via ***Dave, and BD, and Doyce, and Kate:

Four Jobs I Have Had in My Life:

1. Tech Writer
2. House Cleaner
3. Ass. Man. at Panera
4. Nursing

Four Places I Have Lived:

1. The Hat Ranch, South Dakota
2. Colorado Springs
3. West Branch, IA
4. Vermillion, SD

Four of My Favorite Foods:

1. Soup
2. Sammitches
3. Cookies
4. Chocolate

Four Places I’d Rather be Right Now (I’m at home, so I’m going to say…lovely places to go on vacation.)

1. Greece
2. Scotland
3. Seattle
4. Japan

Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over:

1. The Princess Bride
2. Kung Pow
3. Spirited Away
4. Kung Fu Hustle

Four TV Shows I Like to Watch:

1. Mystery!
2. Food Network
3. FLCL
4. The collective madness that is Cartoon Network

Four Websites I Visit Daily (or as often as they post):

1. Girl Genius (MWF)
2. Sinfest
3. BoingBoing
4. My friends.

Four Early Musical Influences:

1. Sha Na Na
2. Mac Davis
3. Juice Newton
4. and…Crystal Gayle. Other musical types didn’t come until much, much later.

Four Computers I’ve Owned:

1. The old Mac.
2. Several decrepit laptops suitable only for word processing and reluctant to disgorge their contents.
3. Various boxes of Frankensteinian nature.
4. The current laptop, which has had its power cord replaced twice and its battery replaced once.

Four places I’ve been on vacation:

1. Black Hills
2. Corpus Christi
3. Santa Fe
4. Dallas (a conference at the Gaylord Texan)

Four albums I can’t live without treasure:

1. Achtung Baby — U2
2. Ten Thousand Fists — Disturbed
3. Hounds of Love — Kate Bush
4. The Chess Soundtrack

Four magazines I read:

1. Fine Cooking
2. Rachael Ray
3. National Geographic (at my parents’ house, in the bathroom, which, I’m sure, has always been annoying, but is less so now that they live in a place with multiple bathrooms)
4. Scientific Amer

Four cars I’ve owned:

1. VW New Beetle (Mo).
2. Chevy Beretta (No name).
3. Multiple cars worth, collectively, less than $500.
4. Chevy Nova (Lilly).

Four colors I like:

1. Lime green.
2. Black.
3. Gray.
4. Teal.

Four Hollywood stars notables I want to have a drink with:

1. Bruce Willis.
2. Tom Waits.
3. Joss Whedon.
4. William Goldman.