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Phil tagged me. Here's my list:

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE
1. Construction Worker
2. Waiter (still have this one)
3. Sixth Grade Teacher
4. Ice cream factory worker

FOUR FICTIONAL JOBS YOU WISH YOU HAD
1. Engineer on a Starfleet Ship (I’d have to resist the urge to speak to the captain in a Scottish or Irish accent, though.)
2. Knight of the Round Table
3. Multi-Millionaire industrialist/Ironman
4. Manager leading the Chicago Cubs to a World Series victory

FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN
1. “From the Earth to the Moon” Miniseries
2. True Believer
3. Detroit Rock City
4. Bullitt

FOUR CITIES YOU'VE LIVED IN
1. Chicago.
2. Salt Lake City, Utah.
3. Champaign, Illinois.
4. Charleston, Illinois.

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH
1. “Modern Marvels” on the History Channel
2. Enterprise (cancelled)
3. Baseball
4. X-Files reruns

FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION/TRAVELED TO
1. Toronto, Canada
2. Oakland, California
3. Seattle, Washington
4. Shanghai, China

FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY
1. New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
2. Dvd Verdict (www.dvdverdict.com)
3. Deep Discount Dvds (www.deepdiscountdvd.com_
4. The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com)

I visit God's Own Suburb almost every day. It was my inspiration to finally start blogging. Phil gives good blog.

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
1. Paella
2. Thai Chicken with Broccoli—lots of chili paste
3. Baked Chicken, with bbq sauce
4. Strawberries

FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU COULD EAT OR DRINK
I found out a couple of years ago I have Celiac Disease, a genetic wheat/barley allergy, so I miss:
1. Pizza
2. Bread
3. Spaghetti
4. Beer

I’ve actually found non-wheat substitutes for the pizza dough and spaghetti noodles. When I go to the west coast, I cheat and drink beer. I usually smoke a cigar or two as well. It's only a couple of times a year.

FOUR THINGS IN YOUR ROOM
My room is in my home is the kitchen. In it, besides the regular kitchen things are:
1. My g3 ibook
2. Two lava lamps, one with a ceramic skull for a base-- see above.
3. A string of little white Christmas lights
4. A bunch of bottles of wine in a rack. Mostly red.

FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD IN YOUR BEDROOM
1. A lot more space
2. Bookshelves (see #1)
3. Another closet, so my wife wouldn’t have to use the one in the dining room
4. A nicer stereo

FOUR THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW
1. a wedding band-- from my lovely wife
2. jeans—Levi’s, the only jeans that fit me right
3. a silver and turqoise post earring-- a gift from my friend Viktor Zeitgeist
4. contact lenses

FOUR PLACES I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
1. Seattle, Washington
2. Oakland, California
3. In an old convertible, following the old Route 66 with my father
4. On my back porch, on a warm July night, with my wife, my kids, this laptop (god bless wi-fi!) and a glass of Barefoot Zinfandel.

FOUR FICTIONAL PLACES I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
1. Shangri La.
2. Mysterious Island
3. Atlantis
4. The bridge of the original Enterprise (the one on the cancelled “Enterprise” television show)

FOUR PEOPLE YOU’D REALLY LOVE TO HAVE DINNER WITH
When my wife and I met a couple of years ago, this question was one of the prompt questions in the Reader Matches online thing. My answer then was:
1. Lucy Parsons (labor and civil rights activist)
2. Nikita Krushchev—Soviet leader—most interesting memoirs I’ve ever read
3. Lenny Bruce—comedian, social commentator
4. Lucinda Williams-- musician.

Since the “Match” ad worked, and I successfully met someone wonderful and married her, I’d have to take Lucinda off the list and replace her with someone else—maybe Susan Sarandon… (“Ouch—why’d you kick me, honey?”)

FOUR FICTIONAL PEOPLE YOU’D LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH
1. Tony Stark
2. Bernard Mickey Wrangle (From “Still Life With Woodpecker”)
3. Lovely Rita, Meter Maid
4. Eleanor Rigby

FOUR MORE PEOPLE YOU’D LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH
1. Bruce Cockburn.
2. Bobby Kennedy
3. My late friend Chuck Hall (who I did have dinner with several times) He was a Lincoln Brigade veteran, a lifelong activist, a fantastic family guy and the most impressive person I’ve ever met. I miss him.
4. Hunter S. Thompson

I tag fellow teacher Lulu...