Big Country - Big Country

Four Vehicles You've Owned

• Bike #1 - "Bluebell" (with stabilisers)
  
• Bike #2 - "Poppy" (without stabilisers - too scary, soon lost confidence)
  
• Roller blades
  
• Snow sled

Four People To Be Tagged
Effort!

Comments

[pincushions.livejournal.com]

Ooh, what was Estonia like? I was looking at a guide book and thinking it looked pretty. And I do want to go somewhere this summer...

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

The tourist areas are very European - clean, shiny, sophisticated. Tallinn's old town is perfectly preserved and simply divine. The food is excellent, and some of the local drinks are delicious, booze very cheap, restaurants quite reasonably priced if you stay out of the mega-touristy areas. Tallinn in general is actually a really good place to visit. It's just so picturesque and very full of things to do.

But if you go to the outskirts, the bits they don't intend for tourists to see, there are all the old Soviet blocks of flats - ugle concrete monstrosities covered in graffiti and people's washing hanging out to dry. It's quite a striking contrast, and definitely reminds you of the country's history.

Countryside is pretty, but be careful of ticks. We went in July/August, so it was a perfect sightseeing temperature - about the same as a normal UK summer. In winter, I hear, it drops to -10...

The smaller towns like Haapsalu are very intriguing - a little run down, but in a pretty, characterful way, and the cost of living there seems to be incredibly low (feed family of 4 for lunch for less than £5).

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Wood anatomy? Are we talking fangorn slash here? :)

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

No, alas. Just tracheids. (I refer you to the icon. Although normally wood anatomy doesn't come in garish colours.)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Don't you ever dye slides of things? That's garish, yay!

[(Anonymous)]

Beware of listing Nestlé chocolates as I have had serious problems (wars) with them for about 5 years now.
Abner

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

It's true. But a very good point that was made to me recently is that you can boycott Nestlé all you like, but as long as you continue to use electricity or petrol - made from oil imported from Middle-eastern countries with an abysmal human rights record - or electronics products from China, then like it or not, you are indirectly contributing to human rights abuse in a probably more extreme form than Nestlé currently do (as they seem to have cleaned themselves up a lot since the babymilk scandal).

Consequently I will take criticism from Amish and otherwise be rather skeptical.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm at war with them (mainly for attempts to run Russian education although maybe that can't be left to Putin). They haven't asked to stop despite having about 20 soldiers left. I find the all or nothing argument far too easy and therefore dubious. I still hold Saudi prisoners. China- I did have a lot of prisoners but we made up. It may not last due to their African policy. Politics was never said to be easy.

[(Anonymous)]

PS The remark was made for your own safety as BTFFF have been known to dispatch civilians funding the militias.
Russian education was very good under the Soviets in as much as everyone could read and assemble an AK. I wouldn't let a major corporation near an education on principle and I don't trust Putin.
Abner

[namos-nightmare.livejournal.com]

Trust me, Russian education isn't that bad! And forget Estonia (although I am assured it is lovely) and come to Moscow, it's not that freezing.....

Ok, so I'm blatently trying to sell Russia to people!

You've had a fun life Eni, much more fun than me.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

From the various Russians I've met (who all seem incredibly intelligent!), I think Russian education must be pretty good overall. Abner (anonymouse above) may have his own ideas!

I would absolutely LOVE to go sometime. It sounds like an amazing country. Perhaps in May or something, when it's not as cold? (I saw on the news you are due for another -20 freeze; eek!)

It's been pretty fun. I've moved around a bit, because my dad kept changing jobs, and so I've seem a fair bit of England. But I'm sure most people on my friends list have done dozens of things that I never have!