Four Things Meme

I've never done one of these on the blog, and don't plan to do them very often, but Alkelda the Gleeful tagged me, and I am so fond of her that I am giving this one a try:

Four Jobs I've Had
1. Babysitter: This was informal work, on a per-job basis mostly with only a few weeks of steady employment here and there. I was able to manage mostly on this as a teen, though, because, as the oldest of 6 kids, I was seriously in demand around the neighborhood.
2. Cashier: I was a cashier during the summer when I was 16 at Jack-In-The-Box and again during the summer between my junior & senior years in college at Everything's A Dollar. These were my only bonified McJobs as the babysitting served me well.
3. Legislative Aide: I did my graduate practicum working in a state representative's office in Austin and stayed on for the summer after I graduated as an official one. They offered to hire me long-term, but I wanted to move back home. It was the most wonderful, great, intoxicating job ever.
4. Child Protective Specialist (also known as case worker): I really only worked this job for two and a half months for real after I moved back to my hometown after graduate school, but I also did a semester's practicum at CPS in Dallas while finishing my Bachelor's Degree. Since I was in training, I got to do everything...investigating child abuse and neglect, helping with ongoing and substitute care cases, carting kids around places, supervising parental visits. It was a great, exciting job and I wish I could have done it longer but my next employer made me an offer that I could not refuse to run an exciting pilot program.
Four Movies I Can Watch Over & Over
1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. 1776
3. Fly Away Home
4. Homecoming
Four Places I've Lived
1. Corpus Christi, Texas
2. Dallas, Texas
3. Denton, Texas
4. Austin, Texas
Four Places I've Vacationed
1. St. Louis, Missouri
2. New York City, NY (actually, we were staying in CT)
3. Sarasota, Florida
4. New Orleans, LA
Four of My Favorite Dishes
1. Crispy-fried tofu in sesame sauce over rice
2. Acorn squash flautas
3. Kirby Queso
4. Dark green salads with grapes and pear and spicy dressing
Four (Non-Blogger) Sites I Visit Daily
1. Mamaphonic
2. Mamaphonic
3. Mamaphonic
4. Mamaphonic
Four Places I'd Like To Visit
1. The Shrine of Nuestra Senora de Leche y Buen Parto in St. Augustine, Florida
2. NASA
3. Hull House in Chicago
4. The Juliette Gordon Lowe Center (not sure it's called that)
Four People I Am Tagging To Do this Meme
1. Veloute
2. Claridad
3. Gojirama
4. Your Pre-Teen Writer