brief daytime memery

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Gacked from the always astonishing shayheyred:

Four jobs I've had or currently have in my life:
1. Lawyer. (...god, that still looks bizarre to me.)
2. Professional musician.
3. Administrative/executive assistant. (Over and over and over and OVER again.)
4. Bookstore clerk, specializing in kids' books.

Four countries I have been to:1. Slovenia

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They're making me hungry, actually, and I just ate. (Plus they'd make an odd mixture. But still.)

My father really, really wanted to follow up his deanship with something that made him feel good and important and rewarded and worthwhile. He decided that something was a Fulbright. He didn't think he had a chance at going to his top choices - London, Edinburgh, etc. - but he'd always been curious about Eastern Europe and he figured those countries would be less sought-after, so he applied for a Fulbright to Slovenia. He got it, and he and my mother spent five (difficult) months there in 1999-2000. I went to visit them for a week in the fall; I figured I'd probably not get to Slovenia otherwise (embarrassing but factual), and for that reason it sounded like the trip of a lifetime. Which it was, for some values thereof. (I will never forget how appalled the garlic seller in the farmer's market was when I finally mustered enough broken German [the standard second language of Slovenians over 40] to tell her that we wanted, not a BRAID of garlic, but a HEAD of garlic. She was so disgusted by our garlic parsimony that she gave it to us :-).)

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...we wanted, not a BRAID of garlic, but a HEAD of garlic. She was so disgusted by our garlic parsimony that she gave it to us :-).)

Heeee. There was clearly something very wrong with you -- best to cut the interaction as short as possible. *g*

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*grins* Exactly so. If I'd been there myself, I'd have gone for the braid - me and garlic are likethisomg - but La Mama never was all that big on the fresh stuff.