Eek! I've been tagged!

Not only have I been tagged for the very first time in my young blogging life, I have, in fact, been team-tagged. Both the Bailiff at Night Court and Michael Bérubé have tagged me for the “Meme of Fours.” And darn it all, I had a post all written last night, with Bérubé lined up as my final taggee, but Blogger went all wonky on me and kept adding hundreds of extra “span” and “font” codes and the darn post wouldn’t publish. I was even going to “double dog dare” Michael to sully his blog with a silly meme, but he beat me to it and tagged me first. Alas, I guess that’s how tagging works. So here goes…the Meme of Fours.

Btw, in Bérubé’s answers, under “Four Jobs,” he wrote “1. Foot messenger” and at first I thought he wrote “1. Foot massager.” See my list of “Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over” (#2) for an explanation why I would make that particular misreading.

Four Jobs You’ve Had

1. Taco slinger
2. Punk-ass record store clerk
3. Telemarketer (with a 96% success rate! No, really!)
4. Paralegal

Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over

1. A Christmas Story (all year long, even)
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Small Change (L’argent de poche) – Truffaut (seriously, the best movie about children ever)
4. His Girl Friday

Four Places You’ve Lived

1. In my parents’ 1950s suburban ranch-style home
2. In the Big City high-rise co-op my sister and I shared
3. In a 1929 Spanish-style courtyard apartment building, like Melrose Place without the pool
4. In a second story Arts and Crafts duplex in a historic district

Four TV Shows You Love to Watch

1. Lost
2. Battlestar Gallactica
   
3. The Gilmore Girls (gotta support my doppelganger – plus it’s a good show)
4. Deadwood (gotta support my old neighbor in the courtyard – plus it’s an excellent show)

Four Places You’ve Been on Vacation

1. The Isle of Man
2. Beijing
3. Bergen, Norway
4. A small island on the Menominee River, Wisconsin
   

Four Blogs You Visit Daily
(Here I’m going to give the four still-extant blogs I’ve been reading the longest – although some of them are current incarnations of earlier forms)

1. Thanks for Not Being a Zombie
2. Danah Boyd at Apophenia (who, btw, turns out to be a friend of a friend in the “actual real world,” not on Friendster, which she studies -- seems strangely appropriate)
3. Ancrene Wiseass
4. Michael Bérubé Online

Four of Your Favorite Foods

1. Duck, any style (Peking, à la orange, paté, you name it)
2. The Boyfriend’s pasta with tomato-anchovy sauce
3. The mussels at Jar in LA or Monk’s in Philadelphia
4. Pulled pork (any BBQ sauce, though I prefer KC style, Arthur Bryant to Gates)
   

Four Places You’d Rather Be

1. New York
2. Cambridge, England
3. Anywhere in Yorkshire, England, preferably in the country, but near to a train into Leeds
4. Vancouver

Four Albums You Can’t Live Without (well, lately, anyway)

1. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2. The Essential Johnny Cash
3. Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
4. The Jayhawks, Tomorrow the Green Grass

Four Vehicles You’ve Owned

1. 1975 Ford Grenada, 1985-1989 (Strangely, this same make, model, and model year is on Bérubé’s list. Mine was actually owned by my mother, but I totally pwned it once I could drive.)
2. 1993 Honda Civic in cherry red, with bitchin’ low rider rims and low profile tires -- suh-weet!
   
3. 1996 Saturn sedan – so boring I can never even remember the damn model number and it's the car I currently own!
   
4. Saucony running shoes (like The Bailiff, I haven’t owned enough vehicles to fill this category, so like her also, I will add my brand of running shoes, which also happens to be the same as hers)

Four Taggees
(Forgive me if you’ve been tagged before.)

1. Heo Cwaeth
2. The Green Knight (who's too mysterious to do this sort of thing often)
3. Ancrene Wiseass (if she isn’t worn out from the “100 Things” meme)
4. Another Damn Medievalist (when she gets back from AHA and needs a break)