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About Me

I'm a nursing student at RRC/U of M in Winnipeg. I have 2 more years left in my degree still, after which I'm going to have to stay here and work maybe 2 years. After that, I plan to work for Doctors Without Borders indefinitely, or basically as long as I can handle it. I want to get into infectious disease treatment, primarily HIV/AIDS. I may have to leave Winnipeg for this ;) I work part time doing home care, and volunteer at the Needs Centre for War Affected Families, which I really love doing. I have a really small family that's very close, but they live fairly far away from me now, which is hard in some ways. I'm now the proud aunt of the most beautiful little baby boy in the whole world, which is fabulous since I have no aspirations of children of my own. I love to read, cook, shop (well generally spend money), watch seasons of the Simpsons and Family Guy on DVD, build stuff (I'm handier than I look), fill out pointless myspace surveys about myself, drink martinis, and have long, meandering chats with my friends. I love to travel. My goal is to have been on all the continents (except Antarctica) by the time I'm 30. I've got a ways to go on that though (I'm only up to 3). But I love planning my next big imaginary trip. I'm thinking Japan, India/Nepal, or Africa. All in all, I'm really rather laidback, even though my life is no longer my own due to school/work/general crap. I enjoy hoping for the best and preparing for the worst (thank you SO much Paul! You weirdo..) My biggest fear in life is that there isn't enough time for everything I want to accomplish. I am generally quite messy/disorganized/sloppy. Which my mother likes to point out to me all too frequently. I'm incredibly sarcastic, and I say exactly what I mean, even if it's not what people want to hear. If you're my friend, there's almost nothing I won't do for you. If I don't like you, I can't even try to pretend to. I can be a little uncivil sometimes. If people leave themselves open to ridicule, I can't help but take it and run with it. I'm almost always in the same mood, semi-cheerful. There it is. For the most part.

My Interests

: the color blue ~ my bed ~ t-shirt sheets ~ fate (as in "everything happens for a reason") ~ Escada perfume ~ Calvin & Hobbes ~ Bean Sopwith ~ Hong Kong ~ Saturday afternoons ~ Baby Phat ~ Michael Moore ~ curry ~ sleeping ~ travelling ~ bologna sandwiches ~ sarcasm ~ foreign films (they're NEVER called foreign "movies") ~ general cheekiness ~ retro prints ~ Uma Thurman ~ mink blankets ~ mountains ~ dim sum ~ Sean Connery ~ noodles ~ Hello Kitty ~ photography ~ spring rolls ~ my baby lamb ~ cute boys ~ warm fuzziness ~ Ethiopian food ~ flip flops ~ Stitch ~ my tattoo ~ going to the movies on weekday afternoons ~ IKEA ~ Slurpees in the summer ~ fleece anything ~ The Sound of Music ~ hot & sour soup ~ Karangahape Road ~ planning my future house ~ people that can carry on a conversation ~ silver ~ George Stroumboulopoulos ~ tuna noodles ~ sparkly things ~ surprises ~ Pinky & the Brain ~ grocery shopping ~ hot male ass! ~ iced coffee ~ geisha ~ Shortland Street ~ Friedrich Nietzsche quotes ~ Martini Bar ~ Quebec City ~ flying on obscure airlines ~ Breadtalk bakery ~ Shirley Temples ~ MAC ~ pomegranates ~ my boy Hobbes! ~ vodka and cranberry ~ mushrooms (not of the magic variety) ~ Sex and the City: kids (all kids) ~ the color green ~ having nearly-impossible-to-find veins ~ country music ~ Ford ~ pretentiousness ~ cherry flavored anything ~ narrow-minded people with no life experience ~ cough syrup ~ Star Wars ~ overt religiousness ~ malls at Xmas time ~ bad sex ~ Chevy Chase ~ pruny dishpan fingers ~ people who take until you have nothing left to give ~ veal ~ movies that are meant to be funny but aren't (see Chevy Chase) ~ Starbucks ~ getting up early ~ Oprah/Dr. Phil (get real yourself, asshole!) ~ dumb questions/blunt questions ~ sci-fi ~ bad grammar ~ raisins in stuff ~ moodiness ~ Leslie Nielsen ~ weird meat (ie. goat) ~ loud people ~ the smell of fish ~ daytime television ~ the fact that I have no patience ~ people that are chronically late ~ Sean Penn ~ gold ~ vegetarians (or even worse, vegans) ~ cigarettes ~ self-absorption ~ Fritz the Cat (like, what the fuck??) ~ people who unwittingly drive with their turn signal on ~ the ever-increasing crappiness of Saturday morning cartoons ~ spelling mistakes ~ when people on TV get interrupted making out, and when they get back to it and ask "Now....where were we?"

Music:

I don't really care about music anymore *gasp* There is almost no one I listen to consistently. Being that I'm a little high-strung lately though, I've been listening to Jack Johnson and Ben Harper a lot. And I will love David Usher forever.

Movies:

Domestic: Kill Bill 1 & 2, Bridget Jones Diary, Love Actually, Crash, Borat (I don't know if that's domestic, but it's in English, close enough), Some Like It Hot, Reality Bites. Foreign: Monsoon Wedding, Paheli, Devdas, Water, House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Once Were Warriors

Television:

Gray's Anatomy, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Scrubs, Da Ali G Show

Books:

The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka, Backpack by Emily Barr, Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui, anything by Marian Keyes (apparently Irish humor is my thing), trashy Harlequin romances, The Travel Book by Lonely Planet, Calvin and Hobbes.

Heroes:

I'm not sure if I have any.

My Blog

All done! Kind of...

So yesterday was my last official day of both clinical AND school til exams. And although the home stretch was an assload of work, it feels nice to be done. On Wednesday, we ran this staff...
Posted by Becca on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:49:00 PST

Tita Becca

This is ME!!! With my perfection nephew!!! Also, I'm not going to be an "Aunty" cuz that reminds me of my horrible Aunty Barby. All my Filipino friends call me Tita now though, which is ap...
Posted by Becca on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:17:00 PST

My nephew is so cute, it hurts me a little....

So my sister had her little boy this morning, and I just got sent the first pics, and he is SOOOOO adorable! ...
Posted by Becca on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:48:00 PST

Random, time-wasting crap

What Your Soul Really Looks LikeYou are a wanderer. You constantly long for a new adventure, challenge, or eve a completely different life.You are not a very grounded person. You prefer dreams to real...
Posted by Becca on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:08:00 PST

My new girl Bean...

So I'm watching the new Jack Osbourne public masturbation show, which is basically supposed to make all of us go "Wow. He's really not as big as asshole as we all thought!", when I realize one o...
Posted by Becca on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:58:00 PST

Monkey see, monkey do...

Well since Amanda posted something about it, I suppose I should too. Me and her booked our tickets to Vancouver last night!!! It's been almost a year since I've been on a plane to anywhere...
Posted by Becca on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:49:00 PST

Done! (but somehow less satisfied than I would have expected....)

So it's finally ALL done with. I did both my practicals yesterday, and hopefully I passed. If I didn't, I get another crack at it, but it knocks my entire final grade from a B+ down to...
Posted by Becca on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:01:00 PST

Almost there...

So I'm nearing the end of this agonizing struggle through exams, and despite studying more and harder and longer than I ever have before, it doesn't feel like they're going SO great. I still...
Posted by Becca on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:44:00 PST

Developments....

Strange and fascinating news on the "the bottom has just fallen out from under my life" front. Since indeed the bottom fell out from under my life, I have been putting a lot of effort into not f...
Posted by Becca on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:40:00 PST

Best news in a while....

So as I find out that Tallulah's transmission is going, and weirder and weirder things are falling apart on her, my dad calls me the other night and asks me how I would like it if he were to hypotheti...
Posted by Becca on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 09:50:00 PST