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Stuart tagged me with a meme. Even though I think they're pretty much all like the old-skool Friday Five. But worse, in some memetically huge blogospherica jargon way.

Four jobs I've had:

typogographer in art department at manchester office of international ad agency

copywriter in newmedia agency I had to leave because it was like a party with the music and my trainers weren't hip enough. The "creatives" were in a different "pod" (kidney shaped table arrangement) from the "suits" and there were continuous arguments about music, like being at a party when you're fourteen

Writing a (bad) VBA front-end for a large series/family of linked spreadsheets that ran a huge media company. I was regarded by the board as some kind of wunderkind - "that girl who could deliver geekery, speak tech, communicate like a regular person and understand the business." I was regarded by my coworkers as "that spreadsheet nazi, who demanded 100% compliance with her lousy front-end". Not to be confused with front-bottom. In the end, I was replaced by an ERP. More expensive, and, I heard only last week, still doesn't work as well.

Running a media company. Old media: face-to-face events (how retro), newsletters, a little online-ness.

Four movies I can watch over and over:

American Beauty

Dirty Dancing

The Wizard of Oz

The Breakfast Club

Four places I've lived

Amsterdam

Singapore

Tel Aviv

Cheadle

Four TV shows I love

Desperate Housewives

ER

Monk

House of Elliot

Four places I've vacationed (we call this a holiday):

Derbyshire

Guatemala

Cuba

South of France

Four of my favorite dishes:

humous (you knew I would say that)

the ravioli on a bed of rocket and pine nuts at La Brocca

steamed brocolli, on a healthy day

cheesecake

Four sites I visit daily:

flickr

delicious

BBC

Guardian

Four places I would rather be right now:

The British Library

Swiss Cottage Library

New York Public Library

Central Reference Library, Peter's Square, Manchester

Four bloggers minxim and minxot I am tagging:

Fraser (not that he does memes, I'm sure)

Girl

Vaughn (you can do it in the comments, if you like)

Darren