Mathemagenic

Ton says that this should help me to get my blogging rhythm going again, so I guess I should try :)

Four jobs I had:

• Teaching kids how to organise parties
• Designing and facilitating training sessions on understanding people with disabilities
• Managing training and professional development of people who were my own teachers a few years before that
• Reseaching blogs and all other strange things

Four movies I can watch repeatedly:

• Chocolat
• Finding Nemo
• Many Russian movies - those with which I grew up

Four places I've liked:

• 20 meters below sea level at night at Bali, Indonesia 
• Sintra, Portugal
• Jaipur, India
• Olympic mountains, WA, USA

Four tv shows I like:

• Not specific shows, really, but I like lots of things on Discovery
• Used to be a big fan of Namedni - first I left and then it stopped
• What not to wear
• Saturday kitchen

Four places I've vacationed:

• Moscow - strange, isn't it?
• Baikal lake, Russia
• Bali, Indonesia
• Assisi, Italy

Four favourite dishes:

• Pancakes by my grandmother
• Seafood in all strange combinations
• That lambsteak with cranberry sauce and cheese of last Saturday
• Raspberry cramble, ideally by Nancy

Four sites I visit daily:

• Google
• Bloglines
• Gmail
• Web-based access to my work email

Four places I would rather be right now:

• On the couch in my parents' kitchen
• 20 meters below (warm) sea level
• Downstairs
• Don't know. I guess I'm pretty happy letting time to travel arrive with its own speed

Four bloggers I am tagging:

• Anjo because I can't forget his "42" comment to one of those question lists I blogged
• Liz because I miss having a lunch together
• Andrea to remember to talk soon
• Stephanie to send her even more good vibes for finding what she is looking for 

You never know what referrer logs bring... This time it's a post by Lorelle VanFossen (Lorelle on WordPress) on PhD bloggers (which suggests that I'm an author of several books :)

What actually grabbed my attention is not the post itself, but a link to the earlier one - Blogging about disabilities. I browsed through the links a bit - thinking how much understanding I could get from those weblogs 10 years back while working with kids with disabilities.

I always find it special to be able to look at the world of others with their help - as a person, but also as a researcher (and wearing a researcher hat I should forward those links to my colleagues working on technologies to support those who provide care for people with dementia).