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hrj ([personal profile] hrj) wrote2005-12-13 09:22 pm
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The 4 things meme

For those of my readers who are new to Live Journal slang (this means you, Mom & Dad), a "meme" in this usage is an informational template used to inspire a sharing of personal information in an entertaining way. I'm not often inspired by them but I didn't have anything written up already for today.

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE (no particular order -- just the ones with fun descriptions)

Teacher (graduate student instructor)
Blood-sucker (phlebotomist and lab technician)
Detective (biotech manufacturing discrepancy investigator)
Office flunky (assistant and general office staff to a magazine publisher)

FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN (and have)

I, Claudius (does a mini-series count?)
Gigi
Lord of the Rings
pretty much anything ever made based on Jane Austen

FOUR CITIES/TOWNS YOU HAVE LIVED IN

Oakland, CA
San Diego, CA
Prague, Czechoslovakia (yes, I know it isn't that any more, but it was when I lived there)
Munich, Germany

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH

Law and Order
Monarch of the Glen
Xena, Warrior Princess
ER

FOUR BOOKS YOU COULD READ OVER AND OVER AGAIN (and have)

A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (my guilty pleasure!)
Memory, by Lois McMasters Bujold
anything by Georgette Heyer (ok, I'm cheating)
The Law of Hywel Dda, ed./trans. by Dafydd Jenkins

FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON "VACATION"

Guaymas, Mexico
Crater Lake, Oregon
Boundary Waters, Minnesota
Thousand Island Park, New York

FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY

sfgate.com (sf chronicle site)
livejounal.com
nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/
google.com (not by plan, but there's always something to look up)

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS

sushi
rare prime rib
warm, ripe, red-fleshed plums directly off the tree in May
heck, anything I just picked out of my own garden

FOUR PLACES YOU'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW

nope, can't do it, just right now, I'm pretty much exactly where I want to be