A case of the fours

[dianeduane]

...I was starting to wonder why OOA was all of a sudden getting all these referrals from Joey's blog. The far-famed Accordion Guy has tagged me for a list-of-four meme.

Well, let's see now...

Four jobs I've had:

• Florist's assistant (1968-69)
  
• Psychiatric nurse (1975-77)
  
• Writer's assistant (1978-80)
  
• Story editor (1985-86)
  

Four movies I can watch over and over:

• Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster ("Godzilla! Such language!")
  
• A Christmas Story ("It's...it's smiling at me!" SFX: WHACK!)
  
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ("Smartly done.")
  
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Oh, you know the line.)
  

Four places I have lived:

• Manhattan Island
  
• Northridge, CA
  
• Bala Cynwyd, PA
  
• Philadelphia, PA
  

Four TV shows I love to watch:

• Battlestar Galactica
  
• The West Wing
  
• Hotel Babylon
  
• The Muppet Show
  

Four places I've been on vacation:

• Ayrshire, Scotland
  
• The US Virgin Islands
  
• The Black Forest
  
• The source of the Rhine
  

Four of my favorite dishes:

• Maluns. (Ideally, as served in the Bündnerstube in the Romantik Hotel Stern in Chur. Tart apple compote on the side and a nice glass of Zizerser Gewürztraminer, please....)
  
• Peter's incomparable goulasch: never the same twice, and better every time. (Took that picture about twenty minutes ago: as soon as I'm done here, I get to go make dumplings for it.)
  
• In springtime, the gitzi (that's deep-fried kid nuggets, for the rest of you. ...Oh, come on, not that kind of nuggets! Tsk.) at Kaiser's Reblaube in Zürich
  
• The steak frites at "Ma Bourgougne"
  

Four websites I visit daily:

• The International Herald Tribune
  
• The Young Wizards discussion forums
  
• Blog of a Bookslut
  
• Fandom_wank
  

Four places I'd rather be right now:

• On the Moon, in a spacesuit...looking down. This is about the right time of month for that...
  
• In the picture to the right. (Well, in the picture to the right again.) Summer solstice of 2003, in the hot-spring-fed infinity pool at the Hotel Source des Alpes in Leukerbad, looking up at the Gemmiwand mountain-wall, the week after we turned in the first-draft screenplay for Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King. It was a sublimely happy time: perfect weather, the best company, great and genuine relaxation...
  
• Zürich HB (see also this morning shot), waiting to catch a train to...just about anywhere, really. Budapest might be nice this time of year. Meanwhile, let's go over to Brasserie Federal and have a Calanda Brau while we decide...
  
• Right here, at the desk, when the phone rings and it's my agent telling me that the TV series has been greenlighted.
  

And now, to continue the meme, I tag:

• Matt
  
• Bob
  
• Charlie
  
• Ursula