I love this four things meme that has been flying around lately. I couldn't resist making some changes which you will notice in red.
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From the film Babette's Feast |
Four Jobs I Did to Help Pay for College I Have Had in My Life:
- Dormitory janitor
- Potato sorter/packager
- Parking lot attendant (aka getting paid to read)
- Scooped ice cream at Haagen-Dazs (good thing I was 19 and had a monster metabolism because I ate a lot of ice cream)
- A Room with a View (Merchant-Ivory version of course)
- Six Degrees of Separation
- Babette's Feast
- 84, Charing Cross Road
- London
- Honolulu
- Minneapolis
- Ithaca (NY)
- Deliverance by James Dickey
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
- The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
- Masai Mara, Kenya
- Lizard Island, Australia (Great Barrier Reef)
- Siem Reap, Cambodia
- Amalfi Coast, Italy
- Perfectly cooked and sauced pasta
- Squishy white dinner rolls
- Hamburger on a charcoal grill (with a squishy bun of course)
- Pad Thai
- Sparkling lemonade made from fresh lemons at Pizzeria Paradiso in DC
- Williams Sonoma hot cocoa with "hand crafted" marshmallows
- Orange Fanta (The European kind, not the kind in the US, but I think even the European stuff is starting to taste like the Ameican kind.)
- Root Beer Float (What? It counts.)
- Sissinghurst (on a bench near the moat looking out at the pasture land)
- Monhegan Island, Maine (in a hammock)
- On the veranda of my cabin on the Celebrity Eclipse
- Sonoma, California
- John
- Lucy
- My family
- My friends
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Monhegan Island, Maine |