This meme comes via Terminal Degree
Four jobs I’ve had:
Magician's Assistant: Yes, I've been sawed into three pieces. But I can’t say how it's done because I am sworn to secrecy.
Legal Secretary: In the days when secretaries used typewriters. And everything had to be typed in triplicate, using carbon paper. So every time, I made a mistake, I made it three times. Ugh. I was a high school kid with very little patience and I almost smashed the typewriter several times.
Computer Teacher: I taught programming. Yeah, that seems funny now.
Waitress: Everything I needed to know about sexual harassment and more.
Four movies I've seen more than once
The Wizard of Oz
Dirty Dancing
The Sound of Music
The Mirror has Two Faces
Four places I’ve lived
Well, mainly I’ve lived in the same place my whole life. I did go to college in a north country town that no one but Rob has ever heard of. And I spent a semester in London. Do either of those count?
I can’t even come up with four different houses I’ve lived in – it’s only been three: my parents’ house, the house I lived in for the first twelve years of my marriage, and my current home.
Four TV shows I’ve seen more than one episode of
Northern Exposure
Scrubs
MASH
Seinfeld
Four places I've been on vacation
Camping in the sand dunes of Cape Hatteras
Rafting on the Colorado River
Camping at Acadia in Maine
Hiking the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia
Four blogs I visit daily
I can never do the part of a meme that asks me to single out blogs. I never tag anyone either. I don't like that part of playing games. When I was a kid, the gym teacher used to pick two kids to be captains of teams and let them choose kids until the class was divided up, and I always just felt so sorry for the kids who got chosen last. I still can remember the look on their faces, even though they would pretend they didn’t care. But it always happens, if you start choosing, someone will get left out and be last. I hate that. I know that people like to get tagged for memes, but I worry that people who don’t get tagged get left out.
You can imagine how much fun I am on hiring committees. I just hate the whole process.
Four Favorite Foods
Chocolate tofutti
Broccoli with garlic sauce over rice
Hot tomato dipping sauce with warm bread
Lentil stew
Four places I'd rather be
Walking the beach at Cape Hatteras
People-watching in a café in Paris
Hiking in Zion
White-water rafting someplace warm
The four CDs I listened to most recently
Blue Joni Mitchell
Peacemaker's Journey Joanne Shenandoah
Kind of Blue Miles Davis
Black Eyed Man Cowboy Junkies
Last four vehicles I’ve owned
All have been small Ford Taurus station wagons, none of them bought new. It's pretty much the only reasonably-sized vehicle I can ever find that has eight seatbelts (which I often need) – unless I moved up to a bigger vehicle like a van or an SUV, and I don't want to drive something that gets such bad gas mileage.
Things in my life that come in fours
I have four children.
I have four siblings.
I am 44 years old.
And I live in a place that has four seasons.
14 comments:
magician assistant pictures!
whats with the 4s?
Gotta love Northern Exposure. Especially Chris in the Morning. Still can't believe the dvd's come in their own parkas.
PPB: Oh, that was many years ago. I don't think I have any photos.
Anon: It's a meme. Memes are sort of a game that bloggers play. If you click on the link to Terminal Degree's blog, you can see where I got it from.
Colleen: I watch very little television but Northern Exposure was a show that I really loved.
From reading your blog, I thought you and I were similar in age. Yes, we're both 44 (and I'm not sure how I got here). Your reaction to hiring committees is the same as mine. Luckily(?), we're not hiring much at work any more. Now we try to dodge layoffs.
Your post a while back inspired me to sign up for the local parks and rec belly dancing class offering, even though I have no dance or music background or perceptible ability (even my dog eventually went lame rather than compete in Canine Musical Freestyle with me one more time). First class was fun; however, some of my muscles say I'll be hearing from them tomorrow.
Thanks, jo(e), for your writing and inspiration!
Magician's assistants sound surprisingly similar to people who work for the National Security Agency with all their top secret secrets. I think they are sworn to secrecy, too. :)
Oddly, I've lived near or at all of the places you've vacationed.
Excellent list.
I, too, am a Taurus wagon person. Gotta have the seats, don't want the van or SUV. I knew I loved you.
What a fun meme; thanks.
I had lived in four different houses by the time I was four years old. Ok, that's an exaggeration--I must have been at least five by that point.
I LOVE Joni Mitchell!!!
One of my students borrowed my Kind of Blue CD...and then dropped out of school.
I think it's time to find another copy! :)
I enjoyed your meme answers!
Hey, TD, at least you can replace it with that new, remastered Kind of Blue. And then let us know if it's worth spending the money to get the remastered one even if we already have the album on vinyl, cassette, and CD.
Chocolate Tofutti. Yuuuuummmmmm. It's a staple at my house.
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