Meme of Four

Thank goodness I've been tagged by Miss Quiddle (vote for Heidi!).  I was starting to feel like a memeflower.  2/13/06...Looks like Librarian in Black tagged me almost two weeks ago. I tol' ya I was behind in blog-reading!

Four jobs I’ve had:

1. Archaeological assistant (I dig digging!)
2. Beauty salon assistant (I was going to apprentice with the manager and start my career in the exciting world of beauty and fashion!)  I decided I was done when assigned to shampoo the head of a woman with the coarsest hair, ever. I could see that I was torturing her, and myself, and resigned shortly thereafter.
3. Administrative assistant in a university provost's office (I cried the first two weeks)
4. Nanny (my two kids, 2 & 4, and my charges, an infant and a 4 year old)

Four movies I can (and do) watch over and over:

1. Animal House
2. Napoleon Dynamite
3. Sixteen Candles
4. Any of the Harry Potter movies

Four places I’ve lived (please note that these locales are located in a three-county area and that I have never lived any place outside said three-county area):

1. Bloomington, Illinois
2. Normal, Illinois
3. Champaign, Illinois
4. Garber, Illinois (which is too small to even show up on a map. I think it's population last I checked was 12 or 6).  It's the address of the family farm where my parents were living when they adopted me.

Four TV shows I love:

1. That 70s Show
2. Colbert Report
3. Daily Show
4. Anything on FoodTV

 Four places I’ve vacationed:

1. Grant City, MO (population 63)
2. Hannibal, MO
3. Las Vegas, NV (for a Vegas wedding, complete with fist-fight at reception)
4. Cleveland, OH

Four of my favorite dishes:

1. Good mac & cheese
2. Pork in green chile sauce
3. Whatever is on an Indian buffet
4. A good, fresh peach

Four sites I visit daily:

1. Bloglines (and the 80+ feeds contained therein)
2. Drudgereport.com
3. Weather.gov
4. myspace.com

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Honestly, there's no place like home. I'm usually pretty happy being at home.
2. New Orleans, pre-Katrina
3. The "Holy Shit ArsoNick Scum's 30th Birthday Spectacular" at Paulie's tonight, but I'm too old and tired.
4. In some high-end hotel room with a really good bed and TV and excellent food close by.  In a temperate climate (San Diego was really pleasant in January). 

Four books (or series) I love:

1.  Most Sherman Alexie (Reservation Blues, not so much)
2. Donna Parker series
3. Ruth Reichl's foodie memoirs
4. Catcher in the Rye

Four video games I can (and do) play over and over:

1. I'm not qualified to answer this since I don't play video games. I've tried, but my children shake their heads in shame, and politely offer to finish games for me because, as they say, "you suck at this, Mama."

Four bloggers I am tagging:

1. Check back later...I don't know who's left!
2. http://connectinglibrarian.blogspot.com/ (Aussie librarian)
3. The Elfin Ethicist
4. Wormtalk and Slugspeak
5. Loriene Roy (Loriene's Campaign)

Comments

[rochelle]

We love Napoleon Dynamite. It's sort of a bonding thing between me and my youngest daughter. I think part of its appeal is that Napoleon has so many autism spectrum traits, but seems to let it all roll off his back. Despite his nerd status , he seems to have good self-esteem and doesn't appear to let stuff get him down too much. It's such a hopeful movie.

[Heidi Dolamore]

eew, Napoleon Dynamite? Really? I couldn't even get thru the first 20 minutes...
I really liked Reservation Blues, but it's the only Alexie I've read.

[rochelle]

Thanks, Karen! Fixed.

[K.G. Schneider]

It's "Loriene," but nifty that you tagged her!