4 Things Meme

[grammarwoman]

I am so out of it with this damned plague/flu/cold/WHATEVER that I can barely read LJ. (It was a wise decision to stay home from work, methinks.)

Which is the perfect state of mind to do a meme.

A) Four jobs I have had in my life (other than current job)
Concessions/Mini golf stand attendant, movie ticket taker, summer daycare assistant, CS 101 grader

B) Four movies I would watch over and over
Footloose, The Pirate Movie, Grease 2, Real Genius

C) Four places I have lived
Downers Grove, IL; East Lansing, MI; Des Plaines, IL; Champaign, IL

D) Four TV shows that I watch
Stargate: Atlantis, Gossip Girl, Battlestar Galactica, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

E) Four places I have been
Dublin, Ireland; London, England; Honolulu, HI; New York, NY

F) People who e-mail me regularly
resolute (thanks for all the music!), co-worker C, ex-co-worker C, and whathisface from Circumventor

G) Four of my favourite foods
Sushi, the broccoli cheese soup at Quizno's, chimichangas, dark chocolate

H) Four places I would rather be right now
If I have to choose physical locations instead of Healthy or Wealthy...Dublin, Ireland; Maryland in July for the Shoreleave con (David and Kate Hewlett! George Takei! Adam Baldwin! David Hewlett!); November in Burbank for the Farscape con (Ben Browder!); Memorial Day weekend in Madison for Wiscon.

J) Four things I am looking forward to this year
Spring; the Emperor being potty-trained; going to at least one of the above conventions; eating from my garden

K) Four (of my) favourite authors
Connie Willis; Jim Butcher; Robin McKinley; Diana Wynne Jones

Comments

[stacy-bird.livejournal.com]

"Connie Willis; Jim Butcher; Robin McKinley; Diana Wynne Jones"
Huh, I'd never read the first two, I'd snubbed the third when I was 6 or so because the cover art was so cheezy (what can I say, I hadn't yet heard of judging a book by its cover!), and the 4th sounded so familiar, I'd read a singular book by her when I was oh 10ish, and none since then. Thanks for the reminders! Now I have more to read on the bus. :)

[grammarwoman]

Connie Willis - I would start with "Bellwether" or "To Say Nothing of the Dog" if you like comedies, or "Doomsday Book" if you like something dark.
Jim Butcher does the Dresden Files series - urban fantasy. Start at the beginning with "Storm Front".
With Robin McKinley or Diana Wynne Jones, you can pretty much pick anything.

Glad to give you some more reading material!