meme season
Thursday, 9 February 2006 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
freckles_and_doubtBugger! I tried to post this entry last night, but my computer was having a hissy fit and clearly did the equivalent of holding the post pouched in her cheeks, and spitting it out when I wasn't looking. Cats, computers, all the same, really. Anyway, I've backdated it to more nearly represent the intention.
The moons of Saturn, the multitudinous, arbitrary governors of meming, are clearly in a weird astrological conjunction or something. Hopefully this will get all possible meming out of my system for the rest of the year. This one is the Four Things meme, and I have to do it, I promised scroobious.
Four jobs I have done:
Assembling an enormous map of Zimbabwe (scaled to show individual farms) and sticking pins into it to represent the customers of my dad's cattle-breeding company.
Temp secretarial work for a variety of Cape Town companies, including Oracle and Johnson & Johnson.
Processing honours admissions in the Humanities faculty.
Lecturing third-years on vampires and the erotic.
Four movies I can watch over and over:
Any of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (not including, obviously, the one by Ralph Bakshi).
Miyazaki's Spirited Away
Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility
Pirates of the Carribbean. (This is not, actually, entirely about the Johnny Depp, it's also about the enormous comfort factor in unashamedly swashing that buckler).
Four places I've lived:
The Matopos hills.
An old farm house on top of a hill in Harare, Zimbabwe.
The garage of a friend's mother's house (in undergrad).
The Evil Landlord's garage. (I'm sensing a theme here. What's with me and hills and garages?)
Four TV shows I love:
I'd say anything by Joss Whedon, but in fact this would leave me with far too few filled slots, since actually I don't watch a lot of TV. So I'm listing them separately.
Buffy
Angel
Firefly
The X Files (but only the ones with Mulder)
Corollary: I have all of Firefly, all but the last season of Buffy, and the first two seasons of Angel on DVD. When I say "love", I mean "desire and want to possess for frequent re-experience." Somewhere in my future is a horribly expensive rendezvous with the first six seasons or so of X-Files.
Four places I have been on holiday:
Lake Malawi.
Mana Pools, in the Zambezi valley.
The island of Bazaruto, off Mozambique.
Helsinki, Finland.
Four of my favourite dishes:
Stv's Thai ground pork with basil.
Tournedos Rossini, but I can't have it any more because I've given up beef. *woe*
Chicken Satay
Deep-fried calamari rings in batter.
Four sites I visit daily:
My Friends page is actually the only one I visit daily. The rest are several times a week, and most often:
BoingBoing
Go Fug Yourself (because I'm clearly just superficial, and cannot resist the somewhat hilarious combination of celebrities, clothes and unremitting bitchiness).
Dayle, as her daily word count is actively inspiring.
Four places I would rather be right now
In the South of France, in the cold and occasional snow and unheated house, with my father.
In the South of England, in the damp and mist, with my mother.
In a tenured academic post.
In Middle-Earth.
Four bloggers I am tagging:(unless they've done this already and my wayward memory has simply failed to retain the fact)
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wytchfynder, because he'll be lateral.
bumpycat, because I haven't heard much from him lately.
herne_kzn, because he needs something to distract him from nasty academic politics.
first_fallen, because I keep not being able to go to movies with her, and feel bad.
The moons of Saturn, the multitudinous, arbitrary governors of meming, are clearly in a weird astrological conjunction or something. Hopefully this will get all possible meming out of my system for the rest of the year. This one is the Four Things meme, and I have to do it, I promised scroobious.
Four jobs I have done:
Assembling an enormous map of Zimbabwe (scaled to show individual farms) and sticking pins into it to represent the customers of my dad's cattle-breeding company.
Temp secretarial work for a variety of Cape Town companies, including Oracle and Johnson & Johnson.
Processing honours admissions in the Humanities faculty.
Lecturing third-years on vampires and the erotic.
Four movies I can watch over and over:
Any of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (not including, obviously, the one by Ralph Bakshi).
Miyazaki's Spirited Away
Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility
Pirates of the Carribbean. (This is not, actually, entirely about the Johnny Depp, it's also about the enormous comfort factor in unashamedly swashing that buckler).
Four places I've lived:
The Matopos hills.
An old farm house on top of a hill in Harare, Zimbabwe.
The garage of a friend's mother's house (in undergrad).
The Evil Landlord's garage. (I'm sensing a theme here. What's with me and hills and garages?)
Four TV shows I love:
I'd say anything by Joss Whedon, but in fact this would leave me with far too few filled slots, since actually I don't watch a lot of TV. So I'm listing them separately.
Buffy
Angel
Firefly
The X Files (but only the ones with Mulder)
Corollary: I have all of Firefly, all but the last season of Buffy, and the first two seasons of Angel on DVD. When I say "love", I mean "desire and want to possess for frequent re-experience." Somewhere in my future is a horribly expensive rendezvous with the first six seasons or so of X-Files.
Four places I have been on holiday:
Lake Malawi.
Mana Pools, in the Zambezi valley.
The island of Bazaruto, off Mozambique.
Helsinki, Finland.
Four of my favourite dishes:
Stv's Thai ground pork with basil.
Tournedos Rossini, but I can't have it any more because I've given up beef. *woe*
Chicken Satay
Deep-fried calamari rings in batter.
Four sites I visit daily:
My Friends page is actually the only one I visit daily. The rest are several times a week, and most often:
BoingBoing
Go Fug Yourself (because I'm clearly just superficial, and cannot resist the somewhat hilarious combination of celebrities, clothes and unremitting bitchiness).
Dayle, as her daily word count is actively inspiring.
Four places I would rather be right now
In the South of France, in the cold and occasional snow and unheated house, with my father.
In the South of England, in the damp and mist, with my mother.
In a tenured academic post.
In Middle-Earth.
Four bloggers I am tagging:(unless they've done this already and my wayward memory has simply failed to retain the fact)
wytchfynder, because he'll be lateral.bumpycat, because I haven't heard much from him lately.herne_kzn, because he needs something to distract him from nasty academic politics.first_fallen, because I keep not being able to go to movies with her, and feel bad.
