If you can't be sillly with a blog...

...then I'm not really sure where one can be silly. Anyway, I got blog-tagged by Donna Andrews, and so I'm answering the questions and passing the word. After all, blogs are supposed to be about communication and connections, right? And avoiding work.

Being blog-tagged means I need to answer these questions, and then tag four more people. I don't mind these kinds of things, because it's how you get to know people, but I don't make a habit of them because they can be a massive time-suck (and I always check with the person first). So, without further ado...

4 movies you would watch over and over:
Shakespeare in Love
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Bourne Identity
Impromptu or Sense and Sensibility

(There seems to be a pattern here: SiL has literary references, sword fights, but no explosions; RotLA has sword fights, explosions, but few literary references; TBI has no sword fights or literary references, only one explosion, but good hand-to-hand; Imp. has literary references, duels, and one (recreational) explosion, and SaS has a sword fight, literary references, but no explosions. Damn that Jane Austen.)

4 places you have lived:
Boston, Massachusetts
London, England
Plainsboro, New Jersey
Beverly, Massachusetts

4 TV shows you love to watch:
Deadwood
Mythbusters
Rome
Top Chef or Project Runway

(You could kinda say that they're all about people finding creative ways to solve problems. Kinda. Sometimes with literary references AND explosions.)

4 places you have been on vacation:
Vancouver, B.C.
Moorea (French Polynesia)
Madrid
Paris

4 of your favorite foods:
A good cheese (with port)
A nice rib-eye
Butternut squash or pumpkin soup
A savage mac-n-cheese (lobster optional: slobber)

4 Websites you visit daily:
www.weather.com
www.cnn.com
www.cia.gov
www.google.com

(These vary with projects. Right now, it's the CIA (which is great for a lot of different info), but last winter it was the Old Bailey's history website.)

4 places you would rather be right now:
Kauai, North Coast, watching the sun set, a mai-tail in my hand
In front of one of the Vermeers at the Frick Collection, NYC
The storage facility or library of a major museum, armed with an ID, keys, and notebook
Almost any bookstore, armed with a gift certificate

(All but #3 with my best guy, Mr. G. I might even share the gift certificate with him.)

Tag 4 People you think will respond:
Laura Durham
Maria Lima
J.B. Thompson
Heather Webber