You know you’ve made it when you are tagged for the Four Things meme

As my arch-rival and nemesis Jenkins so eloquently puts it on his blog, he:

…tagged me, leaving me with the choice of ignoring the Four Things thingy or inflicting it on helpless others. Naturally, I choose “inflict”.

Four Jobs I’ve Had

• Pay Clerk for a government department
• Door-to-door salesman (never sold a thing)
• Communications honcho for the Royal Australian Air Force (like Jenkins, sort of ‘Secret Squirrel’ stuff)
• Male secretary

Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over

• Mr & Mrs Smith — it’s like watching me and Mrs BetterComms on one of our better days
• The Princess Bride — “You know I love to watch you work, but I’ve got my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Gilder to frame for it. I’m swamped”. “Get some rest; after all, if you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything”
• The Passion of the Christ — I still shudder, squirm and get a tear in my eye during the flogging scene. But I confess to being very attracted to Mary Magdelen (Monica Bellucci, who was also in the second Matrix), probably more than I should be considering my beliefs and the theme of the movie
• This is Spinal Tap — [beautiful haunting, melancholic music played on the piano by one of the actors] “Yeah, it’s in D Minor, one of the saddest keys. It’s kind of a cross between Mozart and Bach, or ‘Mach’.” “It’s beautiful. What do you call this piece?” “Lick my Love Pump.”

Four TV Shows I Love to Watch

• House — ’nuff said and unmissable
• Don’t watch any other tv — Mrs BetterComms and I prefer to read, talk or just sleep after a busy day (we’re both studying part-time so there’s plenty of reading for essays to be done)

Four Favorite Cities

• Florence, Italy
• San Francisco
• London
• Amsterdam

Four Favorite Dishes

• Capricciosa pizza from a little trattoria tucked away in a side street in Guildford, England
• ‘Hopkins a la Mylor’ (or whatever town, city or street I happen to be living in at the time) – a tuna casserole with buckets of cheese on top and several ‘secret’ ingredients that I can only share with you if you agree to print off the recipe, eat it and then set fire to yourself
• Kangaroo steak, medium-well done, with mushrooms, lashings of gravy and some crispy roasted potatoes
• Mrs BetterComms’ lemony chicken pie

Four Websites I Visit Daily (or pretty close)

• Like Donna P, my bank account
• Bloglines
• ABC News
• The web-based management side of my main website

Four Places I’d Rather Be

• On a remote beach in Thailand finally completing my crime novel
• With Mrs BetterComms, living in Santorini, Greece
• In an out-of-the-way Florentine trattoria with my favourite bloggers from around the world, an open cheque book and a week to finish our meal.

  This would include folks like Douglas Fortescue and his good lady wife Jennifer, Donna P, Donna T, Prof Sallie, Heidi, Shel, Nifty Nev, Jenkins, Bizzy Lizzy Albrycht, Nova, Bickford, Jack, Josh, Scott, Ben, Seth, Scoble, Cliff, DdotHill …inter alia
  *** UPDATE: Arrghh, silly me! How could I leave out the fabulous Kathy Sierra? ***

• Living as a permanent house guest, with full access to all the facilities, at Clicquot

Four Bloggers I am Tagging

Technorati: Heidi Miller, Ben Hamilton, Sallie Goetsch, Shel Holtz

A blogger I’m not tagging (as that would break the meme) but would love to know her answers: Jennifer Pohl

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