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Four things you might not know about me; hat tip to Cathy S
Topic Started: Jul 16 2008, 03:48 PM (1,072 Views)
plays88keys
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Cathy sent me this in an email - it's short and fun and we might actually learn new things about one another.

Just cut and paste and type in your own answers:

Four Jobs I've Held
1. grocery checker
2. waitress at a beach resort
3. paralegal
4. business owner

Four places I have lived.
1. Petersburg, VA
2. Reisterstown, MD
3. Princeton, NJ
4. Richmond, VA

Four places I have been:
1. Vancouver, British Columbia
2. Salzburg, Austria
3. Maui, Hawaii
4. St. John, USVI

Four of my favorite foods:
1. crabcakes
2. homegrown tomatoes
3. chocolate
4. Chinese

Four Places I'd rather be:
1. My house on the Chesapeake Bay
2. at my piano
3. Tahiti, Bali - somewhere exotic and tropical
4. Italy
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
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Riley
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HOLY CARP!!!
Four Jobs I've Held
1. flyer delivery
2. telemarketing

Four places I have lived.
1. Toronto, ON
2. Bradford, ON
3. west Hamilton, ON
4. downtown Hamilton, ON (current)

Four places I have been:
1. Dallas, Texas
2. Orlando, Florida
3. Cancun, Mexico
4. London, England

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Steak
2. Cheeseburger
3. Pizza
4. most other junk food :)

Four Places I'd rather be:
1. Former cottage, Bracebridge, ON.
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HOLY CARP!!!
Four Jobs I've Held
1. web designer/programmer (for a chauvinistic T.V. show host who wanted quasi-pornography on his website -- he called them "viewer mail girls" -- my parents didn't think that was such a good job for a few 16 year olds , but of course we disagreed ;)) (and also for a local youth organization, which was much more fun, and I got community service credits for school)
2. private cello teacher (one student for 6 months and one for a year, when I was in high school, and another this last and current summers)
3. "gourmet chef" at a fast-food sub shop (for 6 months, until for some reason unknown to me they pretended money was missing from the register as an excuse to ask me to quit... not sure why they didn't simply fire me if they didn't want me there anymore, since no excuse is needed to fire employees... :shrug:)
4. library assistant

Four places I have lived.
1. Boston
2. Indianapolis suburb
3. Detroit suburb
4. Ann Arbor

Four places I have been:
1. Montreal (with my dad for a medical conference)
2. Jerusalem (for free :excited:)
3. New York City (many times to visit family and jon_nyc)
4. Los Angeles (I went to a bar mitzvah at Dodger Stadium last year)

Four of my favorite foods:
1. pastrami
2. black olive pizza
3. slightly chilled, slightly doughy bread
4. kishka

Four Places I'd rather be like to go:
1. Norway (not sure why -- sort of a gut desire -- must be Grieg)
2. Russia (I want very much to go to a conference in St. Petersburg in October, but it's so expensive...... :weeping:)
3. Israel (going for 2 weeks next month!)
4. San Francisco (going for 5 days next month! I'm also considering grad school at Berkeley... don't know much about the school yet, except the practice room policies suck, and one of the musicology professors is a huge celebrity in the music world.)
Sam
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blondie
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Whoa .. Stop .. Slow down!

Question for Mr. Library Assistant Sub Gourmet Private Designer Porno Cello Teacher:

What's a "viewer mail girl"?

Explain s.v.p ..
:)
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blondie
Jul 16 2008, 08:57 PM
Whoa .. Stop .. Slow down!

Question for Mr. Library Assistant Sub Gourmet Private Designer Porno Cello Teacher:

What's a "viewer mail girl"?

Explain s.v.p ..
:)

:lol:

They're somewhat provocatively dressed girls who get to read out loud mail that the viewers send in. And many of the photographs were conveniently shot from a higher angle, for a clearer shot. :wink:

This was actually a "reality show" about an attorney.
Sam
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Rick
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4 jobs:

Burger King burger maker
Car Wash attendant
US Navy Radioman
Network Administrator

4 places I've lived:
Hayward, CA
Carson City, NV
Naples, Italy
Indian Head, MD

4 places I've been:
Munich
Rome
Salzburg
Amsterdam

4 foods:
Chesapeake Blue Crabs!!!!
Filet mignon
Pulled pork
Carne asada tacos

4 places I'd like to go:
Borabora/Tahiti
Sydney
Maui
Copenhagen
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blondie
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pianojerome
Jul 16 2008, 05:11 PM
blondie
Jul 16 2008, 08:57 PM
Whoa .. Stop .. Slow down!

Question for Mr. Library Assistant Sub Gourmet Private Designer Porno Cello Teacher:

What's a "viewer mail girl"?

Explain s.v.p ..
:)

:lol:

They're somewhat provocatively dressed girls who get to read out loud mail that the viewers send in. And many of the photographs were conveniently shot from a higher angle, for a clearer shot. :wink:

This was actually a "reality show" about an attorney.

I'd never guessed you doing that PJ ..
:)
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Jack Frost
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Four Jobs I've Held
1. HS teacher
2. attorney, extraordinaire
3. picker in a felt factory
4. all around handyman and assitant cook, Sveden House

Four places I have lived.
1. Clinton Corners, NY
2. Somerville, MA
3. New Haven, CT
4. Lincoln, MA

Four places I have been:
1. Costa Rica
2. Mount Tamalpais
3. Reed City, MI
4. Buena Vista, CO

Four of my favorite foods:
1. pesto
2. homegrown tomatoes
3. dark chocolate
4. sirloin

Four Places I'd rather be:
1. my camp on the lake
2. Belize
3. New Zealand
4. my camp on the lake

jf
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Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
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HOLY CARP!!!
pianojerome
Jul 16 2008, 08:46 PM
1. web designer/programmer (for a chauvinistic T.V. show host who wanted quasi-pornography on his website.)

Posted Image
[size=4]What's a nice jewish boy like you doing
working in the porn industry?
Come, sit, have something to eat.
[/size]
Identifying narcissists isn't difficult. Just look for the person who is constantly fishing for compliments
and admiration while breaking down over even the slightest bit of criticism.

We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences.
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HOLY CARP!!!
:lol:
Sam
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pianojerome
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HOLY CARP!!!
Jack Frost
Jul 16 2008, 10:34 PM
3. picker in a felt factory

That's neat. How did you find a job in a felt factory? What did you think of the job?
Sam
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blondie
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Who was it here who worked with Walker Evans photographs or in his ?dark room? Was that you Jack?
So cool. I was so drawn to the pictures; I learned so much reading the books.
:)
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
Four Jobs I've Held
1. College instructor
2. Used textbook buyer (incredibly lucrative $$$$)
3. Architect
4. Flaneur (doesn't pay well, but great fun)

Four places I have lived.
1. Bath, England
2. Ocean Beach, CA
3. Berkeley, CA
4. Somerville, NJ

Four places I have been:
1. Ponce, Puerto Rico
2. Taj Mahal, India
3. Brno, Slovakia
4. Ravenna, Italy

Four of my favorite foods: (I'll just copy JF)
1. pesto
2. homegrown tomatoes
3. dark chocolate
4. sirloin

Four places I'd rather be:
1. Rollin' in my sweet baby's arms
2. La Jolla CA
3. Roquebrune/Cap Martin, France
4. Ocho Rios, Jamaica
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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pianojerome
Jul 16 2008, 07:43 PM
Jack Frost
Jul 16 2008, 10:34 PM
3. picker in a felt factory

That's neat. How did you find a job in a felt factory? What did you think of the job?

Tell us what it felt like.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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HOLY CARP!!!
ivorythumper
Jul 16 2008, 10:53 PM
2. Used textbook buyer (incredibly lucrative $$$$)

Ha! So did you sell them back to others at higher prices? Or did you work for a company on campus?

A friend of mine just asked to buy one of my books, and I said I'd be happy to just give it to her if she wants it. I've written all over it, though, and filled in all the exercises -- but I guess a lot of students don't mind buying books with all of the exercises already filled in!
Sam
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blondie
Jul 16 2008, 09:44 PM
Who was it here who worked with Walker Evans photographs or in his ?dark room? Was that you Jack?
So cool. I was so drawn to the pictures; I learned so much reading the books.
:)

That was me.

For two years i worked for his estate. I got to make a few FINE prints for gallery sales, but primarily i printed and cataloged every negative in his estate.

Maybe the neatest job i have had and i am not sure why i did not list it.

I have a print....

Posted Image

...of a variation of this shot, taken just before or after,

Hangs on my wall. A beautiful photograph and a beautiful woman. I believe she was 28 years old.

jf

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Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
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ivorythumper
Jul 16 2008, 09:53 PM
[Four of my favorite foods: (I'll just copy JF)
1. pesto
2. homegrown tomatoes
3. dark chocolate
4. sirloin

IT, for all our differences, you and i have a LOT in common...

Not to mention Bruce and our incredibly lovely, smart wives.

You and i are blessed.

jf
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Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
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Jack Frost
Jul 16 2008, 07:18 PM

Hangs on my wall. A beautiful photograph and a beautiful woman. I believe she was 28 years old.

She is beautiful... and I think classically so, cleaned up a bit and with a more normal expression.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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pianojerome
Jul 16 2008, 08:05 PM
ivorythumper
Jul 16 2008, 10:53 PM
2. Used textbook buyer (incredibly lucrative $$$$)

Ha! So did you sell them back to others at higher prices? Or did you work for a company on campus?

A friend of mine just asked to buy one of my books, and I said I'd be happy to just give it to her if she wants it. I've written all over it, though, and filled in all the exercises -- but I guess a lot of students don't mind buying books with all of the exercises already filled in!

No, I was buying used texts (grade school and high school) for a company that does replacements for districts as books get worn out, lost, damaged.

Basically, buying books that districts were discarding as they got new series (math, language, science, etc) every few years. New texts for grade schools and high schools could be (this was about 15 years ago) in the $50 to $80 each range per student per subject, so the used market would have them for $20 to $40. I was able to buy them for a buck or two each from the schools, and resell them to the fulfillment house for $3 to $12. On a good day I'd be making 3 or 4 thousand dollars, but it is very seasonal work (end of the school year through the summer).

It is all public funds -- the budgets for new series are set and replaced every few years. The book store managers/ principals were happy to get a few bucks each and mainly get rid of the old stock that they were phasing out. I was happy to help. :P
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Jack Frost
Jul 16 2008, 08:21 PM
ivorythumper
Jul 16 2008, 09:53 PM
[Four of my favorite foods: (I'll just copy JF)
1. pesto
2. homegrown tomatoes
3. dark chocolate
4. sirloin

IT, for all our differences, you and i have a LOT in common...

Not to mention Bruce and our incredibly lovely, smart wives.

You and i are blessed.

jf

Indeed we are! (for all our differences!) :wink:
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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kenny
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Four Jobs I've Held
1. Mowed a neighbor's lawn
2. Ripped up cardboard boxes after the clerks stocked shelves at a food store
3. Carry out at a landscape nursery
4. Proofreader for ad copy

Four places I have lived.
1. In my daddy's scrotum
2. In one of my mommy's ovaries, probably the left one, I'm not positive because it was dark
3. In my grandfather's scrotum
4. In my great great great great great great great great great great great greagreat great great great great great great great great great great greagreat great great great great great great great great great great greagreat great great great great great great great great great great greagreat great great great great great great great great great great greagreat great great great great great great great great great great great grandmother's ovary

Four places I have been:
1. a public swimming pool
2. the food store
3. down the street
4. my kitchen

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Tabouleh
2. Lentil Soup
3. non fat cottage cheese
4. freshly squeezed carrot juice

Four Places I'd like to go:
1. The railroad track in Birkenau
2. Heaven
3. Hell
4. The precise location of my birth
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HOLY CARP!!!
Four Jobs I've Held
1. Honey packager. (Sticky job.)
2. Carpet backing factory worker (Hacked up a lung because of the gases produced in the plant, didnt' stay long).
3. Computer programming tutor
4. Electricity meter reader (you learn a lot driving all over going house to house).

Four places I have lived.
1. WI
2. CA
3. Another place in WI
4. Another place in WI
(You get the idea.)

Four places I have been:
1. Canada. Now I feel I've seen it all.
2. Nothing can follow Canada.

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Ribeye, medium rare, only salt on it. (Used to like pepper and garlic as well but have recently decided salt only is the best.)
2. Noodle soup from a certain tea shop in the area.
3. Brownies
4. Cereal

Four Places I'd rather be:
Being away from home is a significant enough hassle that I would not rather be anywhere. But i would prefer it to be warm and sunny ...
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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blondie
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Jack Frost
Jul 16 2008, 07:18 PM
That was me.

For two years i worked for his estate.  I got to make a few FINE prints for gallery sales, but primarily i printed and cataloged every negative in his estate.

Maybe the neatest job i have had and i am not sure why i did not list it.

I have a print....

Posted Image

...of a variation of this shot, taken just before or after,

Hangs on my wall.  A beautiful photograph and a beautiful woman.  I believe she was 28 years old. 

jf

I thought that was you Jack.
I know that woman's pic too. Riveting. I'll never forget her face.

I think I'd like IT's text book buying job. With money like that I could stay home & play lots of piano in my off season!

I want to know why Horace feels the way he does about Canada. I have little desire to see some provinces. I'd love to move to B.C. though. I remain real curious of the North. Someday I may travel there.
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Red Rice
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Four Jobs I've Held
1. math tutor
2. graphic designer
3. knife salesman
4. marketing director

Four places I have lived.
1. Salem, MA
2. Boston
3. Manhattan
4. Singapore

Four places I have been:
1. Shanghai
2. Seoul
3. Oslo
4. Monte Carlo

Four of my favorite foods:
1. clam chowder
2. sushi (uni)
3. jamon iberico
4. black forest cake

Four Places I'd rather be:
1. anywhere with my sweetheart, but preferably someplace tropical
2. Goa, India
3. Nuevo Vallarta
4. Rome
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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Four Jobs I've Held
1. product hostess for car shows, NHRA type racing events, farm shows (think spark plugs, John Deere hand cleaner, motor oil)
2. seamstress (doing drapery helped fund my university)
3. housekeeper
4. dishwasher

Four places I have lived.
1. Halifax
2. Edmonton
3. Birmingham, AB
4. Calgary

Four places I have been:
1. Miami
2. San Francisco
3. Washington, D.C.
4. NYC

Four of my favorite foods:
1. gelatto
2. kubasa
3. Alberta beef
4. Indian

Four Places I'd rather be:
1. the Rocky Mountains
2. at my piano
3. at my sewing machine
4. out exercising
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