- Seller of typewriter ribbons and office supplies on the phone - yuck
- Charge box office at Lincoln Center
- Lab assistant to a parasitologist (feed and anesthetize the snails...no really)
- Teaching acting to opera singers
- A Room with a View
- Diner
- Fanny and Alexander
- Burnt by the Sun
- Waltham, Massachusetts
- Chicago, Illinois
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Angel of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Howard's End by E. M. Forster
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Skagen, Denmark
- Amsterdam, Holland
- St. Paul de Vence, France (but anywhere in Provence, really)
- Berlin, Germany
- Olives
- Cheese
- Sushi
- very dark and bitter chocolate
- Red wine from Bordeaux
- Really great black coffee
- Green tea
- Rivella (rot)
- In a garden in the Cotswolds after a hike and tea
- In a certain hotel room in Granada, Spain looking up from my book at the Alhambra any time I feel like it.
- In Engelberg, Switzerland, gazing at the mountains
- in a theatre
Four Things That Are Very Special in My Life:
- The Ragazzo
- family
- friends
- that I'm getting a chance to go back to school after a whole career and do something different
2 comments:
I second your vote for Berlin. Selling typewriter ribbons over the phone. That one really does date you. Dates me two because I can remember threading typewriter ribbons through my first typewriter and dealing with people selling me things over the phone.
I always tried to be polite.
Not to date myself further, but every time I write a paper on my computer with my bibliographic software (as I'm doing right now), I remember the days of writing them on my manual typewriter with carbon paper, and trying to judge how many lines I had to leave blank to fit in my footnotes!
If you were one of my unfortunate customers in the 3 weeks I lasted in that job - I thank you.
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