The Meme of Four arrives

Well, the smug smile has pretty much been wiped off my face.

After watching other bloggers tackle the Meme of Four that's been making the rounds of the blog universe (see here and here, for example), I've been tagged by Lance Mannion.

I know what you're thinking--you think it won't happen to you. After all, you're careful not to mix blogging with drugs or alcohol; when you do blog you take precautions; and above all you remind yourself that you're not just blogging that person, you're blogging everyone that person has ever blogged. And yet, in one moment--there you are, with the blogworld's version of the gift that keeps on giving.

Okay, here we go:

Four jobs you've had in your life:

• Selling farm equipment
• Making Chrysler V-8 engine blocks
• Professor of communication
• Editing commercial banking documentation

Four movies you could watch over and over:

• The Maltese Falcon
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  
• Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  
• A Christmas Story

Four places you've lived:

• Eau Claire WI, in the Third Ward
• Philadelphia PA, near 20th and Chestnut
• Muncie IN, within walking distance of campus
• Portland OR, with a wonderful city view until the neighbors' trees took over

Four TV shows you love to watch:

• The Man from UNCLE
  
• The Dick Van Dyke Show
  
• Boondocks
• Arrested Development

Four places you've been on vacation:

• Taos NM
• London
• Connemara region, Ireland
• New Orleans LA

Four websites you visit daily:

• Jack Bog's Blog
• Preemptive Karma
• Lawyers, Guns, and Money
• James Wolcott

Four of your favorite foods:

• California roll sushi
• Philly cheesesteaks
• Grilled salmon
• Kung pao chicken

Four places you'd rather be (a tough one, since I like it where I am; I'll amend this to "four places you wouldn't mind having a little getaway to"):

• Pre-Katrina New Orleans LA (having red beans and rice in a little diner off the main drag)
• Dublin, Ireland (reading a book and nursing a Guinness in a pub)
• Philadelphia PA (hitting a food cart)
• Tuscany (cycling between restaurants)

Four books of fiction you re-read every now and then:

• The World According to Garp
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Jeeves Omnibus
• Smiley's People
• [Meme Bonus: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]
  

Four things you continue to believe, mainly by partitioning them off from what it pleases you to call your "better judgment:"

• Sometimes coincidences really are trying to tell you something.
• Sneezes and deaths (especially celebrity deaths) come in threes.
• We're each of us responsible for what we know.
• If you point out to a person that they're wrong, they'll change.

Four bloggers I'm now tagging (featuring an all-Oregon meme vector):

• Carla at Preemptive Karma
• The Skirt at The Flammable Skirt
• Jack Bogdanski at Jack Bog's Blog
• The One True b!X at FURIOUS Nads!

Comments? Send links to other bloggers who've posted interesting Meme of Four lists, or send your own list.