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Memes: the last refuge of a scoundrel

FOUR JOBS YOU’VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE:
1. Early shift fast food cashier
2. Sales clerk at Shar
3. “Casual labor” at the import shop where the owner fired me because I wouldn’t help look for her hash
4. Web designer for Jiffy Mix

FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:
1. State and Main
2. The Lion in Winter
3. Monsoon Wedding
4. Raising Arizona

FOUR PLACES YOU’VE BEEN ON VACATION:
1. Newark, OH
2. Inverness, CA
3. Manzanita, OR
4. Several cities in Cuba

FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY:
Let’s make it three that incorporate way more than four: LJ, Google, Bloglines.

FOUR OF YOUR ALL-TIME FAVOURITE RESTAURANTS:
1. Tin Shed, Portland
2. Zingerman’s Deli, Ann Arbor
3. Nicholas Lebanese Restaurant, Portland
4. Queen of Sheba Ethiopian Restaurant, Portland

FOUR OF YOUR FAVOURITE FOODS:
1. Sushi
2. Baked tofu
3. Homemade soup
4. Laurie Colwin’s gingerbread

FOUR SCHOOLS YOU’VE ATTENDED:
1. University of Michigan Residential College
2. University of Michigan School of Information & Library Studies
3. Michigan State University (for Clarion)
4. Slauson Junior High

FOUR THINGS YOU FIND YOURSELF SAYING A LOT:
1. Actually
2. Dude
3. Oog
4. Um…Steve?

FOUR PLACES YOU’D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
1. Gijón
2. Visiting arasay
3. Mercury
4. Actually, home is pretty great.

December 28, 2005 By

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  • anonymous
    December 28, 2005 at 3:29 am

    Next time you watch Lion in Winter, Please invite me! I love that movie!

    Donna

  • anonymous
    December 28, 2005 at 4:51 am

    Ojalá estuvieras en Gijón y pudiesemos tener más tiempo para charlar y pasarlo bien :) But home is indeed fine.

    Marino

  • nevikmoore
    December 28, 2005 at 6:59 am

    FOUR THINGS YOU FIND YOURSELF SAYING A LOT:
    1. Crap
    2. Go to bed.
    3. Pee pee potty?
    4. Argh! I totally forgot!

    FOUR JOBS YOU’VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE:
    1. Sexton — that is, janitor of an Episcopal Church
    2. Pizza cook — the longest job I held until my recent 4.5 year stint at Just Out
    3. Activities coordinator for after school and summer day care at a time when I should not have been given responsibility for a Chia Pet much less 40 children
    4. ubiquitous drone

    FOUR PLACES YOU’D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
    1. Home
    2. In my drawing studio
    3. Drawing cartoons
    4. And publishing them regularly

  • anonymous
    January 2, 2006 at 3:13 am

    FOUR JOBS YOU’VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE:
    1. Middle School teacher
    2. Transcriber
    3. Paper Deliverer
    4. Desk Receptionist at the Y

    FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:
    1. Star Wars
    2. The Dirty Dozen
    3. Chicago
    4. The American President

    FOUR PLACES YOU’VE BEEN ON VACATION:
    1. Ashville, NC
    2. Finland
    3. Ouray, CO
    4. College Station, TX

    FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY:
    1. sararyan.com
    2. neilgaman.com
    3. http://home.comcast.net/~goldytravels/Home.html
    4. http://www.brettspielwelt.de/gate/jsp/base/

    FOUR OF YOUR ALL-TIME FAVOURITE RESTAURANTS:
    1. 128 Cafe, St. Paul, MN
    2. Culver’s (Wisconsin….and spreading!)
    3. Mississippi Belle, Hastings, MN
    4. Pasti Per Tutti, Madison, WI – Sadly no longer there.

    FOUR OF YOUR FAVOURITE FOODS:
    1. Cheesecake
    2. Grandma’s Apple Strudel
    3. Clam Chowder
    4. Fish Tacos

    FOUR SCHOOLS YOU’VE ATTENDED:
    1. Michigan State University
    2. University of Minnesota
    3. Univeristy of Wisconsin- Extension
    4. Clinton Elementary School- Sadly no longer there.

    FOUR THINGS YOU FIND YOURSELF SAYING A LOT:
    1. I love you.
    2. Sure.
    3. You gotta read this.
    4. Gotta go. Pee time.

    FOUR PLACES YOU’D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
    1. Home
    2. In Bed
    3. Somewhere warm.
    4. The Eye of Agamotto comic shop in Ann Arbor, MI- sadly no longer there

    -Jeff C.