I've Been Tagged!

Way to give me assignment, Adaure!

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE
1. Customer Service Rep at The Pulse (copy center on GW campus in DC)
2. Lenoir Hall cashier/maker and shaker of Jamba Juice + occasional tief at Subway (I called it reparations)
3. Research assistant at FPG Child Development Institute
4. Website reviewer for CTI, a.k.a. pay me to chill at my house and watch TV all day as I pretend to work hard for you

FOUR FICTIONAL JOBS YOU WISH YOU HAD
1. Nigeria's Minister of Women Affairs
2. Coyote Ugly bartender
3. CEO of Microsoft
4. Zookeeper

FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN
1. The Color Purple
2. Coming to America
3. Lord of the Rings (but only part 2, where Gandalf the Grey becomes the Gandalf the White but is SHOCKED that people are still calling him Gandalf)
4. The first 10 minutes of "Who's Next", starring Jim Iyke ("You can't just come in here and styat...and styat...ARDRIN us aroun'...stan' up, sit down, do dat...you wanna end dis shyeeet?!" LOL!!!)

CITIES YOU'VE LIVED IN
1. Lagos, Nigeria
2. Port Harcourt, Nigeria
3. Jos, Nigeria
4. Chapel Hill, NC

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH
1. Everybody Hates Chris
2. Oprah
3. Girlfriends
4. Dateline (this is clearly my "I don't want you guys to think that all I watch is trash" entry)

FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION/TRAVELED TO
1. London, England
2. Cape Town, South Africa
3. Zanzibar, Tanzania
4. Toronto, Canada (odikwa world traveler o!)

FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY
1. Gmail/Google
2. Blogger
3. Facebook
4. Yale University

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
1. SUSHI!!! (Addy, you miss road on this one, but it's such an expensive appetite to maintain)
2. Eba or akpu (you miss on this one too) and egusi or ogbono soup with pomo, tongue, chicken and dry fish...Jesus, I have killed myself!! See me swallowing serious amounts of saliva!
3. Lasagna as prepared by the amazing chefs at Agip Nigeria (or myself)
4. Yam Pottage (as prepared by myself or my sister, AJ)

FOUR THINGS YOU WON'T EAT
1. Amala!
2. Anything with tuna in it (unless it's raw tuna, in which case, it's just fine)
3. Sweet potato pie
4. Unagi (eel)

FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU COULD EAT OR DRINK RIGHT NOW
1. Spicy tuna rolls in abundance
2. Akpu and my sister-in-law's CRAZY GOOD afang
3. Isi-ewu with "Star shandy" (Star beer mixed with Sprite or Fanta--I miss my family kitchen :-()
4. Masa with chicken suya from Hill Station (any Jos people in the house?!)

FOUR THINGS IN YOUR BEDROOM
1. The sweetest bed in the Western Hemisphere (I swear there's sleeping medicine between my sheets)
2. No bloke (I hear that, Adaure! Though I really wish you'd stop saying 'bloke'!)
3. All the best hair and skin products from Carol's Daughter and Origins, respectively
4. A laundry basket that is full to overflowing

FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD IN YOUR BEDROOM
1. An internet connection
2. My man
3. 3,000ct bedsheets
4. A very large and expensive painting...a triptic, maybe? (inside joke)

FOUR THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW
1. Black gauchos
2. Gray tank top and matching hoodie
3. Green jigida (waist beads)
4. My favorite crucifix necklace (I wear it almost every day)

FOUR PLACES I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
1. Stone Village, Zanzibar
2. Cape Town
3. North Carolina
4. Anywhere but here, damn it!

FOUR FICTIONAL PLACES I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
1. Ihugh, Benue State (it's a real place, but it seems unreal from all the stories I've heard about it!)
2. My beach house in the Bahamas
3. Cuddling up with my mama in her bed in Lagos
4. In Aso Rock slapping Obasanjo and making Atiku call himself my bitch

FOUR PEOPLE YOU’D REALLY LOVE TO HAVE DINNER WITH
1. Shirley Austin
2. Doosuur Tilley-Gyado
3. Newell Holt (a.k.a. Graham Holt's father - lol!)
4. Barack Obama

FOUR THINGS YOU ARE THINKING RIGHT NOW
1. Why won't I just do my work instead of procrastinating?
2. I wonder what's on TV
3. What am I going to do to my hair?
4. Relationships are too hard

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE THINGS
1. Music
2. Friends
3. Laughter
4. Puppies (even after they become dogs)

FOUR PEOPLE YOU TAG
1. I
2. Have
3. No
4. Idea

ok, seriously:
1. Katja
2. Dore
3. Dantala
4. Titi W-D