About You

[Vicki]

There are lots of these going around but this is a bit different. You might enjoy it. If not blame Ann who suggested I post it.

This one is a bit different from the rest.
Four Things about me - Things you may or may not have known about me in no particular order.

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:

1. health insurance claims payer
2. contract drafter
3.baby sitter
4 receptionist


B) Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. The African Queen
2. The Meaning of Life
3. You Can’t take it With You
4. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Gene Wilder version)

C) Four places I have lived:
1. Chicago IL
2. Portland, Oregon
3. Champaign-Urbana

4.

D) Four television shows I watch:
1. Dead Like Me
2. 4400
3. Gilmore Girls
4. Monk



E) Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Las Vegas
2. England
3. Denver
4.Los Angeles

F) Websites you visit daily:
1. Childfree Network
2. Comcast News page
3. Planet Feedback (but not daily)

G) Four of my favorite foods
1. chicken
2. pizza
3. ice cream
4. chocolate

H) Four places I would rather be right now:

1. San Francisco

2. Seattle Wa
3. Skipton England
4. Victoria BC
I) Four friends I think will respond:

1. Kate
2. Rebecca
3. Janet
4. Lisa

Probably more. Now how about you?

[Ann]

Thanks Vicki, I think it'll be really interesting to read all the replies to this.

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:

1. Saturday girl at Marks and Spencer
2. Scientific Assistant in the Met Office
3. Sales assistant in a German record shop
4. Auxiliary coastguard


B) Four movies I would watch over and over:

1. The Year of Living Dangerously
2. Love With a Proper Stranger
3. The Great Escape
4. Tim

C) Four places I have lived:

1. Hebburn, Co Durham
2. Heston, Middlesex
3. Ansbach, Germany
4. Whitley Bay

D) Four television shows I watch:

1. Frasier
2. Big Brother
3. Upstairs Downstairs
4. Live Athletics

E) Four places I have been on vacation:

1. Sri Lanka
2. Florida
3. Malta
4. Madeira

F) Websites you visit daily:

1. Catsup
2. Ebay
3. Google
4. Abe Books

G) Four of my favorite foods:

1. Roast beef
2. Chicken tikka biryani
3. Fish and chips
4. Sainsbury's smoked salmon and cream cheese pate on toast

H) Four places I would rather be right now:

1. Actually, I'm quite happy here!
2. Sri Lanka
3. Malta
4. Anywhere permanently warm and sunny!

I) Four Books I'd Read Again and Again

1. Any of Jane Austen's novels
2. Down By The Dockside by Criena Rohan
3. Caravans by James A Michener
4. Will You Walk a Little Faster? by Russell Braddon

[Edda]

A. Four Jobs I Have Had in My Life:

1. College English teacher
2. Home editing business
3. Proofreader at my local newspaper
4. Currently Interlibrary Loan Page at my local public library

B. Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over

1. Four Minutes (Story of Roger Bannister)
2. The First Olympic Games: Athens, 1896
3. That Darn Cat
4. The Incredible Journey

C. Four Places I Have Lived

1. Germany
2. Santa Maria, CA.

(Just two here)

D. Four Television Shows I Watch

1. Keeping Up Appearances
2. Various programs on Discovery Health
3. Game shows on Game Show Network
4. Tonight Show

E. Four Places I Have Been on Vacation

1. Germany
2. Niagara Falls, New York
3. Ohio
4. San Francisco

F. Websites I Visit Daily

1. Catsup
2. SICC
3. Healthboards (Autism/Asperger Syndrome website)
4. Roger Bannister interview from Academy of Achievement

G. Four of my favorite foods:

1. Pizza
2. Schnitzel (German pork cutlets)
3. Potatoes
4. Rice

H. Four places I'd rather be right now

Someplace where people from Catsup and SICC are

I. Four People Who Will Respond:

Edda

[Maria]

Ok, I'll have a go:

Four jobs I've had:
1 Waitress
2 Nurse
3 Research fellow
4 Schoolteacher

Four movies I could watch over and over
1 Cry Baby
2 Captain Correlli's Mandolin
3 The Wanderers
4 East is East

Four places I have lived:
1 Kent
2 London
3 Ditto
4 Ditto

Four places I have been on vacation
1 Paris
2 Italy
3 Greece
4 Egypt

Four TV shows I watch
1 Big Brother
2 Mapp and Lucia (when it's repeated)
3 News
4 History progs

Websites I visit daily
1 Catsup
2 Catsup
3 Catsup
4 Catsup

Four of my favourite foods
1 Cheese straws
2 Scallops
3 Roast potatoes
4 Cheese

Four places I'd rather be right now
1 In a waterside taverna somewhere in Greece
2 West Bank temples and tombs of Egypt
3 Rye, Sussex
4 But I rather like my own home too!

I'm going to add aother:
Four books I read again and again
1 On The Road by Jack Kerouac
2 Captain Correlli's Mandolin by Louis de Beneres
3 Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
4 Fortune's Daughter by Alice Hoffman.

That was fun! I expect we could all change some of these lists on frequent basis but I liked trying to pare down some of my choices to just 4.

Maria

[Edda]

Four Books I'd Read Again and Again:

1. The Perfect Mile-Neal Bascomb
2. The Four Minute Mile-Roger Bannister
3. Cats 24/7
4. Eleni-Nicholas Gage (I have also read "A Place for Us, " by the same author and would love to read "North of Ithica," by his daughter, Eleni Gage.)

My favorite books represent my special interests: Roger Bannister, Greece, and cats.

[Edda]

Here's another one:

My current four cats:

1. Puffy-tabby with white feet
2. Peter-tabby and white DSH
3. Paul-gray tabby OSH
4. Prince-Lynx point Siamese

[Maria]

'North of Ithaka' is very good Edda. It was available on Amazon when I last looked.
Maria

[Edda]

Thanks, Maria! It sounds as though it would be great. I am fascinated by Greece. It is great to find someone who shares my interest.

[Ann]

I've just modified my original post to include books. Good idea Maria!

[Edda]

Four places I'd rather be right now (places I'd love to visit):

1. Greece
2. London, England (to the 2012 Olympics to meet Roger Bannister. I would also like to see all the places Roger Bannister lived, to see where he grew up. Yes, I'm just a little obsessed with him. He is so fascinating).
3. Various places where SICC and Catsup members live, to meet them.
4. I don't have a fourth. Several of these emcompass multiple venues.

I hope to accomplish some of these goals together eventually.

[SaffiandJasmin]

A. Four jobs I have had in my life:

Paper girl
Summer school play leader
Office cleaner
Teacher


B. Four movies I would watch over and over:

Fiddler on the roof
Bend it like Beckham
Lost for Words
Brassed off

C. Four places I have lived:

West Bromwich
Hatch End (Middlesex)
Birmingham
Harrow (Middlesex)


D. Four TV shows I watch:

Holby City
Cutting Edge (or similar)
Masterchef
The Bill


E. Four places I have been on vacation:

UK
Germany
Greece
Holland


F. Four websites I visit daily:

Catsup
100 Best catsites (hee hee)
Google / MSN
BBC


G. Four of my favourite foods:

Fish and chips
Strawberries
Melon
Samosas


H. Four places I would rather be right now:

Any four nice places with my cats and good friends!


I: Four books I'd read again and again:

The Bible
Chronicle of the 20th Century
Deric Longden's 'Cat' books
A-Z Street atlas of Greater London (I get lost easily!!)

Lesley T xx

[Edda]

Harrow, Middlesex, England is the birthplace of Roger Bannister.

[SaffiandJasmin]

Yes, Edda! We have a (very) small sports centre here named after him.....it was probably quite a big one when it was first built about 40 years ago, but now looks very small even in comparison to our local leisure centre. I guess not many people were that interested in going to places like that then. It is used as atheletics training for school children, I believe!
Lesley T xx

[Maria]

I'm really enjoying these posts!
Edda - As you know I love Greece, but I do find that reading about it is a pretty good substitute for being there. Have you seen the 'What are you reading' thread on the general board? It mentions 'The Island', a story set in Crete. Marion is reading it and she's given a good insight into the book. I'm going to read it next and it might be one you'd enjoy too.

Here's four places I'd love to visit:
1 Pompeii
2 Rhodes
3 Macchu Pichu
4 French alps
(Plus lots of others too)

[Xinzerella]

;D Another 'quick' break:

Four jobs I've had:
1 In-house editing (9 years)
2 Editing from home (7 years so far)
3 Occasional pet-minding (7 years)
4 --- ('can't answer the phone' or deal with public)

Four movies I could watch over and over
1 Ice Age
2 Shrek
3 The Fifth Element
4 Groundhog Day

Four places I have lived:
1 Tanzania
2 Nairobi
3 Mombasa
4 Scotland

Four places I have been on vacation
1 Scotland
2 England
3 France
4 Kenya

Four TV shows I watch
1 Lost
2 Desperate Housewives
3 Big Love
4 Grumpy Old (whatever ... when it doesn't clash with Lost)

Websites I visit daily
1 Bloglines
2 Newsgator
3 Catsup
4 Favoured blogs (when updated), The Scotsman, BBC News, TechDirt etc

Four of my favourite foods
1 Hot barbecued chicken
2 Beef stew with potatoes
3 Christmas dinner
4 Curries (especially Chicken Korma)

Four places I'd rather be right now
1 Snug in bed
2 Exploring a nice fantasy world - not as hollow as Narnia, but something like that
3 Looking out at the pink-fingered dawn (it's too dark just now)
4 Snug on my sofa, watching a nice video

Four books I'd read again and again
1 All the Moomin books
2 All the E E 'Doc' Smith books
3 All of Beverley Nichol's books, starting with Merry Hall
4 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (already read about 4 times so far)