in 4s...

have some free time during the pre-vegas madness as mikey completes our catalog to send off to press, so...i thought i would use this time to finally address my latest meme bitch-slap(sting, ouch, i'm it) from the ever lovely and engaging happy little atom...oops, sorry just dozed off for a sec...tom waits is currently serenading me from mikey's computer...damn, music that makes you want to move in slow motion, yet annoys the hell out of me at the same time...anyway i digress...yes, the 4 things about me meme...hold tight kids, here we go...

4 jobs i have had:

1. childcare provider for a well-known politician that i will let remain nameless...this was during my early college years...it was grand...even had his homemade apple sauce
2. store bitch for a silversmith/jewelry designer...this old man was nuts, N U T S i tell you...would call me waverly, walked around with food in his beard all the time, was abusive towards his apprentice (who did all the work)and made me take the tags and names off other artisan's pieces so he could claim it was his work...he also tried to get me and my then bf to buy the business from him as long as he retained the name, the building, etc...and we paid him monthly tithings...he and i use to get into these knock down drag outs, yet somehow i still had affection for him (again the daddy complex thing...please reference my don cherry post)
3. territory/accounts manager for the most INSANE toy company ever...let me tell you...the best way i can explain the atmosphere at this company (which i believe is currently sinking like a rat-infested ship) is kevin spacey-swimmingwiththesharks-esque...they would make us pay for our business trips (although i would lie and say i didn't have a credit card), call you at home(which i successfully avoided for 3 years until the bastard company president, dany, had worn down one of my poor, sweet field reps...he even made poor kevin dial the phone), dany would also call you at work while he was on the toilet, swear at you in lebanese, always talk to your boobs...and ...on top of it everyone in the toy industry hated us...we had to hide our badges when at the big javits international toy show...companys were constantly accusing us of knocking shit off...it was easily the most painful 4 years of my life...i was often used as the person to make nice when things went bad with our accounts...although,thanks to this job, i did meet some of the most wonderful people in my life, and it inspired me to get my ass in grad school.
4. personal assistant to one loopy,narcissistic woodswoman/author...was the summer i was finishing up grad school and i thought this could be really cool...i had read her books, been enthralled/sucked in by her tales of self-sufficiency and all out "grrrrrrlness"...well, let me tell you...she became possessive of me, wanted me to paint her toenails,do her laundry, make her lunch...and i had to sift through dozens of mice feces, mold infested boxes of fan mail and notes that encompassed 30 years of her life so she could "donate" it to cornell university...now part of this was kinda cool, but what sucked was i had to read each of the letters out loud to her and then was instructed to pitch anything that seemed disparaging toward her...on the upside, she had the sweetest dogs in the world.

4 movies i can watch over and over again:

1. Pillow Talk
2. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
3. Heathers
4. and kari, i concur...i too love love love Pee Wee's Big Adventure

4 places i have lived:

1. chateaugay, ny...the happy castle
2. burlington, vt
3. stony brook/port jefferson/setauket, long island
4. cinncinatus, ny...i always think of this time as the the heidi years(or rather year...i was 5, it seemed like years)...you know when she came down from the mountain to live with her relatives...sad, sad days...

4 TV shows i love:

1. Pee Wee's Playhouse
2. Get Smart
   
3. Good Times
4. The Office(america)

4 places i have vacationed:

1. st. tropez, france (and yeah, i did have the ban de soleil tan going)
   
2. zalaszentgrot, hungary
3. london, england
4. montreal, quebec(on many occassions)

4 of my favorite dishes:

1. enchiladas suiza
2. pad thai
3. pan seared frois gras(yeah, yeah, peta people, back off)
4. any curry!!!!!

4 sites i visit daily:(there are a lot more, though...ugh...)

1. tiny (but not sure i can count this one as i am kinda a part of it...) so i will add a 1. a) edmonton sun
   
2. LeLo in NoPo
3. Used Hack
4. boing boing

4 places i would rather be right now:

1. hanging out with my sis
   
2. drinking coffee, eating some bitchin' oatmeal, and smooching mikey at cafe reggio ...coffee/oatmeal smooches...deelish
   
3. 10th grade health class with hopee
4. an oilers' game... drinking some molsons...right on

4 people i am tagging??!!??...shit no one ever does what i tell them to do...well for what it is worth...:

1. LeLo
2. inky
3. dieselboi
4. rigo