...a face to cast a thousand ships...

This is Erika and me on our hot Valentine's day date!
(I've cut and dyed my hair for those of you who haven't seen it)


Oh my goodness, this is sooooo funny! My friend Titus send me this link (www.myheritage.com) where you can run photos through their system and they match you up with the celebrity that you look like. Here are my results arranged oh so artistically. You should really try it. I guarantee it will waste at least an half and hour of your life. You'll never get it back. I promise.

Apparently I look most like Katie Holmes and Alexis Bledel. They also tell me I bear a striking resemblance to Michelle Rodriguez, Rachel McAdams, and Shiri Appleby. ( I know, I don't get it either...maybe if you squint a lot?)

Yep, this is what I do when I should be writing my thesis proposal. Don't worry, all the other kids in my program procrastinate too...Seriously!


So these three (above) are supposed to match up with what I look like in my profile picture to the right. Honestly, why don't I just delete my photo and put one of Katie up instead? I mean, we're practically identical! (actually, she looks a lot like my sister, Natasha in this picture for those of you who know her...)


And this is my friend Titus and me (yay T!)


So that's it. I know, I know, what a way to spend my time. What can I say...I'm just that self-involved. :) If only I actually did look like Katie Holmes...then I could be married to Tom Cruise. And who doesn't like that!

Anyhow, say cheese and start scanning!

...world traveller...kinda...

So this link is pretty cool. You should check it out and create your own map. Maybe one day my whole world will be red... (it's a little deceptive in terms of North America...I haven't been everywhere...and I visited Australia when I was 18mos., but I figured that's got to still count for something...)

Click here to make your own map:

http://www.world66.com/myworld66/login?redirecturl=/community

For those of you who I haven't told (or for those of you who I don't actually talk to, but you like to read my blog page anyway, and feel that it's some sort of way to keep in touch without actually keeping in touch) I have some big(ish) news. Actually, it's sort of non-news, because it's not official or anything yet, but still an exciting prospect.

Get to the news, Emily.
Right.

So a year ago I emailed the principal of The American School in Sierra Leone (it's an international school - parents who are working for the UN or other NGOs send their kids there) about whether there were any job openings etc., etc. I didn't hear anything back at all then and I figured she probably didn't work at the school anymore or maybe the school doesn't even exist anymore. I just lifted the email address off of an internet site.

Well, when I got back from Christmas holidays this year, I received an email from her. She was just writing to say she didn't have any record of having responded to my email and that she hoped I was well and was wondering where I was in my studies. I was kind of ticked off because she asked me if I'd finished my teaching degree yet...which was what I had already told her in my original email when I asked about teaching positions at her school. At any rate, I emailed her back and told her I was just finishing up my Master's here in Halifax and that if any openings at her school became available that she should let me know.

Last friday I received another email from her (a much longer, more detailed email this time) telling me that she did indeed have an opening for a teacher for next year and that she would like to consider me for the positon. It would be teaching social studies (history and geography, mainly) for grades 4-9 and literture (can you say 'story time?!') for grades 4-6. I haven't written her back about it because I've been thinking about it and weighing my options. But...I'm pretty excited about the possibility!! If I did go, I'd leave towards the end of August ne'er to return until July 2007. Cool! (on a side note the school is completely legit...in case you were concerned).


Apparently I can also do a phone-defense for my thesis from Sierra Leone. I checked with my thesis supervisor yesterday. Who knew?

Well, that's my newest most exciting news.

What do you think??

...Happy Love Day!...

If this doesn't say "love," I don't know what does.

This is just a little bit of my heart going out to each and every one of you...feel the love.

Feel it.

...oh CTV, how I love you...

We don't have cable. In fact, we only have two channels. Well, two and a half. We can get Global and CTV and a fuzzy CBC on a good day.

So tonight I was watching Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye. (let me reiterate: two channels) It's a show about the FBI (shocker) and one of the lead actors is a deaf female officer named Sue. At any rate, tonight's show was about a woman who is accused of killing her husband. She is innocent and it turns out he was abusing her to boot. In one of the final scenes, the woman is lying in a hospital bed and she is talking to Sue about her husband. The woman tells Sue that her husband told her that he had a "God-given right" to abuse her. What got me was Sue's response to her statement. Instead of just saying "well, he's wrong," Sue says "Well, he's wrong. A husband is supposed to love his wife as Christ loves the church. There is no room for violence in that."

And that is why I love CTV. Good for them for airing that line...although, who really watches TV on a Saturday night. Me, apparently.

It's because I'm so cool.

Can't you tell?

Look what a little internet sleuthing found: http://st.gospelcom.net/ Seems as though Sue is a real live woman!

Another fun link, brought to you by yours truly: providing you with pointless procrastination since 1981. (specifically on this site, since 2005...but 1981 just sounds so much cooler. See again with the coolness...I see a reoccuring theme...)

...a long day's journey into night...

Let me begin by saying, if you're going to go to North Bay you should really just fly there. Even if you have to switch your flight....

So this weekend I took a little time off and traveled to the tropic-esque destination of North Bay, ON. Why you ask? Turns out those hot dates at Christmas weren't just flukes and Dale, the guy I'm seeing lives there. Well, sort of. He has a house there but he moves around a lot (we have that in common - super!) because he's in the Canadian Armed Forces [we do NOT have that in common...in fact it's better if we don't talk about that ;)]. Actually, he's just transfered to the Airforce so that's why he's moving around a lot...anyway, I digress. I spent a long weekend in North Bay admiring the sights (not really) and watching snow fall (shockingly). And I'm not going to lie, it was fantastic. I should do nothing more often, I tell you. The company wasn't half-bad either.

Except here's the thing. Originally Dale was going to be in Petawawa and I was going to pick him up and we were going to drive to North Bay. So I rented a car. And then he got transfered. And then I had to drive for 4 hours to North Bay from Ottawa. One word: Fun. (and by fun I mean...not.) Me and Amanda Marshall had some special moments together along Hwy 17 West (and East, would you believe). So the moral of this story: fly. Always fly.

Sorry I haven't posted a blog for a while. I've been preoccupied with deadlines and really nothing exciting was happening here in Hali. Oh. Except for last week when my professor told me that he didn't think I'd get into a PhD program at Dalhousie if I applied this year. Yeah. That was pretty much the highlight of my week last week. That and my essay on rape. Good times, I tell ya. Good times...

And so now, if you're feeling a little bit blue, let me leave you with something that I hope will make you smile. For those of you who may not get the punch line - Solomon describes his beloved in the Old Testament book 'Song of Songs'...some of the images he chooses to use to describe his lover are, well, not so flattering. I ask you ladies, when was the last time you wanted your breasts described as being like "two fawns?" Exactly.

Behold. And laugh.

http://www.reverendfun.com/index.php?date=20060207

(ok, so I swear the comic is funny. I'm experiencing some technical difficulties and can't actually get the picture itself on my blog. Yes, I've tried saving it in .gif, .jpeg, .bmp, and even as a .doc. Just click on the link.)