My good friend NICHELLE TRAMBLE tagged me today. Which means I must answer the following questions and then tag someone else within the BLOG-O-SPHERE. I finally feel like I'm part of the club.

FOUR JOBS I'VE HAD.

1) Legal Proofreader [in 1999 it paid 19 dollars an hour!!!]

2) Cater-Waiter in NYC

3) Customer Service Rep for Bank One

4) Copywriter for Pacific Bell Yellow Pages

FOUR MOVIES I CAN WATCH OVER AND OVER.

1) CROOKLYN [Frances Foster's performance is absolutely AMAZING and REAL and HILARIOUS]
2) INDEPENDENCE DAY [the first half. everything AFTER the attacks is boring]
3) ALIEN/ALIENS
4) JEFFERSON IN PARIS

FOUR PLACES I'VE LIVED.

1) San Francisco [near the Panhandle. LOVED IT! Plenty of fog, bike riding and writing in my journal]
2) Harlem [I had a slumlord from HELL. We had rats, mice, drugs in the lobby and an old woman on the fifth floor who kept mistaking me for a Haitian cousin Pierre.
3) Iowa City, Iowa [good place to be. met some GREAT FRIENDS. perfect college town]
4) Laramie, Wyoming [was there for three months. winter started on oct 3 with a blizzard. i was a graduate student in the English Dept at Univ of Wyoming. Arrived with a novelist, who was their writer-in-residence. Between Lola posting daily erotica on the wall, some bizarre splatterings of blood in the bathroom, and being one of 103 black students, all of which played sports, except 7 of us, it was an interesting time]

FOUR TV SHOWS I LOVE.

1) SIX FEET UNDER [i'm so sad it's gone].
2) FRIENDS[it's my chance to veg. my friends hate me for watching it and they don't understand my bizarre allegiance to Jennifer Anniston]
3) GOOD TIMES [the reruns remind me of being young]
4) THE 4400 [ i love sci-fi and the idea that we're not alone in the universe]

FOUR PLACES I'VE VACATIONED.

1) CARACAS, VENEZUELA
2) ISLA DE MARGARITA [near Trinidad]
3) LAS VEGAS
4) PENSACOLA, FLORIDA [my grandfather was born there and i spent a summer there as a teen]

FOUR FAVORITE DISHES.

1) STEWED GARLIC-JERK CHICKEN [my specialty]
2) GRILLED SALMON [my dad's version. it's amazing]
3) BLACK CAKE [my good friend Patrice's mom sends me some every Christmas from Brooklyn]
4) HOT TURKEY PASTRAMI ON WHOLE GRAIN W/MAYO AND MIXED GREENS

FOUR SITES I VISIT DAILY.

1) BBC
2) NEW YORK TIMES
3) NPR
4) SOME KIND OF PORN [just kidding. or am i?]

FOUR UNDERRATED CONVERSATIONAL TOPICS.

1) Cherokee Blood in the Black Community [it's deeper than we think]
2) California's Fresh Produce
3) EATING WELL and EXERCISING
4) CORETTA Scott King's funeral at her anti-human rights daughter Berniece King's church.

Now, I am tagging Scruffdiva at B-Girl Stance