Dale tagged me, and I am nothing if not dutiful to my blogging colleagues. I even like some of the questions! However, I won't pass it on, so you can relax. If you tag yourself, let me know so I can read what you've written.
Four Jobs I've Had
Camp counsellor at Rackett Lake Girl's Club, a camp in the adirondacks.
I had a bunk of 10-year-old girls, and they were great. My only troubles were when I was assigned to chaperoning the teenagers, because I was only 17 myself, but they didn't know that 'cause I was a College Girl.
Computer programmer for IBM
When I started, IBM provided training, because there were no courses in colleges. I am a dinosaur!
Systems Analysis teacher for a seminar company
I liked being a wandering minstrel, but the travel wore me out.
Usability test facilitator
I really enjoyed it when designers observed real users "think out loud."
Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over
Rear Window
Parenthood
An American in Paris
Anything with Judi Dench
Four Places I've Lived
Gunhill Road, The Bronx
I was born there, but we moved away when I was 6 months old
316 East 55 Street, New York City
My first apartment, a studio with a fire escape, and air-conditioning that never worked
910 West End Avenue, New York City
Where I lived when my children were born
Princeton, New Jersey
I blogged about it already
Four TV Shows I Love to Watch
I don't have a TV, so I watch them either on video or DVD
Upstairs, Downstairs
The Sopranos
The West Wing
The 1982 Goldie Hawn Mother's Day Special ('cause Prowesslessnesslessness is in it!)
Four Places I've Been on Vacation
I've travelled a lot, so I thought I'd just pick four places I've been that begin with a "P"
Petra, Jordan
Playa Blanca, Mexico (Club Med, about 30 years ago)
Prague, Czech Republic
Paris, France (I also lived there for a year)
Four Blogs I Visit Daily
I have bloglines, so I visit everyone I subscribe to whenever the RSS feed tells me they've posted
Four of My Favorite Foods
Salad katzutz
(chopped up Israeli cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion, with fresh lemon juice - I've tried to make it in the US, even with organic vegs, but it doesn't work there)
Antipasto
Ah, those grilled eggplant slices and peppers and various other tidbits.
Max Brenner's chocolate
Goat cheese
Four Places I'd Rather Be
Can't think of any
Four Albums I Can't Live Without
Kathleen Ferrier
Bach St Matthew Passion
Avenue Q
March of the Falsettos ('cause Prowesslessnesslessness is in it!)
Four vehicles I've owned
1961 Triumph TR-3 sports car
It had two carburetors. I really only needed one. They were both stolen, together with the rest of the car, by "teddy boys" in London after I'd owned it for three months.
1973 Plymouth Duster
It may still be running. The slant-6 engine was a gem. The guy who bought it in 1984 wanted a spare.
1984 Datsun/Nissan
I loved the sunroof.
1989 Peugeot 309 I sold it in 2004 on the Israeli e-bay; the buyer turned out to be a friend of the guy who helped me post my ad!
4 comments:
I love the idea of you tooling about in a triumph! What a shame it was stolen.
But... what is prowesslessnesslessness? Is it other than prowess? Inquiring minds wand to know!
John - If you were gay, it'd be OK.
Dale - That triumph. Story of my life, poignant version: a triumph too early, stolen.
Prowesslessnesslessness is the moniker of My Son The Lawyer (more accurately, the law school grad and February bar exam crammer)(or, more accomplishfully, Little Bear's father). It is what prowess looks like after it's been hammered by said Son's convoluted attempts to discourage spammers.
No TV. Wow. While I don't watch it all that much, it's still nice knowing I have it as background noise.
The occasional exploding bomb and ambulance sirens provide me with all the background noise I need. Not to mention the radio, which hasn't yet joined my growing pile of discarded machinery.
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