Four Things
Oh, Caterina, you brat.
Four jobs I’ve had:
1. Waitress/Deli maven
2. Barn hand/horse trainer/trail rider for weekend cowboys
3. Radio reporter
4. Court interpreter
Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. The Philadelphia Story
2. The Third Man
3. The Big Lebowski
4. The Incredibles
Four places I’ve lived:
1. Toronto
2. Montreal
3. Paris
4. Leningrad
Four TV shows I love:
1. Homicide
2. The Daily Show
3. Arrested Development
4. Cracker
Four places I’ve vacationed:
1. Caledon, Ontario
2. Morocco
3. Europe
4. My back yard
Four of my favourite dishes:
1. Dean’s roast capon + fixins
2. Leftover sandwiches of above
3. Sashimi/sushi
4. Moules + frites
Four sites I visit daily:
1. Um,
2. Google
3. Le Grand Dico; Eurodicautom
4. The Guardian
5. That’s so sad.
Four places I would rather be right now:
1. The South of France… oh, hang on.
2. Outside in the snow, but I haven’t got the boots
3. On vacation with my family, anywhere
4. Dean’s embrace
Four bloggers I am tagging (with requisite apologies):
1. Paul
2. Steven Stephen
3. Joseph
4. John & Belle
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Comment
- Would you add the URLs of the four sites you visit daily? I couldn’t find “Um,”.
— matthew Jan 30, 11:50am # - As a Fergus gal, I’d love to know what strange circumstances led you to vacation in Caledon, Ontario!
— Mara B Jan 31, 9:36am # - In a not to be confused with Meryl Streep voice: we had a farm in Caledon (whose only similarity to an actual farm was the presence of a barn, oh and a tractor that my city slicker dad and his brothers would ride around on for no particular reason).
— gail Jan 31, 2:19pm # - Four jobs I’ve had:
1. Bookstore clerk
2. Movie-theater concession-stand guy
3. Librarian
4. Proofreader
Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Rules of the Game
2. Two or Three Things I Know About Her
3. Chinatown
4. Vertigo
Four places I’ve lived:
1. Tokyo
2. Bangkok
3. Buenos Aires
4. New Haven
Four TV shows I love:
1. Six Feet Under
2. The Sopranos
3. Northern Exposure
4. Profit (yeah, I know, you’ve never heard of it, neither has anybody else, it only ran for half a dozen episodes, bastardly tv execs)
Four places I’ve vacationed:
1. Aleppo
2. Paris
3. Iguazu Falls
4. Montreal
Four of my favourite dishes:
1. Curry chicken
2. Hamburger
3. Beef stew
4. Pasta in any form
Four sites I visit daily:
1. MetaFilter
2. wood s lot
3. Pepys Diary
4. Wordorigins.org
Four places I would rather be right now:
1. California
2. Greece
3. Hmm…
4. Actually, I like it right here in my nice warm office looking out at all the pretty snow without having to go out in it. Working from home is great.
(By the way, it’s Stephen with a ph. Or Steve, of course.)
— language hat Jan 31, 2:30pm # - Stephen,
Apologies for the misspelling of your name (it’s your own damn fault for hiding under that wide brim) and, believe it or not, we get Profit here – France being the country where deposed dictators and cancelled TV shows come to die.
— gail Jan 31, 6:18pm # - OK, you’ve significantly heightened the standing of France on the list of “countries I’m thinking of moving to when this place gets intolerable.” I don’t suppose they have Frank’s Place as well? It lasted for one season in the late ‘80s and was one of the best things I’ve seen on TV; you can read about it here.
On preview: I figured out how to do itals, but a href doesn’t work, so here’s the URL I was trying to link with “here”:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0412/is_2_33/ai_n15684026
— language hat Feb 1, 3:10pm # - Hey, I did this already! Right here.
— Joseph Feb 4, 7:17pm # - Oh, Joseph, I should have known you were a trend-setter.
— gail Feb 5, 11:54am # - thank you for your site today. just browsing and wishing i was in the south of france and not in the north of illinois.
— barbara Feb 6, 10:24pm #
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