Four is the magic number
Fri 10 Feb 2006, 9:18 pm
I am such a loser. I was doing dishes thinking “No one has tagged me for the ’4 Things’ meme,” and feeling ambivalent–I don’t like chain letters, but I don’t like feeling left out, either.
So I hit NetNewsWire to find out that my man Michael Stephens has tagged me. Gosh, I haven’t really thought about it ;) …
Jobs I’ve had in my life:
- Telemarketer for the Northlight Theatre Company
- Drone at Barnes & Noble in Evanston, IL (where I met my wife, Shanon)
- Bookseller and personnel manager at The Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO.
- Interlibrary loan staff at the University of Delaware Library
4 Movies I can watch over and over:
- Rushmore
- Grand Illusion
- The Wizard of Oz
- Children of Paradise
4 TV Shows I love to watch:
- Freaks & Geeks
- Veronica Mars
- Homicide
- Olympic Games opening ceremonies (silliest. thing. ever.)
4 Places I have lived:
- Middletown, CT
- Austin, TX
- Newark, DE
- San Diego, CA
4 Places I have been on holiday:
- Santa Fe, NM
- London
- Paris
- Big Sur, CA
4 of my favorite dishes:
- Greek salad (with the fries on top) at Cross Rhodes in Evanston IL
- Chicken Tikka Masala (which I only recently found out is ersatz Indian food)
- Pad Thai from Tommy’s in Denver
- Pancakes at home with my son
4 of my favorite books:
- Good Bye to All That, Robert Graves
- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
- The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
- Cloud Atlas, Steven Mitchell
4 Websites I visit daily:
- del.icio.us
- …daily? Aside from this site, that’s probably it.
4 places I’d rather be:
- Other than the Internets? I have no idea!
At the risk of suffering seven years bad luck or six more weeks of winter or something, I’m going to resist tagging four more bloggers (I think all the people I actually know have already done this).
- License:
- File under: Navel gazing
- Comments? 6
Maybe I already knew this and am just totally flaking out, but I think I didn’t know you lived in Middletown! When did you live there? I went to Wesleyan from 1995 to 1999. Did you go there or work there or just happen to live in the area? I really miss it and my fantasy is to get a job there in the library one day.
Comment by Meredith — February 11, 2006 @ 8:18 am
Hey, that was my first meme. I didn’t even really understand what it meant to be tagged, except I stumbled across it myself. I was pathetically grateful to be tagged. Are we too needy? ;)
Comment by K.G. Schneider — February 11, 2006 @ 12:47 pm
Meredith, I doubt I have ever mentioned that I lived in Middletown, because I lived there when I was a boy, from 1976 to 1982 (1st grade though start of 7th). My family had no connection to the University, though our housing development was called Wesleyan Hills.
I have a lot of fond memories of Middletown, but I don’t know that I’d want to go back. I’m a westerner at heart now.
Comment by Steve Lawson — February 11, 2006 @ 1:32 pm
Karen, of course we are pathetic and needy. After all, we exhibit the “narcissistic sensibility of this self-absorbed blog sub-culture,” with our heads “well up in the self-intoxicated ether of the blogosphere.”
Comment by Steve Lawson — February 11, 2006 @ 1:44 pm
You sly boots! Did you catch Michael McGrorty’s assessment that the Council list is MCR’s blog?
Comment by K.G. Schneider — February 11, 2006 @ 4:25 pm
Cool! Middletown would probably have been a great place to spend childhood, with all the great outdoorsy places nearby. Too bad you didn’t go to Wesleyan; the library there is absolutely gorgeous with lots of cool nooks and crannies to disappear into and comfy chairs to fall asleep in. :)
I guess I’ve never felt particularly attached to any region of the U.S. I found it easy to adjust to Vermont after Florida (probably because it was a tremendous improvement in quality of life), and I’d probably be happy anywhere quiet with nice scenery and wide open spaces. Arizona and parts of Northern CA have always been on my list of places I could live. But I really do love where I am now; rural New England rocks!
Comment by Meredith — February 11, 2006 @ 9:07 pm