Shabana has tagged me, so I’m going to play along….
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life
1) Bartender in a pub populated heavily by frat boys
2) Researcher in a nonprofit that teaches museums how to teach art
3) Teacher of “Jewish Sexual Ethics” class to teenagers
4) Biweekly art columnist (part of the “freelance writer” job)
Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over, and Have
1) Pretty in Pink
2) Amelie
3) Hedwig and the Angry Inch
4) Allright, I confess: the 3rd Harry Potter movie
Four Places I Have Lived
1) Providence, RI
2) San Francisco
3) Jerusalem
4) Chicago
Four TV Shows I Love To Watch
Sorry, don’t really watch TV *shrug*
Four Books I Love
(Non-sifrei kodesh)
Seven Storey Mountain, Merton
At the Root of This Longing, Flinders (a toss-up, really, b/w this and another of her books, Enduring Grace)
To The Lighthouse, Woolf
The Divine Comedey, Dante
Four Places I Have Been On Vacation
1) Mendocino, CA
2) Florence, Italy
3) Lesbos Island, Greece
4) Wellfleet, MA
Four Websites I Visit Daily
1) Google News
2) My 3 different webmail accounts
3) The blogs of a handful of my friends, some of whom are mentioned on this sidebar, some of which are locked/private
4) From there it varies–there are a whole bunch on the “usually but probably not every day” rotation
Four Favorite Foods
1) Mac & cheese
2) The vegan brisket I make once-ish a year with the family recipe (don’t laugh, it’s amazing)
3) Veggie burrito
4) Sushi
Four Places I Would Rather Be Right Now
Nowhere, duh.
With the possible exception of: A cabin in the Santa Cruz mountains with all of my closest people and a well-stocked fridge.
Four Tags
Naw, not gonna tag anybody. But if you want to tag yourself, go right ahead….
That’s funny — I just told my students two days ago about Seven Storey Mountain.
wow, vegan brisket? got a recipe you don’t mind posting?
Take yer momma’s (or bubbe’s, or Aunt Esther’s) brisket recipe. Use chicken-style seitan (I like White Wave, but any brand will work) instead of meat, and put it all together, cook ’till the potatoes and carrots are done, usually 2-3 hours. And when everybody kvells (carnivores too) give me credit–I invented this shita, as far as I know…. 😉
I will never reveal my recipe (actually, mine is from Janet, my mother’s best friend), however. A girl’s gotta keep some things sacred.
Thanks for sharing, Danya. But Harry Potter???
😉
Just kidding – and I will try to emulate you on the no-tv thing.