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[fajrdrako]

I got this from jfc013:



A. four jobs I have had in my life
Waitress
Comic book reviewer
Theatre administrator
Union secretary

B Four movies I would (and/or have) watched over and over
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Lion in Winter
My Fair Lady
The Lord of the Rings

C Four places I have lived
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
London, England

How long does one have to have been resident to count 'living there'? If we count "for a month or two" or "for a while" I can add:

Rome, Italy
Pointe-au-Baril, Ontario

D Four TV Shows I Love to Watch
Doctor Who (New Series)
Vanished
Veronica Mars
Lost

E Four places I have been on vacation:
Orkney
Moosonnee
Malta
Penzance

F Four of my favorite foods:
popcorn (with butter and salt)
wild strawberries
menudo
unagi with rice (the way they make it at Sushi 88 on Somerset Ave.)

G Four places I would like to be right now:
Tuscany
Jersey
Crete
Sicily

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[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

A. four jobs I have had in my life
Adult Education tutor
Genealogical researcher
Guest lecturer on Moscow-P'burg cruises
Doors Open Days Co-ordinator for Scotland

B Four movies I would (and/or have) watched over and over
The Red Shoes
The Lord of the Rings
Die Nibelungen
The Prisoner of Zenda

C Four places I have lived
Hull
Denny
St Andrews
Cupar

D Four TV Shows I Love to Watch
Doctor Who
Channel 4 News
(I don't watch much TV)

E Four places I have been on vacation:
Asti
Tbilisi
Lochinver
Rothesay

F Four of my favorite foods:
Braised horse (from La Tacabanda in Asti)
Botifarra negra with apple chutney (Café Andaluz, Glasgow)
Avgolemono (lemon chicken soup) (The Parthenon Greek restaurant, Glasgow)
Baked bananas (Aikman's, St Andrews)

G Four places I would like to be right now:
Asti
Strasbourg
St Andrews
Edinburgh

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Your jobs sound like more fun than my jobs.

Which "Prisoner of Zenda"? I've never seen "The Red Shoes". Where is Cupar?

Despite my going on about it, I don't watch much TV either and that was a difficult question to answer honestly. Much as I'm enjoying "Vanished", I like it rather than love it, and "Doctor Who" is the only show currently in production that I love. If I continue watching "Vanished" when "Lost" and "Veronica Mars" come back on... Well, I'll be watching more TV than I have since I was 12 years old! But I probably won't. Or I'll tape stuff and let it pile up for a holiday, or when I'm ill. I often use a TV show as an excuse to visit friends - I watch it with them.

I'd like to be in the places you mention too. Actually I can think of dozens of places I'd like to be...!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Which "Prisoner of Zenda"?

1922, 1937, 1952.

I've never seen "The Red Shoes"

it is wonderful, and (for a 1948 film, amazingly) has an implicitly gay hero, based on Dyagilev, played by a gay actor. See my cinema pages (http://www.silverwhistle.co.uk/cinema).

Cupar is a small town just outside St Andrews. I lived there for 2 and a half years before coming to Glasgow 3 years ago.

I don't really have any friends here to share thing with to the extent of visiting and watching things on TV with. I haven't known that since I was a student.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

1922, 1937, 1952

I only knew about two of them!

Having been lonely for most of my youth, I went to a lot of trouble to find friends I could do things like watch TV with. It doesn't invariably work because of different tastes and scheduling, but I can usually find someone to watch with me - and when in doubt, I hold video parties and invite a small crowd. Sometimes a small crowd even comes.

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

Genealogical researcher

My father was a genealogical researcher.

[goth-clark.livejournal.com]

Rome was so nice. I stayed at a nunnery when I stayed there. My aunt was a nun. :) I've never eaten so well as when I stayed there.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You stayed in your aunt's convent? That is so cool! I stayed in a convent in Assisi, and it was lovely, but I didn't know any of the nuns.

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

A. Four jobs I have had in my life:

Lawyer
German teacher for foreigner
Office worker

B. Four movies I would watch over and over (now, but it changes)

Lord of the Rings
Interview with the Vampire
The Bounty (with Anthony Hopkins)
The Pianist

C. Four places I have lived:

Bromberg
Warsaw
Vienna

Four TV shows:


Malcolm in the Middle
Desperate Housewives


Four places I've been on vacation:

Greek (islands: Rhodes, Crete, Aegina)
Italy (island Ischia, Rome, Venice)
Spain (Andalucia)
Amsterdam


Four places I would like to be right now:

Holy Land
USA, Canada
England, Scottland
Tuscany

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen The Bounty with Anthony Hopkins. I'd like to. I've never been to Bromberg or Warsaw, but I loved Vienna, even though I was sick when I was there and I found it expensive. (But worth it.) I saw five minutes of Desperate Housewives once, but have never seen Malcolm in the Middle - I have trouble watching TV comedy. I envy your visit to Greece - someday I'll get there, I swear! Once upon a time I had a pact with three friends, all of us the same age within a month or two, that we would go to Greece for our 30th birthday. It didn't happen (one of us got cancer and life got complicated) but I still want to go.

Place we'd want to be - I agree, except for the US, and I'm already in Canada. I have a fascination for the Holy Land because of my crusaders; and Tuscany is so incredibly beautiful.

[wanderinunicorn.livejournal.com]

Oh, Greece is beautiful, as well as Italy. The Amalfi Coast is the most beautiful landscape I've ever seen. Pompei, Capri, and the Mont Vesuve...I'm very sorry because of your friend, I hope she is now better.

You would love "Bounty"...believe me. In this little movie play also Mel Gibson, Liam Neeson and Daniel Day-Lewis.

I don't watch TV very much; I only noticed that these both shows are so delightfully bizzare.