The Four Things Tag
Four Jobs I’ve Had
Housekeeping employee at a resort
Fast food cook
Grocery stock boy
Current: Logistics engineer (a fancy term I made up for being a shipping employee)
Four Things I Don’t Eat
Brussels sprouts
Asparagus
Pickles
Artichokes
I was born in North Carolina, but since six months old I've lived in:
Texas
Texas
Texas
and, oh yeah, Texas
Four of my Favorite Foods
Pizza
Chicharrones (Mexican version of pork skins)
Hamburgers
Strawberries
Four Movies I’ve Watched More Than Once
The Maltese Falcon
The Great Escape
The Blues Brothers
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Four TV Shows I Watch
I thought about skipping this one since I don't have a TV, but I have several complete runs of older shows:
Star Trek (the original series)
Taxi
Monk
Sherlock (the Benedict Cumberbatch version)
Four Things I’m Looking Forward to This Year (2018)
Except getting older, not much...
Four Things I Can’t Live Without
Comedy and laughter
Friendship
Books
A good writing pen.
Four Places I’ve Visited
Washington D.C.
New Orleans, LA
Tulsa, OK
Almost Mexico. (Got to the border, but I didn't have a passport so they wouldn't let me cross over.)
Four Pet Peeves
Jackass Drivers
Dallas Cowboys fans
"Helpful" people (as in people who think they are giving you sound advice, but are really just annoying the hell out of you.)
The phase "It's an acquired taste". (Why the hell should I keep trying something I don't like initially just to "acquire" a taste for it?)
Four Things I Wish I Could Do
Sing (I don't even karaoke).
Travel in space.
Create some fad that people would stupidly spend millions of dollars on. Like the Pet Rock fad...
Write the next Pulitzer Prize novel that every Hollywood studio wants to make into a movie.
Four Subjects I Studied at School
History (it was my major)
Creative writing (It was my minor)
Astronomy
British literature
Four Things Near Me Right Now
My cat.
Cup of coffee
My good writing pen
Every movie I own.
Well, no wonder we get along so well! I majored in Liberal Arts with minors in History and English. They didn't have a Creative Writing degree at the time, or I'd have gotten at least a minor in that.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the acquired taste, mostly, except that I've kind of just spontaneously acquired a taste for some things as I age. Like coffee. I just started liking it, I didn't try to do that. So that's what I tend to mean when I say something is an acquired taste -- it's one I wasn't born liking, but just started liking later in life for whatever reason.
hat acquired taste comment stems from a conversation I had when I worked in a grocery store. Our fish market got in a batch of caviar. (Who in their infinite wisdom thought caviar would sell well in small town Texas I don't know.) In any case, the woman at the counter let me try a taste. I thought it was disgusting. She said it'a an "acquired taste". Which too me implied I'd get to like it if I kept at it. Ummm, no.... Thanks for reading.
DeleteSo much fun, Quiggy, you inspired me on my coffee break at work. (Some of my answers were the same as yours, so I left those, by the way!)
ReplyDeleteFour Jobs I’ve Had
Buyer/seller of scrap metal
Drugstore sssistant manager
Dramaturg for a professional theater
Advertising Copywriter
Four Things I Don’t Eat
Fish
Bread Pudding
Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
Birthday Cake
Four Places I’ve Lived
Long Island NY
Chicago, IL
Parsippany, NJ
Fort Lauderdale FL
Four of my Favorite Foods
Pizza
Hamburgers
Fried Chicken
Sandwiches and subs
Four Movies I’ve Watched More Than Once
The Maltese Falcon
Star Wars (original trilogy)
Gone With the Wind
Wizard of Oz
Four TV Shows I Watch
Here and Now
I Love Lucy
Dark Shadows
Queer as Folk
Four Things I’m Looking Forward to This Year (2018)
New York theater trip
Catching up on blogposts
Sunset Blvd on the big screen
Some time by the pool
Four Things I Can’t Live Without
Comedy and laughter
Friendship
Books
MOVIES!
Four Places I’ve Visited
Amalfi Coast
San Francisco
New Orleans, LA
Nova Scotia
Four Pet Peeves
Memes
Political correctness
Hypocrisy
Humorlessness
Four Things I Wish I Could Do
Be a porn star
Write the Great American Novel
Retire and volunteer in community theater
Eat all I want without gaining weight
Four Subjects I Studied at School
British History
Film Theory
Acting
Creative Writing
Four Things Near Me Right Now
Photo of Matt Bomer on Mac desktop wallpaper
Coworkers at my job
Cup of cold brewed coffee, very strong
Work I should be doing as I am doing this
Never watched "Queer as Folk" but I did occasionally watch that show with the five gay guys trying to give the straight guy lessons into how to be a metrosexual. Fish is one of my favorite non-meat foods. I've been north of the Mason Dixon line once in my life, when I was still 3 months old. Came within 5 miles of Florida on a road trip to DC. (And it ticked me off that I couldn't get the rest of the car to agree to just make a quick side trip so we could say we'd been to Florida...) Thanks for reading.
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