Location
Brisbane, Queensland
Way Corp group(s) I was in
15 and 14
Where I live
Brisbane, Queensland "Sunshine State", Australia
About Me
Born in Kenya, raised in Australia. I am a Subject of the Sultan of Zanzibar, a British subject, a naturalised Australian Citizen and I have two Kiwi/Aussie children... but I don't think I have a valid passport just at the moment.
My Interests
English literature, history, education, music, dance...
Employment or Career
I am gradually working towards my BA, majoring in History and English literature as an on-and-off part-time student.
In the past I have been employed in the following jobs: fruit shop assistant, waitress, Arnotts Biscuits factory worker (biscuits = cookies), Hoyts candy bar attendant, legal secretary, McDonalds front-counter (are you impressed?), student nurse, nurses aide, customer service at St George Bank: loans and enquiries, motel house-maid, cocktail waitress, house-cleaner (for Dial-an-Angel), Telecom NZ faults centre officer, bookkeeper, and self-employed office manager for high-rise window-cleaning business (the latter for about 13 years.) I resigned from my full-time job in administration at the University of Queensland to study and complete my Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Literature and History.
Music I Like
Piano, guitar, clarinet, trumpet... I mean, I like to hear other people playing them - solo, as accompaniment, in orchestras, and bands.
I like music.
Books I Like
I love to read! Recently I've read several "Postmodern" novels for a literature course.
I enjoy novels by Jane Austen, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, PD James, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Gerald Durrell, John Steinbeck, Rosemary Sutcliffe, E Nesbit and many others.
I like reading the poems of writers like Rudyard Kipling, AB Peterson, Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Henry Lawson, John Donne, Robert Frost, Mo Wilkinson (she's my mum!)
And I like books that help me to spring-clean the brain cells:
- The Peter Principle (Laurence and Hull)
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Hoffer)
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig)
- Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (Brafman and Brafman)
- The Language of God (Collins)
- In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (Honore)
- Dumbing Down: Outcomes-based and politically correct – the impact of the Culture Wars on our schools (Donnelly)
- Endangered Minds (Healey)
- The Tipping Point (Gladwell)
- Coercion: Why We Listen to What “They” Say (Rushkoff)
- Boys Adrift: the Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men (Sax)
- A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century (Van DeMille)
- Eve’s Bite (Wishart)
Television I like
Crime investigation, British comedies - don't watch it very much - so I even find the adverts interesting!
Movies I like
The Mission, Out of Africa, The God's Must Be Crazy, The Constant Gardener, The Devil Wears Prada, Gone With The Wind, The Bourne Identity, The Sound of Music, Brave Heart, Spy Game, Finding Nemo, The Insider, Pulp Fiction, Along Came Polly, Love Actually, The Full Monty, Cool Runnings and all the rest! :-)
Sports Teams I like
Yeronga Devils, Brisbane Lions, the Kenyan Olympic team and the Kenya national rugby union sevens team.
Comments
Nancy
I heard NZ is beautiful. I'd like to hear your impressions of it.
How's life, anyway? The kids?
Why don't you email me at sfine@nmsu.edu.
PS - Keep the funny videos coming! They're the best!
God bless you.
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He looks around the bar and sees only cowboys. But finally, he sees at the bar, a very hot looking blond woman sitting by herself sipping a Lone Star Beer. She had nice full breasts with the top of her black cocktail dress cut nice and low, and some thighs that a man just might kill for. She was a fine site to see for shore. So, he gets right after it, thinking that the situation is just "ripe for the pickin'. He sits next to her and says with a nice Texas accent; "Hi! How you doin'? My name's Ty!" With a look of near disgust, she takes a drag off her cigarette, blows it high into the air, and, completely ignores him.
So, the cowboy, undaunted, says; "You come here often"? And again, the rude look, but this time she says; "Hey look, I'm not into guys", and rudely turns her head away once again. The cowboy, seemingly oblivious to this total and complete "brush off" says; "Maa'm, I just have to tell you that you are really a most seriously beautiful woman! Wouldja like to dance"? The girl takes another drag off her cigarette, blows it toward the cowboy and says; "Like I said, I'm not into guys. In fact, if you haven't 'guessed it' already, I'm a lesbian".
Then he says exuberantly with a charming smile; "So, do you live around here"? And the woman finally gets mad and says; Look! I'm a lesbian! I like to take womens' clothes off, get naked with them and have sex with them! Do you get it now?"
As undaunted as he was at first, he says; "Ya know darlin' I'd really like to get to know you! I think you're a fine lookin" young filly and real spirited too!" Finally, almost unbelieving, the young woman's hard attitude "cracked" and and she smiled at the cowboy for the first time and says to him; "Hey, you're a cowboy aren't you?" And the cowboy grins from ear to ear and says; (scroll down)
"Well Maa'm, actually, right now, I think I'm a lesbian!"