I’ve been spending my free time the last few days reading through the Whispers short fiction contest entries. The contest is closed now, and there are a lot of great stories posted.

Absolute Vanilla, or rather her chicken, posted a meme on her weblog and tagged the world. I figured I might as well give it a go.

Four jobs I’ve held:

1. Paper Boy - A rite of passage for many young kids. I still remember that glorious feeling when receiving the first cheque, as well as that sinking feeling after realizing soon after that paper boys are basically the sweatshop workers of the west. I quit as soon as they changed the deliver time from 5:00pm to 06:00am.
2. Concession Stand Worker - Through my high-school years, I worked at a concession stand at the hockey arena in town. The benefit of this was getting in to all the events and concerts for free. Unfortunately, I had also had to spend my teens smelling faintly of hot dogs and chocolate.
3. Technical Support Analyst
4. Java Developer - My current occupation. While not quite as delicious as the title sounds, I still really enjoy it.

Four movies I’ve watched over and over again:

1. The Indiana Jones Trilogy
2. The Goonies
3. Army of Darkness
4. Hackers - I loved this movie in my teens, despite being fully aware of how ridiculously the technology was portrayed.

Four places I’ve been:

1. London
2. Paris
3. Prague
4. Orlando

Four places I’ve lived:

1. Kamloops, BC
2. Williams Lake, BC
3. Victoria, BC
4. Puch, Austria

Four TV shows I watch:

1. Flight of the Conchords
2. Heroes
3. Spaced - Old, I know. I just found it, and it’s amazing.
4. Any cooking show hosted by Nigella Lawson - I fear I’m developing an unhealthy obsession.

Four radio shows I listen to:

1. The Mighty Boosh: The Radio Series
2. The Zone @ 91.3 - A local station in Victoria. It’s the only radio station I’ve ever come across that I enjoy. I don’t want to throttle the DJs, which is a first, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard them play Nickelback.
3. That’s pretty much it for radio…

Four things I look forward to:

1. Dinner
2. Waking up on the weekend and reading in bed
3. Seeing my friends
4. Summer

Four favourite foods:

1. Chicken Curry
2. Egg Benedict
3. Spicy Tuna Sashimi
4. Rice

Four places I’d rather be:
I’m quite happy where I am. If I’d rather be somewhere else right now, I’d probably already be there. Therefore, these are places I think I’d rather be in the near to far future.

1. Scotland
2. Japan
3. The pub
4. Egypt

Four people I e-mail regularly:
I rarely send personal e-mails these days. I either instant message, text message, or call people. So here are the last four people I e-mailed from my personal computer.

1. Jason Evans, to sent him my Reader’s Choice picks for the Whispers contest.
2. The billing department of Logjamming, to try and clear an online payment issue that’s been outstanding since last year.
3. My friend Chris, to brag about my Xbox 360 purchase.
4. My sister, to wish her a happy birthday.