Four…

Tagged by Joy at Wanderings of a student librarian. She certainly put me in fine company too. Pulled some more categories from Lorcan at Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog and Karen at FRL. Looked at a few others. Changed a few.

jobs I’ve had

  • Delivery boy and rose leaf remover for a florist
  • Fire Control (as in launch) Specialist on a nuclear missile battery in W. Germany
  • US Army Recruiter
  • Tech GA for graduate distance ed in LIS

movies I can watch over and over

  • Princess Mononoke
  • Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt)
  • Grave of the Fireflies
  • True Stories: A Completely Cool, Multi-Purpose Movie (David Byrne)

places I’ve lived

  • Lingenfeld, West Germany
  • Mons, Belgium
  • Green Bay, Wisconsin
  • Normal, Illinois

tv shows I (have) love(d) (I have no idea of they are even on anymore, as I don’t watch tv)

  • Futurama
  • M*A*S*H
  • That 70′s Show
  • Daktari

places I’ve vacationed

  • Lake of the Ozarks (various), Missouri and Arkansas
  • Interlaken, Switzerland
  • Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Canea, Crete

sites I visit daily

  • Bloglines
  • My LEEP Personal Login Page
  • Assorted web mail clients and accounts
  • LISNews

places I’d rather be right now

  • Amsterdam, Nederland
  • Heidelberg, Deutschland
  • With friends.
  • Getting a massage.

books (or series) that I love

  • Technology as magic: the triumph of the irrational – Richard Stivers
  • Mimesis: the representation of reality in Western Literature – Erich Auerbach
  • Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy “trilogy”- Douglas Adams
  • The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

novels for re-reading

  • Middlemarch – George Eliot (comments and comments)
  • Germinal – Emile Zola (comments)
  • White noise – Don DeLillo
  • The inferno – Dante. (Hollander & Hollander, Doubleday, 2000.)

books that have changed the way I look at work

  • The pursuit of power: technology, armed force, and society since A.D. 1000 – Willam H. McNeill (my book review essay)
  • Why Read? – Mark Edmundson (a review by me)
  • Meaning in technology – Armold Pacey
  • The moral order of a suburb – M.P. Baumgartner (here and many other places)

video games I can play over and over

  • none. don’t try.

songs I can listen to over and over

covers I like better?

  • License to Kill – Cowboy Junkies (Bruce Springsteen)
  • Killing Me Softly With His Song – Fugees (Roberta Flack)
  • Higher Ground – The Blind Boys of Alabama (Stevie Wonder)
  • I Will Survive – Cake (Gloria Gaynor)

albums I can’t live without

  • is a woman – Lambchop
  • Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook
  • at least a solid half dozen ani difranco; and I’d be begging for a dozen, a baker’s dozen…
  • Purge – Bif Naked

vehicles I’ve owned

  • 1968 Chevy Chevelle
  • 1980 Ford Mustang (bright yellow)
  • 1990 Geo Metro
  • 1983 Dodge Caravan

bloggers I am tagging

None. It seems as if almost everyone got tagged in the last few days. If you didn’t get tagged and I managed to inspire you even a whit, then consider yourself tagged. And please link back here or post a comment once you post.

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