Four Things

I saw this floating around other sites, and thought I'd do one myself.

Four jobs I've had:
1. Graphic Artist
2. Theatre Manager
3. Drive-In Movie Security
4. Pizza Slinger

Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Star Wars (all of 'em)
2. Garden State
3. Fight Club
4. The 13th Warrior

Four places I've lived:
1. San Diego County, CA
2. Orange County, CA (Yeah, the "O.C.")
3. Western Pennsylvania
4. The Womb (which was in the evacuation zone of Three Mile Island at the time)

Four TV shows I love:
1. Firefly
2. Battlestar Galactica (the new incarnation)
3. Farscape
4. Entourage

Four places I've vacationed:
1. Mt. Hood, Oregon
2. Las Vegas, Nevada
3. Washington, D.C.
4. Ligonier, Pennsylvania

Four of my favorite dishes (to cook):
1. A good steak
2. Chicken and broccoli pasta
3. Lemon pepper chicken
4. Breakfast

Four sites I visit daily:
1. Google
2. IMDb
3. DragonRealms
4. Wikipedia

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Out with friends
2. Asleep
3. At the movies
4. On a really good date

Four jobs I'd like to have:
1. Creative Director
2. Professional Photographer
3. Writer (Fiction)
4. Music Composer

Four places I'd like to live:
1. Somewhere in Japan
2. Manhattan
3. Sydney, Australia
4. Right here in San Diego, but in a much nicer place.

Four books I love:
1. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
2. Othello by William Shakespeare
3. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Four places I'd like to vacation:
1. Tokyo, Japan
2. New York, New York
3. Seattle, Washington
4. Sydney, Australia

Four of my favorite dishes (to eat):
1. Sushi (specifically spicy salmon rolls, but it's all good stuff)
2. Chipotle carnitas burritos
3. Roast-beef sandwiches
4. Freshly-baked garlic bread

Emergency Maneuvers

Adrenaline is a wonderful thing.

I narrowly avoided an accident on the way home tonight. I don't live far from the office, and end up taking surface roads to and from. My route is a fairly popular one, and there's always a lot of traffic around. Right down the street is a pretty major intersection, where a majority of the traffic (myself included) have to make a left turn onto another big road. So many cars make the same turn that's it's pretty common to see the line of vehicles back up well short of the turn lanes.

Tonight was no exception. Everyone started to stop about a hundred feet before the extra lanes opened up. It was one of those times where traffic slows down much quicker than you'd expect it to, and I ended up breaking a lot harder than I initially planned. I was paying attention, and was in no danger whatsoever of hitting the car in front of me. They guy behind me? Not so much. I'd happened to glance into my mirrors and noticed some headlights flying at me much faster than I'd hoped. Did the math in my head and braced for impact. Tires started to screech. At the last minute I noticed the lane next to me was empty, and quickly swerved over – an instant before the space my Jetta was just in became occupied.

The rest of my drive was in slow motion, and odd side effect to a sudden rush of endorphins.