Nitti says: Here's what you're supposed to do...and please do not spoil the fun. Copy, paste in your blog, delete my answers and type in your answers.

I don’t say anything. What, me worry?

Three Names I go by

1. Harriet (not my favorite)
2. Chareikleia (soft ch)
3. Teal

Three Jobs I have had in my life

1. “26” girl in a Chicago bar –this is a dice game (lucky to get out alive)
2. Editorial assistant, hardcover publishing
3. Sales of syndicated features and hard news stories to newspapers (the most fun ever)

Three Places I have lived

1. Chicago
2. New York City (my fave)
3. SW Florida (intellectual purgatory)


Three TV Shows that I watch

1. NCIS
2. CSI Miami
3. The Mentalist

Three places I have been

1. London
2. Paris
3. Athens

People who e-mail me regularly
1. Felicia (friend)
2. Susan (former NYT colleague and aces friend)
3. Marty (Island Girl who is too busy to blog)

Three of my favorite foods

1. Sauteed pork chop
2. Baked salmon or blackened or smoked …
3. Corned beef from Katz’s Deli on Houston St. in NYC.

Three friends I think will re-post
I don’t think about these things.

Things I am looking forward to

1. Staying alive
2. A day trip anywhere
3. Getting to NYC for a few days

Three favorite books

1. Tom Collier / Fancies and Goodnights (short stories)
2. Anything by Thomas Perry (The Butcher’s Boy, the Jane Whitehead series: American Indian who helps people disappear)
3. Anything by Robert Moseley

Three Favorite Movies

1. Bell, Book & Candle (James Stewart, Kim Novak)
2. Hopscotch (Walter Matthau – actually anything with Matthau)
3. All About Eve

Three habits you find irritating

1. Ed walking away when I am still talking and telling me that he thought I was finished.
2. People you are talking to who do not respond to what you are saying but jump in with a totally different subject that is all about them.
3. Noisy, ill-mannered children in a restaurant.

There, I’ve done it.

xx, Teal