Tagged by the Mir

Fine. Hmph. I’ll do it.

Seems a few days ago, the Mir tagged me after answering her own survey, which was placed upon her by another of her blogging friends. I asked if tag-backs were allowed, but she threatened to vent her wrath upon me, and I really didn’t want to wake up to plagues of locusts, frogs, and hot chocolate turned to blood. That just doesn’t start a day out right. So, looks like I must answer a series of questions, ones which she twisted to her own designs when she answered them. That means the format is fair game. My take? Each item has four answers to it. *Starts singing* One of these things is not like the other! One of these things does not belong! *End Singing*

Your mission, whether you accept it or not, is to guess which three are True and which one is False.

Four jobs I’ve had
1. School supply supplier: in middle school, I carried a briefcase full of pens, pencils, paper, erasers, etc. which I sold in classes for anywhere from a dime or more to students who.,.say…ran out of ink or lead during a test, or forgot their notebook.
2. Restaurant balloon twister and magician
3. Pet masseuse
4. Security guard

Four places I’ve been on vacation
1. Mexico
2. Italy
3. Kenya
4. England

Four places I’ve lived by the time I was eight
1. Maryland
2. Turkey (no, the country, not the bird…why no, I haven’t heard that joke before. Did you make it up just now?)
3. Texas
4. Florida

Four favorite foods that I have eaten today
1. A big pretzel from a hotdog stand outside of work
2. Freshly shelled peanuts
3. Hot chocolate (yes, it’s a food!)
4. Kidney beans straight from the can

Four favorite TV channels
1. The Discovery Channel
2. The SciFi Channel
3. ESPN (go my favorite sports team! Get a goal-basket score unit!)
4. The National Geographic Channel

Four movies I could watch over & over
1. The Game
2. The Emperor’s New Groove
3. The Bourne Identity movies
4. Legally Blonde 2

Four books on writing that I read over & over
1. Techniques of the Selling Writer
2. Self-editing for Fiction Writers
3. Writing for Dummies
4. How to Grow a Novel
(basically I read through these anytime I’m revising a novel manuscript)

Four places online I visit every day
1. http://www.pantheon.org/
2. http://www.wordsmith.org/words/today.html
3. http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns
4. http://www.attention-to-details.com/newslog/3ct-isnt-this-the-cutest-thing-youve-ever.asp

Four places I’d rather be
1. On the New York Times bestseller list
2. On the other end of paying off my student loans
3. Naked on the North Pole
4. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Four people I’m tagging, if they actually read this (this one has no False)
1. God (No…seriously…God has a blog)
2. David Edelman
3. Kit Whitfield
4. You (yes, you…no, not you…You.)

Okay. Admittedly, I used way too many exclamation marks in this post. But how’d you do on guessing? If any of the answers need actual clarification, just ask.

I see that smile.