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TheEleventhStephanie (anonymous) says...

Mouse at Chuck E. Cheese, Lifeguard, Juice Bar employee, private dancer (unpaid, of course.)

Wichita, Lawrence, New Orleans, Miami

Lost, Simpsons, and that one that isn't animated that is on after the Simpsons on Sundays now, maybe American Dad sometimes.

This one, LJWorld, www.miami.com, my email

Expensive Bourbon, Ginger Ale, Free State Beer, and Xanax

On a beach, in a pool, in the sun, or in a bathtub.

December 29, 2005 at 7:25 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

TheEleventhStephanie (anonymous) says...

Oh, Movies.... Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Big Top Pee Wee, Everything is Illuminated, and I kinda liked Elizabethtown.

December 29, 2005 at 7:28 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

beatle919 (Marcy McGuffie) says...

Four jobs I've had in my life: Infant room aide (age 16, min. wage $4.25), Bank Teller, ATM balancer, reading teacher

Four movies I could watch over and over: Grease, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Austin Powers, Notting Hill

Four places you've lived: Emporia, KS and Lawrence, KS (can't name 4!)

Four TV shows you love to watch: Guiding Light, Seinfeld, CSI, Different Strokes (watchoo talkin' 'bout Willis?)

Four websites you visit daily: lawrence.com, ljworld.com, yahoo.com, facebook.com

Four of my favorite foods: chicken strips, string cheese, beef jerky, lasagne

Four places I'd rather be: NYC, Hawaii (tho, I've never been), Las Vegas, In a Broadway theater watching a show

December 29, 2005 at 9:20 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

0426Roses (anonymous) says...

I try to watch Next but I just can't stand it for very long. I love it!!

December 29, 2005 at 10:36 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

thetom (anonymous) says...

I don't have 4 of anything except places.

Marcy, wait a minute. You're kidding, right? I can't even pick the damn things up any more, much less balance them without breaking my nose. You have my complete admiration. ATM's are heavy.

December 30, 2005 at 12:11 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Tater (anonymous) says...

Four jobs I've had in my life: McDonalds, Cemetery Worker, Security at a Dorm, Meteorologist

Four movies I could watch over and over: Dumb and Dumber, Sideways, Pulp Fiction, Vanilla Sky

Four places you've lived: Kingman, KS, Pratt KS, Lawrence, KS, Hastings, NE

Four TV shows you love to watch: Family Guy, Futurama, Simpsons, Laguna Beach (and I'm embarrased to say that last one)

Four websites you visit daily: espn.com, facebook.com, medialine.com, kcroyals.com

Four of my favorite foods: Chipotle burrito, anything from Free State, Runza burgers, Walt's in Goddard

Four places I'd rather be: Denver, Florida, San Antonio, Arizona

December 30, 2005 at 7:45 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

wbabbit (Will Babbit) says...

Jobs: K-Mart Electronics salesman, Budig Hall Computer Center Help desk, Computer Programmer, Combat Engineer

Movies: Sin City, Lord of the Rings (any of them), Silverado, Top Gun

Lived: Baldwin, KS; Lawrence; Camp Howze, Korea; Fort Riley, KS

TV: CSI, Law & Order: SVU, Family Guy, Mythbusters

Websites: This one, Google.com(homepage has all the news links), Joblo.com, penny-arcade.com

Foods: Enchiladas Suizas - La Familia(Lawrence), Meat Loaf - Harry's Uptown(Manhattan), Ribs - Gates BBQ(KC), Potato Ole's - Taco Johns

Places to be: Lawrence, Europe, NYC, Lawrence...(did I say Lawrence?)

December 30, 2005 at 7:57 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Todd (anonymous) says...

Jobs: Math tutor, Asst. Database Admin, test eng., software eng.
Movies: Red Dawn, RockyIV, StarTrekII, Office Space
Lived: Phillipines, Arkansas, N. Dakota, Japan
TV: basketball, football, Boston Public, Simpsons
Websites: Dilbert, Google news, cnnfn, cnnsi
Foods: rice, noodles, meat off the bone, raw veggies
Places to be: London, Tokyo, Moscow, Shanghai

December 30, 2005 at 8:48 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Dazie (Aileen Dingus) says...

4 jobs: grocery store clerk; hot pretzel and popcorn maker/seller; plumbing and electrical sales at a hardware store; movie theatre manager (there are more, but 4 is good)

4 movies: Gettysburg; Auntie Mame; Muriel's Wedding; Amelie

4 places: Mountainhome, PA; Sparks, NV; Flagstaff, AZ; San Clemente, CA (there are more, but 4 is good)

4 TV shows: I haven't watched TV in 6 months, but I used to like That 70's Show, Emeril, The Simpsons and CSI Miami

4 Websites: www.juntoonline.com/forum; www.rotten.com; www.volvooceanrace.com; www.dearabby.com (there are more, but 4 is good - see a theme?)

4 Foods: La Fuenta (Sparks, NV) carnitas; Big Apple Pizza (Sparks, NV) pepperoni pizza; my own shells florentine; my hubby's biscuits and gravy

4 Places: well, I'm happy here, but I'd like to go to Tahiti; Paris; the Seychelles; the Grand Canyon

December 30, 2005 at 8:52 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

lori (anonymous) says...

4 Jobs: I did a year-long traffic survey for the city once, that involved being a substitute crossing guard; grunt at the entomology museum at Snow, cataloging insects, waitress at various venues, nurse

4 movies: A Fish Called Wanda, any LOTR, Spirited Away, A Christmas Story

4 Places I've lived: But I've only lived in three places; Great Bend Kansas, Konstanz Germany, Lawrence Kansas.

4 TV shows: I don't watch TV really, but when Battlestar Galactica comes back on, I will.

4 websites: this one, the newspaper, freestatefamily, and, uh, that's about it.

4 Foods: Spaetlze, bierrocks, the curry noodle soup at Zen Zero, pizza and salad at Miltons

4 places I'd rather be: I'm happy here.

December 30, 2005 at 9:15 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

lori (anonymous) says...

Oh, oh, oh! For Christmas I received 240 minutes of MASH episodes on tape! I *love* that TV show.

December 30, 2005 at 9:17 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Dazie (Aileen Dingus) says...

Lori- I love watching videos of old TV shows. I have some Northern Exposure... yay!

December 30, 2005 at 9:39 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

ladylaw (Terry Bush) says...

Four jobs I've had in my life: Janitor for a 4-H/Extension Building; jewelry sales clerk; mother; lawyer.

Four movies I could watch over and over: Finding Nemo; Dogma; Willow; the Last Star Fighter. (anything with this theme - the "little guy" wins and good conquers evil)!

Four places you've lived: New Mexico, Garden City, Wichita, Lawrence.

Four TV shows you love to watch: The Sopranos; CSI, Boston Legal; Family Guy.

Four websites you visit daily: Here, my husband's blog, Misty's blog and google.

Four of my favorite foods: Ribs from "Guy & May's" in Williams burg or Grandaddies in Lawrence; really fresh lobster tails or king crab; fresh home baked bread with vine ripened tomatoes and butter; bierrocks made by my sister Paula.

Four places I'd rather be: I love it here - but other places include New Orleans (before it flooded - best food place ever); NYC (for the shows and the food); deep in the woods with lots of books to read; and Ireland. Of course the place I most long to be is in heaven.

December 30, 2005 at 10:13 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

cee (anonymous) says...

Jobs: retail slave, pharmacy assistant, housekeeper, lawyer

Movies: Rushmore, The Princess Bride, Dogma, Gross Pointe Blank

Foods: my mom's chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy, Lidia's pasta trio (with tiramisu, of course), cilantro shrimp salad from Nordstrom cafe, cowboy eggs at Paradise (sniff)

TV Shows: Project Runway, Simpsons, saturday morning cooking shows on Food TV, Sex in the City

Websites: here, Kusports.com; various newspapers, my friends' webblogs

Places I'd Rather Be: shopping and eating out in New York, shopping and eating out in Lawrence, hanging out at home with my husband, at my parents' house when my mom is cooking

December 30, 2005 at 10:16 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

leslie (Leslie vonHolten) says...

4 Jobs: grocery store cog, factory line cog, record store cog, publishing cog
4 movies: The Royal Tennenbaums, PeeWee's Big Adventure, Places in the Heart, Amelie
4 Places I've lived: Kansas City, MO; Baumholder, Germany; Chicago, IL; Lawrence, KS
4 TV shows: Six Feet Under, Arrested Development, Sex in the City, and oh how I wish I could find re-runs of St. Elsewhere
4 websites: Lawrence.com, Bookslut.com, FreestateFamily.com, assorted blogs
4 Foods: homemade pesto, Tim's pork chops w/ orzo (hint!), my mom's chicken and noodles, coffee
4 places I'd rather be: Like Lori, here is good, but I would like to go away on a Mexican beach vacation someday.

Happy New Year, everyone!

December 30, 2005 at 10:18 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

kthutch (anonymous) says...

Four jobs I've had in my life: Swimming Teacher, mailroom clerk, research assistant, attorney.

Four movies I could watch over and over: Henry V, Raising Arizona, Office Space, The Craft (a guilty pleasure, the Fairuza Balk character reminds me of my psycho ex roommate).

Four places you've lived: DC, Lawrence, Wichita, Pullman, WA.

Four TV shows you love to watch: West Wing, X-Files (I've discovered in my insomnia that several days a week, it's on from 12-3am), CSI, Star Trek: TNG

Four websites you visit daily: cnn, woeful, wrecked, kingdom of loathing.

Four of my favorite foods: Steak, My salmon stuff (salmon, saffron rice, spinach and pine nuts), my trout dish (trout, green beans, potatoes and pine nuts), homemade challah.

Four places I'd rather be: Estes Park, DC, the beach, KC.

December 30, 2005 at 11:04 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

cfdxprt (anonymous) says...

Jobs: Wal Mart floor crew, NASA co-op engineer, tester for Chicago Fire Dep't, Principal Analyst

Movies: A Clockwork Orange (and Marcy, no jesting about how I know every word), Blues Brothers, Usual Suspects, Amelie

Places I've lived (I'm going to cheat): London, Lakenheath RAFB - England, Luke AFB (Phoenix, AZ), Undisclosed location in Montana, Patrick AFB, Warner Robbins, GA (Robbins AFB), Chanute AFB (Rantoul, IL), Akron, PA, Satellite Beach, FL, Terre Haute, IN, Orlando, (switched back and forth between those 2 a few times), Bloomington, IN, Chicago, KC Metro, Lawrence. Big props to Larry-ville!

TV Shows - Family Guy, West Wing, House, Run's House (it's my guilty pleasure)

Websites - l.com, lewrockwell.com, elborak.blogspot.com, weather.com

Foods - Burrito Gigante - cin guacamole, rack of lamb, good garlic mashed potatoes, green beans

Places I'd rather be - Bloomington, IN, Bloomington, IN, Bloomington, IN, Bloomington, IN, (it's the only place I've found better than here, and that's just because there's caves and waterfalls and quarries to go explore).

December 30, 2005 at 11:06 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

chewyfally (Falestine Afani Ruzik) says...

Jobs:
Hair studio biotch, radio dj, television production, news producer

Movies:
The Royal Tenenbaums, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Cool Runnings, Sister Act 2

Lived:
Saudi Arabia, Minneapolis, KS, Lawrence and Topeka (9 months was enough for me!)

TV shows:
Home Movies, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Roseanne, Price is Right

Websites:
Lawrence.com, purerave.com, ljworld.com, moby.com/journal

Foods:
Cabage-ish Arabic stuff, Grape-leaves-ish Arabic Stuff, Noodley-tofu-Asian stuff, and anything with rice.

Places I'd rather be:
On Stage at the Grammys, In Bed, San Francisco, Downtown Larryville.

December 30, 2005 at 11:09 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

copt_a_feel (anonymous) says...

Four jobs I've had in my life: Grocery sacker; KU Info guru; Bookseller; Tech Writer.

Four movies I could watch over and over: The Holy Grail; Raiders of the Lost Ark; Dr. Strangelove; The Wizard of OZ.

Four places you've lived: Emporia, Kan.; Lawrence, Kan.; Lakewood, Colo.; Golden, Colo.

Four TV shows you love to watch: Twin Peaks; Mystery Science Theater 3000; Mythbusters; Home Movies (the cartoon).

Four websites you visit daily: digg.com; rocketboom.com; lawrence.com; kusports.com.

Four of my favorite foods: Beef sandwich and fries, Arthur Bryant's; Spicy Tuna Sushi, Takayama (Lakewood, CO); Anything from La Parilla in Larrytown; Deep fried potato tacos, my parents kitchen.

Four places I'd rather be: At home with my wife (I'm at work right now and my wife is still at home on vacation); Kauai, Hawaii; Lake Kahola in the Flint Hills; Playing Battlefield 2 (it's like a really BAD crack habit).

Wow I'm a geek:

December 30, 2005 at 11:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Todd (anonymous) says...

cfdxprt, you cheat so bad. I grew up a military brat but somehow I found myself able to limit it to 4 places ;)

I'm fairly suprised to see folks have actually lived in other places than KS. Also seeing so many lawyers... scary actually.

December 30, 2005 at 11:42 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

cfdxprt (anonymous) says...

Todd - at least I didn't throw in the month I went to visit my dad while he was on remote in The Azores...You also had a cool 4 places to list, I on the other hand have just been all over the US after immigrating here after my birth ;)

Cheap gratuitous lawyer joke time now (since I know they love them) - do you think they were single or double billing while posting to the blogs?

December 30, 2005 at 12:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jayhawkanne (Anne Bracker) says...

Four Jobs: tropical fish sorter, bank teller at the old Lawrence National Bank (pre-First National Bank, pre-Mercantile Bank, pre-FirstStar Bank, pre-US Bank), Kinko's grunt, clay salesperson/business owner

Four Movies: Desk Set (with Hepburn & Tracy), Kiss Me Kate (the 1953 movie), The Fifth Element (Bruce Willis), Keeping the Faith (Ed Norton, Ben Stiller, & Jenna Elfman)

The Only Two Places I've Lived: West Lafayette, Indiana and Lawrence, Kansas (what an uneventful life I've led!)

Four TV Shows: The West Wing, CSI, House, Numb3rs

Four Websites Daily (or almost daily): http://www.iwon.com http://www.brackers.com http://www.gofugyourself.com http://www.pogo.com http://www.lawrence.com

Four Favorite Foods: Mom's meatloaf, prime rib (medium rare with horseradish, please), grilled lobster in Rosarita, Mexico, chalupas from El Ranchito in Seguin, Texas

Four Places I'd Rather Be (for a visit, 'cause I'm happy living here): Almost any Broadway show in NYC, Salzburg, Austria, Seguin, Texas, San Diego, California

December 30, 2005 at 1 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

CafeSiren (anonymous) says...

Four jobs I've had in my life: Waitress, nanny with a traveling carnival, Starbuckaroo, professor

Four movies I could watch over and over: Office Space: Uhm I'm stuck here. I like lots of movies, but "over and over"?

Four places I've lived: Portland, OR; Munich; Lawrence, KS; Long Beach, CA

Four TV shows I love to watch: The Simpsons; Law & Order; Buffy/Angel (yeah, I know they're cancelled); Deadwood

Four websites I visit daily: Chronicle of Higher Education; I Blame the Patriarchy; BitchPhD; NYT online (too cheap to buy a real subscription)

Four of my favorite foods: blackened mahi-mahi soft tacos (Cocoreno's, Long Beach); pad khee mao (anywhere); dark chocolate-covered candied ginger; anything from Udupi Palace (vegetarian south Indian food, Artesia, CA)

Four places I'd rather be: La Prima Tazza; Powell's Books (Portland); Columbia River Gorge; Common Grounds (another coffee shop, Portland)

December 30, 2005 at 2:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Dazie (Aileen Dingus) says...

CafeSiren- where in Long Beach is Cocoreno's? I used to live there too... my favorite was actually Super Mex #1 just off Alamitos Ave.

December 30, 2005 at 2:55 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

CafeSiren (anonymous) says...

Dazie,

Cocoreno's is a "taco stand" (indoor seating capacity of about 15) at Broadway & Redondo, attached to the Reno Room.

December 30, 2005 at 4:54 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Joel (Joel Mathis) says...

And why wasn't I taken to Cocoreno's during my summer visit to Long Beach?

Or was I? It's all kind of a haze of food in my memory now....

December 30, 2005 at 5:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

CafeSiren (anonymous) says...

Next time, Joel. Next time. And we'll go to Udupi Palace as well.

December 30, 2005 at 7:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

clayhill70 (anonymous) says...

hauling hay, grocery sacker, discount store maintenance guy, and shipyard worker

friendly persuasion, a christmas story, jaws (1), any three stooges w/ curly

wichita metro area and pascagoula mississippi

free speech tv, link tv, c span, south park

felipe's poncho villa wichita, the annex hamburger steak w/gravy and fries pascagoula miss. (probably trashed by katrina), almost anything my wife cooks

.new orleans, pensacola fla. steamboat springs co. bedford falls

December 30, 2005 at 7:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

beatle919 (Marcy McGuffie) says...

Such variety!

*lol* thetom- don't admire me...I worked with elderly people who balanced the ATMs too. oh wait, you think i picked them up? ;) nah...much less complex than that. just made sure that all the numbers added up and people didn't cheat when depositing cash/checks in the ATMs.

cfdxprt--well, since you brought it up...your clockwork orange fetish frightens me a bit. i shoulda never bought the dvd. seriously, i like to watch a movie without having the lines recited to me beforehand. *rolls eyes* and wait...you like garlic mashed potatoes? a food we can agree on. *sigh* you said lamb... ;) sometime i'll have to write a blog about how you tricked me into eating lamb against my will...twice

December 30, 2005 at 9:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

cwrist (Chris Wristen) says...

Four jobs I've had in my life: Sidewalk shoveler for my grandpa during the winters at the office buildings he owned; Sandwich maker at Mr. Goodcents; laborer for an office supply company; sports reporter for various newspapers.

Four movies I could watch over and over: Old School; Shawshank Redemption; Usual Suspects; Office Space.

Four places you've lived: behind The Wheel; Aberdeen South; behind J.B. Stouts; right by Free State -- I did the tour of Larryville :-)

Four TV shows you love to watch: The Daily Show; The Office; Channel6 Game of the Week; Entourage.

Four websites you visit daily: LJWorld.com; Lawrence.com; CNN.com; KUSports.com.

Four of my favorite foods: Mac 'n Cheese; oriental chicken wraps at Applebees; fried chicken; Gumby's.

Four places I'd rather be: Vegas; SoCal; D.C.; Signs of Life.

December 30, 2005 at 9:18 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

michal (anonymous) says...

Joel-This is a fun one.

4 jobs-Mcdonald's worker, nurse aid, daycare/preschool teacher, Stay At Home Mom
4 Movies-Ghost World, Elizabeth,Bridget Jone's Diary, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn(lots more)
4 places lived-Emporia, Wichita, Lawrence, Lindsborg(bet *you* thought I would say Hillsboro)
4 tv shows-Good Eats with Alton Brown, Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, $40 a Day with Rachel Ray
4 websites-Yahoo, Gentle Christian Mothers, thelaboroflove, kidpower
4 foods-anything my mother makes, lots of things at india palace, mandrin chicken (China Inn, Newton), hummus
4 places I would rather be-a beach, Spain(or most places in Western Europe)so that counts more than 4

December 30, 2005 at 10:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

spacystaci8 (anonymous) says...

jobs- auto dealer secretary, babysitter, gift shop supervisor at Marine Park in Florida, domestic goddess

movies-Napoleon Dynamite, Forrest Gump, SNL's best of Will Farrell, American Pie

places I've lived-Lawrence, Waldorf MD, Panama City Beach FL, Tonganoxie

tv shows-Roseanne, Wife Swap, Survivor, Inked

websites- ljworld.com, lawrence.com, weather.com, pokerparty.com

4 foods-Pollo Magnifico (Jose Peppers,Shawnee), Pasta Carbonara (Paisanos), Queso at El Mezcal, boneless wings from Chilis

4 places I'd rather be- Destin FL, Key West, Ocean City MD, Estes Park CO

December 31, 2005 at 12:56 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

thetom (anonymous) says...

Ok, I had to think back.

4 jobs - hardware store guy, piano player, piano mover, sprinkler installer

4 movies - Slingblade

4 places lived - FL, CT, TX, NY

4 TV shows - American Chopper

4 websites - Google news, L.com, Snoopzone, lots of work stuff

4 foods - American (my) spaghetti, Shrimp, anything from Tortas Jaliscos, butter creams

4 places i'd rather be - nowhere

By the way, Joel, I enjoy your stupid memes, you arrogant, eye averting, (uhhhhh) BLOGGER.

December 31, 2005 at 1:50 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

thetom (anonymous) says...

Marcy:

Oh.

December 31, 2005 at 1:52 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Jester (Nick Spacek) says...

Four jobs I've had in my life: Delivery driver, hotel desk clerk, baker, unpaid music journalist.

Four movies I could watch over and over: the Incredibles, Night of the Hunter, And Now For Something Completely Different, High Fidelity

Four places you've lived: Kansas City, KS; Lansing, KS; Lawrence, KS.

Four TV shows you love to watch: Family Guy, CSI, Mythbusters, wrestling (don't judge me).

Four websites you visit daily: fark.com, egotastic.com, skafunkrastapunk.com, livejournal.com

Four of my favorite foods: Asiago & garlic ravioli, Paisano's; Chicken rice bowl, La Parilla; my wife's chicken fried steak and hash browns; Polish sausage (fresh), Grishnic's.

Four places I'd rather be: A coffee shop that allows smoking, the Jackpot, my balcony, my parent's farm.

January 1, 2006 at 5:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

lori (anonymous) says...

I'm pretty impressed with the variety of experience here. Nanny with a travelling carnival? That takes the cake in my book. Is there more to that story?

January 1, 2006 at 10:20 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )