I Mustache You A Question

I’ve been seeing this “I Mustache You A Question” thing floating around the blogging world and thought it’d be fun to nominate myself and answer em’! :P As per usual, I’m frighteningly verbose, so feel free to skip around! :P

1. Black Hole
   I eat a lot. The nurses at the cardiology office like to tell the drug reps that I keep it all in a hollow leg.
2. Anything that rhymes with “air-uh”
   Sarah, Tara, Clara…I also get lots of “Farah’s” (‘far-uh‘), so I pretty much answer to anything that even remotely rhymes with my name.
3. Farrahlita / Lita
   Sean/Isaac usually call me this. I assume it’s because I’m considered to be petite(?). :O
4. Fongness
   Another nickname from Sean/Isaac, and also Mike! I’m not sure where that one came from, but it almost sounds like “Highness,” so I’m going with that.
   

   Did you know that Mike once wrote a poem for/to me? Well, now you do! We went to get frozen yogurt after I found this on my whiteboard.

    

    

Four jobs I’ve had:

I’ve actually only ever had 4 jobs (unless you split #1 into 3 different ones), so this works out well. FUN FACT: Did you know I once applied to be a Hooters girl? :O. I wanted to earn money to pay for pole dancing lessons. They chose the other girl and I got into grad school, so there. (That branch has also since closed down.)

1. Piano Teacher/Accompanist/Pianist
   I really miss having this as a source of income. ;_; This and my music librarian job took care of my livelihood throughout college while I was slaving away with 8-12 classes/20+ units per quarter.
   

   This is from my junior recital, but there are pretty much no pictures of me doing accompaniment and the like, so mehh.

2. Music Librarian
   I got paid the big bucks (minimum wage) to do homework, study, and rent out CDs, musical scores and DVDs to my friends. :O My boss loved me though (I dealt with everyone for her so she wouldn’t have to!), so when the music department got hammered with budget cuts, she managed to convince them to keep me through the summer so I could pay for my livelihood. <3I finished inventory (10k+ CD’s, 400 DVD’s + a whole lot of musical scores) early on in the summer (probably another reason why she thought I was awesome), so my last week of work consisted of me playing Final Fantasy on my DS. She caught me one day, and here’s the conversation that ensued.
   N: What are you doing there?
   F: Saving the world!
   N: Okay, good luck with that! (goes off to lunch)
3. Tutor
   When I was in high school, I tutored elementary school kids for a couple months in reading, writing and math at a somewhat shady Asian establishment located at a small plaza near my house. I had to give them a copy of my transcript to prove that I had above a 3.5 GPA in order to tutor there. They may have asked for my SAT score as well.
4. Research Subject
   I did this throughout undergrad + for the year after I graduated, for various departments. The grad students at the UCD Mind & Brain Center saw me so often that they knew me by name and I knew all sorts of things about all the research/projects they were doing.

Four movies I’ve watched more than once:

1. Miss Congeniality
   I can probably quote this entire movie. :O
2. Enchanted
   This is such an adorable movie. <3 Jon McLaughlin’s “So Close” is a heartbreaking song though. I always end up feeling super empty when I hear it. :[
   
3. Pretty much any of Stephen Chow’s movies from the 1990’s
   I miss his acting! His movies provided a lot of entertainment to me and my brother throughout our childhood/teenage/college/recent years. We watch em’ with our parents and even now, my dad cackles along/my mom still tells us to never use the profanity he uses in said movies. :x
4. Tangled
   One of my favorite Disney movies! <3 It was so pretty, and I loved how her weapon of choice was a cast iron frying pan. :] (That movie also really made me want a horse even more. And a chameleon.)
   

Four books I’d recommend:

For the record, I haven’t read any new books in ages, so all of these are books I read from back in high school and before! If you want anything more recent, I’d be recommending textbooks to you.

1. Hawksong, by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
   I liked this book so much that when we had a free-for-all book project in high school, I chose to rewrite the entire book in Zane’s point of view. :O If you’re a fan of fantasy/supernatural novels, this one’s about shapeshifters and starts off with in almost Romeo & Juliet-like state with avians and serpiente waging wars against each other for as long as either party can remember…except there’s no love between Danica & Zane. The two are each the last remaining heirs to their respective thrones, and both desperately want peace, so you get to see how that unfolds. It’s written very beautifully! <3
   
2. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
   My favorite “classic” book that I read for fun in high school when I was doing my whole “read a new book every day” challenge during my sophomore year. Although long, I couldn’t put this one down, and I think I finished it in 3 sittings. (I tend to get pretty engrossed while reading, and I also read really quickly, so there’s that.) If you’ve ever dreamed of the concept of revenge…this is a good one to read if you’ve never picked it up! Read the unabridged version. I know it looks hefty, but it’s worth it!
3. Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger
   I discovered this book in junior high–realistic fiction! It’s about a guy who feels that he is “immune to emotion” and can’t express his feelings, aside from through his writing in a zine. He starts reading a girl’s zine and finds her writing and sarcastic wit intriguing, so he decides to try to meet her by stationing himself at the Tower Records where she says she’ll be dropping off her next issue. Is the storyline sounding altogether too predictable and have you lost interest?! She’s a lesbian and makes that extremely clear from the start, so they slowly form a cautious friendship where they talk about pretty much anything and everything. I really enjoyed the writing and imagery in this one too!
   
4. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
   My favorite “classic” book that was assigned in high school! At the time that I read it, I was attempting to “repeat the past” as well, so it really resonated with me (even though I found most of the characters frighteningly shallow–twas a mark of that time period). Fitzgerald does an amazing job of describing the 1920’s and the unattainable American Dream. If I recall correctly, I also read this book in one sitting. >_> I’ve still never seen the full movie adaptation of it (the newest one)!

Four places I’ve lived:

1. Ronceverte, WV
   Hello, med school!
2. New Brunswick, NJ
   Hello, grad school!
3. Davis, CA
   Hello, undergrad!
4. Kentucky
   Hello, clinical rotations!

Four places I’ve been:

1. Macau
   

   Click the picture for an egg tart recipe!

2. Greece
3. Switzerland
4. Costa Rica

I was gonna do a recap on the cruise I went on in October through the Panama Canal (with a stop in Costa Rica!), but seeing as how my brother still hasn’t sent me the bulk of the pictures…I guess it ain’t happening. D:

Four places I’d rather be right now:

1. In Hawai’i. <3 Or some warm tropical place with pretty beaches and awesome food.
   
   
2. Twirly Girls Pole Fitness
3. Doing my rotations at home in CA (perhaps next year?)
   
4. Please Save A Cat
   
   

   Don’t mind the puppy’s paw on the right. :P They just all like to chill together on/near the heat mats!

Four things I don’t eat:

1. Olives
   No.The only time I will accept an olive is in a “Knock knock” joke from specific people. (Knock knock / Who’s there? / Olive / Olive who? / Olive you!)…Anyway…
2. Copious amounts of cheese :\
   I might be somewhat lactose intolerant.
3. Nature Valley Oats N’ Honey Granola Bars
   They remind me of organic chemistry. :[ The explanation is somewhere in the middle of this post.
4. Pork
   As a Seventh-Day Adventist, I don’t eat pork or seafood other than fish! :O

Four of my favorite foods:

1. A sushi roll with mango, spicy salmon + avocado in it wrapped in seaweed + brown rice, topped with more salmon + drizzled with sriracha sauce, although I could just settle for some Salmon Avocado Sushi right now
2. Thai chicken curry
3. Korean BBQ <3
4. Teriyaki chicken musubi

Four TV shows that I watch:

1. Supernatural
   My best friend introduced me to this series and we used to watch together all the time. :O My one and only celebrity crush is a lead in this series, so how could I not love it? He also makes the most hilarious facial expressions ever.
   

   Not gonna lie, I have a majormajor thing for chiseled features/brown hair and green eyes. <3

2. Game of Thrones
   The guys and I had Game of Thrones nights every Sunday earlier this year!
3. Once Upon A Time
   If you couldn’t tell from Enchanted and Tangled, I really like fairytales and the like. I am a somewhat-closeted sap, so this usually has me rooting for things to “end” happily. I don’t really like Henry though. >_>
4. Vampire Diaries
   Keat and I chain-watched this during our glorious basement-dwelling Thanksgiving in Boston a couple years back! Here are some South Park caricatures I did of us several years ago, just for kicks. I gave him boobs because his pecs are big enough that he can hold pencils in between them when he flexes.
   

Four things I’m looking forward to next year:

1. Being done with Step II of boards!
2. Tough Mudder in Louisville?!
3. Doing rotations back at home?!
4. Northern California Pole Presentational?!

Four things I’m always saying:

• “There there.”
• “Hello, good sir!”
• “It’ll be okay! Just keep on truckin’!”
• “Hi, my name is Farrah! I’m a third-year medical student working with Dr. ______! Do you mind if I ask you some questions?”

It’s your turn! Answer any of the questions above! :D