Meme of Fours
Dennis tagged me with this e-mail quiz something like four months ago. I found it had also made the rounds in the blogosphere (a meme, the kids call it) and thought I’d respond to him here, both because I’m desperate to keep Pedestrian Saga a-hobblin’ along and because I love links. (Maybe my overdue answers will even give the good professor some hope that this truant pupil will eventually surface to make up that other quiz!)
Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Corn detassler (I lasted a whopping 10 days.)
2. Hardware store cashier
3. Italian language instructor
4. Closed captions and DVD subtitles editor
Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. Down by Law
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4. Mononoke Hime
Four places I have lived:
1. Bloomington, Indiana
2. Bologna, Italy
3. Berkeley, California
4. Los Angeles, California
Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. The Simpsons
2. South Park
3. Twin Peaks
4. Choice snippets of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report courtesy Video Dog
Four places I have been on vacation:
1. New York City
2. New Zealand
3. Spain (Barcelona and beautiful Andalucia)
4. Minnesota
Four Web sites I visit daily:
1. Salon
2. Library Link of the Day
3. Anu Garg’s A.Word.A.Day
4. Merriam-Webster
Four of my favorite foods:
1. Avocados
2. “Cheese, Gromit!”
3. Kalamata olives
4. Mama’s Hot Tamales
Four places I would rather be right now:
1. At the Metro, having a margarita with Dil– (Uh, sorry! I recently watched The Crying Game again after so many years… Ooh! Ooh, wait! Can I change my answers to the second question?) How about watching a favorite old film with a new friend or a fresh film with an old friend? Any combination of friends and films, really.
2. With Scott, riding across Sicily on his tandem bicycle.
3. On tour with The Ditty Bops
4. Balasana
Four friends I am tagging that I think will respond (on their blogs or here in comments):
1. My sister Em, even though I already know all her answers. (That oughta provoke her! :-P)
2. Em’s Michael
3. Scott (Come back to us, Thought Distillery! We’re parched!)
4. Um, L. Claude? Humor me?
5. Surprise me!
June 26th, 2006 at 7:16 am
Here you go…
Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. grocery store clerk
2. reading tutor
3. ice cream scooper
4. fireworks salesperson
Four movies I like to watch:
1. Signs
2. Dead Poets’ Society
3. Back to the Future
4. Miracle
Four places I have lived:
1. LaGrange, Indiana
2. Muncie, Indiana
3. Coldwater, Michigan
4. My imagination
Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. Murder, She Wrote
2. Northern Exposure
3. MASH
4. House
Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Seattle, WA
2. Berkeley, CA
3. Ireland
4. Bologna, Italy
Four of my favorite foods:
1. ice cream (favorite flavor to date: blackcurrant and cream)
2. raspberries (perhaps best in jam or pie…)
3. tomatoes (eat ‘em like an apple right from the garden)
4. almonds
Four places that I would rather be right now:
1. atop the Cliffs of Moher
2. in a French patisserie (sp?)
3. learning how to sail
4. lost in a bookstore
June 26th, 2006 at 8:26 am
Am I supposed to humor you by aswering the survey or by simply leaving a comment? A comment such as…your desire to be in balasana concerns me. Here - let me pet your head…
June 26th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
kelliest, just the surprise I was hoping for!
I had the privilege of captioning at least one episode of each of your TV picks - except Northern Exposure, which would certainly make my list if this were the meme of sixes.
And from Bologna, we went to Venice! As I was reading the Venice entry in Salon’s summer reading guide just now, I shivered (and it’s, like, 95 degrees here!) to recall the ineffable sensation of standing in a misty piazza in the ancient Jewish ghetto. I hope you have crazy good memories of our travels together in Italy.
Ireland is runner-up to Sicily in my tandem travels wish list. Show me your photos sometime, and share your stories? Aw, hell, just take me to the cliffs of Moher?
And how about Oregon, eh? I’ll take you to an awesome bookstore for getting lost!
June 26th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
L. Claude, yes, please, pet my head. No, wait! It’s too damn hot! Don’t touch me! [The wicked witch of the Northwest moans] I’m melllllting…
Tina, my current yoguru, teaches Ananda yoga affirmations with the poses. In balasana, I’m supposed to “relax from outer involvement into my inner haven of peace.” It’s more like I curl up inside my tortoise shell and hide from the scary world. Anyway, it’s a great stretch and it never fails to calm me out of a panic.
I would be humbled and honored if you answered any part of the survey that catches your fancy. I would send you *hugs* but it’s too damn hot.
June 27th, 2006 at 8:09 am
Are you kidding? My Italian getaway remains a favorite memory. We also made it to Roma while I was there, too! My tour guide, the food (especially that “angry pasta”), and that dark, mysterious stranger who shared our train car were among the week’s highlights. I intend to return to Italy and check out some other locales. So many places, so little time… I’ll bring my Ireland photo album to Oregon someday soon!
June 28th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Did I ever answer these myself? I think I did, but my brain hurts so much these days (clever British umor reference) that I wouldn’t remember even if I did. Don’t get me all excited about your answering the Professor’s latest quiz! ‘Cause I’m just about ready to post another one. Unless, of course, you’d like to do both! Any chance to see y’all next weekend? Oh, and congratulaions to the Oregon State Beavers, champeens anew in the College World Series!
July 9th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Just wanted to let you know that my response will be found on The Gough Digest. Pulling a KT, I have saved it as a draft to continue refining it, but it will be published soon!
July 10th, 2006 at 6:02 am
Emily dear, you’re after my own heart with your carefully refined response! Wandering through your favorite fours with a sleepy smile, I can’t think of a much better way to start the workweek! Well, maybe if I could give you a big hug… (*mushy sister moment*) Your Boston high jinks caught me off guard - I think I’ll be Chuck-ling all day over that story, if you know what I mean! *smooch*
July 10th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
I’ve been thinking…couldn’t I have those hot hugs anyway?
C’mon…
July 14th, 2006 at 4:18 am
It’s possible you don’t want to know this much about me, but tant pis…
Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. filing clerk/secretary for the US Army Financial Center, Fort Benjamin Harrison
2. French teacher to the Marion County basketball champion freshman team
3. college professor of composition to a blind man who designed Def Leppard’s drum set
4. cafeteria lady in an IU dorm and morning cook at Pizza Hut
Four movies I like to watch:
1. The Saint
2. The Long Kiss Good-night
3. Pirates (of the Caribbean & that Gena Davis one…)
4. Fellowship of the Ring/Anne of Green Gables/Sarah, Plain and Tall - I know I’m cheating but I could watch movies every waking moment (unlike some people I know who can sleep through movies with predictable cherubic sweetness)
Four places I have lived:
1. Indiana, moving northward from Bloomington to Indy to Kendalltucky to LaStrange
2. Saint Brieuc, Bretagne (Bonne Fete! in honor of Bastille Day today)
3. New Zealand=paradise, ok I lived there on a visit (so add in Glastonbury, Dongduchong Korea, and Unna Germany as other happy places)
4. The Greenwood, called Mirkwood in less happy days, where I am queen
Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. Quantum Leap
2. Lois and Clark
3. JAG/MASH
4. West Wing
Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Corvallis, OR, Los Angeles, CA, Berkeley, CA
2. Wilmore, KY
3. France, Italy, England, Spain, Germany, Austria
4. Hong Kong, Mainland China, South Korea, New Zealand
Four of my favorite foods:
1. ice cream (can’t eat it unless it is goat milk, rice milk, soy base -yuck)
2. raspberries, cherries, apples
3. tomatoes and assorted garden veggies like olives
4. home made pizza with sheep based cheese
Four places that I would rather be right now:
1. Corvallis, OR, Angola IN, Wilmore KY, Indy
2. Bretagne
3. anywhere in the northern hemispher
4. in a happy home with a husband and grandchildren and puppies…(Now I have to go ralph…)
Four things I adore about Katie:
1. Her beaming smile
2. Her incredible thick hair
3. Her amazing organizational skill and thoroughness
4. Her head in my lap for petting with Anne of Green Gables on the tube
July 23rd, 2006 at 11:17 pm
L. Claude, it’s been ANOTHER hot weekend, and I’ve got plenty more hot hugs for you. I’ve been thinking… I’d rather be at a certain Ladies Night in Fort Fun, Indiana.
July 23rd, 2006 at 11:32 pm
Yes, Dennis, you started this madness!
Mum, I ate a bit too much coconut milk ice cream tonight - blargh. Can’t wait to share a pint with you someday! Made by some enterprising hippies in Eugene. And thank you for your detailed answers. (Heh-heh-heh, she said, “tant pis.”)