The Further Adventures of Miss Kitten

One of my former English-teaching jobs involved working with small children. They were very little, most under the age of five, so the job mainly consisted of playing games and singing songs in English. Like any job there were good and bad things about it. The kids were mostly very sweet and cute. However, I [...]

I just read about this over on Gawker and it’s pretty cool. This website analyzes your writing and lets you know which famous writer you write like. Apparently one of my recent blog updates reads just like the writing of Chuck Palahnuik. Sweet, huh?

I write like
Chuck Palahniuk
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze [...]

The Teacher’s Lament
You have some time today, I see.
Your teacher’s canceled Chemistry.
My class won’t start till three-thirty.
And would it okay with me,
Since there’s some place you’d rather be,
You ask, I hope, facetiously,
Whether I would mind terribly,
If you skipped my class and left early.
I try not to take it personally,
But it’s very plain for me to [...]

I’m finally in.
After nearly four years of living in Sweden, I’ve got that Golden Ticket: a permanent (fast lön) full-time job.  I’ve heard countless times that the key to getting a permanent job in Sweden is networking and Swedish. This I can definitely confirm. Don’t even bother applying for full-time work if you can’t speak [...]

I found this page (it was linked on Wikipedia’s July 12 page) that lists important events that happened on this date and notable people born on this day. Turns out that I share a birthday with a mixed bag of famous (and infamous) individuals, including: Julius Caesar, Henry David Thoreau, George Washington Carver, Milton Berle, [...]

It all started when I answered the company’s ad on the Swedish Employment Bureau (Arbetsförmedlingen) website. The ad was for an English teaching position at an international summer camp in the UK.  About a week after sending in my application I got a call from their recruitment office. It was all very preliminary stuff, no [...]

I was a weird kid.
I’m sure my mother must have often wondered whether her daughter was truly normal.
I’ve always been a huge word nerd. (Isn’t it great how that rhymes?) When I was a child of about the age of seven – long before the Dawning of the Age of the Internet – my parents [...]

The Pivotal Moment
It’s a particular moment in one’s life where everything changes. You are one person before the moment and a different person after it.
It could be a positive experience, such as a marriage or some kind of religious epiphany. Or it could be, as in my grandmother’s case, a decidedly negative experience. We’ve never [...]

Those closest to me already know that shortly before I moved to Sweden I had just ended a very co-dependant and abusive relationship that lasted for ten years. I’m still trying to come to terms with why I allowed it go on for as long as it did, and why any intelligent and attractive woman [...]

You might have heard somewhere that if you encounter someone having a seizure you should try to force something into his or her mouth. The reason why people think they need to do this is to prevent the person from “swallowing his or her tongue” and suffocating to death. However good your intentions are, the [...]